Fontaines D.C. - Boys In The Better Land (Hyundai Mercury Prize 2019)

[@peggypeg1298]

I can’t explain how happy I am to see these lads perform their music at the mercury prize, music written with influence from old traditional irish poetry and music, how proud would any Irish person feel singing these lyrics to a crowd of British people.. very proud

[@ratfinkmusic]

Amazing

[@Liamers95]

Class Band!!

[@Zezezeze69]

Absolutely, I'd jump at the opportunity to shout Brits at the BBC.

[@Gregorsnek]

S F you do realise that the song isn’t anti-british right? if anything it’s anti-irish

[@Zezezeze69]

@@Gregorsnek does that some how change the fact that an Irish man sings "brits out" on the BBC? Plus, how exactly is the song anti-Irish? In what interview have any of them said that?

[@cjsilvestremusic]

This was where I discovered Fontaines D.C. ! Just looking back again at the fateful day I discovered their wonderful music! They've gone so far! Lovin' Skinty Fia!!!

[@Matthew-dn6ss]

same! always come back to this video, great band

[@fish5215]

Saw these guys with IDLES. So cool to see them getting some more acknowledgement!

[@Lunaticaceleste]

That must have been stunning!!! They're two of my new favourite bands since I discovered them in the last year. Both are huge!!! 💯

[@mellebellebo]

wow. that is an amazing lineup. My two favourite bands and has been for 2 years.

[@d1neoinly]

"Spits out, Brits out (in England 🤣) only smokes Carrolls." G'WAN THE LADS. UP THE DUBS 💙

[@Iwerzon1]

Up the Toun!!!!

[@JezzaGer]

The Brits are there to stay!! Ulster is and always will be part of the UK

[@jamesoloughlin8268]

@@JezzaGer shhhhhhhg

[@JezzaGer]

@@jamesoloughlin8268 Pardon? Only understand English I'm afraid...

[@jamesoloughlin8268]

@@JezzaGer cunas

[@KieranDacey]

Brilliant all festival season loving this punk rock n roll revival thing. Lots of great raw bands this year x

[@herointhemaking2057]

And they all suck

[@kai-qq1ie]

@@herointhemaking2057 who's bad?

[@caseylewis8768]

Ahh its someone who doesn't know a goddamn thing about music? Go read a blog or "screen " zine you poser?

[@caseylewis8768]

Don't mind filth like him. Fontaines are awesome as fuck. Your a rebel for listening to this self-deemed "rebel's" hate for what he deems "True Punk"? Stupid...

[@douchebag2019]

Shades of Ian Curtis crossed with Mark E Smith

[@thomasdavies9886]

Have to win, great band, great album!!

[@oliver_davies08]

This is mixed so well

[@klausrain111]

The singer, great voice and lyrics, sweetness about him, handsome healthy strapping lad. Chicks be trippin at 2:43, thinkin we need to draw straws on this one. Only fair way to do it. Otherwise we'll rip each other to shreds. One of us will be the lucky.

[@SamAshbrook]

Best album

[@archiet2205]

Wow. This performance is spine tingling. It is powerful and in your face of course but there’s more to it than that, an almost shifting in the tides, a kind of change, one feels, in which the very forms of rock music are based and performed. Reminiscent of The Who or early Oasis. Not only this but I also feel it somewhat embarrassing as a Brit that an Irish band is coming over from across the water, showing up and smashing this out, blowing any British guitar bands out of the water in every department. Whilst I’m writing this a few years after this was performed I truly believe there is still so much to come from this band in terms of music and their writing but also the influence that they can exert onto up and coming bands coming through or any aspiring young song writers. Exciting stuff.

[@duckman1863]

i mean, black midi played, they're british and were incredible

[@archiet2205]

@@duckman1863 this is leagues above black midi imo. Pure, raw energy

[@duckman1863]

@@archiet2205 I mean their bmbmbm performance was insane, the guitarist literally did a backflip, their performance wasn't as raw yes, but it was tight, concentrated bursts of pure rage and energy

[@breadonyourbed3761]

@@archiet2205sorry i gotta disagree

[@sharpener1324]

always love deego's shirt choices

[@robertcolinogilvie8132]

LOVE THIS SO MUCH ITS AMAZING.. PURE BANGN

[@ryanheyworth9359]

If I was in that crowd I would have gone absolutely mental. Being thrown out would've been worth it

[@martinmcdonald4207]

Is that a good or bad night!?

[@ryanheyworth9359]

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[@Liamers95]

Still ridiculously good.

[@nickgooner8021]

See you in Amsterdam, fantastic band!

[@opioverde]

Ganaron mi ❤️ el premio ni lo necesitábamos

[@Tinkerbelle610]

Real music.

[@JMlover641]

Love love love

[@MB-wk4sb]

you better hear it and fear it... yer that's the spirit.

[@highwireman2012]

Absolutely. Fucking. Perfect. Absolutely brilliant.

[@BarronVonSchnoot]

Image is everything.

[@jaxh6031]

You're not alive until you start kicking When the room is spinning and the words aren't sticking And the radio's all about a runaway model With a face like sin and a heart like a James Joyce novel Saying sister, sister how I missed ya, missed ya Let's go wrist to wrist and take the skin off of my blister If you're a rock star, porn star, superstar Doesn't matter what you are Get yourself a good car, get out of here But the boys in the better land You're always talking 'bout the boys in the better land The boys in the better land But the boys in the better land You're always talking about the boys in the better land The boys in the better land Driver's got names to fill two double-barrells He spits out "Brits out!", only smokes Carroll's And he's refreshing the world in mind, body and spirit Mind, body and spirit, you'd better hear it and fear it Oh that's the spirit Saying sister, sister how I missed ya, missed ya Let's go wrist to wrist and take the skin off of my blister If you're a rock star, porn star, superstar Doesn't matter what you are Get yourself a good car, get out of here Yeah But the boys in the better land You're always talking about the boys in the better land The boys in the better land But the boys in the better land You're always talking about the boys in the better land The boys in the better land The driver's got names to fill two double barrels He spits out "Brits out!", only smokes Carroll's And he's refreshing the world in mind, body and spirit Mind, body and spirit, you'd better hear it and fear it Ah that's the spirit Saying sister, sister how I missed ya, missed ya Let's go wrist to wrist and take the skin off of my blister If you're a rock star, porn star, superstar Doesn't matter what you are Get yourself a good car, get out of here Yeah But the boys in the better land You're always talking about the boys in the better land The boys in the better land But the boys in the better land You're always talking about those boys in the better land The boys in the better land

[@missunique65]

Madly bestly

[@p.art4705]

Who are they? They are so good!!! Why am I discovering them just now??????

[@stannats2637]

Proper frontman -

[@Lunaticaceleste]

More than just proper!!!

[@martinmcdonald4207]

Right now in July 2023 just after the release of Grian Chatten`s first solo album one could easily see the world is his oyster. In high insight it all makes perfect sense. Viva Grian Chatten and Fontaines DC on their 4th album....No Pressure!

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Nice bit of headbanging, at the champagne table, at 03.23

[@ahlads]

How this only has 116k views is beyond me

[@diamondseeds2107]

How they are not dancing on the fucking tables is beyond me!

[@fergusscott9762]

THE BOYS IN THE BETTER LAND

[@iamnotanumber100]

Fergus Scott the boys from the best land 🤘

[@clementecontreras7944]

the singer reminds me of Ian Curtis and I don't know if that's a good thing or not

[@arseniy1329]

Clemente Contreras I guess you could call it a mix. Musically that’s a good thing but personality wise that’s not such a good thing lol

[@LL-uw6sm]

Its a good thing

[@pleiades250]

literally what i was thinking!! this sounds like joy division, maybe bc the vocals are a bit muffled too

[@tonybrereton7863]

Brilliant

[@crm2507777]

Really good 👍

[@alexbalam6120]

Bandototota! 🙂💗

[@TheKingmonkey1974]

Welcome to something good

[@thesilverlinesuk]

Listen to my band

[@HumansFreshlyBorn]

Ramones 2: This time it’s personal

[@clancychester9415]

Don’t crucify me but does the main man bring about Mark E Smith vibes to anyone else?

[@pavelmakarov207]

I won't, cause he clearly does

[@DaveTricks_]

Pretty sure maek e smith wouldn't have anything to do with this corporate sham

[@carmenponce5227]

@@DaveTricks_ how are they a corporate sham?

[@ReggaeSpeedway]

Dave Tricks interesting take, don’t agree at all though

[@DaveTricks_]

@@carmenponce5227 i was referring to the mercury music prize... excuse me.. the hyundai mercury music prize

[@shawlockyer6629]

Mint condition 👌

[@jasonbennett5279]

see you in Sheffield next month ;-)

[@jakayboy]

oh look an actual band. amazing bravo!

[@elais1828]

we get it dude, you hate bm. and no one gives a singular fuck about your opinion. just let people listen to whatever they want to, without getting in their face about listening to "literal garbage modern art". Music is subjective.

[@jakayboy]

@@elais1828 shut up commie, go subvert your own ability to breathe and leave art alone

[@elais1828]

@@jakayboy welp, there you go. proved my point, fucknut.

[@jakayboy]

@@elais1828 welp more often. you should always feel bad

[@HoaxEditz]

@@jakayboy calls someone a commie but has a Japanese name as their profile ??? Adds up

[@garyjohnson9459]

2021 version of The Fall.

[@leafkiller551]

I hear Gang of Four and Stranglers

[@RequiemVaccaro]

19年也太嫩了吧天呢

[@veggie42]

Doesn’t he sound like late Mark E Smith off The Fall?

[@multivox_musik]

Not really. Looks like Ian Curtis though.

[@fooman65]

Shouting out for backing vox guys

[@gravesend46]

Head and shoulders above everyone else. Should have won by a distance.

[@yann-claudephilippot1204]

I noted that you are saying that for all performances, you sexy troll

[@iamnotanumber100]

👏👏👏👏 yup.

[@gravesend46]

@@yann-claudephilippot1204 Really? You must send me a link as to where I have?

[@blozo]

the riff is a sped up Wild Thing you make my heart sing

[@SpeedDemon908]

blozo chords get re used, there were probably a billion songs with that exact riff written between wild thing and this

[@fionnmacnamara4738]

You've said that a couple times but they're really not. Wild Thing is A D E D..

[@joeyjoey98]

Wrong crowd? Seemed like they were more looking for a Jooles Holland serenade 🙂. Would have gone down a treat in Vicar st or Olympia or even Aviva!!!

[@JVDetmer]

And who the fuck are they? Thanks BBC!!! They're amazing!

[@martinmcdonald4207]

`Boys in the Better Land` even the pretty girls get it. How un PC is that. I don`t care, it`s only Rock n Roll and i like it.

[@maryaquintanaernst293]

cinta bangedddddth

[@mohdzaidi6191]

cinta sama kamo

[@hazrel]

Ayooo kita seru Fontaines DC datang ke Asia Tenggara!

[@matthewthomas8091]

Need an ID on that t-shirt...

[@methinksilikecake]

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

[@matthewthomas8091]

methinksilikecake I need one desperately now!

[@anthonykey9706]

Is that a nick cave or Nicholas cage t shirt?! Either way great tune and exciting band

[@MrPat2210]

First time I thought it was "The boys in the Bettola"

[@xXDeeplyInLovexD]

The lead singer looks like a young Damon Albarn

[@lowyaw]

the intro sounds like Spank Thru

[@tommyrandall3489]

Change the E to a G and it is the same riff.

[@marlbarat3430]

the mekons?

[@quentinsummers2531]

Sounds a lot like cheap beer by fidlar.

[@vibes6326]

noticed this the other day, suppose it's in a completely different context though

[@quentinsummers2531]

@@vibes6326 what do you mean?

[@doctropical7324]

Gloria by them, same chords but it’s aloud I think they do it very well

[@quentinsummers2531]

@@doctropical7324 the melody is also the same

[@michaelniner98]

The only good thing to come from this years Mercury Prize. Only band who deserved the prize.

[@marines.7022]

Idles

[@horselookinghumanheadass]

black midi and slowthai too

[@michaelniner98]

In my opinion those guys don’t come close to Fontaine’s but that’s just my opinion if you guys feel different that’s fair enough

[@horselookinghumanheadass]

@@michaelniner98 Did you listen to Nothing Great About Britain (Slowthai) or Schlagenheim (Black Midi)? Musically those were much bigger achievements. Totally understand the lyrical angle though, Fontaines are definitely a unique voice but I would say that the other two topped them in terms of making a more interesting record sonically.

[@smoshbooz]

@@horselookinghumanheadass absolutely. Fontaines doesn't come close musically. "Simple" repetitive riffs and lyrics are fun and peppy but are not really comparable

[@emanuelleyzaola8825]

fucking youtube stop playin this song for me !!!

[@edsharp2676]

That guitar riff is weirdly close to a vampire week song

[@blozo]

its wild thing sped up

[@BloomPool]

it's those 4 chords that are in every song really! Check out lightning bolt by Jake Bugg

[@edsharp2676]

@@blozo I was thinking cousins

[@Warsawa75]

Gloria!!!!

[@frankschalk7790]

Mark E. smith called from beyond the grave, he intends to sue

[@sidplimmer9536]

fuck mark e smith

[@alasdairsutherland1442]

The fact that these didn't win shows the depressing state of music

[@jakayboy]

yes 100%

[@willcook1071]

Or idles

[@etinthecreek]

Alasdair Sutherland heard this all before, the band has its place in their scene but its nothing exciting or new is it. at least cate le bon and midi have some original feeling to them. dave deserved to win anyway

[@etinthecreek]

Daniel Thomson cos that album is way more contextually relevant not only in sound but also content. these lads are cool but pay attention

[@finnantobin]

@@etinthecreek Depends on the context. From the Irish perspective this album was far more relevant than Dave's.

[@ImTheDudeMan471]

I'm hearing the 2019 version of Joy Division, no? Or am I just nuts?

[@scozc1]

You're nit nuts lol

[@xx-ug9hn]

Isit too real Fer ya

[@jasonladd6400]

Better than the rap shite that won.

[@f4freddie]

At last - something vaguely melodic!

[@diskid3644]

didn’t mind this, but don’t think his voice competes with idles

[@alasdairsutherland1442]

Literally every aspect of this overshadows idles imo

[@piggystardust]

Great band, bad crowd.

[@meganc4760]

Lead singer reminds me of a young Liam Gallagher

[@ahlads]

Oh please no

[@luka3679]

What a fucking pity....

[@999Dixon999]

I saw Fontaine’s D.C support Shame last year and they were pretty mediocre and looked like they couldn’t be arsed to perform, I don’t think they won many fans that day

[@flaherty5090]

You kidding, I saw them at that shame gig and I've been a fan since.

[@999Dixon999]

falafel 544 no not kidding, I thought they were a bit of a let down in terms of live performance as I like their tracks and was looking forward to seeing them live, i’m not saying I don’t like their music just they are average as a live band

[@bmcg8888]

@@999Dixon999 nah man seen them in Amsterdam in June they were immense Dutch crowd was going wild

[@keasyman]

Bit of a Curtis/E Smith wannabe eh?

[@MrBooHoo1234]

keasy man let the man have his influences aye

[@multivox_musik]

More Curtis

[@JoeAndNickgs]

I get that’s it an anti colonialist thing, which is awesome, but I can’t help but think that it sounds like a poor man’s Vibrators.. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I have nothing against these guys though, I just don’t understand the hype, it’s good but it’s exceptionally average ✌️💕

[@ahlads]

They are not anti colonialist Jesus wept

[@lukedoyle7802]

Cause your stupid

[@franzbeck3177]

very over rated band. nothing special here

[@shockwave113]

franz beck interesting opinion, how so ?

[@franzbeck3177]

time will tell, thats how so. all this popularity has been built by the irish media and being funded by the irish government. why?? I dont know one person that could tell why they received so much backing, but they did. then they receive this mercury music nomination.....great stuff.....more promotion is what that is....nothin else. Lets remember getting the nod for this nomination was also backed by the very same folk that pushed them onto the masses via irish radio, tv etc etc. They had the backing from their university days....made the right connections......it was not down to their music. Sales for their debut album also suggest nothing special. Remember the band The Thrills??? Put these guys in the same bracket as them.

[@libertycaps666]

@@franzbeck3177 perks of going bimm same crack with the murder capital..

[@franzbeck3177]

Yes, another very poor band that are getting the push. Its fascinating how a good chunk of the public will fall for the media's favourites. These fontaines guys are a different breed altogether....they play shite music and write absolute garbage lyrics that dont make any sense whatsoever. They cant even structure a song correctly with lyrics. They say on one of their song's.....Dublin is a pregnant city with a catholic mind......maybe so if it was 1970......Dublin and Ireland today.....are far from a catholic mind I can assure you of that

[@shockwave113]

what backing have they got from the irish media though? Fair enough, Ill admit i discovered them after their appearance on the jimmy fallon show which I do find peculiar how they ended up on it but I havent seen much of them on Irish media, havent heard them on irish radio yet and what the fuck is that garbage about being funded by the government?

[@bleedlejuice]

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