Fontaines D.C. invite pro-Palestine group on stage at Roskilde 2025 to deliver powerful message

3 July, 2025

Fontaines D.C. live at Reading 2024, photo by Andy Ford

Fontaines D.C. invited a pro-Palestine group onto the stage at their slot at Roskilde 2025. Check out footage below.

The rock group took to the stage last night (July 2) for a huge set at the festival in Denmark, and brought out a pro-Palestine activist group mid-performance to show their solidarity with the people of Gaza.

The group led chants in both English and Arabic, and also praised Bob Vylan for their support during their divisive slot at Glastonbury Festival last weekend.

As well as encouraging the crowd to chant ‘Free Palestine’, one of the members of the group highlighted how some medial outlets have put restrictions on artists from speaking out, and that their appearance at Roskilde was in an attempt to “avoid the censorship from the media and talk about Palestine” (via Far Out).

Find footage of the set below.

The aforementioned Glastonbury slot from Bob Vylan relates to the duo using their time on the West Holts stage to voice their support for Palestine, as well as calling out the BBC, Israel, the US and UK governments and more.

They projected a message reading “Free Palestine – United Nations have called it a genocide – the BBC calls it a ‘conflict’” onto the screen behind them, and also led chants of both “free, free Palestine” and “death, death to the IDF”.

Glastonbury organisers would later issue a statement, saying it was “appalled” by their “death to the IDF” chants, and further backlash came from both Cabinet minister Wes Streeting and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, who said that the BBC’s decision to broadcast the performance shows “a problem of leadership”.

The US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau also described the actions as a “hateful tirade” and confirmed that the band have had their US visas revoked as a result.

Others to have spoken out include Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap, who still performed at Glasto 25 despite calls from Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Leader of the Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch to be removed from the line-up due to their on stage comments, and despite member Mo Chara appeared in court over an alleged terror offence relating to comments regarding Palestine.

As for Fontaines, the band recently called the police investigations into artists speaking out in support of Palestine “a witch hunt” and said during an interview with NME that it “really is the responsibility of anyone with a voice” to speak out in defence of the people in Gaza.

In August last year, the band cancelled a gig in Istanbul in solidarity with Palestine, saying that “we must be clear in our convictions,” and earlier this year, they used their set at Primavera Sound to both call for a “free Palestine” and accuse Israel of genocide.

The band teamed up with Dublin’s Bohemians FC and designed a shirt to gather funds for the people of Palestine. That got a new wave of attention this summer when activist Greta Thunberg was pictured wearing it in a video that raised awareness for the ‘Freedom Flotilla‘ trip, in which she and 11 other campaigners set sail for Gaza in an attempt to “break Israel’s siege”.

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