Fontaines D.C. supporting Idles at Brooklyn Steel on May 10th, 2019 (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)
Fontaines D.C. recorded a collage of a live performance for Later…With Jools Holland on Friday night.
With the new series of Later… affected by lockdown, the five bandmates separately laid down their pieces for the show, resulting in a unique live airing of the title-track of the forthcoming second album A Hero’s Death.
We’ve currently got two tracks from the album after I Don’t Belong was also premiered last week as Fontaines prepare to succeed Live4ever’s #1 album of 2019:
“Dogrel closes with Dublin City Sky, a rolling shanty as close to anything MacGowan has ever growled out, two sets of misty eyes scraping themselves up from horizons which will soon be no more, if they ever even were,” our review reads.
“Both are windows onto the souls of geniuses flawed but Fontaines D.C., via this brilliant slash of poetic trauma, seem to have got the rest of it all figured out, a band tied to the apron strings of a city which once made fortunes and sheltered paupers.”
