interview, We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Nothing can tamper with that. As an Irishman living in London, Grian Chatten deals with a lot of bullshit. On more than one occasion John threatens, tongue in cheek, to steal Grians material. I think the people of Ireland need to look back into the past of Ireland with not reverence, but more understanding and more awareness and not reject it as something that belongs to an old and out of fashion generation because I think in the past lies the answer to the future for Ireland. I think the song would be summed up with the word doom.. However, they still hope that the wedding will happen soon. There was a little courtyard and across from the courtyard, there was a really old couple. 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. So I learned about 15 poems and managed to build the book. When people talk in pubs theres this terrific sense of knowledge. 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 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. T&Cs apply, Words by Mr Niall Doherty | Photography by Filmawi, The worst thing anyone could say to Mr Grian Chatten is that hes not really Irish. Im gonna have to get a refund from that elocution course I went on. He had this piece of music and the title, and then I wrote the lyrics more or less in one go. Im curious as to what that would even sound like. Lo and behold, it turned out to be another song about Ireland, he says. 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. [Conor] Curley, our guitarist, wrote all the music and the title. Its what makes this songwriting dynamo tick. 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. I think Yeats is a lot more heart on the sleeve, hes a bleeding heart. Well I think almost all music comes from a working class background and then it gets commandeered by the upper classes. 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. Irish hip-hop? Ive moved from that country. He thinks a lot about a lot of things, and when youre talking to him you see his thought process in the way he articulates his words and writes songs. 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. The only other time the Dublin outfit had been here was for a KEXP live session in Seattle, but last month they played to an American crowd for the very first time in their young, but burgeoning musical career. Dogrel is out April 12th via Partisan Records pre-order the album here. She has been amazing to me and deserves the best.. 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[21][22][23] They also received grant funding from RT 2fm. He explains how during the groups first big tour, which included exhausting drives across the US, he developed crippling insomnia. Do either of you find inspiration from the working day?John: The monotony of machinery is a big help. And the people blatantly telling him: Go home., These experiences cant help but make their way into the music of Fontaines D.C., the band Chatten fronts specifically on the bands third album, Skinty Fia, out April 22. Get the best of DIY to your inbox each week. The London-based designer's first official menswear collection reached stores earlier this year, and the second just debuted at her latest show. Im trying to kind of convince my girlfriend to come out and enjoy this its like adventure, you know what I mean? It was the best day of my life. I was overwhelmed with the knowledge that none of them were worth half of what they were being sold for. One of the main reasons I dont think of poetry as an elitist pursuit anymore is because of people like John.. 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. 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. He is currently engaged and has plans to get married in the summer of 2020. 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. But rather than feel deprived of a victory lap, haunted by the ghosts of tours that never were, Chatten was offered a vital period of respite by Covid. Yeah basically, its a working class poetry. Not many accents can carry that spectrum of emotion.John: Id rather sound like you! Thats what I think Im doing. Grian: Ive got about four songs which are essentially just lists of lines Ive written on a night out or something when Ive had a few pints. [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. Like is there American-Irish food? Roman Holiday What about American culture stands out to you? Its about his struggle to divine or delineate the real from the superficial and the material. Interview by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. "Skinty Fia" did not enter the Irish Singles Chart, but peaked at number three on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart. I feel like Ive abandoned Ireland to some extent. Ill tell you when a poems dead: when its in a book. In many ways, his country defines him, as a songwriter, as an artist and as a person. Instead, I'm talking to the disembodied voice of Grian Chatten, down the phone line from London. Theres Versatile, and theyre hilarious and really good as well. [20], Fontaines received tour support from Irish Arts Council which allowed them to tour internationally. [2][7] They bonded over a common love of poetry[8] and collectively released two collections of poetry, one called Vroom, inspired by the Beat poets (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg) and another called Winding, inspired by Irish poets (Patrick Kavanagh, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats). In this episode, Grian Chatten reads "The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. You wouldnt believe the decibel level. 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. 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. To coincide with the album's announcement, the band shared its lead single "Jackie Down the Line" with an accompanying music video. Do you feel the need to be romanticized? Taking the air on a stroll around the bustling Temple Bar area, the singer of Fontaines D.C. caught sight of a gaggle . Grian posts regularly, and his videos rarely get below three million views. After making waves in Europe, Fontaines D.C. are taking their first crack at America; first in New York, then SXSW, followed by an American tour opening for Idles. Can either of you remember the first time you wanted to be a writer?Grian: I started writing songs when I was about nine years old. It would hurt me a lot because I draw so much from it, he says over Zoom from his flat in Kentish Town, north London. 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. I got hold of your stuff last night and I like your style, the overcoat, the look, the voice, these are all the ingredients to make great records. Im very paranoid about staying the same. She was an Irish-speaking person, like strictly Irish-speaking, exclusively Irish-speaking person. 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. Youd hear them really screaming at each other. 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. Loves a double-edged sword, you know? All rights reserved. I think everything gets lost in inauthenticity. They received a Grammy Award nomination for the 2020 follow-up, A Heros Death. Theres lines like, I will be your dog in the corner, and I would light your cigarette. Its just this subservience that I wanted to use in order to express the element of compromise thats necessary. The initials D.C. stand for "Dublin City". Designer Simone Rocha, right, with musician Grian . Theres got to be tension in order for it to be an interesting thing to write about. The government is driving the country into the ground, keeping a lid on previous scandals. I feel like the first time I fell in love was with a girl from a different country. But you dont have to look as far anymore for it not to seem like an elitist pursuit. There is also a frank . I think societies and communities have the same distorted idea because they are committing the actions so they in that sense have an ego, innately. Learn more about our Privacy Policy here. Please, A fresh breath: Chatten says the bands second album is like the exhalation after Dogrels inhalation. Thats kind of what I was interested in. We better check if there are any bombs. Chatten reckons it subconsciously seeped into his writing. 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The title Dogrel is an homage to Doggerel, working class Irish poetry[25] 'poetry of the people' that dates back to 1630. It worked. Skinty Fia We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. "How Cold Love Is" did not enter the Irish Singles Chart, but peaked at number 13 on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart. In January 2022, the band announced their third studio album Skinty Fia. [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 returned to The Tonight Show as musical guests, performing "A Hero's Death" on 28 January 2021. He did it out of kindness really. 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. 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