Irish indie rock band Fontaines DC have received a nomination for Best Rock Album for their record A Hero’s Death. Certain influences naturally spring to mind when considering Fontaines D.C.: Joy Division, The Fall, Wire, PiL and the purposefully angular arthouse noise-mongers of post-punk. The Quality Street test: Could you ever love someone who loved the Toffee Penny? Discover more posts about Grian-Chatten. They talk about feeling overwhelmed on a day off in Prague,when they should be exulting in how far they’ve come. A Hero’s Death. There’s another band you might reach pretty close to the bottom of the list of acts you’d credit when listening to Fontaines’ dank, dense second album ‘A Hero’s Death’: The Beach Boys. The past 12 months have been a ragged reel of a year for Dublin’s post-punk scene champions Fontaines D.C. 0. Grian recalls one night in San Francisco when, onstage, he was struck by the sense of claustrophobia that inspired ‘Dogrel’’s seething missives in the first place. Carlos O’Connell (guitare), Conor Curley (guitare), Conor Deegan (basse), Grian Chatten (chant) et Tom Coll (batterie) se rencontrent à la faculté de musique de Liberties, à Dublin. In writing about them, I achieve a sense of understanding of my own issues.”, Such as? Have you found any answers over the past year, as the band took off? Grian: I was probably 16 or 17, Carlos [O’Connell, guitarist] from the band showed me your appearance on a late-night chat show in the ‘80s. In 90s DVDs were invented, Sony PlayStation was released, Google was founded, and boy bands ruled the music charts. He also has a Facebook page, on which he has accumulated about eight thousand followers. Not, you must admit, a group renowned for their grinding, volcanic sturm und clang of guitars and vocals that are like being pinned to the wall by a babbling psychopath who thinks he’s Brendan Behan. Earlier in life, Grian fell for the poetry of the pitch: as a child he’d beg his dad to buy him packs of football stickers for his collection, but his father had a canny condition. Their first album "Dogrel" (2019) was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize (2019) and elected Rough Trade's Album of the Year 2019. “It was the pace and the relentlessness of it. Join Facebook to connect with Grian Chatten and others you may know. We tried to put the Beach Boys cloak over absolutely everything we did in America, as you do when you’re starved of context. FONTAINES D.C. Još od Iana Curtisa ni u jednom glasu nije bilo toliko očaja koliko u glasu Griana Chattena 08.08.2020. u 20:32 The group consists of vocalist Grian Chatten, guitarists Carlos O’Connell and Conor Curley, bassist Conor Deegan III and drummer Tom Coll. I’ve found endless meaning in a calm, self-forgiving approach to creativity,” he says. Remove; In this conversation “As long as you have a view to a horizon,” he mutters, “there’s the potential to feel free, even for a minute.” At first it seems as though there’s a stained glass window behind his Zoom frame, though this turns out, rather more prosaically, to be a mere pattern on cotton, a drape darkening the window. We’ll leave them to it… New Issue. “It gets to the point of, ‘how am I going to share this’? Join Facebook to connect with Grian Chatten and others you may know. “It’s a fairly beige topic for me. Search query Search Twitter. I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fontaines frontman, Grian Chatten. Martin Lacey; Fontaines DC, Grian Chatten, Pottery, The Independent; Fontaines D.C. performs at The Independent in San Francisco on Sept. 24, 2019. Fontaines DC. Get all the lyrics to songs by Grian Chatten and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. . I’d be heartbroken.”. Fontaines D.C. have spoken out for the first time on their surprise Grammy nod, likening the landmark moment to receiving “a phone call from space”. View Grian Chatten’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Dołącz do Facebooka, aby nawiązać kontakt z Grianem Chattenem oraz innymi osobami, które możesz znać. One of the best things about Sold For Parts is that it refuses to be obsequious. Every day I feel like I’m faced with a crossroads as to whether I should see what I could get out of life if I really engage fully. . I came offstage in San Francisco feeling a bit traumatised because of the things I’d made myself think of and feel in order to conjure up feelings that needed to be exorcised in a performance.”, “I write to let myself know that I’m still alive”, This led him to stumble upon some repressed memories during their rendition of the tightly wound ‘Too Real’: “I came off and felt the effects of the things I’d made myself think of and visualise, and it took me a while to get over them. How will lockdown affect the band’s momentum, though? The group expressed their delight at the nomination on Twitter, writing: ‘Jaysus, we’ve been nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Album with A Hero’s Death’. It made it difficult to socialise for a while afterwards. If I lost the ability to write for myself and found myself writing for other people I’d have to find a new sense of meaning.”, Here we arrive at the crux of ‘A Hero’s Death’: “I’ve been thinking about why I write and why I’ve always written, what I’m getting out of it, and a lot of it is to let myself know that I’m still alive. I suddenly realised that I was developing strong feelings about interpretations of poetry and found myself with the energy to argue about what things mean and where they come from. It’s all topped off by vocalist Grian Chatten – a man whose thick Irish accent sits heavy on his barked tales of disillusionment and mental dissolution. "We've let ourselves become more cultural with our surroundings. The group speak of their comradely “love” for one another. Chatten is at pains to point out that ‘A Hero’s Death’ isn’t about “travelling through America on the back of our first album and getting loaded and having a great time.” No, it’s about control. Whatever else music is to Fontaines DC, it is not a youthful lark. Poetic License: John Cooper Clarke meets Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten. You should receive instructions for resetting your password. I often relate to people that are going through a much more exacerbated version of what I’m going through. And it’s there when Fontaines cast their minds forwards to the post-corona world. It’s a problem with which Fontaines themselves may have had to wrestle, huddled in their dark and pokey hired van while criss-crossing Europe. “I think we’re gonna find there’s gonna be a huge surge forward in many different schools of thought. This a short, sharp affair, made by Collective films has all the bulldozing energy of one of Fontaines’ guitar crescendos (the caterwauling opening 89 seconds of Too Real, for instance). 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 backstreets of 1930s Moscow on the arm of Beelzebub and his coterie of vampires, witches and huge talking cats. “Yeah. Yet it’s the Beach Boys – you heard – that the band cite as a primary influence on the new album. Grian Chatten of Fontaines DC. “[The Beach Boys created] a dream-like, lying-back-on-a-lilo daydreaming sort of feeling we wanted to capture. I think I’m quite empathetic and I understand how writing about other people can be subconsciously expressing things that I might myself be going through. Hence new album songs such as ‘I Don’t Belong’, ‘Televised Mind’, dreamy waltz ‘Oh Such A Spring’ (“I watched all the folks go back to work just to die”) and compulsive indie-pop drone ‘I Was Not Born’ (“I was not born into this world to do another man’s bidding”). Tickets and RSVP information for Fontaines D.C.’s upcoming concert at Metro Theatre in Sydney on Nov. 09, 2020. After meeting while attending music college, and bonding over a common love of poetry, the band began self-releasing singles and performing live regularly, signing to Partisan Records in 2018. Sold for Parts: the documentary follows Dublin band Fontaines DC around the recording of their debut album. “None of that is conscious,” Grian says. Waiting For… GLASVEGAS. My lyrics tell me how I felt for a while when I look back.”. And it honestly addresses the downsides of even modest success. “Loneliness – I’ve struggled to an extent with depression, as a lot of people have. Twitter; Facebook; Like this: Like Loading... Related. Chatten explains: “People tell you that your music means a lot to them and you find it hard to empathise and relate to it, or even understand it because they’re the 13th person who’s done that in the last hour. 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Mit ihrem zackigen Post-Punk verfolgen sie seit ihrem Debüt „Dogrel“ im Frühjahr 2019 ein ambitioniertes Ziel: Authentizität. And to unpick it, we’ll have to delve a whole lot deeper. Pinterest. “I’ll never sing about the lockdown,” he insists. It’s beautiful; it sounds like a daydream captured in sonic form. It’s there in the title track, written as an open letter from an estranged father to their child, imparting advice such as “Don’t get stuck in the past… Bring your own two cents, don’t borrow them from someone else”. I don’t really know what’s gone on for the last year, I’ve been so focused on what we’ve been doing.”. Did you start using poetry to express your own troubled past? It's where your interests connect you with your people. That’s probably why I’m reading, because I’m trying to escape.”. What have you made of the ones you’ve seen so far? “Ba-ba-ba-ba-Barbara Ann” and Bermuda shorts this decidedly is not. The thing about Brian Wilson and other people like Lee Hazelwood that really appealed to us when we were in the mood for escapist art was that they had a thoroughly built-up fantasy world that they’d quite fully realised in a sonic format. There’s unlimited places you can go inside your head without actually writing about the coronavirus or the fact you’ve got loads of toilet paper. This is getting to me.’ It’s a really good lesson in mindfulness, rather than getting caught up in arbitrary emotional nonsense.”. It gives the illusion of a mass of people shrouded in darkness, and it’s the closest tonight gets to transcending its virtual barrier. Saved searches. Escape will cancel and close the window. The account details entered are not currently associated with an Irish Times subscription. New music [ November 23, 2020 ] Manchester-based quartet VENTRELLES share video for new single ‘County Lines’ New music [ November 23, 2020 ] KATIE MELUA shares video for new single ‘Joy’ – Watch Now! News, features and reviews from our critics. Sold For Parts begins with the five-piece about to take the stage at Dublin’s Button Factory for a December 2018 gig. “It might add to more longevity,” Chatten argues, “because we won’t be burning out. Peter Bogdanovich’s 2007 Tom Petty hagiography, Runnin’ Down A Dream, clocked in at over four hours. Now just a ghost memory of the place remains on the record; it’s there in lines such as “You shoulda heard ’em in the Bowery” (from the churning, early R.E.M.-like opener ‘I Don’t Belong’) and the track ‘Living In America’, which sounds like The National’s ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’ – if it were trapped, Pulp Fiction-style, in a basement in Buttfuck, USA. Im April 2019 haben Fontaines D.C. ihr Debütalbum veröffentlicht. Grian originally started his channel in late 2009; however, he did not begin to grow exponentially until 2014, and his life before YouTube played a major part in his success. Grian’s education is listed on their profile. “It wasn’t even the rise of the band that was head-spinning,” Chatten says. Was it all cocaine and superficiality out there? I’m not saying we’re anywhere near the Beach Boys in terms of harmonising or singing or anything like that, but we’d sing a capella a lot in the back of the van, practice harmonies and figure out how to arrange them properly. Da ist er wieder, dieser Sprechgesang von Frontmann Grian Chatten, mit irischem Akzent, das Geschnodder mochten wir schon bei The Fall oder bei den Sleaford Mods. And yet Chatten is honest about the self-doubt that takes hold every time he comes to rehearsal with a new idea. Get all the lyrics to songs by Grian Chatten and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. Fontaines D.C. Grian Chatten Quote Of The Day. It’s so important for me to feel everything we’re doing when we’re onstage. The band consists of Grian Chatten (vocals), Carlos O'Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan III (bass), and Tom Coll (drums). Band members Grian Chatten, Carlos O'Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll met in Dublin while attending music college at BIMMI. I’m in an emotional flux. Anne Enright: The world did not actually stop, back in March. Furthermore, Grian has a secondary YouTube channel, ‘Two Much Grian.’ We wanted to make something a bit more subversive. We daydreamed a lot; we were trying to escape what was around us and were listening to much more immersive music, music that had lefts and rights and corners and different streets. Tag Archives: Grian Chatten. The first few months of 2019 have been a whirlwind for Fontaines D.C. From treating Texas crowds to punk-fuelled riffs at SXSW to performing at the prestigious BBC 6 Music festival, the Dublin-based quintet have been spreading their riotous sounds across the globe. Find Grian Chatten credit information on AllMusic. Mercury Prize 2019: Can Fontaines DC win in a year of protest music. It became a bit surreal as towns melted into each other and faces started to look a bit strange. I’d write a lot then, and I think that was to be confronted with the fact that I have an identity.”. 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. 218.5k Followers, 183 Following, 296 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Grian (@grianmc) Grian’s success on YouTube has made him popular on other platforms of social media as well. Post navigation. “I’m still a believer in people.”. Înscrie-te pe Facebook pentru a lua legătura cu Grian Chatten şi cu alţii pe care s-ar putea să îi cunoşti. A few talking heads – manager Trevor Dietz, Dogrel’s producer Dan Carey – are trotted out to sing the band’s praises. Having gigged every year since 1975, John Cooper Clarke wasn’t going to leave 2020 out, so he’s announced an extra special one-off Christmas gig which will be live streamed around the globe from Colchester Arts Centre on Saturday 12th December. 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. Gigs [ November 23, 2020 ] VIDEO PREMIERE: Porcelain – Hollow Video Premiere Band members Grian Chatten (vocals), Conor Deegan III (bass), Carlos O’Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar) and Tom Coll (drums). And then there’s a heartbeat during which he is unsure if he is going to be rejected or accepted. If we listen too much to criticism or compliments – even more dangerously – then we’re not writing for ourselves any more. In the maelstrom of that American tour, the band were “under threat of losing our identity”. But the film gives an honest account and doesn’t over-reach trying to convince you of its subjects’ genius. For both of them, language is a living thing that constantly evolves, something to be heard, not read. From there, we follow Chatten and company through into early 2019 as they recover from that exhausting continental tour and then put the finishing touches to Dogrel, for which they will earn Mercury and Choice Music Prize nominations. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website. One’s a stalwart of the scene, the punk poet of the people - the bard of Salford. “Fortunately I haven’t had too many days where that’s been inaccessible to me. 218.5k Followers, 183 Following, 296 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Grian (@grianmc) It’s very confusing, but that sense of expectation obviously lies very heavily on my subconscious for me to then write about it”. He offers it up. Help me Rhond… eh? The band’s second album A Hero’s Death will square off against The New Abnormal by The Strokes, Sound & Fury by Sturgill Simpson, Daylight by Grace Potter and Kiwanuka by Michael Kiwanuka for the award. ( Log Out / … Fontaines DC frontman Grian Chatten. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Grian’s connections and jobs at similar companies. Chatten’s vocals were edgy, ambitious and confidently clear, “And the radios all about a runaway model with a face like sin and a heart like a James Joyce novel. Sep 25 2019 5:00 pm. Imagine seeing someone like Lee Hazelwood performing some of his tunes in his gaff – 16 Lees on a load of different streams with bags of McCoy crisps in the background. Their debut album ‘Dogrel’, released last April, kicked off a bawl-rock breakout only matched, in recent ‘post-guitar’ years, by IDLES making mincemeat of punk machismo. “Yeah. ‘Dogrel’ was drenched in acclaim: nominated for the Mercury Prize, it also bagged several Album Of The Year spots and barged into the Top 10 like a ranting street poet raiding the Booker Prize bar. Every time I show [a new idea] to the other guys, there’s a moment . I guess that's what I deserve for sending bad selfies in the group chat thanks @InTheLittleWood @nettyplays @SolidarityCoUK @MiniMukaYT @Bigbst4tz2” You can even swivel all the way round to see the vast emptiness in the stalls where overexcited humans should be climbing on one another, bellowing singer Grian Chatten… Reaching the peak of their performance they played the ever popular, ‘Boys From The Better Land’. Lyrically, Chatten’s opaque, impressionistic and repetitious visions of down-at-heel Dublin life somehow manage to close the gaping chasm between early Arctic Monkeys and James Joyce. It all developed from there. Fontaines D.C. are a band born beneath bootheels – ‘Dogrel’ brimmed with disgust at the gentrification of Dublin and simmered with the knowledge that greed and capitalism are the real virus. It’s the Irish post-punk quintet’s first-ever nomination at the award show. WhatsApp. “A few of us were fairly heavy on the gargle, on the booze for a while. We were merry enough when we hit that stage.”. Certainly, there is no attempt to frame Fontaines DC as rock’n’roll messiahs sent down from on high to show us the way. Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten looks out across north Dublin, towards the tranquility of the Irish sea. Grian Chatten Read more about this and other GRAMMYs news at GRAMMY.com I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Fontaines frontman, Grian Chatten. Fontaines D.C. have been shortlisted for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. Fontaines D.C's Grian Chatten discusses all things "Dogrel" [Interview] 2 years ago by Paige Sims. . In the service industry I had a number instead of a name and my boss would click at me instead of calling my name. One’s the eloquent singer of Ireland’s most literary-minded young chart-botherers. An initial version of the album was recorded in Los Angeles but scrapped and re-recorded with ‘Dogrel’ producer Dan Carey in Streatham at the start of 2020. 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The rise and fall of Guns N’ Roses this is not. Scene by scene, it is true, Sold For Parts isn’t quite primed with melodrama. Photograph: Lorne Thomson/Redferns “There’s a natural rebelliousness to Irish trad music,” says Deegan, the band’s bassist. “It’s not really until I looked at the album and saw there were a few tunes about ‘I’m me and I’m not yours’ and all that kinda shite. I really did feel like we were put into a chamber that spins around and you come out the other side. “I really want to get a green screen for these interviews, have a lovely meadow in the background,” he jokes. Grian Chatten. Grian Chatten Read more about this and other GRAMMYs news at GRAMMY.com As the rock world declared them the erudite new champions of the rock resurrection and the industry descended on the thriving Dublin scene to witness the likes of The Murder Capital, Fontaines powered triumphantly across Europe and America, crashing headlong into 2020 with a second album already in the bag, high on the momentum and hellbent on touring until they damn well ran out of road. The band built a reputation for confrontational poetic intensity with a string of singles that hit like noir-rock tornado strikes (particularly ‘Too Real’, ‘Big’ and ‘Boys In The Better Land’) and performances so visceral and engrossed that Chatten would walk off if he wasn’t utterly submerged in the music. Please enter your email address so we can send you a link to reset your password. I’m focusing on writing and feeling free. A pint or so of it before each gig, just to see you through and a bit more then after to help you sleep in the van. See a recent post on Tumblr from @daddymymouthisfullofstars about Grian-Chatten. Reaching the peak of their performance they played the ever popular, ‘Boys From The Better Land’. Yet ‘A Hero’s Death’ surges with pride, self-belief, a rebellious defiance and – dare we say it in such troubled times – optimism. But, says frontman Grian Chatten, they got by with a little help from the Beach Boys. They come across as thoughtful and serious. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. It was a similar appeal; it was the guttural energy. It concludes: “Life ain’t always empty… If you give ourselves to every breath then we’re all in the running for a hero’s death”. The best music of 2019: Albums, gigs, bands and songs. Grian Chatten. After Eastwood’s use of the word “cowards” to describe people like mo dhaidí and Alliance reps who run in this constituency defend that, they’ve lost my vote go deo.” It’s soulful, slightly scruffy and over as soon as it has begun – just like Fontaines DC’s music, really. Grian Chatten este pe Facebook. It was just a sense that it was mine and not part of a system that was elitist by its virtue.”. You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Grian Chatten is on Facebook. The 1990s is remembered as a decade of peace, prosperity and the rise of the Internet. “I’d rather have thoughts that make me suffer in order to give a good performance”, “Certain ideas and thoughts could be developed where there would potentially be some sort of awakening globally,” Chatten says. Frontman Grian Chatten stalks around the stage, using the microphone stand for support as the lighting shimmers and flickers. 1 cus he was pro-choice. Your screen name should follow the standards set out in our. I have no idea [if they’ll like it or not].”. “Came home from a day out to find this. However, they decline to go overboard with the accolades, as a documentary about other new Irish artists might. Fontaines DC – Grian Chatten, Conor Deegan III, Conor Curley, Carlos O’Connell and Tom Coll. Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. Commenting on The Irish Times has changed. “I would always give Alliance a preference. I’d rather have thoughts that make me suffer, or think about things I wouldn’t like to think about in order to give a good performance.” But, he concedes, “it’s probably unhealthy as well.”. "All we've tried to do is reflect our surroundings as much as possible," says Chatten. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. The Music Quiz: Which 1990s girl group had three straight Christmas No 1s? What the Irish language tells us about who we are. With the exception of Chatten and guitarist Conor Curley they are also exceedingly hairy so that it can be difficult to tell them apart. Also für etwas, nach dem sich die Menschen lange gesehnt haben“, erzählt Sänger Grian Chatten während eines Besuchs bei einem irischen Radiosender. Fontaines D.C. have spoken out for the first time on their surprise Grammy nod, likening the landmark moment to receiving “a phone call from space”. 10 rules to live by from Dublin post-punk band Fontaines D.C.'s frontman Grian Chatten “I was doing it out of fear that I would someday grow detached from the songs. I don’t know what I’d do if it was lost. 10 rules to live by from Dublin post-punk band Fontaines D.C.'s frontman Grian Chatten Bringing the pair together over a scratchy three-way phone line today, they trade asides, quotes and one liners, eager to impress one another. High-quality, pre-shrunk heavy or lightweight fleece. If we were going to be one of those bands that did loads of fucking Zoom performances in bathrooms and that we’d probably fade out overnight.”. It might have been their worst nightmare, but instead they’re finding lockdown a helpful chance to pause for breath, refocus on the creativity that got them this far and reflect on their rocket-ship rise. “If we did loads of fucking Zoom performances in bathrooms we’d probably fade out”. I actually once gave Stephen Donnelly a No. 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. Releasing Dogrel as an outlet to tell tales of the Irish city, Fontaines D.C. have explored Dublin's stories in the best way they possibly can - with brash guitars and gritty drawls. The Dublin post-punks experienced vertigo after last year’s breakout album ‘Dogrel’. Phoebe Bridgers is in the running to pick up four awards at the 2021 Grammys – and waiting on the nomination results apparently gave her a migraine.. Chatten’s vocals were edgy, ambitious and confidently clear, “And the radios all about a runaway model with a face like sin and a heart like a James Joyce novel. People are really gonna start feeling things out, so there’s hope there. Hier sollte eine Beschreibung angezeigt werden, diese Seite lässt dies jedoch nicht zu. This name will appear beside any comments you post. [ October 16, 2020 ] Alt-rock trio FERALS return with video for new track ‘Separate’ – Watch Now! Then coronavirus hit like a stinger to the tyres and D.C.’s dark dragster screeched to a halt. “The danger of it is it’s kinda seeing behind the curtain; it can take apart the world that an artist has created for you when you see them in a zone like that. A band whose first album bristled with desperation to escape the murky streets of Dublin, with all of its low-lives, gentrification and foiled ambition, are trapped back there after glimpsing the promise and possibilities of the great wide open. Shop Chatten Hoodies and Sweatshirts designed and sold by artists for men, women, and everyone. “You can just go like, ‘I really wish I wasn’t so stressed out . Beginning of dialog window. Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten looks out across north Dublin, towards the tranquility of the Irish sea. It was a surreal environment we created for ourselves.”, “We tried to put the Beach Boys cloak over absolutely everything we did in America”, Fontaines’ US tour sounds like the classic boys-in-a-bigger-land first album wild ride. 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