- 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.”
EVENT DETAILS & BIOS
WHO: New Order
WHEN: Friday 14 and Saturday 15 March 2025, 6pm gates
WHERE: Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
TICKETS: From $149 + booking fee // sydneyoperahouse.com // +61 2 9250 7777
Formed by members of the legendary post-punk band Joy Division, New Order took their former band’s cutting-edge rock and pushed it further into the realm of dance rhythms, resulting in one of the most unmistakable sounds of the era. Their 1983 smash Blue Monday – an instant dance-floor filler to this day – became the best-selling 12-inch single of all time, while songs such as Temptation, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith and the anthemic World in Motion – to name just a few – continue to impact new generations of listeners and musicians. Their multi-platinum albums include Power, Corruption & Lies (1983), Low-Life (1985), Technique (1989), Get Ready (2001) and the indispensable singles compilation Substance (1987). The band are currently preparing a deluxe edition of their classic 1986 record Brotherhood.
WHO: Fontaines D.C. with special guest Wunderhorse
WHEN: Thursday 6 March 2025, 6pm gates
WHERE: Forecourt, Sydney Opera House
TICKETS: From $129.90 + booking fee // sydneyoperahouse.com // +61 2 9250 7777
Dublin-made, now London-based five-piece comprised of vocalist Grian Chatten, guitarists Carlos O’Connell and Conor Curley, bassist Conor Deegan and drummer Tom Coll, self-released a series of singles before breaking through with their 2019 debut Dogrel, a critically acclaimed, Mercury Prize-nominated album that the NME called “a snarling new vision of youthful disillusionment” from “one of guitar music’s most essential new voices.” Their 2020 follow-up A Hero’s Death earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album, while their chart-topping 2022 record Skinty Fia collected them a Brit Award for Best International Act. Powered by the hit Starburster, their latest album Romance sees the band shaping their signature punk-infused sound into a stunning vision of future dystopia, adding pop melodies, beats, nu-metal sounds and lush orchestration to their visceral rock sound.
