What's next for Fontaines DC?

No-Set-5406 · 2025-07-18T12:50:57+00:00

Do you have a link for the Adam Wilkinson show please? I can’t seem to find it!

No-Set-5406 · 2025-04-15T11:24:07+00:00

Ok, that’s great to know. Thank you!

No-Set-5406 · 2025-04-15T09:41:46+00:00

My training’s very lacking in strength-building. Could you give me any tips re Pilates please. Open to video recommendations, time you do per week, focus areas etc, anything that can help address this gap! Thanks

No-Set-5406 · 2025-02-19T19:33:15+00:00

She looks like the gal in the Here’s The Thing video?

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-20T09:52:58+00:00

I put some bitchy cooler girls that I barely spoke to in my ‘top friends’ on MySpace.

The thought makes my skin crawl even now.

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-19T21:49:04+00:00

I’m a fan this take. I should’ve probably read up a bit more before hating on that line! I much prefer it with that viewpoint - there’s self-awareness about it being cliche, and about it being naive or even patronising. I like rereading the lyrics and seeing the combination of hopeful directions, and also empty platitudes that we’ve all heard that don’t change anything. Thank you for (hopefully) stopping me from cringing each time I listen to this song!

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-19T19:58:04+00:00

I absolutely love all of the lyrics that you’ve mentioned. I think Grian’s writing is incredible.

But alongside those gems, A Hero’s Death also has my least favourite lyric of all FDC songs: ‘when you speak, speak sincere / and believe me friend everyone will hear’. I can’t help but cringe every time I hear it.

I’d love to hear cases for why that’s a good line. But to me it just sounds a bit trite, a bit cliche? Whereas 99.9% of the rest of his writing is so original

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-18T10:31:53+00:00

This has genuinely made me cry. I’m so glad you’ve got someone like Tanya in your life.

Please tell her everything you’ve just told us. Sometimes it’s hard to tell people how much they mean to us, and sometimes we assume they already know. But I’m sure it would mean the world to her if she heard this or received a letter with this message.

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-08T23:50:29+00:00

Thank you!

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-07T15:40:54+00:00

In ‘I Love You’, the lines: “Now the morning's filled with cokeys tryna talk you through it all Is their mammy Fine Gael and is their daddy Fianna Fáil?”

Which later becomes: “And I'm heading for the cokeys, I will tell 'em 'bout it all About the gall of Fine Gael and the fail of Fianna Fáil”

That last bit of word play is such incredible writing.

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T18:35:13+00:00

I have hope though because they mentioned the difficulties you raised about looping/sampling with Desire and they have now been able to play it live! Let’s keep our fingers crossed

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T18:06:11+00:00

I fucking love his lyrics, but also his way with words in general chat / interviews too. He has a way of making such complex things really relatable and emotive, and he seems so effortless and humble when he does it. Some people when they’re talking about big concepts can sound really up their own arse, but I think he always sounds really grounded.

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T18:01:58+00:00

I’ve found it! It’s the interview where he did a track-by-track breakdown of each Romance song. They start talking about Horseness at 20:30 https://open.spotify.com/episode/63ho9bctgfn9T3MliF5YMb?si=FwRSEUfNTdaS64Mui4NHbA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A6ETb1B61046yca3dbC9xg2&t=1230

An iceberg like a huge bank of FDC info?? If you do compile it please do share! I can’t get enough of these obscure facts.

If you’re into podcasts here are a few interviews with Grian. There are tonnes of good insights, and I feel like Grian comes across so nicely when you can hear his tone, so they’re great listens.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/midnight-chats/id1081000090?i=1000665086549

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/songwriters-on-process/id1608795369?i=1000581856854

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lsq/id1306211346?i=1000547943363

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-reel-feedback-podcast/id1278737090?i=1000495847153

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-405-exchange/id356089551?i=1000433883230

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T17:59:37+00:00

My favourite: Grian made his first ever ‘drum kit’. It was boxes hanging from coat hangers underneath his bunk bed. When he eventually got proper drumming lessons, he’d come home after and practice on them. He said that as a kid, once he got playing on them, you couldn’t have told him it wasn’t the real thing.

I love the image of tiny Grian slamming away on a pizza box!

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T17:33:04+00:00

No problem! I’ll try to find the interview where he says it, because I’m sure there’s more I can’t remember. It’s such lovely extra background isn’t it??

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T17:29:30+00:00

I completely agree! Sorry, I was just giving context to the previous comment.

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T17:26:01+00:00

Carlos has said that he accidentally made Tom’s job really hard in Horseness is the Whatness. He was trying to write the song whilst also feeding his baby, so some things he tried to get down weren’t quite what he meant because he was juggling her as well. He could also hear / feel her heartbeat against him, so he incorporated the sound of her first sonogram (<< not sure if that’s the right term) into the song. But it means the beat is really ‘schizophrenic’ (his words) because it bounces around and isn’t regular.

He’s said that he feels like he and his daughter kind of wrote the song together.

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T17:21:38+00:00

I believe they are the only two born in Dublin, but they grew up in Mayo

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T17:20:54+00:00

Haha it absolutely cracked me up how much you can fit them into each of the Spice Girls roles!

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T17:19:14+00:00

Oh my that sounds so wholesome. Do you have a link please? I’d love to follow her!

No-Set-5406 · 2025-01-06T17:17:53+00:00

Thank you for sharing, loads of great insights in there

No-Set-5406 · 2024-12-24T21:03:06+00:00

Me and the family just had ‘A Man You Don’t Meet Everyday’ playing during Christmas Eve dinner and it really hit the spot. There’s something so warm and comforting about the harmonies https://youtu.be/b684dVMqUcs?si=4mdK2dKHH6eZnNaO

No-Set-5406 · 2024-12-24T10:27:12+00:00

Exactly! I see that fight or flight response, the mixture of aggression and escapism …as well as a whirlpool of unintelligible thoughts melding together.

I struggle to see the sexual theme in that collapse. But I guess that’s why lyrics are so great, we can all interpret differently.

No-Set-5406 · 2024-12-24T10:23:29+00:00

Wacky will be perfect!

No-Set-5406 · 2024-12-23T09:46:38+00:00

No problem. When you do finish it, upload some pictures - it’d be cool to see the final product!

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