[27], The NME said that "Dogrel proves that early-days pinning as punks next great hope was perhaps premature there's far more to Fontaines D.C. than your typical thrashed-out, pissed-off young rebellion. The Fontaines D.C.'s force-of-nature punk-poet frontman sounds light . Fontaines D.C. are an Irish post-punk band formed in Dublin in 2017. Grian's real name is Charles. How Cold Love Is I feel like I abandoned Ireland., On Roman Holiday, he is trying to embrace London as an Irish person, where youre sort of still mocked and told to go home. I think its about wanting to sort of go out and embrace London as an Irish person. Im not really sure, Im still quite new to this ya know. The more culture we see, the more books we read, and the more views that we get to see will help us. For the first time ever, I was enthusiastic about something and became good at it. Are you optimistic about Dublins future? We got to talking about what makes the Fontaines tick, Seattle rain, Irish poetry, and love. There is Irish hip-hop. When Fontaines D.C. first formed, Chatten had a rather humble notion of future success he and his bandmates would emerge with their love of music and creativity intact. Just because its diaspora, its still pure. The band's debut album, Dogrel, was released on 12 April 2019 to widespread critical acclaim; it was listed as Album of the Year on the record store Rough Trade's website,[4] voted Album of the Year by presenters on BBC Radio 6 Music,[5] and was nominated for both the Mercury Prize and the Choice Music Prize.[6]. If you had to pick between Yeats, Joyce, or Beckett? I dont like to talk to people after gigs, so I dont really have a desire to remain on peoples tongues after this stuff happens but I would like to leave a mark in the sense of inspiring people to get into literature and poetry because I think its very good for you. interview, Thats what that song was. What does it mean for music to have a Dublin accent? But Joyces brain is as powerful as Yeats heart. 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. Its the sort of duality of things to both comfort you, provide you with warmth and encouragement and safety, and at the same time while doing that, rob all the change from your back pocket, you know what I mean? "How Cold Love Is" did not enter the Irish Singles Chart, but peaked at number 13 on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart. Announce New Album Skinty Fia and Tour, Share Video for New Song: Watch", "Carlos O'Connell to miss Fontaines D.C. gigs as he awaits birth of first child", "19 April 2019 25 April 2019 Scottish Singles Archive", "07 August 2020 13 August 2020 Scottish Singles Archive", "29 April 2022 5 May 2022 Scottish Singles Archive", "Fontaines DC: full Official Chart history", "Fontaines D.C. None of the published poems were translated into songs, but the track "Television Screens" on their debut Dogrel started out as a poem and was turned into a song. I cant believe Ive still got this accent; Ive been living in Essex for the last thirty years! Grian: I worked in this awful upmarket clothes shop where I had to sell sunglasses. Little is known about his family and early life except that he has a sister. The reason I wont let go of my accent is that so many people have told me its part of my charm and, for me, the customer is always right!Grian: When we played in Boston, because of the amount of reverence they have for Irish people there, I subconsciously ramped up my Irishness by about 20 percent. Share your email for news, gossip and more, Fontaines DC frontman Grian Chatten has blasted England as a country that doesnt really welcome people who are Irish and one where youre mocked and told to go home., Outspoken Grian lead singer with the internationally successful group said his experience as an Irish immigrant in London is that the country "still considers people from Ireland not to be trusted, and threatening., He told how the bands new album Skinty Fia is built on that feeling, describing it as something weve experienced a lot over here.. Well I think anyone living on the outside of a group of people can tell that group of people something about themselves. I think they should really all be the beginnings of different songs, and I think I just get lazy and compile them all into one song.John: What a great idea! Im sure there is. I think she was an Irish woman who moved to Coventry. They put those words on her gravestone, but the church of England ruled it was at risk of being perceived as a political slogan, so they refused to allow it. Im not really confronted with my actions as much as they are. To consider Irishness and to perceive Irish as inherently sort of linked to the IRA or terrorism or anything like that, its just deeply upsetting to hear. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. Andrew Scotts voice taking a hand and leading me through the Dubliners you shed that numbness very quickly, I find. He didnt want to see me mugged off. As frontman and chief lyricist of the Dublin post-punk quintet Fontaines D.C., Chatten has channelled life growing up in Ireland into his band's music, songs that take in themes of mental health, corrupt governments, religion and community. [37], The band released their second album on 31 July 2020, titled A Hero's Death. "Fontaines D.C. Live at Kilmainham Gaol" did not enter the Dutch Albums Chart, but peaked at number 16 on the Dutch Vinyl Albums Chart. [24], On 12 April 2019, the band released their debut album Dogrel on Partisan Records. To coincide with the album's announcement, the band shared its lead single "Jackie Down the Line" with an accompanying music video. With the Irish twist that you have, what do you think youre going to reveal to America that it doesnt already know about itself, as outsiders and non-Americans? 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Spanish-born Carlos had moved to Ireland with a Spanish girl, and when that relationship ended, it was Grian, and his family in Skerries, who helped Carlos through it, and got him out the other. I think that the way people talk to each other here is vastly different than the way they talk to each other in Ireland, like people are a lot more content to be rude in a healthy way I think so far. We take a look at some of Damon and co.s most iconic pair-ups, Lynks waxes lyrical on their current faves ahead of our Now and Next tour. I think the lyrics are about almost like a perverse take on its compromise in a relationship sort of rendered as civility. Would you consider Dublin your first love? Tour diary: The Muckers, Anemone, Chai, and Rubblebucket @ Treefort Fest. Something that I can lie down beside all the books and poems Ive read and all that kind of world, because thats the world I want to live in. So I think thats where the Dublin accent really came from; a desire to fit in. Follow Grian On: Twitter Instagram Quote Of The Day | Top 100 Quotes Grian Bio As PDF Also Listed In Theyd be roaring their heads off. Yeah to an extent. In 2015 they were going to release their debut with music journalist John Robb's Louder Than War label. It was beautiful, I remember the coffee there. Like is there American-Irish food? Skinty Fia caps off a whirlwind few years for Chatten and his band. Grians marriage to his wife typified the type of wedding ceremonies we see these days small and intimate, with guests smiles hidden under protective masks. Born in Cumbria, in the far north of the country, he moved to Ireland barely a month after moving out of the womb. In January 2022, the band announced their third studio album Skinty Fia. Youre huddled together a bit more.. Let's find out! Do either of you find inspiration from the working day?John: The monotony of machinery is a big help. Does Dublin feel like an ex-lover that you broke up with to see the world? These are the Thursday horoscopes. Please, The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. Skinty Fia by Fontaines D.C. is out on 22 April. Copyright 2017 ALT CITIZEN. I just felt like I was looking down the barrel of the gun, of going to this country that doesnt really welcome people who are Irish. They used to have really turbulent and loud arguments. How could I resist, as a songwriter, the physical metaphor of looking across at a potential reflection of myself and my girlfriend in a few years to come and also vice versa, to see us as a reflection of them? So after the US tour and spending so much time away from home, do you expect to return as changed men? Get the best of DIY to your inbox each week. There's an 'unsubscribe' button at the bottom of every email we send out. She was an old woman who died and when she died her family wanted to commemorate her Irish heritage. Roman Holiday I should be living at night!. An example I was thinking of was how the Rolling Stones brought the blues and a lot of music rooted in black culture, American culture, back to America when the whole British Invasion happened. Its beautiful in its own way but when you think about it, its disgusting. One inspiration was a charity-shop accordion that Chattens mother gave him for Christmas. As an Irishman living in London, Grian Chatten deals with a lot of bullshit. Simone Lee was held captive in her home in Limerick by her former friend Christopher Stokes, who mercilessly beat her, placed bin liner over her head, and also poured boiling water over her before setting the apartment on fire on May 11, 2021. I was basically too bollocksed all the time and the idea of a bed started to scare me more and more, he says. Chatten thinks one of the reasons their songs have chimed so acutely is because there is nothing disingenuous about the way he writes. His secretive love life, Is Colin Farrell married? Im sure I want to prove something to the people that inspire me who are often dead. Thats a classic example of coming over to a different culture and telling that culture something about themselves I think as well. [Ireland] is very much in the hands of its youth now. Hed be able to explain it a lot better, but what it means to me is I think of Carlos as someone who battles sort of gloriously with his ego, which is being stroked and mutated over the last few years because were in a relatively sort of successful band. Quick Bio and Wiki Did You Know? All we know, Who is Justin Roilands wife? A lot of the album is built upon that experience, that feeling. I just wanted to kind of put myself in that position, in that song, to express how it feels to no longer have absolute independence and autonomy over your life, when you decide that you are in love and you want to share your life with someone. He was born on Monday, August 9, 1993. It was put in my hands and then I was away for a couple of days, walking around the gaff playing with very little knowledge of how to play. Not just mine, but a lot of families. But there is a furnace there still burning. A Hero's Death was later nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. I never got sick of his work. [16], In 2018, Fontaines released the single "Chequeless Reckless"/"Boys In The Better Land" and "Too Real". I went to the library and got everything Edgar Allan Poe had ever written, then I started reading about his life and I discovered that this poet, Charles Baudelaire had put his own work to one side to translate the entire canon of Edgar Allan Poe into French. Home, family, kindred spirits, Michael D., Jimmy Fallon, Derry Girls and his beloved dog, Kizzy, are all on the menu as lead singer GRIAN CHATTEN talks to Hot Press about Fontaines D.C.'s . I am. I wanted to make some good music and when its done, still have that enjoyment of playing guitar and listening to music every day, make sure I had that and not be embittered, he says. I Love You 894646. She was an old woman, she was called Margaret Keane. In New York when it rains and you see puddles, you see the gasoline and iridescent colors. All Rights reserved. I dismantle them, put them back together. Ive moved from that country. Bringing the pair together over a scratchy three-way phone line today, they trade asides, quotes and one liners, eager to impress one another. I want to live in the world of the heart. "Liberty Belle" is in homage to the Liberties, a neighbourhood in Dublin where many band members lived. Sometimes, it sounds like early The Cure, if Mr Robert Smiths crew rehearsed only on the way home from an all-day bender. The sound of a printing machine has this really sexy syncopated shuffle beat thats really helpful in the composition of poetry. This song finds frontman Grian Chatten reacting to threats against his individuality. Its interesting for me to dissect what that song means, because I think what it means is, [Im] saying goodbye to Dublin, without realizing it. Like if Shane MacGowan told me that he liked one of my tunes I think I could just retire. Learn more about our Privacy Policy here. "A Lucid Dream" did not enter the Irish Singles Chart, but peaked at number 14 on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart. The reason I use the word embrace, trying to talk about this, is because in a sense, especially when you surround yourselves or almost insulate yourself with people who are from the same area as you in a new country most of my friends here are from Dublin as well the effect is that you begin to look for it or love it. Its about his struggle to divine or delineate the real from the superficial and the material. It was released on 22 April 2022. "" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. So I think its very easy as an outsider to come in and point things out to people, but also I think if you take an element of one society or one culture and you put it in the pool with another one, both societies become nuanced against each other, like differences, and they become more intensely aware of what they are. Thats what I think Im doing. I was living in a flat with my girlfriend [and] there was a couple across the way. I wondered about these things going in and realized during our talk how much they all made sense. "We fortified our creative process from the get go," he asserts. Grian: Ive got about four songs which are essentially just lists of lines Ive written on a night out or something when Ive had a few pints. He explains how during the groups first big tour, which included exhausting drives across the US, he developed crippling insomnia. I used to listen to his readings of Dubliners. Kind of hang his head and collect himself and then turn around and go back in. "Too Real" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number two on the UK Physical Singles Chart Top 100. Of course the only American city any rock band can test their skills in has to be New York and the only venue they can really make a splash in has to be Union Pool. Does it stem from personal experiences as well? He was in love with 19th-century poetry and he conveyed this enthusiasm to the rest of the class which became this hothouse of poetic activity. Like I dont think I know myself as well as my friends. There was a little courtyard and across from the courtyard, there was a really old couple. The initials D.C. stand for "Dublin City". He thinks a lot about a lot of things, and when youre talking to him you see his thought process in the way he articulates his words and writes songs. Coming of age in Canadian rave culture, Debby Friday is making darkly industrial music with emotion at its core. [2][7] They bonded over a common love of poetry[8] and collectively released two collections of poetry, one called Vroom, inspired by the Beat poets (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg) and another called Winding, inspired by Irish poets (Patrick Kavanagh, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats). Im kind of saying that this is the last time Im going to sort of trace the steps of [James] Joyce and Flann OBrien and Patrick Kavanagh and walk these streets and be in love with the rain and in love with the pubs and the stone buildings and the ghosts of the past. The Couple Across the Way 13th November 2020. Ive spent my whole life trying to reconcile those two parts of myself and I think thats the reason that I became so fascinated in Irish culture really because I was trying to prove to myself and prove to other people that I was as Irish, if not more Irish, than other people because itd make me feel more at home. The band returned to The Tonight Show as musical guests, performing "A Hero's Death" on 28 January 2021. If you look at hip hop for example, when hip hop came out it was obviously such a working class kind of thing, like NWA and all that kind of stuff. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Fontaines DC, "Skinty Fia" did not enter the Irish Singles Chart, but peaked at number three on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart. Capturing the feeling of living in Dublin as it balances historical weight with financial upheaval, the singer Grian Chattan makes his statement of intent by announcing in a monotone rant on the opener, Big: Dublin in the rain is mine, a pregnant city with a Catholic mind. Grian thinks a lot. I think its him crying in real life because I dont think it makes any sense as a dramatic decision on his part as an actor. A lot of the lyrics are about stories I identify with but arent necessarily personal. It was kind of like a form of meditation and its a great way to share the hangover as well, because the most certain thing to me about having a hangover is the numbness that can come with it. For both of them, language is a living thing that constantly evolves, something to be heard, not read. However, they still hope that the wedding will happen soon. It allows me to express myself fully. Chatten, who now resides in London with his fiancee, and has English relatives on his mother's side, says he was shocked to read about the family's story, following Mrs Keane's death in 2018, aged 73. 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On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. If you guys are making Dogrel music is there an example of high class music? I was overwhelmed with the knowledge that none of them were worth half of what they were being sold for. Leftfield feat Grian Chatten - Full Way Round 77,229 views Oct 18, 2022 From the new album - 'This Is What We Do' 'Full Way Round' features Grian Chatten (Vocals / Lyrics) Listen to FWR. This piece will look at Grians wife and his spectacular rise on Minecraft. But you dont have to look as far anymore for it not to seem like an elitist pursuit. Hed say, Name one famous poet thats ever made a living out of it!. His lyrics feel distinctly personal, but not conceited. John Cooper Clarkes memoir I Wanna Be Yours is out now via Picador. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Can either of you remember the first time you wanted to be a writer?Grian: I started writing songs when I was about nine years old. 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. This interview should have happened backstage at a Swiss music festival last summer. Fontaines D.C. performing at Loose Ends festival Amsterdam, 2019. I feel like Ive abandoned Ireland to some extent. Do you guys ever start with the music first and then build a story off that or is it the other way around? All rights reserved. [2], They released music videos directed by frequent collaborator Hugh Mulhern. Every day Id kind of find a room of space on my own and just spend like an hour just listening to that. Is there any American crossover in Ireland? I think its interesting in this world where its incredibly important to be good, it just makes it very, very alluring to write from the perspective of somebody who doesnt want to be good or doesnt feel the need to pretend to be good. I got hold of your stuff last night and I like your style, the overcoat, the look, the voice, these are all the ingredients to make great records. Despite the four decades between them, Fontaines DC frontman Grian Chatten and longstanding punk poet John Cooper Clarke have much in common. Met Eireann has pinpointed a two-week period where 'weather warnings or impactful weather are possible'. Want to be the first to know what's going on in the world of Showbiz? Youd hear them really screaming at each other. [16][26] The record was recorded live on tape. Is there someone specific you want to prove anything to? People tend to think they know everything, obviously when theyve had a few pints in them. How much of Ireland is still out of tune? Proving that girls can wanna have fun while also sticking two fingers up to the pricks, Cardiff quartet Panic Shack are a bundle of unapologetic energy that harness the power of both. Its an exaggeration of a compromise thats necessary to a functioning relationship, to the point where it sounds pathetic. Picture by Ellius Grace/PA. The musicians' knowing immobility helpfully focuses the attention on livewire vocalist Grian Chatten, who - after initially struggling with fame earlier in his career - stands fetchingly tilted. I mean, I am, I just think it would be really hard because I dont know how to write without that kind of duality or that tension or a duplicity almost. 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