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[9], Lead singer Chatten is half-English (his mother is English and his father is Irish) and was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria[2] but grew up in the County Fingal coastal town of Skerries, north of Dublin. Now, were sort of like, if we just keep going and we dont fuck it up, maybe I could raise my kid on this. He says this rise in expectations doesnt interfere with his writing. Kind of hang his head and collect himself and then turn around and go back in. Thats a new thing. It doesnt jar the way it looks at all, it just fits it. Its that sort of pseudo-knowledge. The idea of becoming a citizen poet acquired this kind of glamour that we didnt have an equivalent of in this country. To hear Irish men, even in their 20s, talk in such terms is a "Not in Kansas" moment and one of the most quietly striking and encouraging aspects of the documentary. I think she was an Irish woman who moved to Coventry. 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. "Skinty Fia" did not enter the Irish Singles Chart, but peaked at number three on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart. 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. Not just mine, but a lot of families. I think its about wanting to sort of go out and embrace London as an Irish person. Better late than never. 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. Grian, when did you first hear Johns poetry?Grian: I was probably 16 or 17, Carlos [OConnell, guitarist] from the band showed me your appearance on a late-night chat show in the 80s. Then I checked out Baudelaire, and discovered that he was very urban, a man about town with a fractured take on modern life as they would put it today. We got to talking about what makes the Fontaines tick, Seattle rain, Irish poetry, and love. It comes in no new form ever. Drivers warned over incoming hike in petrol and diesel prices amid two key changes, "Its really important that we dont have any particular day where fuel goes up very dramatically", Limerick woman 'lucky to be alive' after being held captive, beaten and doused with acid in horror attack. What kind of narratives do the Irish working class talk about? Fontaines D.C. are an Irish post-punk band formed in Dublin in 2017. Like everyone, Covid has forced Chatten to spend an inordinate amount of time at home over the past 21 months. I think Yeats is a lot more heart on the sleeve, hes a bleeding heart. It saved him from himself. Their music namechecks literary figures such as James Joyce and Brendan Behan, with Dublins Liberties where the band met in college as the backdrop. Lo and behold, it turned out to be another song about Ireland, he says. The worst thing anyone could say to Mr Grian Chatten is that he's not really Irish. John Cooper Clarke: If I might start this off, Im a late convert to your work, Grian! I cant believe Ive still got this accent; Ive been living in Essex for the last thirty years! "Fontaines D.C. Live at Kilmainham Gaol" did not enter the ARIA Albums Chart, but peaked at number 19 on the ARIA Top 20 Vinyl Albums Chart. The tap is always half on. [17] In May 2017, Fontaines released the single "Liberty Belle" followed by "Hurricane Laughter"/"Winter In the Sun". We were living in this bungalow in north County Dublin, about 30 miles outside of the city and I was trying to get my dad to buy me a pack of football stickers. 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. Im saying this is the last time I will trace the steps of James Joyce and Flann OBrien and Patrick Kavanagh and walk these streets and be in love with the rain. Fingers crossed everything can go ahead! Theres a kind of healthiness to writing during the day. The shocking part, which Ive left to the end of the story for dramatic effect for you, is that this is two years ago. [24], On 12 April 2019, the band released their debut album Dogrel on Partisan Records. Theyd be roaring their heads off. Big Shot When it rains in Dublin it kind of reveals Dublin the way it is. All you have to do is tell yourself they look like clouds. Fontaines D.C. are one of the most thrilling guitar bands to emerge this century. 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. Fontaines D.C. were on the crest of a wave as the pandemic ground the world to a halt in March 2020, their Mercury-nominated debut already a hit and A Heros Death ready for release. Ive read Joyces poetry and it just doesnt stand up to Yeats at all for me. We can expect good news very soon. Thats a classic example of coming over to a different culture and telling that culture something about themselves I think as well. [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. John, theres a sequence in your book about a teacher who organised poetry competitions that were almost like rap battlesJohn: It was a tough school. I wondered about these things going in and realized during our talk how much they all made sense. Designer Simone Rocha, right, with musician Grian . I hope you wont be offended when I say there were echoes of the late Mark E. Smith, I mean I dont mind when people compare me to Alexander PopeGrian Chatten, Fontaines DC: I never really get upset about that! John Cooper Clarke, I was really into a tune by her called "Never Get Old," off The Lion And The Cobra. [16], Fontaines D.C. started out self-releasing singles. That is a huge amount of food desperately needed by these people., All you need to know about Danielle Panabaker, Inside Aimee Challenors life, her husband and parents, Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patricks relationship, explained, photo of the ceremony alongside the caption, He posted a photo of the couple and attached the caption, Grian posted a video on 12th June 2016 stating, Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbars wife now? I guess the opposite of Dogrel would be high class poetry. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. Funnily enough Im one of the only people that actually sings in an Irish accent from Ireland there. We read this when we went back to Ireland for the start of the pandemic. The result is a record that merges accordion and doomy electronica, Nineties alt-rock and Irish angst. I think the lyrics are about almost like a perverse take on its compromise in a relationship sort of rendered as civility. Roman Holiday 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. Out of the fear of God people are more polite. The more culture we see, the more books we read, and the more views that we get to see will help us. 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. 15 February 2022. The coffee that comes out of a big keg, like black beer. Im very sad about whats going on over there. However, the unusual nature of proceedings didnt dampen the mood or the importance of the nuptials to Grian and his wife. 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? 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. 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. Words: Patrick Clarke Its expansive and loose where their first two records were tightly wound. How much of Ireland is still out of tune? In New York when it rains and you see puddles, you see the gasoline and iridescent colors. Were all on the same planet. Grian's real name is Charles. I think Ive got great guilt about leaving Ireland in the state that its in. I should be living at night!. Technically speaking, Grian Chatten is in fact English. Before he was a rock'n'roll frontman, Grian Chatten was a sporty lad in Ireland seeking a weirder, wilder identity. 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. Do you ever think about the impact you guys are going to leave? He posted a photo of the couple and attached the caption: Its been 10 months since I proposed to my fiance, and the wedding is creeping up on us very fast. Theres a great sadness to that.. 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? In Johns new memoir, theres a great passage about his early influences being Muhammed Ali and his mothers Womans Own magazine. Chatten has been spending his coronavirus-induced lockdown in the refuge of books: lately he's been sucked into the pages of Mikhail Bulgakov's 1966 novel The Master And Margarita, stalking the. One star sign hopes to regain harmony in the workplace, while another should start looking after their own interests. The fact that shes coming now Im kind of like, whats the point in playing the gig? There is Irish hip-hop. Im not interested in writing a straight-up love song. RELATIONSHIP DETAILS BELOW He was previously part of another YouTube channel called CraftedMovie before deciding to go solo in 2014. Frontman Grian Chatten talks fame, politics and pressure with Alex Greene Fontaines DC - Grian Chatten, Conor Deegan III, Conor Curley, Carlos O'Connell and Tom Coll. [9] The 2019 video for the song Conor Curley co-wrote called "Roy's Tune" was directed by Liam Papadachi and was inspired by Curley's late night walks home from a job at a burrito shop. Fontane was godson of Vito Corleone. 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. Its like the most normal title ever. He explained how the track In ar gCroithe go deo, which means: In our hearts forever was about the story of Margaret Keane, an Irishwoman who moved to Coventry. 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