Fontaines D.C. Debut 'Demolition' Live in Belgrade as Grian Chatten Tells Crowd: 'This Is Your Moment'

At their Belgrade arena show on 28 October, Fontaines D.C. played 'Demolition' live for the first time and frontman Grian Chatten nodded to Serbia's student-led election win, NME reports.

Fontaines D.C. played their new song 'Demolition' live for the first time at the Hangar luka Beograd venue in Belgrade on Wednesday 28 October, NME reports. The Dublin band performed it under a simple blue light, with frontman Grian Chatten singing lines such as 'Tell me how to feel, what's the deal? Do I live in your bones?' while his bandmates built a haunting backdrop. The set also drew on the band's latest album, 'Dopamine Chamber', with 'Marianne', 'Tongue', 'Where Is Gone?', 'Happy For You', 'Mimesis', 'Japan' and 'Six Shot Morning', alongside older favourites including 'Bug', 'Starburster', 'Favourite', 'Big Shot' and 'Roman Holiday'.

The concert took place days after Serbia's student-led movement won a parliamentary election, which NME, citing BBC News, says ended Aleksandar Vučić's 14 years in power, with 141 seats for the Student List against 103 for his Serbian Progressive Party. The movement grew out of protests after the fatal 2024 collapse of a railway station canopy, which some critics blamed on corruption and negligence. Chatten acknowledged the moment from the stage, saying simply 'Victory', which prompted cheers and chants, before adding: 'This is your moment, this is not ours.' The remarks are as reported by NME; the band has not been quoted here beyond that account.

The Belgrade date is part of the band's European arena tour supporting 'Dopamine Chamber', which opened in Lisbon last week and continues in Prague on Friday 30 October, with further stops including Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. The band then plays UK arenas in Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and London, followed by announced summer shows at Slane Castle and Manchester's Heaton Park, and a headline slot at Primavera Sound in Barcelona next June. NME gave the album a five-star review, and also reports that Chatten is planning another solo record and that the band says it was unaware AI had been used to help make the video for 'Marianne'.