Fontaines D.C.

In July 2025 Fontaines D.C. played Finsbury Park, the biggest headline show of their career, to a sold-out crowd of 45,000. FRAY partnered with lighting and production design studio Auratecture (Ross Chapple and Nick Jevons) to create the video design.

The idea was to echo the band’s own identity rather than invent a new one. We pulled colour, logos and symbols from across their albums, from Dogrel to Romance, and built the look around three directions: acid grunge, garage punk and grid matrix. From these we set six show colourways (green, pink, red, blue, purple, and black and white) shared with lighting, so the camera feeds and the rig always told the same story.

The concert visuals ran across an upstage screen behind the band and two iMag screens either side of the outdoor stage. The upstage screen was both a scenic piece in its own right and a backdrop to the Romance heart, which was lowered in and out during the set. When the heart was in, content seemed to emerge from behind it, coloured outlines pulsed with the song, or the camera feeds were duplicated and mirrored either side of it.

Most of the show’s video was live camera effects. Duotones, echoes and a cyanotype grade gave each song its own texture. NVIDIA background removal lifted the band onto block colour fields of red or acid green. Starburster was where the programming went furthest, with video and lighting pushed hardest together. In one moment the cameras turned to the crowd and the Romance heart was tracked over the faces of people in the audience.

On the side screens the iMag shifted between two jobs: in some moments it reflected the upstage treatment, in others it held a clean cinematic grade, so that the back of a 45,000-capacity field still had a clear view of the band. Bold icon moments landed between the songs, with the screens taken over by the Irish flag and by the band’s political statements. For more on how the show came together, read the design team’s interview with Crack Magazine.