Fontaines D.C. end the ‘Romance’ era with eerie, dramatic live video for ‘Desire’
Fontaines D.C. have called an end to the ‘Romance‘ era with an eerie live video for ‘Desire’ – check it out below.
The ‘Romance’ era has seen them play huge outdoor shows at London’s Finsbury Park and Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park this summer, with Grian Chatten and co. wrapping up their run with a massive outdoor gig with Kneecap in Belfast on Friday (August 29).
They’ve now shared Aube Perrie-directed visuals for ‘Desire‘, marking the era’s conclusion with a series of discordant clips taken across the tour.
The bulk of the footage comes from their shows at London’s Alexandra Palace, and features the return of an ominous character decked out in a lime green balaclava and tracksuit who stalks the band, who Chatten previously portrayed in the ‘Starburster’ video.
Having wrapped up their last scheduled show on Friday (August 29), bassist Conor Deegan III took to Instagram to reflect on the tour, writing: “We left our romance in a 162 pieces with you- thank you for giving yours back to fill us up again, to the brim, and even up above the brim.”
Earlier this month, the band teamed up with mental health charity CALM to launch a new T-shirt for suicide prevention that featured the cover art from the band’s acclaimed fourth album. Forming part of CALM’s current ‘Lifelines’ campaign, the collaboration looked to raise vital funds and bring awareness to the suicide crisis in the UK.
It comes after Fontaines D.C. frontman Chatten opened up about suffering mental health issues while touring back in 2023, revealing that he had previously experienced “fits of anxiety and rage” in an interview with NME.
Previously, the Dublin band called for more mental health support for artists in the music industry struggling with the demands of touring.
In a four-star review of Fontaines D.C.’s show at Finsbury Park over the summer, NME hailed the set as a “surreal, powerful statement from future Glasto headliners”, and called them “the most important band of this decade”.
“The acid, neon and sci-fi of 2024’s ‘Romance’ is a world of its own,” it read. “As Amy Taylor of support act Amyl And The Sniffers puts it, “Fontaines, especially their last album, remind me of how it feels to be alive today, which is really fucking confusing”. She points specifically to the profound ‘Modern World’ as a soundtrack to these times of horror fatigue and livestreaming atrocities.
“That universe is reflected in today’s line-up and their actions – soulful, fierce and independent acts. The fight for Palestine dominates the day, not least from Kneecap (who Fontaines frontman Grian Chatten joins for the cutting polemic ‘Better Way To Live’) and it’s a cause shared by the flag-baring, freedom-calling crowd.”
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