Fontaines D.C.

Live Review: Fontaines DC / Wunderhorse – Vicar Street, Dublin 30,11,2022
Words & Photos: David McEneaney Fontaines D.C. kicked off the first of three sold out nights at Dublin’s Vicar St, with support from the excellent Wunderhorse, to promote their latest album, ’Skinty Fia’. Wunderhorse: After the opening act filled the room with both their increasingly loud sound and more and more people who were drawn …

LIVE REVIEW / GALLERY: Fontaines D.C. – O2 Academy Glasgow 17/11/22
Fontaines D.C. returned to Glasgow on their current UK tour, upgrading capacity wise from last year’s appearance at Barrowlands (1,900) to the O2 Academy (2,500), but still for two nights such is the demand for tickets in the city. The first night saw a queue form well ahead of the doors opening and the rush …

NEWS: Leftfield have announced their first album in seven years, This Is What We Do, featuring guest contributors including Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten and Lemn Sissay. Lefield also release new single Pulse.
Electronic mavericks Leftfield have announced their first album in seven years, This Is What We Do. It’s their first album of new music since 2015’s acclaimed Alternative Light Source, and is set to be released via Virgin Records on 2 December 2022. And as a taster of what’s to come they have released new track …

Album Review: Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Skinty Fia’ is an adventurous musical expansion of their musical horizons.
From the outset, in their third studio album ‘Skinty Fia’, Fontaines D.C. have expanded their musical palette: creating something that gently veers away from their first two album with an exploration of different sounds – adventurous at times, more pop and accessible at other times. ‘Skinty Fia’ is an Irish phrase which translates to English as …

Track: In the lead up to the much anticipated album ‘Skinty Fia’, Fontaines D.C. drop another brilliant single ‘Roman Holiday’.
Can this band do no wrong? Having recently been labelled “Best Band In The World” at the 2022 BandLab NME Awards, Fontaines D.C. continue to make all superlatives redundant with the singles released thus far in the lead up into the release of the album ‘Skinty Fia’. And just to add sparkle to the already …

Track: The magnificent Fontaines D.C. release the brooding title track to their new album ‘Skinty Fia’ due out in April, and announce new live dates.
‘Skinty Fia’ is an Irish phrase which translates to English as ‘the damnation of the deer’ which is used to display disappointment or annoyance – phrase which resonated with Fontaines D.C.‘s frontman Grian Chatten as the correct expression of his feelings towards the ‘mutation’ of Irish culture abroad. ‘Skinty Fia’, the newly released title track from the forthcoming …

Track: Fontaines D.C. release new single ‘I Love You’, the second from forthcoming album Skinty Fia due out on 22 April
Fontaines D.C. have released ‘I Love You‘, the second single to be taken from their forthcoming album Skinty Fia which will be released on 22 April via Partisan Records. The band continue to follow their own path. Rather than return to the frantic energy of debut album Dogrel, here we have a track full of …

News: The magnificent Fontaines D.C. announce new album ‘Skinty Fia’ for April, release the shimmering single ‘Jackie Down The Line’ as a taster and unveil global tour details.
The magnificent Fontaines D.C. have announced their third album, ‘Skinty Fia’, to be released on 22 April 2022 on Partisan Records. After the double pleasures of ‘Doggerel’ and ‘A Hero’s Death’ released within one year of each other back in 2020, 2021 was a relatively quiet period for the Dublin band in terms of releases. …

Track: Fontaines D.C. treat fans to a Christmas present with ‘A Lucid Dreamer (Live Version)’
Fontaines D.C. have given fans an early Christmas present, a surprise release of ‘A Lucid Dreamer (Live Version)’ on all streaming platforms. It is a stripped back version of ‘A Lucid Dream‘ from their Grammy nominated second album A Hero’s Death released in 2020 on Partisan Records. This version is almost unrecognisable from the original. …