#skinty fia

[aeolianblues]

Home is a pin rusting through a map...

FONTAINES D.C. - Big Shot (Glastonbury festival, 2024)

One of my favourite lines from Big Shot. Here's Grian singing it during Fontaines' headline set on the Park Stage at Glasto 2024. Figured it was also a decent shot, the pensive mood, Grian's tricolour band he sets up on his mic at every show the band play now, the beauty of all that in context of the line he's singing. And of course, for Grian in the eyeliner; I am a people pleaser at heart. I've been meaning to gif that moment since June.

[Note: Tumblr killed the quality so click it n be a bit patient if you want to see the proper gif :/]

[eekub988]

these are the same to me btw. same effect

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[dillweed1236]

(2022) Fontaines D.C. - Nabakov

Live at Studio Brussel 2024

[allbornscreaming]

FONTAINES D.C. at 9:30 Club, D.C., 2022 (📷: David LaMason)

[robsongirl234]

I kinda like this albumm

[cruxiw]

Fontaines D.C

Madrid 02/11

(I lost my voice lol)

[thepermanentrainpress]

Gallery: Fontaines D.C. @ Pacific Coliseum - Vancouver, BC Date: September 23, 2023 Photographed by: Danielle Costelo

[games2girlsdotcom]

Uhm new special interest I fear... 😔👍

[post-punk-author-anthony-day]

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[rastronomicals]

9:48 PM EDT August 7, 2024:

Fontaines D.C. - "Bloomsday" From the album Skinty Fia (April 22, 2022)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Dublin City

[static1997]

and i loved you like a penny loves the pocket of a priest

[aeolianblues]

Grian Chatten on wordplay: dream/drink

Fontaines D.C.'s songs have often featured bits of wordplay, usually in the way Grian Chatten enunciates words. He's talked before in interviews about how he is conscious of how he enunciates words, and that goes beyond just his distinct Dublin/Skerries accent: the sounds have to serve a purpose and he too is someone who often chooses words for their melodic and rhythmic sounds and taste rather than for meaning alone.

He's also fond of the world between two words when it's not cut and clear which one it might be specifically. He leans into this in the liner notes of Skinty Fia. Here are the printed lyrics of Jackie Down The Line in the booklet.

Grian sings somewhere in between 'got a way with murder' and 'got away with murder', two different sides, perhaps of the same coin.

Another word pairing I've seen him lean into is the dream/drink conflation. During Fontaines' Artist In Residence stay on BBC 6 Music, Grian picked the Electric Prunes song 'I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night', playing on the phrase 'too much to drink'. I think they used that in a show dedicated to words and lyricism, but I can't remember now and those shows are unavailable right now (officially).

Grian has used this very wordplay on a number of Fontaines D.C. songs himself: 'Go to sleep/There's not a thing that can't be fixed with a dream' - Skinty Fia. A song that's pretty much about drug use in communities. The fact that that line sounds almost plausibly like it would be talking about substance abuse, but underneath hides a much more earnest hope that you might miss if you weren't listening for the quieter 'm' at the end of the line. Almost as potent as the rest of the song itself.

'Amazing stars from the dream/drink' - Death Kink. The first verse uses 'dream' and the subsequent ones 'drink'. Is that now a spark gone sour? A life once filled with dreams now overtaken by a desire to get away from it all? Has the life the narrator sought turned into a deathwish?

It's just a little pattern I've seen crop up a few times in Grian's lyricism, and I wanted to look more closely into it! What do you guys think, have you seen others that stick out to you?

[musicandoldmovies]

Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down the Line

From the album Skinty Fia

[thesingalongsong]

“My friend Sally says she knows ya

Got a funny point of view

Says you got away with murder

Maybe one time, maybe two,”

[jarjarblinks]

Begging to be Grian’s mic stand 👏🏽

[walkmetothecar]

Fontaines D.C on film at the Forum, Melbourne 08.02.2023