Fontaines D.C

with special guest Been Stellar

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Fontaines D.C

Dublin five-piece Fontaines D.C. have strong ties to their native city, which they translate into abrasive vocals and driving percussion with a healthy dose of melody. Debuting in 2019, the group rose quickly to international success, evolving their sound on 2020's A Hero's Death. Their third album, 2022's Skinty Fia, topped the charts in the U.K., Ireland, and Scotland. Romance arrived in 2024, heralded by the single "Starburster."

All five members of the band met while attending Dublin City Music College. Grian Chatten (vocals), Conor Deegan III (bass), Conor Curley (guitar), Carlos O'Connell (guitar), and Tom Coll (drums) attended the same class, and gravitated toward each other in the first few months. They had all previously been in other bands, but their chemistry together as musicians persuaded them to leave their former groups and form the Fontaines. They named themselves after a character from The Godfather, but were soon legally challenged by a band from L.A. with the same name; as a result, they added D.C., which stands for Dublin City. They organized their first tour in 2017 after the release of their debut single, "Hurricane Laughter." Doors soon began opening for them, and their live reputation grew. The following year saw three more singles, "Boys in the Better Land," "Chequeless Reckless," and "Too Real," all of which were featured on the group's Dan Carey-produced debut album, 2019's Dogrel.

Working quickly, Fontaines began writing a follow-up just six months after the release of their debut, decamping to Los Angeles to record A Hero's Death. Produced once again by Carey and released in July 2020, it made the Top Ten on a number of prominent charts and netted the band a Grammy Award nomination in the U.S. It also marked an evolution in the band's sound by featuring more prominent vocal harmonies and psychedelic elements

Been Stellar

Been Stellar is what you get when you leave the youth alone in a metropolis; they grow up. They make noise. Their songs are formed and lived somewhere on Broadway, on Hester, on 34th, in Union Square, on the bridge, in the gutter, and under your shoe. The trivial street scenes lipsticked by well-loved decades are fully recognized in Been Stellar’s hail of guitar tones and insistent lyrical earnesty. Crackly, bright and distorted - stories of violence, love, and a new, un-glamorous, New York City. 
 Hailing from the suburbs of Detroit, the beaches of Los Angeles, and Brazil by way of Sydney, Nando Dale (guitar), Laila Wayans (drums), Sam Slocum (vocals), Nico Brunstein (bass) and Skyler St. Marks (guitar) have positioned themselves at the glimmering rotten center of tonight’s rock and roll. Each member so distinctly themselves, it must be assumed that such a diverse and unlikely gang were drawn tight together in their first year of university by nothing short of serendipitous fortune and a shared, waggish sense of humor. 
 They are a band of friends - sharing, crying, fighting, and kissing- wreaking havoc together and laughing like how only the jaunty youth can afford to. Been Stellar’s arrangements come textured, swooping - pushing past you at a downtown pace and off to find a better night. The songs are of their own time and space, offering a New York City - Been Stellar’s New York City - the sounds of growing up young.