Fontaines D.C.brought outKurt Vilefor ‘Roman Holiday’ during their set at La Route Du Rock – check it out below.
The Dublin band closed out the final night of the festival at Fort de Saint-Père in France yesterday (August 15), while Vile and his band The Violators performed on the same stage earlier in the day.
Vile then appeared during Fontaines’ set and played ‘Roman Holiday’ with the band. The collaboration was particularly fitting, as Fontaines frontman Grian Chatten has spoken about the ‘SkintyFia‘ song beingsubstantially inspiredby Vile in the first place.
The set also saw Fontaines once again airthe two new songs they recently debuted at their firstheadline show of 2026, ‘Marianne’ and ‘Six Shot Morning’.
Check out footage of the performance here:
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A surpresa de hoje foi a participação especial de Kurt Vile durante Roman Holiday!
Grian já contou em entrevista que ele inspirou a composição da música 💙
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— Acervo Fontaines DC Brasil (@acervofontaines) August 16, 2026
Fontaines D.C. played:
‘Boys InTheBetter Land’
‘Here’s The Thing’
‘Jackie DownTheLine’
‘It’s AmazingToBe Young’
‘Televised Mind’
‘Roman Holiday’ (with Kurt Vile)
‘Big Shot’
‘Nabokov’
‘Before You I Just Forget’
‘Big’
‘Bug’
‘Hurricane Laughter’
‘Roy’s Tune’
‘Marianne’
‘InTheModern World’
‘Favourite’
Encore
‘Six Shot Morning’
‘I Love You’
‘Starburster’
‘Roman Holiday’ appeared on Fontaines’ third album ‘Skinty Fia’ in 2022 and speaking to Rolling Stoneat the time, Chatten explained: “I’d say that song was quite inspired by Kurt Vile. I saw him play in Croatia two years ago when we were playing there and I envied him. The sun was goingdownandhe was able to stand there and chill out.”
“We spend 10 minutes before going on stage slapping each other in the face,” he continued. “I envy someone who can send a text to his kid, go off on stage and them just play really well.”
Fontaines and Vile both appeared onthe 2021 Velvet Underground tribute album ‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’, with the former contributing ‘The Black Angel’s Death Song’ and the latter covering ‘RunRunRun’.
Speaking toNMEat the time, Fontaines bassist Conor Deegan III said it was “class” tobe connected withVile on a project and described his track as “an absolute banger”.
It comes after Fontaines previewed their forthcoming single ‘Marianne’ and recently confirmed that their fifth studio album is on the way.Nofurther details have been confirmed, but thebandhave been known to be working on the record for some time.
Talking toNMEin February last year, bassist Conor Deegan III said: “It’s one of those things where we can’t stop writing – it’s something that we just do when we’re with each other.”
Guitarist Carlos O’Connelloffered another update in January, tellingNME: “We’ve been writing, it’s been fun. We’re at Reading & Leeds and there are a couple of shows before that. I think if the music is there, it could get busy.”
Fontaines will play a few shows around Europe – in France,Switzerlandand Austria – in the coming days, beforetopping the bill at Reading & Leeds at the end of the month. They then return hometo headline Electric Picnic in Ireland on August 30.
Their return to the stage followedthe death of their manager Trevor Dietz, who they described as “the sixth member of the band”. Their first performance since his passing was at the BBC’s final live session at Maida Vale earlier this month.
They releasedthe standalone single ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’ in February,coveredSinéad O’Connor’s ‘Black BoysOnMopeds’ for War Child’s ‘Help(2)’ albumand contributed tothe soundtrack forPeaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
Vile, meanwhile, released his 10thstudio album ‘Philadelphia’s Been GoodToMe’ in May. He will also be playing at EndOfTheRoad festivalin Wiltshire next month.