Dopamine Chamber is the sound of Fontaines DC becoming megastars. Is bigger always better?
The Irish band’s new album lacks the poetic intimacy and postpunk punch so long a feature of Fontaines at their best
Carlos O’Connell
Musician
Fontaines DC: ‘We just hang out with ourselves and don’t really interact as much with other people’
Conor Deegan and Tom Coll on Dopamine Chamber, which the band’s lead singer, Grian Chatten, says needed to be a ‘catastrophic warning’
Mary McAleese and Fontaines D.C. among beneficiaries of artists’ tax exemption
Scheme allows artists to earn up to € 50,000 a year on creative work free of tax
Erin Go Bragh: A short history of Irish Olympic protest
From flagpole protests in 1906 to a defrocked priest disrupting the marathon in 2004
Mercury Prize 2019: Can Fontaines DC win in a year of protest music?
The Dublin band could be first Irish act to win the Mercury
New artist of the week: Fontaines D.C.
Rock’n’roll garage music with a Dublin twist. Plus: Francis & the Lights; The Streets
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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