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Fontaines D.C.: Love Without Limits
On their fourth album Romance, Fontaines D.C. are shedding their image as literary post-punks in favour of fantasy, love and extremity that defies over-analysis
“He was reading Ulysses to his baby, just for the craic, know what I mean?”
Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten is sitting in the living room of the flat he’s recently moved into, discussing a song from the band’s upcoming fourth album, Romance. The track in question is a swirling ballad draped in wistful strings and acoustic guitar called Horseness Is the Whatness, and it takes its name from a line in the James Joyce masterpiece.
Chatten is Fontaines’ primary lyricist, but the words for the song were penned by Carlos O’Connell, the band’s instantly recognisable pink-haired guitarist. O’Connell became enamoured with Joyce’s phrase while on holiday last summer with his baby daughter. He decided that whenever he read a book, he’d read it aloud with her. It’s a habit he’s curtailed since (she’s fond of ripping out pages) but for a couple of weeks on the French island of Île de Ré, she was calm. When we chat over the phone, O’Connell explains: “There’s this passage where [the novel’s protagonist] Leopold Bloom goes to the library and there are all these intellectual
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Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan to Score Shakespeare's <i>Richard III</i>
BY Greg PrattPublished May 10,
The play, being presented by theatre group Orkater, is premiering in Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, in September, and a group called the Sadists will be providing the tunes, which will consist of several Waits classics. Included will be "I'll Shoot the Moon," "I Don't Wanna Grow Up," "The Part You Throw Away," "Underground," "God's Away on Business," and "Misery Is the River of the World," among other Waits/Brennan compositions.
Orkater musical director Vincent van Warmerdam said in a press release that "just like Shakespeare did, Waits and Brennan incorporate poetry, provocation, seduction and irony in their songs. Their music illustrates, mirrors, and strengthens Richard's character."
The play runs from September 22 to October 12 in Amsterdam. Check out more info on Waits's website.
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