Fontaines D.C. with Live4ever at SXSW 2019 (Paul Bachmann)
Fontaines D.C. started their North American visit with a debut appearance on US television earlier this week.
The band aired Boys In The Better Land from their debut album Dogrel on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as a tour with Idles gets going. Live4ever will be there when the two bands reach New York next week; in our album review we asked, ‘Are they punks? Are they indie? Are they crafty sons of a city being erased before them? Yes to all‘:
“Opener Big is anti-ambition, Chatten growling, “My childhood was small/But I’m gonna be big” like that was a pair of boots waiting to be filled.”
“Effortlessly they transition into the playground, the knockabout strut of Sha Sha Sha taking on all comers while on Roy’s Tune, Chatten is almost singing and the melody is almost pretty, the way people sometimes hear something different to the person next to them, but this time the blanket covers everyone, like a mass hypnosis of good.”
