Fontaines D.C. are “the perfect band on the market in the mean time”

Elton John has declared that Fontaines D.C. are “the perfect band on the market in the mean time”.

The pop icon made the assertion in the course of the band’s look on his Rocket Hour present on Apple Music this week, the place he performed an interview with Fontaines frontman Grian Chatten.

“Having watched you at Glastonbury, having heard the brand new album, you’ve simply grown each album,” John informed Chatten. “You appear to have discovered your toes with this album in such a giant manner…it’s a superb document.”

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The reward continued, with the ‘Your Track’ singer including: “I believe this album takes you – and I’ve been round for a very long time – to a special stage, and it’s going to remain round for a protracted, very long time. However what’s extra vital about it: the music is de facto, actually, actually particular. Congratulations on every thing, Grian. It’s bloody fantastic.”

The band had been attributable to start their US tour yesterday (September 20) in Seattle, however they had been pressured to cancel the opening present after Chatten got here down with “some sort of flu”. The frontman apologised for the inconvenience, however stated enjoying would danger vocal damage.

The tour is about to wrap up on October 20 in Philadelphia, and New York indie rockers and NME Cowl alumni Been Stellar are opening in any respect dates. You may visit here to purchase any remaining tickets.

Fontaines’ fourth album ‘Romance’ was launched final month, their first with new label XL Recordings. In a glowing five-star evaluate of the James Ford-produced document, NME shared: “‘Romance’ provides moments of surprise and gravity whereas additionally feeling sometimes foreboding.”

With the course of the album, the band had been clear that they wished to implement a definite transfer away from the rockier sound on their debut album, ‘Dogrel’.

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Chatting with NME in regards to the new document and explaining what the members had been hoping to realize, Chatten recalled how they actively wished to shock followers with their new course.

“To be creatively understood by too many individuals seems like flies settling throughout your garments and throughout your face. Each every so often you must fucking shake them off, simply to see who you're once more. That’s what we wished to do,” he stated.

“We spoke rather a lot about visible references, movies and stuff like that. I’m not even messing, however we used to discuss: ‘What sort of climate is it on this tune?’ We may meet on a plain that didn’t have something to do with music, preparations or devices. It’s extra about abstractly attending to the best place. I believe it’s extra fascinating to work in that why since you’re at much less hazard of sounding contrived or unoriginal.”

Later this 12 months, Chatten and co. will embark on their 2024 UK and Eire headline tour, which is about to happen in November and December. That stint contains two nights at Alexandra Palace within the capital.

The group additionally just lately unveiled information of an enormous out of doors present at London’s Finsbury Park, attributable to happen on Saturday July 5, 2025. It can mark the Irish band’s largest headline efficiency to this point, with assist coming from Amyl And The Sniffers and Kneecap. Discover remaining tickets to their exhibits here.

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In different information, the band just lately stated that they “couldn’t actually give a shit” in regards to the Oasis reunion. Liam Gallagher later reacted, taking to X/Twitter to answer a fan who requested if the band can be thought of as a gap act for the Oasis tour. “Fuck them little spunkbubbles I’ve seen higher dressed ROADIES,” he stated.

“They seem like a shit EMF,” he added in a separate tweet, in addition to responding to a different fan who forwarded a clip from the interview over. “State of em,” he wrote.

Elton, in the meantime, has stated just lately he would like to collaborate with Taylor Swift, Charli XCX and Billie Eilish, describing the previous because the “largest phenomenon” since The Beatles.

It was additionally introduced that the pop legend’s upcoming documentary movie By no means Too Late might be coming to Disney+ this December.

The movie follows the musician as he displays on his life and 50-year profession as he ready for his remaining North American stadium present at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium in November 2022, which was additionally livestreamed on Disney+.

Elton additionally revealed that he has been coping with a “extreme eye an infection” that has left him with “restricted imaginative and prescient” in one in all his eyes. “I'm therapeutic, but it surely’s a particularly sluggish course of and it'll take a while earlier than sight returns to the impacted eye,” he wrote in a social media assertion.