Watch Fontaines D.C. debut yearning new song ‘Happy For You’ at Leeds 2026

Fontaines D.C. played the new song ‘Happy, For You’ for the first time during their headline set at Leeds Festival – watch footage below.

READ MORE: Fontaines D.C. live at Reading 2026: an emotional coronation for the modern indie kings The Irish band closed the festival’s main stage – now known as The Grid – at Bramham Park last night (August 29), one day after their headline performance at Reading .

The set saw the first ever performance of the new song ‘Happy, For You’, taken from their upcoming fifth album ‘ Dopamine Chamber ‘, which is set to be released on October 16 via XL Recordings.

Fontaines had intended to debut the song at Reading a night earlier, but the band arrived on stage approximately half an hour late due to technical and logistical problems, and it was one of three songs cut from the final setlist, alongside ‘Big’ and ‘Hurricane Laughter’.

Fans at Leeds did get to experience ‘Happy For You’, a slow-burning, bittersweet track that sees frontman Grian Chatten attempting to accept the end of a relationship, repeatedly insisting: “ So you know, I’m just happy for you, I swear “.

Check out footage here: View this post on Instagram Grian Chatten of Fontaines D.C. at Reading Festival 2026.

CREDIT: Andy Ford for NME Grian Chatten of Fontaines D.C. at Reading Festival 2026.

CREDIT: Andy Ford for NME Fontaines also found room for ‘Big’ in their Leeds set, although ‘Hurricane Laughter’ still did not make the cut.

The other two ‘Dopamine Chamber’ songs that have been a regular presence in the band’s setlists this month, ‘ Marianne ‘ and ‘Six Shot Morning’, also made an appearance.

Fontaines D.C.’s Leeds Festival setlist: ‘Boys In The Better Land’ ‘Here’s The Thing’ ‘Nabokov’ ‘Marianne’ ‘Jackie Down The Line’ ‘Televised Mind’ ‘Roman Holiday’ ‘Death Kink’ ‘Big’ ‘Big Shot’ ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’ ‘Bug’ ‘Happy, For You’ (live debut) ‘Before You I Just Forget’ ‘Favourite’ ‘In The Modern World’ ‘Six Shot Morning’ ‘I Love You’ ‘Starburster’ NME gave their Reading show four-and-a-half stars , writing: “’Sorry for the short set,’ ends Chatten before the pure anxiety explosion of the full stop of ‘Starburster’.

We hear that three songs – and reportedly another never-played-before new one – were cut from the setlist due to the delay, and we envy the people at the sister site in Leeds who we assume are going to get the full Fontaines R+L headline experience as it was intended.

Either way, tonight was a deserved coronation from the band of our time, even if we didn’t get them in full.” The shows were Fontaines’ first Reading & Leeds headline performances, with the band having recently returned to the stage following the death of their longtime manager Trevor Dietz in June.