The That can kind of get you down.”, Our new album 'A Hero's Death' is out in less than 2 weeks. “But they wouldn’t have got the full picture of what the songs are supposed to be. A genuinely great, genuinely popular new rock band is as rare as a Sumatran rhino these days. There was also turmoil over the general election result and the historic swing among younger voters against the old guard of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. Two-fifths of Fontaines DC hail from Mayo so it is perhaps inevitable conversation turns to the recent television adaptation of Castlebar-born Sally Rooney’s Normal People. I know so many lads my age who struggled with that, have difficulty talking about their feelings.”. They’re kind of superficial in a sense. Covid-19 had finally reached Ireland. The Dublin band tell Ed Nash how embracing what they know is the only way forward. The debut album was great, and they did not disappoint with this second album! They were burning the candle at every end. Fontaines D.C. tour dates listed on … A question that can’t be answered – a Gordian knot for the five-white-boys-in-a-band generation – … https://www.roughtrade.com/us/fontaines-d-c/darklands-versions Something had to give. You can’t speak the language. Released in April last year, Dogrel quickly marked Fontaines DC out as a rare guitar band that matter. Sunny 11. It’s catchier than Dogrel, bigger and bolder too. [17] In May 2017, Fontaines released the single "Liberty Belle" followed by the split "Hurricane Laughter / Winter In the Sun". You can hear the full interview with Fontaines DC on 2fm from 10pm on Thursday (April 11th), followed by the band’s sent from last January’s Eurosonic festival. “It’s so dualistic,” says Deegan of the stresses of life on the road. Directed by Hugh Mulhern Shot by Eoin McLoughlinMake up by Madonna BambinoAssistant producer: Angela MulhernSong by Fontaines D.C.Recorded at Mr. Dan's Studio, LondonProduced \u0026 Mixed by Dan CareyMixing Engineer Alexis SmithMastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studios, London'Sha Sha Sha’ is taken from the debut LP ‘Dogrel’ by Fontaines D.C. Out now on Partisan Records - https://FontainesDC.lnk.to/dogrelPraise for Dogrel: The Guardian (★★★★★)NME (★★★★★)The Times (★★★★)Pitchfork (8.0)Q (★★★★)Clash (9/10)Irish Times (4/5)Dork (★★★★★)Upset (★★★★★)DIY (★★★★½)Loud \u0026 Quiet (9/10)Connect with Fontaines D.C.https://www.facebook.com/fontainesbandhttps://www.instagram.com/fontainesbandhttps://twitter.com/fontainesdublinhttp://fontainesband.com/ “If they’re not following the election results and they’re kind of ignoring the fact so many people voted for Sinn Féin … then they’re only interested in keeping themselves in power and that’s really shit. "Life isn’t always empty, ” sang frontman Grian Chatten. Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten doesn’t know what to do with his hands. “We wrote the songs from a place of genuine experience and observation,” says Deegan. Especially as the band ploughed through an exhausting tour of the United States. The Dublin band are expected to drop their highly anticipated debut album later this year. Televised Mind 4. This provided mirth and befuddlement. your inbox. Fontaines DC - A Hero’s Death We love them! Fontaines D.C. - Sha Sha Sha (Official Music Video) - YouTube 1. It gives it this real fragile beauty.”. That the end is nigh. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Still, you can’t blame people for wanting a lot from Fontaines DC. There were moments of madness. Fontaines originally recorded the album at storied Sunset Sound on Sunset Boulevard in LA, where Prince made Purple Rain, the Rolling Stones recorded  Exile on Main Street and the Beach Boys Pet Sounds. This is a no nonsense album. A Hero's Death 8. It cost a lot of money to re-record. “In one sense you are being recognised every day — on stage, by people in the audience. "When you’re used to being productive and you go from that into lockdown you feel you are wasting your potential for doing things. No The new album from Fontaines D.C.—‘A Hero’s Death’—arrives July 31. Fontaines D.C. A Hero's Death, released 31 July 2020 1. He spent the early part of the lockdown in a cottage owned by a friend’s grandmother in rural Mayo (guitarist Carlos O’Connell isolated there too). 14+ **EVENT UPDATE NOV 2020** Due to the current lockdown situation across the UK, Fontaines D.C. will sadly no longer be performing their outstore for us at Chalk on 24 th November.We realise this won’t be unexpected news but it’s still sad to be communicating it nonetheless. In early March, as Ireland hurtled towards the unknown, Fontaines DC played their final full concert before the shutdown. It’s great they are coming. That the end is nigh. It was very expensive. Our songs, inadvertently to a degree, came to resonant.”. And yet the lyrics to 'A Hero’s Death', the title track from their forthcoming second record, resounded with optimism and resilience. Living In America 9. Fontaines D.C. met as a quintet in Dublin, influenced and driven in equal measure by the rich history of their hometown’s counter-culture, their response has been to make concise and immediately authentic indie-punk that has done anything but fall on deaf ears. Unsurprisingly, they love playing home fixtures. Even a master teller can find their own stories coming back to bite them in the bum. Fontaines DC have completed work on their second album. Not for the first time, either… The rent problems. Love Is The Main Thing 3. And they aren’t one for grand, empty provocations. It’s just not the same as having your family beside you, your friends.”. “Because they were true to us, people saw themes to them. We were encouraging each other to be who we believed ourselves to be all the time” -Grian Chatten, lead vocals, Fontaines D.C. With the best bands, it seems to happen fast. A Hero’s Death is one of those great second albums that takes everything you liked about its predecessor and amplifies it. It’s just over a year since Fontaines DC released their debut album Dogrel, a record which defied artistic expectations - it certainly wasn’t the post-punk homage many mistakenly labelled it as - and was a commercial success to boot.Despite spending most of 2019 on the road, they’re about to break the rules again with the release of their second record. “When you listen to Sixties music, this idealistic surf and sun music, you know that the doom is coming. “We just kept going with what we were doing with the first one,” says Deegan. It is true that their songs aren’t explicitly political (they are instead steeped in the urban poetry of Brendan Behan and James Joyce). Registered in Ireland: 523712. In Ireland today that group is Fontaines DC. fontaines d.c. outstore performance! Fontaines DC, The Haunt Thurdsay 18th April 2019. 2. “Sit beneath a light that suits ya / And look forward to a brighter future”. Have a shower regularly. I Don't Belong 2. Fontaines DC can’t wait to return to the stage. March was a weird time. A Lucid Dream 5. ... You step outside the door and you’re a stranger. Words by Ashley Laurence Photos by Jamie MacMillan – a big thanks for the pics, as your writer stupidly managed to lock both himself and camera out of his house. Inspired designs on t-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more by independent artists and designers from around the world. A Hero’s Death sounds effortless but making it was anything but. All these months later we can agree that if ever there was a moment when optimism and resilience matter then it is now. Grian Chatten, coffee in hand and sat next to bandmate and guitarist Carlos O’Connell, is recalling a time mid-way through one of Fontaines DC’s many European jaunts in support of ‘Dogrel’ - the 2019 debut that propelled the quintet from buzzy Dublin newcomers to one of Europe’s most in-demand bands in the space of barely a year. Every so often a band comes along that captures the lived experiences of young people at a pressure point in history. The best food, health, entertainment and lifestyle content from the irishexaminer.com, direct to your inbox every Friday. In the press release promoting the album, Fontaines DC announced that one of the influences on the record was the Beach Boys. “I related to it so much,” says Deegan, who along with drummer Tom Coll grew up in the town. You Said 6. Every city has its own story, but it’s often the job of its artists to bring these stories to life. Six months later, as Fontaines DC prepare to release 'A Hero’s Death', bassist Conor Deegan talks about that period, and the election specifically, as if it was a dream. I Was Not Born 10. There was a lot of longing for home and finding ways to deal with constantly being displaced.”. To see Fontaines DC play in such a small club you realise there's no other way they could have done it. “I’ve gone back and listened to it a bit now that we’ve started doing press. Last summer it finally did, as they cancelled a number of festival shows due to “health issues”. Fontaines DC capture the grit, the despair — but also the hope and idealism. It’s a pretty decent album. He feels the young, caught in the pincer grip of soaring rents and sky-high living costs, have essentially been ghosted by the political establishment. Fontaines DC capture the grit, the despair — but also the hope and idealism. Fontaines DC’s second album, A Hero’s Death, would not be out until the summer. What, if anything, has changed? “It became kind of far-fetched to people who had only a superficial understanding of the Beach Boys’ music,” says Deegan. And suddenly there wasn’t anything left to burn. “You realise what these things are actually worth and what they’re not worth. But only among those whose knowledge of the Sixties hitmakers doesn’t extend beyond 'California Girls'. Stay in bed. If we had put it out, people would have gone 'this is good'. The music was bleak and caterwauling. Fontaines D.C. have released four hotly received double A-side singles in the past six months which garnered early support from Steve Lamacq and others on BBC 6 Music. In 2015 they were going to release their debut with music journalist John Robb’s Louder Than War label. After the mania of the road, the stillness was initially welcome. tuesday 24th november awaiting rescheduled date at chalk, brighton. Halfway through, the band debuted a new song. They barnstormed through a headliner set at the Rock Against Homelessness night at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, pushing past the exhaustion of 18 months of almost constant touring. You step outside the door and you’re a stranger. "They’re supposed to represent the public good. You can’t speak the language. We’ll be paying off the cost of making this album for a long time.”, - 'A Hero’s Death' is released on July 31. © Irish Examiner Ltd, Linn Dubh, Assumption Road, Blackpool, Cork. 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It really was a baptism. Fontaines D.C. started out self-releasing singles. Charles Manson even had a walk-on part. This event is for fans only and these special conditions are in place to ensure that tickets are purchased for personal use only and are not resold for profit and/or through unauthorised resale sites. He walks out on stage grasping the air, sparring with it, pacing back and forth. If you’re Irish and weren’t totally smitten by the swift rise of Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. via their debut album Dogrel early last year, these seven words will no doubt ring familiar. Strong voices, sharp writing on the issues that matter to you. The best food, health, entertainment and lifestyle content from the Irish Examiner, direct to Connell’s struggle with mental health really affected me. Our label head got behind us. There were nights when the schedule allowed just an hour for sleep. “When you listen to Sixties music, this idealistic surf and sun music, you know that the doom is coming. But you can definitely tell it was about Castlebar. Instead they’re representing their own private interests, which is staying in power.”. This may be surprising. The more brightly their music blazed, the deeper the shadows. Oh Such A Spring 7. Their set is curtailed with the wicked ‘Hurricane Laughter’ and I realise I’ve still got a full pint in my hand, that’s how good Fontaines DC are…any band which can separate me from my beer is destined for greatness. But they were dissatisfied with the results and so scrapped the project and started over in London — at considerable expense. But [now] I feel really bored all the time doing nothing. The songs on their 2019 debut Dogrel were populated by characters as vivid as those on the Arctic Monkeys’ debut, and were so good that they reset the bar for mainstream indie-rock bands. High quality Fontaines Dc gifts and merchandise. Barely a year after their breakthrough debut 'Dogrel,' Fontaines D.C. are back with 'A Hero's Death' — but they are returning as a much different band. As with us all, however, he could only sit around doing nothing for so long. When you are listening to this track in particular, you begin to realise that the lyrics on songs aren’t just there to be glazed over and hummed, they are discussions of pain, love, sadness, and warmth, all extracted from her personal experiences. “They might have changed the name to Sligo. You can’t call this a scene or a sound, although the indie press, what’s left of it, has tried to, gleefully rubbing its corduroys at the sight of men with guitars coming over the hill. The Beach Boys were one of the greatest pop bands ever. They’re all going, ‘you’re great’. Pre-order now https://t.co/O5lkPoqNxf pic.twitter.com/Zuz9OM3XWw. “A whole year of touring … affected our headspace writing the album. The struggles in our lives are the struggles in other people’s lives because we live normal lives. “There was an opportunity to catch up with friends and family, watch movies and stuff like that. Yet theirs’ is also a story encompassing death, madness and excess. Fontaines DC’s first album, ‘Dogrel’, was richly praised for its vivid, oblique lyrics, glimpses of lives flashing by in the dark night of its jagged, rollicking riffs.Rightly beloved, it was nominated for the Mercury Prize and scored a Top 10 for their independent label, Partisan. Whatever way you look at it, the second album from Dublin band Fontaines DC is full of difficulties. "It’s great that people enjoy the music  — don’t get me wrong. And yet, something about their 2019 debut Dogrel, seems to speak to what it is to be young and struggling in Ireland today. In just a year, Fontaines DC have gone from pub shows to signing to the label home of Cigarettes After Sex and IDLES. 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