Rough Trade Bristol 30/6
Special night at Rough Trade Bristol on Friday evening as Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten played a stripped back, solo show to a sold out venue.
Grian was celebrating the release of his debut solo album Chaos For The Fly which dropped the same day. As well as new single ‘All Of The People’, the final track to be lifted from the album.
Written by the Fontaines D.C. frontman and co-produced alongside the band’s longstanding producer Dan Carey, “All Of The People” is a misanthropic exercise in catharsis which sees Chatten wrestling with his own faith in humanity.
Grian explains: “All of the people is the stiff collar tight-fisted hand to the grindstone written where all is blue and everyone is a liar. It is a line of chalk scratched around the world.”
The track arrives alongside a video directed by Sam Taylor, who previously directed the videos for Fontaines D.C’s “I Love You’”and “Roman Holiday”. Speaking of the video, Taylor explains: “Taking inspiration from Lars Von Trier, George Orwell, Billy Wilder, our film analyses loneliness, self-doubt then acceptance, appreciation and human connection. We hope it makes you cry happy/sad tears x”.
“All Of The People” is the final of four singles to be lifted from debut album ‘Chaos For The Fly’; following the widespread acclaim for “Last Time Every Time Forever”, “Fairlies’”and “The Score”.
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About Chaos For The Fly…
Thirty miles north of Dublin along a windswept promenade you’ll find a tired casino, the sort of place anyone familiar with the rusted seaside glamour of forgotten coastal towns will recognise. A now shuttered escape where the crack of pool balls and chink of glasses in the lounge bar reverberated within the ever-present whirr and jangle of slot machines. Unremarkable to some, perhaps, but it was where ‘Chaos For The Fly’ was born.
The album is the most poetic we’ve heard yet from Chatten. Songs such as the fingerpicking kiss-off of opener “The Score” or “Fairlies”’ wounded isolation present a heavily distilled vision that is heady in its strength and at times comes with a dark undertow.
