2024 has been a large 12 months for Fontaines D.C. In June they performed a well-received set at Glastonbury and adopted it up with one other at Studying & Leeds Pageant final month. Their fourth album Romance landed at No.2 on the Official Album Charts within the U.Okay. and was a essential smash.
Now, they’ve bought the thumbs up from Elton John who has shared his love for the band in a brand new interview on his Rocket Hour radio present on Apple Music.
Chatting with Fontaines D.C.’s frontman Grian Chatten, the icon was effusive with reward: “For me, you’re the perfect band on the market in the intervening time,” he stated when introducing his visitor onto the present. You may watch the total clip under.
“Having watched you at Glastonbury, having heard the brand new album, you’ve simply grown each album,” John instructed Chatten. “You appear to have discovered your ft with this album in such a giant method… it’s an excellent file.”
John, who has used his Rocket Hour present to highlight rising expertise, continued: “I believe this album takes you – and I’ve been round for a very long time – to a distinct degree, and it’s going to remain round for an extended, very long time. However what’s extra necessary about it: the music is actually, actually, actually particular. Congratulations on the whole lot, Grian. It’s bloody great.”
The reward is at odds with Liam Gallagher’s emotions on the band, who clapped again on the band following an interview the place Fontaines stated that the Oasis reunion didn’t excite them. ““F–okay them little spunkbubbles I’ve seen higher dressed ROADIES,” Gallagher wrote in a single tweet. “They seem like a sh-t EMF,”
The Irish band have launched 4 albums, Dogrel (2019), A Hero’s Dying (2022), Skinty Fia (2022) and Romance (2024), all of which landed within the High 10 of the U.Okay. Album Charts and of their native Eire. Romance, launched in August, was their first on their new label dwelling of XL Data, whose roster consists of Radiohead, The Prodigy and extra.
Fontaines had been just lately compelled to cancel a handful of gigs within the US resulting from vocal damage to Chatten. The band pulled reveals in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver this previous weekend, and the tour is scheduled to renew in San Francisco tomorrow night (September 24).
They’ll then head to Europe and the U.Okay. and Eire for a few of their greatest gigs up to now in October and November. Maybe John will likely be down the entrance…