FONTAINES D.C. // CONCORDE 2, BRIGHTON
Boisterous Irish Post-Punk blasts Brighton’s sold out Concorde 2 show!
FONTAINES D.C. PERFORMING AT CONCORDE 2 , BRIGHTON - 28.11.2019
PICTURE BY: | MICHAEL HUNDERTMARK PHOTOGRAPHY
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5)
Anticipation was already high the last few months for Fontaines D.C to return to Brighton to a long sold out show at the Concorde 2 with the band already having an explosive touring stint behind them.
Fontaines D.C are a Post-Punk rock band from Dublin in Ireland. They have released their debut Album ‘Dogrel ‘in April this year which is a winner of Album of the year from both Rough Trade and BBC 6 music. The Dublin five piece has been busy enticing audiences across the country and Europe this year. Their atmospheric post punk soundscapes have garage rock urgency, and come overlaid with expressive poetic lyrics, delivered with considerable implementation and rule, in an unmistakable Irish brogue by frontman Grian Chatten. The band got their name from a character in the movie ‘The Godfather’ called Johnny Fontane. They added the initials D.C., when a band in Los Angles had the same name with D.C standing for Dublin City!
With a darker rock n’ rockability start to the evening, with no obvious choice as an opener, as the Concorde 2 already filled up quickly to capacity in anticipation for ‘Fontaines D.C’ set!
Warm Drag are a two piece stemming from Los Angeles consisting of singer Vashti Windish and Paul Quattrone, who has just finished touring in May, playing drums for ‘ Oh Sees’ in Europe! Reminiscent to early ‘Xmal Deutschland’, Vashti Windish moans and sashays across the stage with her blond curly hair in a leather clad cat suit to the opener ‘The Wanderer’. Warm Drag are not afraid of intense noise and distortion, already gaining a reputation with their loud shows at shows, Quattrone mixes the samples with his Roland keyboard to a stylish, sexy subterranean sound!
Fontaines D.C take to the stage with a huge cheer from the mixed Audience, straight into the darker ‘Hurricane Laughter’, prowling the stage from side to side in an agitated style. Grian Chatten has the punters gripped with his refreshing Dublin accent and lyrics often delivered in a poetic style. Overall the set is boisterous with the fans bouncing all over the floor with green and blue flashes of lighting.
Everything calms down briefly for a more powerful, melancholy, but sad song ‘Roy’s Tune’ and the ‘Dublin City Sky’, a more traditional Dublin Folk-style song The quality and songs are diverse and powerful, with everyone launching into a reckless dancing to the finale of ‘Big’. A perfect end to a bullish, crowd energising evening, with Grain’s only words to the audience, ”thanks for coming,. We don’t do encores..!
SETLIST: | FONTAINES D.C.: CONCORDE 2, BRIGHTON – 28.11.19
Hurricane Laughter
Chequeless Reckless
Love Is the Main Thing
Sha Sha Sha
Lucid Dream
Television Screens
The Lotts
Roy’s Tune
Too Real
Liberty Belle
Boys in the Better Land
Dublin City Sky
Big