‘We were writing privately and then we let each other in and realised how much it meant to us. We could suddenly see this sense of purpose’
Dublin band Fontaines DC might put you in mind of the Clash and the Sex Pistols, but the group are full of ideas and started life as a poetry collective - all the better to inject their exhilarating sound with lyrical resonance, writes Nadine O’Regan
‘Everyone wants you to think in an obvious and materialistic way, but we want to find new spaces in music and literature, and reflect things that haven’t been reflected before.”
In the bar of a Dublin hotel, Grian Chatten, lead vocalist with Irish band Fontaines DC, is reflecting on the nature of his band’s creative ambitions, and on other people’s hopes and aspirations for them.
Chatten might gloss over the situation, but he’s ...
