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. 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. The rain swiveling and careening through the cobblestones on any street thats slightly steeped, its beautiful. Fontaines DC: Theres the great lie of the rock star who doesnt care what people think. A Heros Death feels like a big swing, an album that on first listen might baffle but weeks, months or years later will quietly have cemented itself as a firm favourite. "It's a heavyweight bated breath of lust". What about American culture stands out to you? Then there are the jokes about the IRA, the leering men asking him to say, Top o morning! when hes just trying to have a quiet drink with his girlfriend. Am I becoming desensitized toward it? The first single, the sinister Jackie Down the Line, is out now and, below, Chatten breaks down every track of the upcoming evolution of Fontaines D.C. In r gCrothe go deo Just because its diaspora, its still pure. I have this kind of strange feeling of guilt toward my leaving of Ireland. Talking about the track, Grian explains, "'The Score' is a heavyweight bated breath of lust. I Love You Macabre Mother Goose: The Dark Side of Children's Songs, Into The Great Wide Open: Made-up Musicians. We got to talking about what makes the Fontaines tick, Seattle rain, Irish poetry, and love. I like to believe that my world creatively is iron-clad and insular, says the man who puts all of himself into his songs, even when he doesnt mean to. I never heard it before Tom [Coll] said it to me recently, but it was a substitute for a swear word, basically. It would hurt me a lot because I draw so much from it, he says over Zoom from his flat in Kentish Town, north London. She used to say that as kind of like a colloquialism. My heart rate was going fucking 90 [to the dozen]., In the Republic of Ireland, and in the United Kingdom, the rise of. Commenting on the track, Chatten says: The Score is a heavyweight bated breath of lust. Youd hear them really screaming at each other. & Tour Dates. 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? A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs. Theres nothing about it that is exclusively Irish, apart from the accents and the vocal delivery or the stories that they tell. Their albums, as they see it. When Chatten was working on Fontaines D.C.s excellent third album, Skinty Fia, out in April, he sat down to write a romantic song called I Love You, but something else came out. Boston, Sept. 8, 2019. I wrote it in Madrid between an electric fan and a dying plant and I intend to keep it there. I dont necessarily mind being talked about. On our last tour in U.K., it was a ritual of mine to listen to do you know the actor, Andrew Scott? , In r gCrothe go deo, for example, is inspired by the true story of the death of an Irishwoman, 20 greatest punk-rock vocalists of all time, IDLES drop When The Lights Come On video, explain creation of Crawler, Fontaines D.C. release Roman Holiday ahead of Skinty Fialisten, Kurt Cobains Smells Like Teen Spirit guitar is up for auction, The 15 best punk albums of 2002, from Sleater-Kinney to the Used, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden members form new band 3rd Secret, drop albumlisten, 10 alternative albums that are way better than you think. Im not really confronted with my actions as much as they are. Thats kind of what I was interested in. When people talk in pubs theres this terrific sense of knowledge. She was an old woman, she was called Margaret Keane. We want to hear it. Fontaines D.C.'s Grian Chatten Drops A Rap Verse On Kae Tempest's New Single "I Saw Light". . Youre about to go on a US tour and to SXSW, what are you going to tell America about itself? Back on the road Fontaines DC on stage in Brixton, south London. You hide in your cubby holes 4,000 miles away from each others beliefs.. Its like a physical manifestation or physical metaphor for empathy. Grian: his birthday, what he did before fame, his family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. Im very paranoid about staying the same. Even when things seem to return to something like normality, as on the thudding title track, it still goes and flummoxes you by chucking some doo-wop harmonies into the mix. (modern). In what sounds like a scene from a silent-picture comedy, Chatten ducked into a shoe shop. The Irish musician has shared "The Score," his debut single under his own name. I wrote it in Madrid between an electric fan and a dying plant and I intend to keep it there. 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. How the world responds to their body in the boot remains to be seen. I feel guilty for having left. This wasnt the Seventies or anything like that. This summer, Fontaines D.C. will head out on the road to support Arctic Monkeys on their 2023 North American tour. 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. 2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. They received a Grammy Award nomination for the 2020 follow-up, A Heros Death. Dogrel is out April 12th via Partisan Records pre-order the album here. Thats a classic example of coming over to a different culture and telling that culture something about themselves I think as well. The pressure to get a good sleep in those three or four hours became too much for me. At one point, he went a full week without hitting the hay. The result is a record that merges accordion and doomy electronica, Nineties alt-rock and Irish angst. So its a novel experience to read the artist biography for A Heros Death, the second album from Fontaines DC. That dont give a fuck attitude is not so much a part of some rebellious image as it is a reflection of a deeply inquisitive soul. We all had this pent-up aggression and resentment, and me and Carlos sat in the back of the van and just started holding hands for half-an-hour without saying anything. I think Ill be a changed man in a few ways. I was basically too bollocksed all the time and the idea of a bed started to scare me more and more, he says. The debuts bracing, direct punk has been replaced by something more textured and woozy, inspired by 90s hauntologists Broadcast and the psych-country of Lee Hazlewood. 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. Those are kind of the themes I wanted to explore in the album. The stripped-back intimate track sees the Irish . You tend to know what to expect from the blurb that accompanies a bands new album. Its like the most normal title ever. "When we went out on tour with them, I hadn't adapted to the lifestyle and responsibilities of being . As cities and towns passed by in a blur of gigging, members started drinking too much and falling out. I think Ive got great guilt about leaving Ireland in the state that its in. Im not really sure, Im still quite new to this ya know. That was rough for me, you know? If she drops something, shed say, Ah, skinty fia. It roughly translates as the damnation of the deer. I dont know, it sounds like mutation and doom and inevitability and all these things that I felt were congruous to my idea of Irishness abroad. The MTV classic "Voices Carry" is by 'Til Tuesday, a group fronted by Aimee Mann. This is us as people, concludes vocalist Grian Chatten. Im vergangenen Jahr erst hat er mit dem von der Kritik gefeierten Nummer-eins-Album (UK . Taking the air on a stroll around the bustling Temple Bar area, the singer of Fontaines D.C. caught sight of a gaggle . In the foothills of spring, the groups third album. Interview by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon (50th Anniversary Deluxe Boxset), Live review! Like if you go to Boston, that expression of Irishness. These days a resident of Camden, the citys most chaotic neighborhood aglow with musical history, within five minutes walk from his front door the singer is able to reach the steps of Camden Market on which the Clash stood on the cover of their first LP, the train station in front of which Madness posed for the front cover of Absolutely, and The Hawley Arms, the pub frequented by Amy Winehouse. The National are on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut, Fontaines D.C. talk uprooting and having a sense of identity on, Introducing our Quarterly Special Edition: Curated By King Crimson, Lucinda Williams: It was so satisfying to put the record straight.. Speaking to NME at the BRIT Awards 2023 (where Fontaines won the Best International Group statue), guitarist Carlos OConnell said that the band would go back into the mindset of writing after the AM gigs. 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. 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. Kojaque is really good. Its expansive and loose where their first two records were tightly wound. Nous, Yahoo, faisons partie de la famille de marques Yahoo. I used to worry that my gradual acceptance of those things was an erosion of [my] character. Theres a slight level of discomfort in being Irish in this city, he says. Lou Reed's 11-minute "Street Hassle" features a spoken part by Bruce Springsteen. The shocking part, which Ive left to the end of the story for dramatic effect for you, is that this is two years ago. All of this might sound alarming to anyone who listened to and loved Dogrel, but the charms of A Heros Death the motorik thrum of Televised Mind, the babbling psych of A Lucid Dream do eventually reveal themselves. The Fontaines D.C.'s force-of-nature punk-poet frontman sounds light . Eddie (played by Johnny Depp in the video) found fame fleeting, but Chuck Berry's made-up musician fared better. The party behind him followed suit. Let The Roundup Begin: The Month In Hardcore. He shot it on location in Skerries on the Irish east coast where frontman Grian Chatten is from. And we still hear the odd [derogatory term] Paddy being thrown around. Theres elements you forget about, forget they matter.. Theres a beautiful sense of sharing a secret with your mates again. The government is driving the country into the ground, keeping a lid on previous scandals. There will almost certainly be talk of a journey or an evolution. Weve done every album straight after another, and this is a new thing for us to have a break, he continued. Image: Eimear Lynch. Chattens vocal delivery, always in his natural Dublin accent, pinballs between fiery sing-speak and impassioned crooning and makes you feel less like youre watching from the front row and more that youre trapped in a confession box with him. The coffee on the tap. Grian Chatten of Fontaines D.C. Im sure I want to prove something to my mom and my da. Theres a lot of covert prejudice and stereotypes still kept alive by people here, he says, either little micro-aggressions or blatant racism towards Irish people. I kind of feel like its in two parts. I was in my flat, upset at 6.00am, raging against the rest of the world and feeling like a freak because I couldnt sleep. A sleep therapist advised him to decide on a time to wake up every day and stick to it, regardless of when he went to bed. 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. So I think that we wrote about the places within as opposed to the places without.. Associated With. 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. 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. He loves the sprawling nature of the city and a part of him enjoys the sense of being an outsider. F ontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten looks out across north Dublin, towards the tranquility of the Irish sea. I like when people expand on society and pretend that they know everything about society as well because peoples opinions become so absolute after a few pints and I like engaging in that. And for the first time in my life, family members were telling me how proud they were. But at the same time when Joyce chooses to reveal his heart its such a profoundly powerful, impactful experience. I dont know exactly what that is; its an abstract thing, but its like somethings over ya know. Loves a double-edged sword, you know? 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. The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History Yeah basically, its a working class poetry. Would you ever want people to tell your story like that, in the same way youre telling theirs? The stripped-back intimate track sees the Irish singer shift his creative process from a collaborative endeavour to a solely introspective one, per a press release. Best of all are the songs where things slow to a crawl. 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. Taking the air on a stroll around the bustling Temple Bar area, the singer of Fontaines D.C. caught sight of a gaggle of young admirers shadowing him from a distance. So if we got back, theres an elephant in the room because we both know somethings not right. Ed Sheeran Testifies In Marvin Gaye Copyright Trial, Crazy Town Singers Beat Each Other Up After Rocky Myrtle Beach Show, XTCs Andy Partridge Has A New Band Called The 3 Clubmen Hear Their Debut Single Aviatrix, Watch Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, Beck, & Many More Perform At Willie Nelsons 90th Birthday Celebration. As an Irishman living in London, Grian Chatten deals with a lot of bullshit. A few of my mates have been told to fuck off home and things like that. NET-A-PORTER.COM sells must-have luxury fashion from over 900 of the world's most coveted designers. Its not up to us to become the biggest band in the world, it just isnt, OConnell says firmly. Am I really being influenced by that anymore? Methodology: The chart is compiled from dozens of blogs and playlists focusing on new alternative and indie track releases, plus YouTube and Spotify streams. 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. Yeah we do, whatever comes first just as long as it has a kind of pointed feeling that we all chase down. 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? These days a resident of Camden, the citys most chaotic neighborhood aglow with musical history, within five minutes walk from his front door the singer is able to reach the steps of Camden Market on which, , and The Hawley Arms, the pub frequented by, There are stranger matters, too. It will quite likely be 500 words longer than it needs to be. What does it mean for music to have a Dublin accent? Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten has shared his debut solo single listen to The Score below. The poetic Dublin post-punk band are back with a daring new album that might kill their fanbase. Are you optimistic about Dublins future? Bloomsday Because I happen to know fucking everything and then he looks at us as he says and I might not remember it in the morning. Thats exactly it. Last week, we got an email saying that they really love the song, that its completely appropriate and that they played it at the gravestone.. Im curious as to what that would even sound like. dvelopper et amliorer nos produits et services. YouTube playlist (Official). [Being in London] made us want to change things as we saw them. Yeah man. Grian Chatten. Im going to have kids at some point, he says, so this is my last chance to. I think a lot of them would be surprised if I told them that we have gay marriage in Ireland. Being away from home for an extended period of time meant that he didnt feel comfortable documenting its changes, and he says he would never write an album about shit coffee from petrol stations, so instead the band looked inwards. 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. Like if Shane MacGowan told me that he liked one of my tunes I think I could just retire. The suspicion with which Fontaines D.C. regard such trinkets is likely a testament to their musical worth. I dont necessarily like it but I know its good for me and its good for everyone.. 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.. 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. I think he must be really crying there. Funnily enough, it made me feel worse than when they were telling me to quit and get a proper job., Good for them. 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. A lot of black communities and much of the American population had forgotten about those types of music until the Stones and other bands brought them back in and it became mainstream; commercialized to a larger extent. It worked. Most jarringly of all, Chattens depictions of Dublin have, for the most part, been set aside for something more introspective. A few of my mates have been told to fuck off home and things like that. 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 .
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