Tom Coll with Fontaines D.C. @ Manchester Academy (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Sam Taylor, the director of the new Fontaines D.C. video, has said it is, ‘the result of attempting to challenge the monarchy and watching too much of The Rockford Files’.
Fontaines D.C. have premiered their video for Roman Holiday, taken from this year’s third studio album Skinty Fia.
In our review, the record was described as a ‘circle-closing masterpiece’, one containing a ‘resolute, almost hubristic confidence wherever it goes’:
“The reverb-doused Roman Holiday is about Chatten’s experiences in the capital and Britishness seen as a casual adversary – ‘I don’t wanna see the Queen’, he croons, ‘I already sing her song’, a reference to the concession of speaking somebody else’s tongue.”
“Being the diaspora can also change your relationship with the soil on which you were born. I Love You – sounding not indistinct from peak-era Smiths – references the self-interested parties of Ireland’s political duopoly Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, before dousing them with the bitter conviction that, ‘This island’s run by sharks with children’s bones stuck in their jaws’.”
