With all the things going on in the world right now, no one is very absolute in what they think and theres so much disarray and cognitive dissonance happening in everyone, so I think all that happens now really when cultures are crossed is people are basically looking at each other and saying how are you dealing with all of this? Were basically having a conversation on how to deal with whats going on. We want to hear it. 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. Skinty Fia by Fontaines D.C. is out on 22 April. It created a really nice sense of impermanence. 894646. The more culture we see, the more books we read, and the more views that we get to see will help us. Something went wrong, please try again later. In Johns new memoir, theres a great passage about his early influences being Muhammed Ali and his mothers Womans Own magazine. My moms British and I was born in England and I moved over [to Ireland] when I was like two months old, and my dads Irish so its like Im made up of two halves. 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. If you had to pick between Yeats, Joyce, or Beckett? I cant believe Ive still got this accent; Ive been living in Essex for the last thirty years! Latest weather models confirm that a bitter cold snap is on the way for Ireland. "I'd wait for Halloween every year so I could dye my hair black and wear . Grian was born on 9th August 1993 in England and spent some time growing up in Japan. Wed just sit there and the sound of the bell signalling the next class was the most poetic thing we heard all day. It made the album a little bit more Irish because we coveted that which made us different., Despite that, Chatten likes living in London. One inspiration was a charity-shop accordion that Chattens mother gave him for Christmas. I feel like Ive abandoned Ireland to some extent. 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. Want to be the first to know what's going on in the world of Showbiz? You can follow Fontaines D.C. on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. It majorly contains Minecraft videos, but it also has diversified content such as videos of Grian opening Pokemon packs with his cats. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. Originally they were called The Fontaines, but they added the initials "D.C." when a band in Los Angeles had the same name. However, the unusual nature of proceedings didnt dampen the mood or the importance of the nuptials to Grian and his wife. [17] In May 2017, Fontaines released the single "Liberty Belle" followed by "Hurricane Laughter"/"Winter In the Sun". 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. 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. Like if Shane MacGowan told me that he liked one of my tunes I think I could just retire. I Love You He had this piece of music and the title, and then I wrote the lyrics more or less in one go. The teacher was Mr Malone, he was a tough guy. Im sure I want to prove something to the people that inspire me who are often dead. "[28] The Guardian gave the album a five-star review, hailing it as a "perfect debut", and commending Chatten for embracing the Dublin accent. Absolutely. Having now lived away from Ireland for almost two years, Chatten says he still loves the Emerald Isle, where he first moved shortly after his birth in the U.K. to an English mother and Irish. Im gonna have to get a refund from that elocution course I went on. It becomes a lot less interesting. How much of Ireland is still out of tune? Better late than never. On our last tour in U.K., it was a ritual of mine to listen to do you know the actor, Andrew Scott? Funnily enough Im one of the only people that actually sings in an Irish accent from Ireland there. The song Bloomsday was inspired by Irish actor Andrew Scotts reading of Dubliners, which made him feel a great sadness about leaving Ireland. Like what kind of stories do you connect with in pub poetry? And various menus and random lists. Better late than never. [2], They released music videos directed by frequent collaborator Hugh Mulhern. What kind of narratives do the Irish working class talk about? Youre in good company there, Grian. Is there any American crossover in Ireland? Grian: I didnt like poetry at school, we didnt have a member of the education system to make it feel like it could be ours, we just had a woman whose voice was so dull that she rendered all the poems blank pages. Kojaque is really good. 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. What do you think Ireland should be focusing on? Its a war between the good intentions of the youth and the growth of materialism and social media, technology, stuff like that because thats just spindling the culture away in front of our eyes. So I learned about 15 poems and managed to build the book. John, when youre talking about poems being a living thing and poems never being finished, I like having pockets full of scraps of paper that Im never going to read again. This is at the start of the pandemic that this happened. It scared the hell out of me, but I became interested in the work of Edgar Allan Poe. They used to have really turbulent and loud arguments. I feel guilty for having left. Thats that mutation. I dont really like to get in the spotlight too often which is obviously contradictory to what I do. Carlos O'Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan, Grian Chatten, and Tom Coll met while attending music college at BIMM in The Liberties, Dublin. This song finds frontman Grian Chatten reacting to threats against his individuality. [Conor] Curley, our guitarist, wrote all the music and the title. You, the band, the music, this whole thing? I think the lyrics are about almost like a perverse take on its compromise in a relationship sort of rendered as civility. Sam Fender, Grian Chatten and Conor Deegan III attend The NME Awards 2022 at the O2 Academy Brixton on March 2, 2022 in London, England. I feel in a sense that theres a little bit of a wrapping up of something after that happening, between us and Dublin. Fontaines D.C. are one of the most thrilling guitar bands to emerge this century. John Cooper Clarkes memoir I Wanna Be Yours is out now via Picador. Do you feel the need to be romanticized? The initials D.C. stand for "Dublin City". Am I becoming desensitized toward it? Arrive at The BRIT Awards 2021 at The O2 Arena on May. 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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! The shocking part, which Ive left to the end of the story for dramatic effect for you, is that this is two years ago. I was overwhelmed with the knowledge that none of them were worth half of what they were being sold for. When you clock in in the morning, youre really clocking out, do you know what I mean? 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. Every day Id kind of find a room of space on my own and just spend like an hour just listening to that. A lot of the lyrics are about stories I identify with but arent necessarily personal. Its about his struggle to divine or delineate the real from the superficial and the material. Paul Duggan gave the album an unprecedented 10 bananas out of 10. So after the US tour and spending so much time away from home, do you expect to return as changed men? 'To consider Irishness as inherently sort of linked to the IRA or terrorism, or anything like that, its just deeply upsetting to hear', Want all the latest Showbiz news direct to your inbox? "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. "A Hero's Death" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop Top 50, but charted as an extra tip on the Flanders Ultratop Bubbling Under chart. Hes someone who never had any diminishing returns for me. It was just one of those things, he says. Carlos [OConnell], one of our guitarists wrote the lyrics and he wrote the main riff and everything like that. Stay in the loop with the latest style news and get an exclusive 10% off when you subscribe to our emails. Grian is not yet married but in the recent Instagram post, he has disclosed his decision to convert his dating life into a marital relationship. Their music namechecks literary figures such as James Joyce and Brendan Behan, with Dublins Liberties where the band met in college as the backdrop. Its beautiful in its own way but when you think about it, its disgusting. 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. I think the song was influenced by addiction, which is something that runs in a lot of families. We can expect good news very soon. NET-A-PORTER.COM sells must-have luxury fashion from over 900 of the world's most coveted designers. There's an 'unsubscribe' button at the bottom of every email we send out. Theres always the nitpicking, but were all so well versed in one anothers idiosyncrasies that it comes as no surprise when somebody annoys you. How Cold Love Is He looks back with horror on those first few months at home, describing them as some of the darkest times of his life. It saved him from himself. Please, A fresh breath: Chatten says the bands second album is like the exhalation after Dogrels inhalation. Yeah basically, its a working class poetry. Do you guys ever start with the music first and then build a story off that or is it the other way around? So if we got back, theres an elephant in the room because we both know somethings not right. "Big" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop Top 50, but charted as an extra tip on the Flanders Ultratop Bubbling Under chart. The YouTuber posted two Instagram photos announcing the proposal: One showed the gorgeous sea and blue sky that provided a romantic backdrop for the special moment, and the other showed the engagement ring on Grians fiances finger. 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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. Im curious as to what that would even sound like. To coincide with the album's announcement, the band shared its lead single "Jackie Down the Line" with an accompanying music video. 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. 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 like a physical manifestation or physical metaphor for empathy. Everything he puts out into the world is thoroughly honest and from the heart. A lot of the album is built upon that experience, that feeling. Their second record, 2020s A Heros Death, written mostly on tour, won the band rave reviews including from Rolling Stone and a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. 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. We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. Youre about to go on a US tour and to SXSW, what are you going to tell America about itself? Put it this way, we had our own coroner! Yeah it was summer. On more than one occasion John threatens, tongue in cheek, to steal Grians material. John, did you find any kindred spirits whod come before you?John: I used to live opposite a cinema called the Rialto, and they were showing the Roger Corman film The Fall of the House of Usher, starring Vincent Price. [40] Toronto's Spill Magazine praised Skinty Fia as "an important album, perhaps the most important album of the year", hailing it as a strong contender for 2022 album of the year. The band's second studio album, A Hero's Death, was written and recorded in the midst of extensive touring for their debut, and was released on 31 July 2020. Especially when youre in a group of young Irish people living in London, it can be a great social adhesive between youse. 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. Recently I was in a pub with my da in my hometown and a fella came up to us outside the bar, outside the jacks (Irish slang for toilet) and he just turned around to us and he said Hey fellas do you need any advice? Grian and his long-time girlfriend got engaged in August 2019. I dont know exactly what that is; its an abstract thing, but its like somethings over ya know. 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. I usually come off stage and hide for a while. The song itself is just about a doomed, paranoid relationship with influences of alcohol, drugs, and paranoia. "How Cold Love Is" did not enter the Irish Singles Chart, but peaked at number 13 on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart. When people talk in pubs theres this terrific sense of knowledge. Irish hip-hop? I mess about with poems night after night. One of the main reasons I dont think of poetry as an elitist pursuit anymore is because of people like John.. It was the final straw for Grian Chatten and his adopted home city of Dublin. Ive read Joyces poetry and it just doesnt stand up to Yeats at all for me. All rights reserved. All we know, Who is Justin Roilands wife? It just made sense. You guys bonded over poetry. 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. It becomes contrived and superficial. But Joyces brain is as powerful as Yeats heart. [12][non-primary source needed][13][non-primary source needed], Coll and Deegan hail from Castlebar in County Mayo, while Curley is from Emyvale in County Monaghan, and O'Connell grew up in Madrid, Spain. She has been amazing to me and deserves the best.. 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. 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. [35] The recording of the performance was released on vinyl as a limited edition release for Record Store Day on 12 June 2021[36] and later as a surprise digital release on 26 November 2021. Im sure there is. Please, The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. Kind of hang his head and collect himself and then turn around and go back in. Let's find out! The Fontaines D.C.s force-of-nature punk-poet frontman sounds light and lively, as young as his 25 years deserves. I used to listen to his readings of Dubliners. 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