As frontman and chief lyricist of the Dublin post-punk quintet Fontaines D.C., Chatten has channelled life growing up in Ireland into his bands music, songs that take in themes of mental health, corrupt governments, religion and community. 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. 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. He didnt want to see me mugged off. The song itself is just about a doomed, paranoid relationship with influences of alcohol, drugs, and paranoia. We better check if there are any bombs. Chatten reckons it subconsciously seeped into his writing. Is there any American crossover in Ireland? The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time It would invalidate me.. Fontaines DCs A Heros Death is out now via Partisan. [16], In 2018, Fontaines released the single "Chequeless Reckless"/"Boys In The Better Land" and "Too Real". Fontaines DC, Theres a great sadness to that.. 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. Theres a kind of healthiness to writing during the day. It was just the violent shelving of yourself. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. [Conor] Curley, our guitarist, wrote all the music and the title. Yeah I think I do. How much of Ireland is still out of tune? Lockdown forced him to face his problem. [37], The band released their second album on 31 July 2020, titled A Hero's Death. Aside from what you bond over what do you and your bandmates disagree about? 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. Its like a physical manifestation or physical metaphor for empathy. But it depends on how much culture well see on the road because if we dont see too much culture then we just come back often frustrated and overworked. That was in the summer right? 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 gravestone. Yeah basically, its a working class poetry. His lyrics feel distinctly personal, but not conceited. 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. 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. Thats what that song was. This is at the start of the pandemic that this happened. People tend to think they know everything, obviously when theyve had a few pints in them. The criticism is a surprise considering the band known for their strong Irish identity - have a huge fan base in Britain. For the first time ever, I was enthusiastic about something and became good at it. 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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. They were the musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on 1 May 2019, performing "Boys in the Better Land". Met Eireann has pinpointed a two-week period where 'weather warnings or impactful weather are possible'. I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fontaines frontman, Grian Chatten. 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. 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. Tags: Jackie Down the Line "Liberty Belle" is in homage to the Liberties, a neighbourhood in Dublin where many band members lived. Whoever hasnt written anything for it yet has to find something that suits that feeling or has to dig or sympathize with that feeling. The video for 2018's "Too Real" was inspired by The Pogues's 1985 song, "A Pair of Brown Eyes" and the band Gilla Band, among other concepts. I have this kind of strange feeling of guilt toward my leaving of Ireland. [16], In May 2018, Fontaines played an in-studio at KEXP in Seattle. [38] Three further singles were released from the album: "I Don't Belong", "Televised Mind" and "A Lucid Dream". Apart from entertaining his followers, Grian uses his platform to raise money for charity and to sensitize his fans on various causes around the world. How do you think non-poetic figures and objects can influence your writing?John: And my other big influence was Sir Peter OSullivan, the racing commentator in the 50s, 60s and 70s, you can get albums of his famous races. John Cooper Clarke: If I might start this off, Im a late convert to your work, Grian! Well I think anyone living on the outside of a group of people can tell that group of people something about themselves. Were all on the same planet. 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. Fontane was godson of Vito Corleone. [34] On 14 July 2020, they performed a live set from Dublin's iconic Kilmainham Gaol as part of the live television series Other Voices. His secretive love life. Anything I say now can be romanticized, but I dont want to live in an unromantic world. Like what kind of stories do you connect with in pub poetry? Theyre both from Dublin and theyre both very talented musicians. 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 an exaggeration of a compromise thats necessary to a functioning relationship, to the point where it sounds pathetic. In May 2020, he helped raise money for a food drive in South Africa. Theres a story in the papers about a woman from Coventry in England. 15 February 2022. That song is me saying I love Ireland and I always will. Amid all the seething political ire and raw emoting on the record, however, the overriding feeling is one of hope. "Boys In The Better Land" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop Top 50, but charted as an extra tip on the Flanders Ultratop Bubbling Under chart. But there is a furnace there still burning. Technically speaking, Grian Chatten is in fact English. 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. Roman Holiday [9] Stereogum, who premiered "Chequeless Reckless" in early 2018, described their sound "a synthesis between post-punk, garage rock, and a kind of gritty, urbane sense of rhythm and narrative" and naming them a 'Band To Watch'. Im saying goodbye to Dublin. I like when something really great is said in conversation and then never said again. John, repaying the compliment, is full of admiration for Fontaines. Im typically a quite reserved, shy person. Coming of age in Canadian rave culture, Debby Friday is making darkly industrial music with emotion at its core. 894646. 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. 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? The result is a record that merges accordion and doomy electronica, Nineties alt-rock and Irish angst. I dismantle them, put them back together. Frontman Grian Chatten breaks down the band's third album track by track, Grian Chatten, center, says that Fontaines D.C.'s new album 'Skinty Fia' is "largely informed and influenced by Irishness existing in England. 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. 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. The song Bloomsday was inspired by Irish actor Andrew Scotts reading of Dubliners, which made him feel a great sadness about leaving Ireland. Im curious as to what that would even sound like. 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. 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? But Joyces brain is as powerful as Yeats heart. Grian's real name is Charles. How Cold Love Is He is one of the best Minecraft players around, and he keeps his 5.86 million subscribers entertained by coming up with unique Minecraft ideas that you cant find anywhere else on the internet. Theres got to be tension in order for it to be an interesting thing to write about. John Cooper Clarkes memoir I Wanna Be Yours is out now via Picador. That said I was still thinking, I shouldnt be living like this! Lo and behold, it turned out to be another song about Ireland, he says. What does it mean for music to have a Dublin accent? The Couple Across the Way We've created a brand-new newsletter to help you stay on top of the latest celeb news and gossip, from Hollywood to Ireland. The initials D.C. stand for "Dublin City". Stay in the loop with the latest style news and get an exclusive 10% off when you subscribe to our emails. 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 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. The award-winning Fontaines have gained international success with their music, with appearances on the Jimmy Fallon show in America, sold-out concerts across the US and the UK, and two hit albums, Dogrel and A Heros Death. Hed say, Name one famous poet thats ever made a living out of it!. Fontaines DC frontman Grian Chatten has blasted England as "a country that doesn't really welcome people who are Irish" and one where "you're mocked and told to go home." 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. I wanted to write a song called I Love You because I thought that it was a challenge that interested me to write a song about so kind of an ostensibly clich topic and attempt to make it interesting and my own, unique. 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. It worked. 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. Its very reassuring when that happens, I find.Grian: When you say you hear echoes of different people in what I do, thats why that doesnt upset me. It drives me closer to who I am, he says. [29] The Times said that "Shouty post-punk bands are making a surprise comeback in 2019, with this brutal but articulate Irish bunch emerging as one of the most captivating. 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? 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. 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. So after the US tour and spending so much time away from home, do you expect to return as changed men? Sometimes, it sounds like early The Cure, if Mr Robert Smiths crew rehearsed only on the way home from an all-day bender. He thinks a lot about a lot of things, and when you're talking to him you see his thought process in the way he articulates his words and writes songs. But what we did have instead was the music hall. In Johns new memoir, theres a great passage about his early influences being Muhammed Ali and his mothers Womans Own magazine. But he gave me something to prove, like yours did. 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. I think he must be really crying there. 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. Kojaque is really good. Im very sad about whats going on over there. So if we got back, theres an elephant in the room because we both know somethings not right. I think the lyrics are about almost like a perverse take on its compromise in a relationship sort of rendered as civility. 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Mixing post-punk grooves and minimalist rock dynamics, they make music that tackles the big issues through the prism of personal experience. A Hero's Death was later nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. Andrew Scotts voice taking a hand and leading me through the Dubliners you shed that numbness very quickly, I find. Chatten thinks one of the reasons their songs have chimed so acutely is because there is nothing disingenuous about the way he writes. Ive moved from that country. "I'd wait for Halloween every year so I could dye my hair black and wear . Changed your mind? Quick Bio and Wiki Did You Know? The band released the title track on 5 May 2020; the music video features actor Aidan Gillen. I think the person that went missing for those eight hours rushed back in and I got a double dose of myself after. All rights reserved. In many ways, his country defines him, as a songwriter, as an artist and as a person. Theres a kind of great sadness to that. All we know, Who is Justin Roilands wife? 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.. Yeah. He had this piece of music and the title, and then I wrote the lyrics more or less in one go. Wed just sit there and the sound of the bell signalling the next class was the most poetic thing we heard all day. [7][14] Deegan is regularly seen wearing Mayo GAA clothing during live performances. It was the best day of my life. Im sure there is. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time I dont necessarily mind being talked about. So I learned about 15 poems and managed to build the book. Fingers crossed everything can go ahead! Nothing can tamper with that. Something went wrong, please try again later. The band returned to The Tonight Show as musical guests, performing "A Hero's Death" on 28 January 2021. It felt very structured or something like that, and easy, Chatten says. She was an old woman, she was called Margaret Keane. [21][22][23] They also received grant funding from RT 2fm. She was an Irish-speaking person, like strictly Irish-speaking, exclusively Irish-speaking person. He was a modern guy, a city dweller, a bit louche, something to aspire to! He said if I learnt a poem and recited it to him off by heart, hed buy me a pack. A lot of the lyrics are about stories I identify with but arent necessarily personal. Its partly because of figures like John, Grian says, that he thought he could make a career out of writing and performing in the first place. Grian married his wife in a small, intimate ceremony attended by close friends and family The covid-19 pandemic has effectively ruled out the huge gatherings associated with weddings. Its about his struggle to divine or delineate the real from the superficial and the material. Please, The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. Get the best of DIY to your inbox each week. Skinty Fia caps off a whirlwind few years for Chatten and his band. But the singer was born in Barrow-In-Furness in the north of England. 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. Better late than never. 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. It created a really nice sense of impermanence. From The Magazine. All Rights reserved. I think messages of artists often get lost in inauthenticity. It was the final straw for Grian Chatten and his adopted home city of Dublin. 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! Did it rain when you guys were in Seattle for KEXP? 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. Carlos [OConnell], one of our guitarists wrote the lyrics and he wrote the main riff and everything like that. Like everyone, Covid has forced Chatten to spend an inordinate amount of time at home over the past 21 months. 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. Like mad oily, contaminated clouds. Cait ORiordan from the Pogues is coming tonight. I think its about wanting to sort of go out and embrace London as an Irish person. "We fortified our creative process from the get go," he asserts. On more than one occasion John threatens, tongue in cheek, to steal Grians material. She was an old woman, she was called Margaret Keane. It comes in no new form ever. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Like if you go to Boston, that expression of Irishness. I have a sort of soft spot for the accent as well because I was born up in Cumbria, a town called Barrow-in-Furness. A lot of the album is built upon that experience, that feeling. [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. Not many accents can carry that spectrum of emotion.John: Id rather sound like you! I was basically too bollocksed all the time and the idea of a bed started to scare me more and more, he says. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. It majorly contains Minecraft videos, but it also has diversified content such as videos of Grian opening Pokemon packs with his cats. I usually come off stage and hide for a while. 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. Thats what I think Im doing. interview, Thats that mutation. To coincide with the album's announcement, the band shared its lead single "Jackie Down the Line" with an accompanying music video. That and "Troy" and hits. She used to say that as kind of like a colloquialism. [2], They released music videos directed by frequent collaborator Hugh Mulhern. "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. It made the album a little bit more Irish because we coveted that which made us different., Despite that, Chatten likes living in London. Grian (real name: Charles Batchelor) is a British YouTuber who specializes in posting Minecraft gaming videos. "Too Real" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number two on the UK Physical Singles Chart Top 100. Im sure in some way, thats how I feel being here, that theres this doom ringing in my head and I dont know why. Yeah, nine months out of the year its drizzling there, I could imagine Ireland is very similar. There was a little courtyard and across from the courtyard, there was a really old couple. 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. There's an 'unsubscribe' button at the bottom of every email we send out. Grian started playing Minecraft after his best friend introduced him to the game. Do you ever think about the impact you guys are going to leave? In the past, Grian, youve spoken about how prolifically you were writing when working service industry jobs, and in Johns book you were constantly working by day and performing by night. It was all very hormonal, a my vocabularys bigger than his kind of thing. When it rains in Dublin it kind of reveals Dublin the way it is. It makes it feel like everything good is still in the future.John: Very well put!Grian: Both of those things made me develop my own style If I could call it that.John: Youve got the style alright, kid! 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. Those are kind of the themes I wanted to explore in the album. 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. There used to be a guy called Moondog, a street singer with a long white beard, he did a book called 100 First Lines. Im sure I want to prove something to my mom and my da. NET-A-PORTER.COM sells must-have luxury fashion from over 900 of the world's most coveted designers. The rain swiveling and careening through the cobblestones on any street thats slightly steeped, its beautiful. We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. He moved to Ireland at the grand old age of one month and if someone said that meant he wasnt truly of the Emerald Isle, Chatten would be broken. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. Theres Versatile, and theyre hilarious and really good as well. He had a glass eye, walked with a bit of a limp, a rugged outdoor type, but he also had this other side to his personality. Youre huddled together a bit more.. His family and relationship history, Who is Ovidio Guzmans wife? It becomes contrived and superficial. The coffee that comes out of a big keg, like black beer. 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. This wasnt the Seventies or anything like that. 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. Its a celebration of that flipping, from it being a bad thing into a positive thing. 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. 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. You wouldnt believe the decibel level. I have such a profound connection with him. "Televised Mind" did not enter the Irish Singles Chart, but peaked at number seven on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart. Shop now, Spend to save up to 25% off new-season items with code SPENDTOSAVE. Bringing the pair together over a scratchy three-way phone line today, they trade asides, quotes and one liners, eager to impress one another. As of 2023, Grian is possibly single. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. [Ireland] is very much in the hands of its youth now. Yeah it was summer. 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