Fontaines D.C. - Romance (August 23rd, 2024) Band • Page 4

yeah Monday night is a pretty wild night for gigging but I really don't wanna miss em

 

yeah, I’m seeing New Order on the Saturday (never seen!) and going to New Bloom Fest on Monday (never seen Basement, Balance & Composure and One Step Closer) - decided to see acts I’ve never seen this round. Lucky to have seen Fontaines twice in a week in 2023 lol

 

yeah I nearly got tickets for New Bloom that lineup is nuts. One Step Closer are so good

 

I’m publishing an interview with Jon Simmons from B&C this week last years festival was great but this year’s lineup is amazing

 

“I am the pig on the Chinese calendar”

 

Insane crossover event for me specifically!!

 

Holy shit! That's so awesome.

 

where are your record holders from? I dig those.

 

thank you! I love ‘em. If you or someone you know are crafty you can likely recreate them easy. I am not.

Props to my fav record store in Pittsburgh PA - The Government Center - for putting me onto them.

Flip Record Display Shelf

 

very very good

 

Speaking about the song, Conor Deegan III says: "It’s Amazing To Be Young is a song that was written in the presence of a newborn child - Carlos’ child. It sounded more like a lullaby or a music box then, but with the same lyric- “it’s amazing to be young”. The feeling of hope a child can give is profound and moving, especially for young men like us. That sense of wanting to create a world for them to grow up in happily. It’s a feeling that fights against the cynicism that can often overtake us in the modern world. So we wanted to declare which side we were on - it really is amazing to be young. We are still free, and want to make that feeling spread. We want to protect it for the others around us, and maybe in doing that, can also help protect it for ourselves.”

 

"It’s a feeling that fights against the cynicism that can often overtake us *in the modern world*"

 

That song kicks ass. Deluxe version incoming?

 

yeah just heard it and another gorgeous song, they can't miss in this era

I'm unsure if it was a Romance outtake or a newly written song but apparently it's coming out on vinyl with another new song on the b-side

 

This album rules

 

so fucking ready to see them on Monday

 

they were so fucking good man holy shit. these guys and shame, absolutely deadly combo

entire crowd doing the fast part of I Love You word for fucking word gave me chills

 

I know this is the Fontaines thread but this pic of Charlie from shame walking on the crowd is the coolest thing I've ever taken in my life

 

Fucking hate that band so props for making me enjoy a BMTH song I guess!

 

oh let's go

 

really into Before You I Just Forget, that's a tune right there