Simon Wheatley
2024 has actually been an enormous year for Fontaines D.C. In June they played a favored collection at Glastonbury and followed it up with an additional at Reading & & Leeds Festival last month. Their 4th cd Romance landed at No.2 on the Official Album Charts in the U.K. and was an important hit.
Now, they have actually obtained the thumbs up from Elton John that has actually shared his love for the band in a brand-new meeting on his Rocket Hour radio program on Apple Music.
Speaking to Fontaines D.C.’s frontman Grian Chatten, the symbol was gushing with appreciation: “For me, you’re the best band out there at the moment,” he stated when presenting his visitor onto the program. You can see the complete clip listed below.
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“Having watched you at Glastonbury, having heard the new album, you’ve just grown every album,” John informedChatten “You seem to have found your feet with this album in such a big way… it’s a brilliant record.”
John, that has actually utilized his Rocket Hour reveal to highlight arising skill, proceeded: “I think this album takes you – and I’ve been around for a long time – to a different level, and it’s going to stay around for a long, long time. But what’s more important about it: the music is really, really, really special. Congratulations on everything, Grian. It’s bloody wonderful.”
The appreciation is at chances with Liam Gallagher’s sensations on the band, that slapped back at the band complying with a meeting where Fontaines stated that the Oasis get-together really did not delight them. ““F–k them little spunkbubbles I’ve seen better dressed ROADIES,” Gallagher composed in one tweet. “They look like a sh-t EMF,”
The Irish band have actually launched 4 cds, Dogrel (2019 ), A Hero’s Death (2022 ), Skinty Fia (2022) and Romance (2024 ), every one of which landed in the Top 10 of the U.K. Album Charts and in their indigenousIreland Romance, launched in August, was their initial on their brand-new tag home of XL Records, whose lineup consists of Radiohead, The Prodigy and much more.
Fontaines were lately required to cancel a handful of gigs in the United States because of singing injury toChatten The band drew programs in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver this previous weekend break, and the excursion is set up to return to in San Francisco tomorrow night (September 24).
They’ll after that head to Europe and the U.K. and Ireland for several of their greatest jobs to day in October andNovember Perhaps John will certainly be down the front …
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