2024-08-23 15:00:11
On the heights of the Belleville area, the offices of the label Beggars/XL Recordings are endlessly noisy. Some members of the Irish rock group Fontaines DC traveled to Paris to promote their fourth album. Their new baby’s name Romancebut today, another baby steals the show: her name is Vega, a little girl of barely 9 months, who is none other than the daughter of guitarist Carlos O’Connell. Press officers act as babysitters while fathers give interviews in the next room, and regularly peek through the door.
A few meters back, the singer, Grian Chatten, escaped on the keys of a perfect piano. The delicate melody contrasted with the t-shirt he was wearing “Torture Killer”, a Finnish death metal band. A man of thirty years, whose short hair and strong blue eyes give him the false air of Ian Curtis (1956-1980), of Joy Division, however he claims to be a limited pianist. and consider himself above all a guitarist. “In this booming day, having a facility nearby is a breath of fresh air, confides singer and actor. This allows you to reconnect with yourself, to remember why you did all this. Writing has always been good for me, and that’s exactly why we do so much. »
In the space of four albums released in five years, the Dublin quintet, formed in 2017 by Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan (bass) and Tom Coll ( cities), of course. break down. Authors of baptism of light, Dogrel (2019), releasing the postpunk speed of the adults The Singles and The Fall, Irish has followed the following, Hero’s Death (2020) and Omo Skinty (2022). Assimilated, in their early days, into the alternative rock scene alongside Idles, Shame, Fat White Family and Sleaford Mods, the new sources of melancholy quickly climbed the ranks of popularity. This fall, Europe is waiting for them in large halls with a capacity of 10,000 seats, and the concert on November 13, in Paris, will also be their first Zenith (6,800 seats).
Better than any other English rock band today, Fontaines DC knows how to take the pulse of its irreverent generation. Grian Chatten presents with his raw materials a fragmented and individualistic society, fed by capitalism, all transported in a destructive climate spiral. “No Future”Sex Pistols previously announced in 1977; The same observation in 2024 for the Irish quintet, adding the zest of modern “romance”.
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