"London Bridge," "Ring Around the Rosie" and "It's Raining, It's Pouring" are just a few examples of shockingly morbid children's songs. Forty-seven years after this infamous miscarriage of justice, on the week of their singers interview with Alternative Press, the last of Fontaines D.C.s five members completed his move to the English capital. I developed insomnia to a very real extent. Giving up the ghost of sleep at 4 or 5 a.m., he would rise from his bed and head out to buy a beer from a vending machine in the lobby of the bargain-bin U.S. motels in which the group were billeted. . With a sound that recalls the tension and violence of punk forebears the Stranglers, and which keeps assured company with the very best of European alternative music Wolf Alice, most notably, and IDLES the idea that the Dubliners would be minded to play nice was for the birds. The fact that he and his bandmates are today part of a now centuries-old Irish diaspora can also be traced back to Great Britain; it was during the London-imposed Great Famine of 1845-52 that people in Ireland first began crossing oceans, Good for him because by the time you read this, Fontaines D.C. will be back in the United States on a world tour that will last, off and on, mostly on, until next year. Add new setlist now. If you're expecting more of the type of twisted post-punk. Upon researching for this conversation I learned Grian was supposed to have a sort of cool, mysterious, "don't give a fuck" demeanor and noticed in videos of performances that he would anxiously pace back and forth on stage between powerful deliveries of his lyrics. You hide in your cubby holes 4,000 miles away from each others beliefs.. Grian: his birthday, what he did before fame, his family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. "As long as you have a view to a horizon," he mutters, "there's the potential to. "During those little breaks I worried that I still looked wrecked even though I was. Stuff like that. Has it been run dry for me? It also made us covet and idealize and grow closer to our own Irish identity as well.. Im not interested in writing a straight-up love song. Chatten's dense, chewy lyrics, rich with allusions to the modernist poets the band first bonded over while at music school, hinted at a world trapped between history and modernity, where cabbies,. I think the lyrics are about almost like a perverse take on its compromise in a relationship sort of rendered as civility. I read that one thing that really brought you guys together was a mutual love of the Beat generation and you named yourselves after the Godfather character, Johnny Fontane. Let The Roundup Begin: The Month In Hardcore. Skinty Fia caps off a whirlwind few years for Chatten and his band. The fact that he and his bandmates are today part of a now centuries-old Irish diaspora can also be traced back to Great Britain; it was during the London-imposed Great Famine of 1845-52 that people in Ireland first began crossing oceans en masse in search of different lives. Its that sort of pseudo-knowledge. As an Irishman living in London, Grian Chatten deals with a lot of bullshit. Then there are the jokes about the IRA,. If a band has a good message on paper but is too fashionable, too concerned with fashion, its just very difficult for me to listen to them because I cant take them seriously. So, instead, Fontaines DC will continue down their own path, even if it alienates some. . Im trying to kind of convince my girlfriend to come out and enjoy this its like adventure, you know what I mean? I Love You So after the US tour and spending so much time away from home, do you expect to return as changed men? ou tend to know what to expect from the blurb that accompanies a bands new album. Does it stem from personal experiences as well? Grian thinks a lot. Bringing the pair together over a scratchy three-way phone line today, they trade . I wrote it in Madrid between an electric fan and a dying plant and I intend to keep it there. The more culture we see, the more books we read, and the more views that we get to see will help us. Three albums later, the parameters have changed. I am. Each day, the 26-year-old pens lyrics and poetry, and little bits of prose; accomplishing this requires that he be a part of the thing [he] seeks to observe., Not just this, but the singer describes himself as an anxious person who finds it very difficult, when someone is being complimentary, to deny them a little bit of time., Which is why, for his audience with Alternative Press, Chatten is speaking from the flat in London hes shared with his girlfriend for the past 18 months. That whole rhetoric that exists on the album of being your own person, thats something that came up as a result of me feeling like I was being trapped in my political beliefs or my lifestyle on the road, on tour, being shoehorned or pigeonholed into a kind of genre, Chatten says. I think everything gets lost in inauthenticity. Its like the most normal title ever. The Irish musician has shared "The Score," his debut single under his own name. You can follow Fontaines D.C. on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Theres no hope without tragedy and all that. Dogrel is out April 12th via Partisan Records pre-order the album here. Hailing from Dublin, the five-piece band bagged a trophy for Best Band In The World at the NME awards this year. That original version had the lyrics: "Don't tell my heart, my achy, breakin' heart". I used to laugh about it because I didnt feel it was important with all the movements in the world going on, but these things build up. He recounts how recently, Fontaines D.C.s drummer was in a London pub and overheard someone say, Theres a lot of fucking Irish people out there today. Did it rain when you guys were in Seattle for KEXP? There will almost certainly be talk of a journey or an evolution. The result was a record that Chatten describes, in the sort of slightly pseudy phrase that he alone seems to be able to pull off, as an expression of our jilted selves. It worked. Formed in Dublin in 2017, such was the groups disorientating ascent that the trendsetting British radio station BBC Radio 6 Music nominated their debut LP, 2019s wildly applauded Dogrel, as its record of the year. During the argument, the man would just come out onto the balcony and he would look left and right, and just take a deep gulp of air. Im very sad about whats going on over there. T&Cs apply, Words by Mr Niall Doherty | Photography by Filmawi, The worst thing anyone could say to Mr Grian Chatten is that hes not really Irish. She was an Irish-speaking person, like strictly Irish-speaking, exclusively Irish-speaking person. Skinty Fia The group speak of their comradely "love" for one another. These are very American things, very much relics of American culture. He explains how during the groups first big tour, which included exhausting drives across the US, he developed crippling insomnia. Dokken frontman Don Dokken explains what broke up the band at the height of their success in the late '80s, and talks about the botched surgery that paralyzed his right arm. Thats skinty fia to me. The extended lag between surface success and actual material security, typical for any hyped young band, was taking its toll. But at the same time when Joyce chooses to reveal his heart its such a profoundly powerful, impactful experience. On tour in Europe, he once went nine days without a wink of sleep. When youre a band releasing your first album you get all this attention but then there are certain things that make no sense with it, like youre completely struggling for cash throughout this massive tour. Like is there American-Irish food? Ireland is like that. I guess the opposite of Dogrel would be high class poetry. As Chatten speaks, there hangs behind him a framed picture of Shane MacGowan, the singer with the Pogues, who in 1988 sang about the imprisonment of six Northern Irishmen wrongly convicted of bombing a pub in Birmingham, Englands second-largest city. Technically speaking, Grian Chatten is in fact English. He got engaged in 2019 and wed in 2020. I dont necessarily like it but I know its good for me and its good for everyone.. Lockdown has allowed them room to reflect, pressing pause on a touring schedule that has rumbled on non-stop since before the release of their debut. Irish post-punk greats Fontaines D.C. are about a year removed from releasing last years standout album Skinty Fia. (modern). Fontaines D.C. are one of the most thrilling guitar bands to emerge this century. I used to just sit in the lobby of the hotel, watch the sun come up with a beer from a vending machine and wait for everyone else to get out of bed.. The rain swiveling and careening through the cobblestones on any street thats slightly steeped, its beautiful. Despite the four decades between them, Fontaines DC frontman Grian Chatten and longstanding punk poet John Cooper Clarke have much in common. But I think its really important to make sure that we, have something to say. Credit: Eimear Lynch. Its what makes this songwriting dynamo tick. I remember when we played you couldnt move for American-Irish, the singer recalls. Yeah, nine months out of the year its drizzling there, I could imagine Ireland is very similar. I dont really like to get in the spotlight too often which is obviously contradictory to what I do. I think the song was influenced by addiction, which is something that runs in a lot of families. He looks back with horror on those first few months at home, describing them as some of the darkest times of his life. She died, and when she died her family wanted to commemorate her Irish heritage by including the words in r gCrothe go deo on her gravestone. As a resident of Europes only megacity, at once Chatten was able to regain his absent anonymity. For all that, Dogrel managed to be surprisingly anthemic too, with songs the barrelling Boys in the Better Land, the staccato shoutalong of Big that could as easily be belted out at closing time as assiduously studied on lyrics sites. Im very paranoid about staying the same. Im of a generation of awful, awful ambassadors for the most part. Every day Id kind of find a room of space on my own and just spend like an hour just listening to that. Youre huddled together a bit more.. What is less common is for the band in question to sound as if they are simultaneously breaking up with you and asking you outside for a fight. Vous pouvez modifier vos choix tout moment en cliquant sur le lien Tableau de bord sur la vie prive prsent sur nos sites et dans nos applications. Grian Chatten is at the top of the stairs putting a jumper on over his vest, shouting down to say hello, apologise for the mess, and wave us into the kitchen/lounge of his rented flat in Kentish . Theyre trying not to let it get to them. Asked to quantify his response to the Keane familys email, the answer from Chatten contains all one needs to know about Fontaines D.C. It made me feel a hundred times better than a Grammy nomination, he says. Do you ever think about the impact you guys are going to leave? Andrew Scotts voice taking a hand and leading me through the Dubliners you shed that numbness very quickly, I find. I think I need to romanticize everything thats around me in order to feel like Im living a fruitful life ya know; and a gorgeous life, something thats profound. Each day, the 26-year-old pens lyrics and poetry, and little bits of prose; accomplishing this requires that he be a part of the thing [he] seeks to observe. Not just this, but the singer describes himself as an anxious person who finds it very difficult, when someone is being complimentary, to deny them a little bit of time., It was fine when such entreaties occurred once or twice a day, but in Dublin, he was staring into the lenses of strangers camera phones four times in an hour. In such a small city, it soon reached the point where he longed for people to just not know what I do so I could experience Dublin. Little by little, all these corners of Dublin were taken away from me, or at least thats how it felt.. Im not really confronted with my actions as much as they are. Lo and behold, it turned out to be another song about Ireland, he says. It gave the band their first Number One on both the official UK and Irish album charts. I remember we played one gig, and a [non-Irish-American] person asked if we were still all eating potatoes and riding around in carriages.. Setlists. Their songs are shot through with youthful exhilaration and the bite-marks of early adulthood, the big nights out and the fretful hangovers that follow. Please disable your adblocker or subscribe to ad-free membership to view this article. Lou Reed's 11-minute "Street Hassle" features a spoken part by Bruce Springsteen. We could easily have written an album without having anything to say because we just love writing music. Upon researching for this conversation I learned Grian was supposed to have a sort of cool, mysterious, dont give a fuck demeanor and noticed in videos of performances that he would anxiously pace back and forth on stage between powerful deliveries of his lyrics. Mixing post-punk grooves and minimalist rock dynamics, they make music that tackles the big issues through the prism of personal experience. Grian Chatten. I think she was an Irish woman who moved to Coventry. Pour en savoir plus sur la faon dont nous utilisons vos donnes personnelles, veuillez consulter notre politique relative la vie prive et notre politique en matire de cookies. I think if you write about yourself you sound like a narcissist, he says, but if you write about yourself without meaning to, then youre really writing about other people., Many of the tracks on Skinty Fia were informed by the bands relocation to London and questions about home and belonging hang over the whole album. As frontman and chief lyricist of the Dublin post-punk quintet Fontaines D.C., Chatten has channelled life growing up in Ireland into his bands music, songs that take in themes of mental health, corrupt governments, religion and community. Yeah to an extent. Im going to have kids at some point, he says, so this is my last chance to be the kid., Often are the times when he wonders how I went from writing a chord progression and expressing what its like living in Dublin to saying all these weird corporate one-liners [for American radio stations], you know? The thing about that you know, by the way, is that it does expect a response. Photos byLauren Khalfayan, find more of her workhere. (The decision was subsequently overturned on appeal. And for the first time in my life, family members were telling me how proud they were. Im not going to name the country, but I think thats interesting because I definitely fell in love with the whole concept of that country and the difference of culture. According to Chatten, Skinty Fia (titled after an old Irish swear meaning the damnation of the deer; see below for more on that) started coming together when members of the band were back in Dublin during the pandemic. It made the album a little bit more Irish because we coveted that which made us different., Despite that, Chatten likes living in London. During this time, Grian its pronounced like Ian, by the way Chatten was on Fontaines D.C.s first tour as a successful band. Fontaines D.C. discovered this firsthand at a concert at the Great Scott club in where else? They used to have really turbulent and loud arguments. Its not unlicensed and its not impure. Yeah exactly, its just got that beautiful sort of pain because when you love something youre basically giving it license to hurt you, and Dublin definitely has license to hurt me. Kind of hang his head and collect himself and then turn around and go back in. I feel guilty for having left. Aside from what you bond over what do you and your bandmates disagree about? 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. The stripped-back intimate track sees the Irish . Their recently . Now, vocalist Grian Chatten has announced his debut solo single, which is called The Score. Its a tense, somber, and stripped-down affair and also comes with a music video directed by Georgie Jesson. There are no setlists by Grian Chatten on setlist.fm yet. Released in April last year, Dogrel quickly marked Fontaines DC out as a rare guitar band that matter. I wondered about these things going in and realized during our talk how much they all made sense. Funnily enough Im one of the only people that actually sings in an Irish accent from Ireland there. Im sure I want to prove something to my mom and my da. Yeah it was summer. As for those massive upcoming dates with Alex Turner and co, OConnell told NME: Im excited not only because of the music and everything, but I think its amazing as a band to see someone with such legacy and so much time behind them. Im done!. This is us as people, concludes vocalist Grian Chatten. The Pogues sang about this, too, in the deeply moving Thousands Are Sailing. Nowhere was this exodus more evident than in the New World of the United States of America. As the album found its way into the UK Top 10, Fontaines quickly graduated to bigger and bigger venues, selling out the 5,000-capacity O2 Academy Brixton earlier this year. He moved to Ireland at the grand old age of one month and if someone said that meant he wasnt truly of the Emerald Isle, Chatten would be broken. Related Stories There are two sources of his feelings of alienation: Chatten getting engaged to his longtime girlfriend in August 2019, and the success of Fontaines D.C.'s debut album, The band's bassist, Connor Deegan III, directed the music video remotely from his home in County Mayo, Ireland. I share the same beliefs as a lot of people my age, but I think that the way theyre developed upon or the way that theyre used and shared could be improved, he says. To see a band like Arctic Monkeys stick together after so long and to continue to make albums that challenge the music around them and challenge the music theyve already made is inspiring.. He had this piece of music and the title, and then I wrote the lyrics more or less in one go. Am I really being influenced by that anymore? Like if you go to Boston, that expression of Irishness. But Joyces brain is as powerful as Yeats heart. Or is it more like a spouse that youre looking forward to return home to? The coffee on the tap. Ive moved from that country. In the 100 years that have elapsed since the Republic of Ireland broke free of British rule, the two countries have enjoyed a complex relationship that is further complicated by the fact that six of the islands counties remain a part of Great Britain. I feel like the first time I fell in love was with a girl from a different country. Grian Chatten, Conor Deegan, Carlos O'Connell and Tom Coll from Fontaines DC attend the Ivor Novello Awards 2021 at Grosvenor House on September 21,. The tipping point, Chatten says, came in the throes of a particularly negative tour of Europe. A smart synthesis of post-punk old and new (from PiL and the Fall to raucous contemporaries such as Girl Band and Protomartyr) and the frayed romantic storytelling of the Pogues, it offered a compelling portrait of an Ireland wrestling with its own sense of self. It still considers people from Ireland something not to be trusted and threatening. But that's not the only win Fontaines D.C. have had lately. We get a Grammy nomination [for A Heros Death, in the category of Best Rock Album], people like us, blah blah blah, guitarist Carlos OConnell told The Times last year. Its up to how the music resonates., A Heros Death is out Friday 31 July, on Partisan Records, The Guide: Staying In sign up for our home entertainment tips, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Were all experiencing the same flux. I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fontaines frontman, Grian Chatten. Weve done every album straight after another, and this is a new thing for us to have a break, he continued. Back on the road Fontaines DC on stage in Brixton, south London. Cait ORiordan from the Pogues is coming tonight. 13th November 2020. [Being in London] made us want to change things as we saw them. Its like if you have a sibling and one of the siblings is into art and the other sibling is into business, I think being in such close proximity with such differences, you become more aware of your differences, so in that sense youre inadvertently teaching each other things about yourselves. I make a point of visiting friends and family that wont necessarily be as kind to me, the people that will bring me back down to Earth, when Im home because Im also paranoid of changing and getting too big headed. Does Dublin feel like an ex-lover that you broke up with to see the world? Theres a level of specificity and locale on the first album that we could have aped, but it would have been fraudulent and thereby useless as a piece of art, Chatten says. Tune in here: It is not yet known whether The Score will feature on an album, EP or wider solo project from Chatten. Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten has shared his debut solo single listen to The Score below. There will almost certainly be talk of a journey or an evolution. Especially when youre in a group of young Irish people living in London, it can be a great social adhesive between youse. I think Yeats is a lot more heart on the sleeve, hes a bleeding heart. Theres a kind of healthiness to writing during the day. But for Chatten, the unintended consequences of success pose an obstacle to his job as a writer. 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The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Georgie Jesson. Apple Music playlist (thanks u/alexpiercey) . Nothing can tamper with that. He wrote the song during breaks from the band's relentless . Copyright 2017 ALT CITIZEN. Concert. Big Shot An impressively niche musical reference will probably be name-dropped at some point (We were heavily influenced by 70s Orkney Islands psych rock this time round). The MTV classic "Voices Carry" is by 'Til Tuesday, a group fronted by Aimee Mann. Sometimes, it sounds like early The Cure, if Mr Robert Smiths crew rehearsed only on the way home from an all-day bender. The Naughty by Nature hit "O.P.P." Eventually they said, Excuse me, sorry, can we get a photo with you? he recalls. I was basically too bollocksed all the time and the idea of a bed started to scare me more and more, he says. Best of all are the songs where things slow to a crawl. A few of my mates have been told to fuck off home and things like that. Theyve stuck together and its quite beautiful.
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