Designer Simone Rocha, right, with musician Grian . RELATIONSHIP DETAILS BELOW He was previously part of another YouTube channel called CraftedMovie before deciding to go solo in 2014. In June 2020, Grian updated his fans about the upcoming nuptials via Instagram. Something weve experienced a lot over here in London. Sam Fender, Grian Chatten and Conor Deegan III attend The NME Awards 2022 at the O2 Academy Brixton on March 2, 2022 in London, England. On more than one occasion John threatens, tongue in cheek, to steal Grians material. Theres lines like, I will be your dog in the corner, and I would light your cigarette. Its just this subservience that I wanted to use in order to express the element of compromise thats necessary. There used to be a guy called Moondog, a street singer with a long white beard, he did a book called 100 First Lines. The London-based designer's first official menswear collection reached stores earlier this year, and the second just debuted at her latest show. See more at: https://www.rte.ie/culture/GRIAN CHATTEN - THURSDAY APRIL 23RD / RT ONEHailing from Skerries in North Dublin, Grian Chatten is the lead singer . I got hold of your stuff last night and I like your style, the overcoat, the look, the voice, these are all the ingredients to make great records. He explains how during the groups first big tour, which included exhausting drives across the US, he developed crippling insomnia. It couldn't be easier to sign up - simply enter your email address here and we'll do the rest. Get the best of DIY to your inbox each week. Yeah to an extent. It was released on 22 April 2022. John, repaying the compliment, is full of admiration for Fontaines. However, the unusual nature of proceedings didnt dampen the mood or the importance of the nuptials to Grian and his wife. Oh man, Id have to say Yeats. Everything he puts out into the world is thoroughly honest and from the heart. Now, were sort of like, if we just keep going and we dont fuck it up, maybe I could raise my kid on this. He says this rise in expectations doesnt interfere with his writing. I wanted to write a song called I Love You because I thought that it was a challenge that interested me to write a song about so kind of an ostensibly clich topic and attempt to make it interesting and my own, unique. Im not interested in writing a straight-up love song. Fontaines DCs A Heros Death is out now via Partisan. Dogrel is out April 12th via Partisan Records pre-order the album here. The idea of becoming a citizen poet acquired this kind of glamour that we didnt have an equivalent of in this country. Thats a new thing. Theyre both from Dublin and theyre both very talented musicians. One star sign hopes to regain harmony in the workplace, while another should start looking after their own interests. What does it mean for music to have a Dublin accent? It just turned out to be another song about Ireland, of course. Yeah it was summer. What kind of narratives do the Irish working class talk about? The initials D.C. stand for "Dublin City". Chatten is the frontman of the Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C., recently described by NME as "the new heroes of the rock resurrection." The members of the group met while attending music college in Dublin and initially bonded over a shared love for Irish . After the summer holiday he would always return to school with some fresh injury incurred in some daring outdoor pursuit. He is currently engaged and has plans to get married in the summer of 2020. "Televised Mind" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 59 on the UK Singles Sales Chart Top 100. Ill tell you when a poems dead: when its in a book. Its like the most normal title ever. I think its about wanting to sort of go out and embrace London as an Irish person. Yeah exactly, its just got that beautiful sort of pain because when you love something youre basically giving it license to hurt you, and Dublin definitely has license to hurt me. A Hero's Death was later nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. Stay in the loop with the latest style news and get an exclusive 10% off when you subscribe to our emails. 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Terms and conditions apply. [38] Three further singles were released from the album: "I Don't Belong", "Televised Mind" and "A Lucid Dream". I wondered about these things going in and realized during our talk how much they all made sense. He thinks a lot about a lot of things, and when you're talking to him you see his thought process in the way he articulates his words and writes songs. I think Ive got great guilt about leaving Ireland in the state that its in. Recently I was in a pub with my da in my hometown and a fella came up to us outside the bar, outside the jacks (Irish slang for toilet) and he just turned around to us and he said Hey fellas do you need any advice? Its like if you have a sibling and one of the siblings is into art and the other sibling is into business, I think being in such close proximity with such differences, you become more aware of your differences, so in that sense youre inadvertently teaching each other things about yourselves. I think he must be really crying there. I used to laugh about it because I didnt feel it was important with all the movements in the world going on, but these things build up. He recounts how recently, Fontaines D.C.s drummer was in a London pub and overheard someone say, Theres a lot of fucking Irish people out there today. Shop now, Free standard delivery to United States. Like I dont think I know myself as well as my friends. Something went wrong, please try again later. I feel like the first time I fell in love was with a girl from a different country. I realized that that was an interesting place for me to go on the next record., The rest of the album took shape back in London during dreamy night sessions at the bands rehearsal space. He was born on Monday, August 9, 1993. Im typically a quite reserved, shy person. Stories play a big role in your songwriting. Shop now. [19][31][9] They played nine sets at SXSW 2019 over the course of five days, selling out venues, and count Gilla Band as a major influence.[27][32]. It was popularised by William McGonagall and later Ogden Nash. How could I resist, as a songwriter, the physical metaphor of looking across at a potential reflection of myself and my girlfriend in a few years to come and also vice versa, to see us as a reflection of them? Im sure I want to prove something to the people that inspire me who are often dead. With the Irish twist that you have, what do you think youre going to reveal to America that it doesnt already know about itself, as outsiders and non-Americans? Their third album Skinty Fia, released in 2022, became the band's first to reach number one on the Irish Albums Chart and UK Albums Chart. The Couple Across the Way Hed be able to explain it a lot better, but what it means to me is I think of Carlos as someone who battles sort of gloriously with his ego, which is being stroked and mutated over the last few years because were in a relatively sort of successful band. I think its him crying in real life because I dont think it makes any sense as a dramatic decision on his part as an actor. Because I happen to know fucking everything and then he looks at us as he says and I might not remember it in the morning. Thats exactly it. I think the lyrics are about almost like a perverse take on its compromise in a relationship sort of rendered as civility. She was an old woman, she was called Margaret Keane. So if we got back, theres an elephant in the room because we both know somethings not right. He then explained to his followers that the secret to gaining those followers was being committed to YouTube and loving what he does. Despite the four decades between them, Fontaines DC frontman Grian Chatten and longstanding punk poet John Cooper Clarke have much in common. Its partly because of figures like John, Grian says, that he thought he could make a career out of writing and performing in the first place. Thats a good question. After meeting while attending music college, and bonding over a common love of poetry, the band began self-releasing singles and performing live regularly, signing to Partisan Records in 2018. They were supposed to perform at the Glastonbury Festival in 2020;[33] This was going to be the festival's 50th anniversary but it had to be cancelled due to the increasing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. I recently married my soul mate in the middle of a pandemic. The teacher was Mr Malone, he was a tough guy. Learn more about our Privacy Policy here. He was born on August 9, 1993, in England. This amount will fund over 300,000 hot meals. That is a huge amount of food desperately needed by these people., All you need to know about Danielle Panabaker, Inside Aimee Challenors life, her husband and parents, Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patricks relationship, explained, photo of the ceremony alongside the caption, He posted a photo of the couple and attached the caption, Grian posted a video on 12th June 2016 stating, Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbars wife now? Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. I feel guilty for having left. I think its interesting in this world where its incredibly important to be good, it just makes it very, very alluring to write from the perspective of somebody who doesnt want to be good or doesnt feel the need to pretend to be good. He posted a photo of the couple and attached the caption: Its been 10 months since I proposed to my fiance, and the wedding is creeping up on us very fast. Im not going to name the country, but I think thats interesting because I definitely fell in love with the whole concept of that country and the difference of culture. Would you ever want people to tell your story like that, in the same way youre telling theirs? An intense, independent-minded conversationalist, he talks with staccato passion about art and music, class and politics, culture and creativity, fame and money, identity and integrity. I went to the library and got everything Edgar Allan Poe had ever written, then I started reading about his life and I discovered that this poet, Charles Baudelaire had put his own work to one side to translate the entire canon of Edgar Allan Poe into French. Thats what that song was. "Boys In The Better Land" did not enter the Flanders Ultratop Top 50, but charted as an extra tip on the Flanders Ultratop Bubbling Under chart. Mixing post-punk grooves and minimalist rock dynamics, they make music that tackles the big issues through the prism of personal experience. He and his friends began their journey in a place which became a city, but they all had their own individual bases as well. I felt, why not me? His family and relationship history, Who is Ovidio Guzmans wife? Carlos [OConnell], one of our guitarists wrote the lyrics and he wrote the main riff and everything like that. Grians second channel, Two Much Grian, currently has 283K subscribers. "A Lucid Dream" did not enter the Irish Singles Chart, but peaked at number 14 on the Irish Homegrown Top 20 chart. Im curious as to what that would even sound like. Their second record, 2020s A Heros Death, written mostly on tour, won the band rave reviews including from Rolling Stone and a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. You can follow Fontaines D.C. on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Im done!. Chatten thinks one of the reasons their songs have chimed so acutely is because there is nothing disingenuous about the way he writes. John Cooper Clarke, Lo and behold, it turned out to be another song about Ireland, he says. Follow Grian On: Twitter Instagram Quote Of The Day | Top 100 Quotes Grian Bio As PDF Also Listed In In Johns new memoir, theres a great passage about his early influences being Muhammed Ali and his mothers Womans Own magazine. [2][7] They bonded over a common love of poetry[8] and collectively released two collections of poetry, one called Vroom, inspired by the Beat poets (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg) and another called Winding, inspired by Irish poets (Patrick Kavanagh, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats). Grian and his wife had planned to travel a lot before getting married, but the coronavirus pandemic forced them to postpone those plans. Thats kind of what I was interested in. Grian thinks a lot. If she drops something, shed say, Ah, skinty fia. It roughly translates as the damnation of the deer. I dont know, it sounds like mutation and doom and inevitability and all these things that I felt were congruous to my idea of Irishness abroad. I am so lucky to have her in my life and I cant wait to be a husband and start a family with her,Grian wrote on the caption. I have such a profound connection with him. Theres got to be tension in order for it to be an interesting thing to write about. Yeah I think I do. Grian (real name: Charles Batchelor) is a British YouTuber who specializes in posting Minecraft gaming videos. In the past, Grian, youve spoken about how prolifically you were writing when working service industry jobs, and in Johns book you were constantly working by day and performing by night. And various menus and random lists. His friends Martyn, Timmy, LDShadowLady, NettyPlays, Tomahawk, Bigbst4tz2, Mini Muka, Taurtis and SystemZee started their journey together, with PearlescentMoon joining in later. I just wanted to kind of put myself in that position, in that song, to express how it feels to no longer have absolute independence and autonomy over your life, when you decide that you are in love and you want to share your life with someone. Chatten, who now resides in London with his fiancee, and has English relatives on his mother's side, says he was shocked to read about the family's story, following Mrs Keane's death in 2018, aged 73. Not that it cant survive fine without me, but I feel like Ive taken all this crap from it creatively, and then Ive just left. Its the only song in the album whose lyrics I didnt write. Skinty Fia is an expression that our drummers great auntie used to say. Do you feel the need to be romanticized? Its not unlicensed and its not impure. 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