Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner lent Fontaines D.C. his guitar for ‘Romance’: “We used it for the heavier sounds”
nme.comFontaines D.C. by Alex Turner provided the “heavier sounds” on ‘Romance’.In a recent video by Guitarist, O’Connell played some of Rory Gallagher’s guitars, and whilst playing his 1963 custom-coloured Epiphone Coronet, said he picked it up because the Arctic Monkeys frontman came to mind.“He had one of these, probably [from] a similar year,” he said. “He gave us a loan of it, of his, for the last album.” As fans have shared online, on physical copies of ‘Romance’, which NME wrote was the band’s “most considered and intricately crafted release yet”, Turner is thanked “for the lend of the guitar”.“And it ended up being sort of the guitar we used, me and [Conor] Curley both used it for the heavier sounds, you know, whenever there was like real chuggy sounds,” O’Connell continued. “This was sort of the best for that.”Asked how he felt about switching from Fender’s, he said he “fell in love with it”, because when they wrote the songs, they didn’t have a guitar like that. “So we were kind of playing it like trying to make that super chuggy sound,” adding that the sound wasn’t “coming through the way you want it to”.O’Connell went on to say that when Arctic Monkeys’ producer James Ford came to the studio, “he bought Al’s guitar down”.
Touching on its sound, he said: “It’s just like real punk rock, you know, proper like Stooges. I love it, I wish I had one of these.”When Fontaines D.C.
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