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. Ive spent my whole life trying to reconcile those two parts of myself and I think thats the reason that I became so fascinated in Irish culture really because I was trying to prove to myself and prove to other people that I was as Irish, if not more Irish, than other people because itd make me feel more at home. They put those words on her gravestone, but the church of England ruled it was at risk of being perceived as a political slogan, so they refused to allow it. He wrote the song I Love You for Ireland, saying: Ive moved from that country. Something weve experienced a lot over here in London. I think he must be really crying there. Stay in the loop with the latest style news and get an exclusive 10% off when you subscribe to our emails. '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? Grian Wikipedia: He is a cat lover and owns two beautiful cats: Maui and Pearl. 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! [16][26] The record was recorded live on tape. 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. Its the sort of duality of things to both comfort you, provide you with warmth and encouragement and safety, and at the same time while doing that, rob all the change from your back pocket, you know what I mean? I mean, I am, I just think it would be really hard because I dont know how to write without that kind of duality or that tension or a duplicity almost. She was an old woman, she was called Margaret Keane. It would invalidate me.. "We fortified our creative process from the get go," he asserts. 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? [Conor] Curley, our guitarist, wrote all the music and the title. Thats what that song was. Im in a position there where Ive made something of a career from trying to connect with and render the culture and country that I come from and try and express it and in turn and in doing so, understand it myself and help other people understand it. I wondered about these things going in and realized during our talk how much they all made sense. Im now living in a country that is responsible for a lot of the chaos in the country that Im from, that still kind of looks down on that country. Theres a story in the papers about a woman from Coventry in England. [38] Three further singles were released from the album: "I Don't Belong", "Televised Mind" and "A Lucid Dream". At some point, you try to wear it as a badge of honour.. Im done!. 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." Something that I can lie down beside all the books and poems Ive read and all that kind of world, because thats the world I want to live in. At some point, you start to wear as like a badge of honor, and thats what that song is. They received a Grammy Award nomination for the 2020 follow-up, A Heros Death. 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. NET-A-PORTER.COM sells must-have luxury fashion from over 900 of the world's most coveted designers. So I think thats where the Dublin accent really came from; a desire to fit in. Im sure I want to prove something to my mom and my da. 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. The youth of Dublin and the youth of Ireland are politically activated now because of the Repeal the Eighth Movement, which allows women to get abortions. It felt very structured or something like that, and easy, Chatten says. But the singer was born in Barrow-In-Furness in the north of England. He is currently engaged and has plans to get married in the summer of 2020. His secretive love life. He created his channel in 2015, and within a year, Grian had gained 1 million subscribers. 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. His name isnt Paddy, but that doesnt stop bullies from calling him that. All Rights reserved. Scroll down to get your copy. Registered in England No. I usually come off stage and hide for a while. All rights reserved. Did it rain when you guys were in Seattle for KEXP? Learn more about our Privacy Policy here. 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I feel in a sense that theres a little bit of a wrapping up of something after that happening, between us and Dublin. I think Ive got great guilt about leaving Ireland in the state that its in. I think I need to romanticize everything thats around me in order to feel like Im living a fruitful life ya know; and a gorgeous life, something thats profound. 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. 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. The coffee on the tap. There's an 'unsubscribe' button at the bottom of every email we send out. Sometimes, it sounds like early The Cure, if Mr Robert Smiths crew rehearsed only on the way home from an all-day bender. What does it mean for music to have a Dublin accent? Yeah it was summer. Shop now, Free standard delivery to United States. 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. 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. Like is there American-Irish food? Jackie Down the Line A lot of the album is built upon that experience, that feeling. I think the song was influenced by addiction, which is something that runs in a lot of families. There is Irish hip-hop. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. 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. Every day Id kind of find a room of space on my own and just spend like an hour just listening to that. 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. Theres a lot of covert prejudice and stereotypes still kept alive by people here, he says, either little micro-aggressions or blatant racism towards Irish people. However, the unusual nature of proceedings didnt dampen the mood or the importance of the nuptials to Grian and his wife. [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. Fontaines DC, Its a big change from July 2019, when exhaustion forced the cancellation of the bands last remaining dates on a punishing tour of debut album Dogrel, regarded by many as the most exciting record by an Irish band in years, a dramatic depiction of Dublin on an international stage. [16], In 2018, Fontaines released the single "Chequeless Reckless"/"Boys In The Better Land" and "Too Real". 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Youre about to go on a US tour and to SXSW, what are you going to tell America about itself? Arrive at The BRIT Awards 2021 at The O2 Arena on May. Those are kind of the themes I wanted to explore in the album. Well I think almost all music comes from a working class background and then it gets commandeered by the upper classes. Now, were sort of like, if we just keep going and we dont fuck it up, maybe I could raise my kid on this. He says this rise in expectations doesnt interfere with his writing. I make a point of visiting friends and family that wont necessarily be as kind to me, the people that will bring me back down to Earth, when Im home because Im also paranoid of changing and getting too big headed. 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! 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Chatten thinks one of the reasons their songs have chimed so acutely is because there is nothing disingenuous about the way he writes. The song itself is just about a doomed, paranoid relationship with influences of alcohol, drugs, and paranoia. You tell all these stories about eccentric Irish characters and people you meet in pubs. Im not really sure, Im still quite new to this ya know. Do you know your Kourtneys from your Khlos? Nothing can tamper with that. Please, The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. Theres got to be tension in order for it to be an interesting thing to write about. Youre checking in to a hotel at 4.00am in between two cities and you have to wake up at seven or eight to do the rest of the drive. 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. Grian's first episode was on October 1, 2017. Like if you go to Boston, that expression of Irishness. Just because its diaspora, its still pure. Ireland is like that. For both of them, language is a living thing that constantly evolves, something to be heard, not read. I think we just wanted to see what would happen if we did it during the night so things get a little bit less certain., Editors picks Fontaines DCs A Heros Death is out now via Partisan. They have toured with Shame and Idles. Its like the most normal title ever. 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. Yeah we do, whatever comes first just as long as it has a kind of pointed feeling that we all chase down. 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. But what we did have instead was the music hall. He and his friends began their journey in a place which became a city, but they all had their own individual bases as well. Youre huddled together a bit more.. Would you ever want people to tell your story like that, in the same way youre telling theirs? In 2015 they were going to release their debut with music journalist John Robb's Louder Than War label. [21][22][23] They also received grant funding from RT 2fm. From then on I thought I could make a living out of it. Frontman Grian Chatten talks fame, politics and pressure with Alex Greene Fontaines DC - Grian Chatten, Conor Deegan III, Conor Curley, Carlos O'Connell and Tom Coll. How Cold Love Is 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. On 12th October 2020, he posted a photo of the ceremony alongside the caption: I like to keep my private life as private as possible, but sometimes you have to make a point of sharing your best moments. I am. In many ways, his country defines him, as a songwriter, as an artist and as a person. "A Lucid Dream" did not enter the Irish Singles Chart, but peaked at number 14 on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart. 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. Fontaines D.C. first broke out with their 2019 album, Dogrel, written in their native Dublin, which earned them a spot on the Mercury Music Prize shortlist. Its that sort of pseudo-knowledge. It was just the violent shelving of yourself. In New York when it rains and you see puddles, you see the gasoline and iridescent colors. I used to work on receipt paper. A Hero's Death was later nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. In June 2020, Grian updated his fans about the upcoming nuptials via Instagram. One star sign hopes to regain harmony in the workplace, while another should start looking after their own interests. [10][11] Prior to starting Fontaines D.C., Chatten was a part of local indie rock bands Gun Runner and Thumbprint, serving as a drummer and guitarist/singer respectively. 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. This wasnt the Seventies or anything like that. Trying to find Ireland's best burger or best pizza? This interview should have happened backstage at a Swiss music festival last summer. Im curious as to what that would even sound like. 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