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    Fontaines D.C. Unveil Video for New Track, “I Love You”

    By Dom VigilFebruary 17, 2022
    Fontaines D.C. I Love You

    Last month, Fontaines D.C. announced their third album, Skinty Fia – to be released on April 22nd on Partisan Records. The news was soon followed by a performance of first single “Jackie Down The Line” on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, as the band debuted the track live for the very first time. Now, the band has released their second song, “I Love You,” taken from the highly anticipated new album.

    Ostensibly a love song, “I Love You” is layered, impressionistic and infused with the band’s trademark intensity. Stitched into the apparently ardent lyrics is a lament for Ireland, in what Fontaines D.C frontman Grian Chatten describes as “the first overtly political song we’ve written.” Written from the perspective of an Irishman abroad, the song unravels to reveal a passionate sense of self-loathing. The lyrics detail the guilt of a barroom reveler, enjoying great personal success and a sense of cultural pride, while simultaneously metabolizing deep disappointment, and swirling anger, at the current political climate as well as the country’s grimmest historical atrocities, such as the decades of tragic brutality at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway: “This island’s run by sharks with children’s bones stuck in their jaws.”

    The cinematic music video, directed by Sam Taylor, captures the song’s building intensity; Grian strolls through a serene, candle-lit church before intensely delivering the song’s second half directly to camera with characteristic gravity. He elaborates, “It’s standing in the center of our beloved home country as a multitude of things are brought to tragic ends in an apocalyptic state of affairs. That’s how it feels to me, and what I felt when I wrote it.”

    Fontaines D.C recently announced a North American tour, their first since they toured in support of their acclaimed 2019 debut Dogrel. The band’s show at Brooklyn Steel on April 26th has sold out. An additional date has been added for April 27th. All dates below.

    Skinty Fia is an Irish phrase which translates to English as “the damnation of the deer” and the album’s cover art features a deer, plucked from its natural habitat and deposited in the hallway of a home, illuminated by an artificial red glow. The Irish giant deer is an extinct species and the band’s thoughts on Irish identity are central to Skinty Fia. For a band whose hometown courses through their veins – “D.C.” stands for “Dublin City” – the album finds them trying to resolve the need to broaden their horizons with the affection they still feel for the land and people they’ve left behind following a recent relocation to London.

    There are echoes of Dogrel’s rumbustious rock ’n’ roll, and the bleaker atmospheres of A Hero’s Death, but Skinty Fia, the third in the triumvirate, is much more expansive and cinematic. Fontaines D.C. are a band in a state of constant evolution and this time the result is an album of shifting moods, startling insight, maturity, and considerable emotional wallop.

    Fontaines D.C. on Tour:

    *denotes newly added date

    MARCH 2022

    Sun-Mar-20 Madrid, Spain @ La Riviera

    Mon-Mar-21 Barcelona, Spain @ Razzmatazz 3

    Wed-Mar-23 Milan, Italy @ Magazzini Generali [SOLD OUT]

    Thu-Mar-24 Zürich, Switzerland @ Dynamo

    Fri-Mar-25 Dudingen, Switzerland @ Bad Bonn

    Sun-Mar-27 Prague, Czech Republic @ Roxy

    Mon-Mar-28 Brno, Czech Republic @ Fleda

    Wed-Mar-30 Malmo, Sweden @ Plan B

    Thu-Mar-31 Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser

    APRIL 2022

    Fri-Apr-1 Oslo, Norway @ Vulkan Arena

    Sat-Apr-2 Denmark, Copenhagen @ VEGA

    Mon-Apr-4 Nikmegen, Netherlands @ Doornroosje

    Tue-Apr-5 Maastricht, Netherlands @ Muziekgieterij

    Wed-Apr-6 Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli Vredenburg [SOLD OUT]

    Fri-Apr-8 Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix [SOLD OUT]

    Sat-Apr-9 Luxembourg, Luxembourg @ Den Atelier

    Sun-Apr-10 Lille, France @ L’Aéronef

    Mon-Apr-11 Paris, France @ Olympia [SOLD OUT]

    Thu-Apr-21 Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club

    Fri-Apr-22 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts [SOLD OUT]

    Sat-Apr-23 Asbury Park, NJ @ Wonder Bar [SOLD OUT]

    Mon-Apr-25 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club

    Tues-Apr-26 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel [SOLD OUT]

    Wed-Apr-27 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel *

    Fri-Apr-29 Columbus, OH @ The A&R Music Bar

    Sat-Apr-30 Cleveland, OH @ The Beachland Ballroom

    MAY 2022

    Mon-May-2 Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre

    Tue-May-3 Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix

    Thu-May-5 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall

    Fri-May-6 Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre

    Sat-May-7 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue

    Mon-May-9 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre [venue upgrade]

    Tue-May-10 Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell

    Thu-May-12 Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall

    Fri-May-13 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre [SOLD OUT]

    Sat-May-14 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo

    Mon-May-16 San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom

    Wed-May-18 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater [SOLD OUT]

    Thurs-May-19 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater

    JUNE 2022

    Fri-June-3 Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound

    Mon-June-6 Lyon, France @ Le Transbordeur

    Tue-June-7 Bologna, Italy @ Arena Puccini

    Wed-June-8 Milan, Italy @ Un Altro Festival

    Fri-June-10 Neuchâtel, Switzerland @ Festi’ Neuch

    Sat-June-11 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands @ Best Kept Secret Festival

    Sun-June-12 Berlin, Germany @ Templehof Sounds

    Mon-Jun-13 Warsaw, Poland @ Proxima

    Wed-June-15 Athens, Greece @ Release Festival with Nick Cave

    Fri-June-17 Scheeßel, Germany @ Hurricane Festival

    Sat-June-18 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany @ Southside Festival

    Mon-June-20 Zagreb, Croatia @ InMusic Festival

    Wed-June-29 Roskilde, Denmark @ Roskilde Festival

    Thur-June-30 Werchter, Belgium @ Rock Werchter

    JULY 2022

    Sat-Jul-2 Dublin, Ireland @ Iveagh Gardens [SOLD OUT]

    Sun-Jul-3 Dublin, Ireland @ Iveagh Gardens [SOLD OUT]

    Wed-Jul-6 Lisbon, Portugal @ NOS Alive Festival

    Sat-Jul-8 Lytham St. Anne’s, United Kingdom @ Lytham festival

    Sun-Jul-9 Glasgow, United Kingdom @ TRNSMT

    Thur-Jul-14 Carhaix, France @ Les Vieilles Charrues

    Fri-Jul-15 London, United Kingdom @ Finsbury Park with Sam Fender

    Sun-Jul-17 Cologne, Germany @ Live Music Hall

    Mon-Jul-18 Munich, Germany @ Neue Theaterfabrik

    Wed-Jul-20 Berlin, Germany @ Astra Kulturhaus [SOLD OUT]

    Thur-Jul-21 Hamburg, Germany @ Gruenspan [SOLD OUT]

    Sun-Jul-24 Wiesbaden, Germany @ Schlachthof

    AUGUST 2022

    Thur-Aug-11 Oslo, Norway @ Oya Festival

    Sat-Aug-13 Helsinki, Finland @ Flow Festival

    Mon-Aug-15 Budapest, Hungary @ Sziget Festival

    Tue-Aug-16 Padova, Italy @ Parco Della Musica

    Fri-Aug 19 Guéret – Saint-Laurent Aerodrome, France @ Check In Party

    Sat-Aug-20 Charleville-Mézières, France @ Le Cabaret Vert

    Tue-Aug-23 Stuttgart, Germany @ Longhorn

    Thur-Aug-25 Paris, France @ Rock En Seine

    Sat-Aug-27 Reading, United Kingdom @ Reading Festival

    Sun-Aug-28 Leeds, United Kingdom @ Leeds Festival

    SEPTEMBER 2022

    Sat-Sep-16 Los Angeles, CA @ Primavera Sound

    FEBRUARY 2023

    Wed-Feb-1 Sydney, Australia @ Roundhouse

    Thur-Feb-2 Brisbane, Australia @The Triffid

    Tue-Feb-7 Melbourne, Australia @ Corner Hotel

    Wed-Feb-8 Melbourne, Australia @ The Forum

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