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Ireland’s Grammy-Nominated Band Fontaines D.C. Is Everything That’s Right About Rock Music Today

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Niall Doherty Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten thinks that everything, good and bad, that has happened to his band over the past few years can be traced back to a piece of advice he once received from a friend.

The singer was on a train to Dublin city center, headed to his first-ever job interview, and bumped into a mate who asked if he was still making music.

Then came the pivotal moment of counsel. “I reckon you could do something,” he told Chatten, “but you just have to go a bit fucking mad for a while.”Chatten took that to heart.

It was a message he used to inject the Irish quintet’s early days with what he describes as an obnoxious arrogance, a feeling they channelled into their seething post-punk of their stellar 2019 debut,.

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