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 vital smash.
Now, they’ve obtained 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.
Talking to Fontaines D.C.’s frontman Grian Chatten, the icon was effusive with reward: “For me, you’re the very best band on the market in the meanwhile,” he stated when introducing his visitor onto the present. You possibly can watch the complete clip beneath.
“Having watched you at Glastonbury, having heard the brand new album, you’ve simply grown each album,” John informed Chatten. “You appear to have discovered your toes with this album in such an enormous method… it’s an excellent report.”
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 unique degree, and it’s going to remain round for a protracted, very long time. However what’s extra vital about it: the music is de facto, actually, actually particular. Congratulations on every thing, Grian. It’s bloody fantastic.”
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–ok them little spunkbubbles I’ve seen higher dressed ROADIES,” Gallagher wrote in a single tweet. “They appear to be a sh-t EMF,”
The Irish band have launched 4 albums, Dogrel (2019), A Hero’s Loss of life (2022), Skinty Fia (2022) and Romance (2024), all of which landed within the Prime 10 of the U.Okay. Album Charts and of their native Eire. Romance, launched in August, was their first on their new label house of XL Information, whose roster contains Radiohead, The Prodigy and extra.
Fontaines had been lately compelled to cancel a handful of gigs within the US resulting from vocal harm 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…
