New Order and Fontaines D.C.

Sydney — Wednesday 23 October 2024

Adding to a monumental run of concerts announced for March 2025, the Sydney Opera House will present two legendary bands – one at the apex of their career and one making waves on major stages around the world – on its famous Forecourt.

• Icons of post-punk, dance and electronica, New Order, return to the Opera House for the first time in nearly a decade on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 March. From the ashes of the legendary band Joy Division, the five-piece has triumphed over tragedy to emerge as one of the most influential and acclaimed bands of all time. This tour will see them perform a lifetime’s worth of global hits and dancefloor classics from their four-decade, 10-album career including their most notable tracks, Blue Monday, Temptation, and the anthemic Bizarre Love Triangle.
   
• Fontaines D.C. has built a reputation as one of the most ferocious live bands of the moment. Riding high on their smash album Romance, the Grammy-nominated and BRIT-Award-winning five piece return to Australia hot off a blistering Glastonbury set – awarded five stars and described as “the band of their generation” by the NME. They’ll make their Opera House Forecourt debut with special guest Wunderhorse on Thursday 6 March.

​Sydney Opera House Head of Contemporary Music, Ben Marshall, says: "Helping phenomenal music born underground shine on the stages of this iconic temple of art is pure joy for me. So imagine how I feel opening the doors to New Order and Fontaines D.C. – two virtuosi of poetic nuance and musical brilliance, both taking a defiant post-punk ethos at different points in time and then sending it shattering and scattering into their own blistering, unique images.

"The incomparable New Order on the Forecourt will be one of *those* Opera House moments to remember forever (and my 16 year-old self with his hopelessly worn-out tape of Substance can’t quite believe it). Fontaines D.C.’s moment is right now, and it’s an honour to host one of the world’s most fiercest live bands on the Forecourt for their massive Australian return."