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In light of Curley finally appearing on lead vocals on a Fontaines track, singing Sundowner, here’s a performance that made me mad in lockdown: Curley doing a solo at-home performance of Roy’s Tune acoustic in 2020 for Rolling Stone France.

almost unfair when Roy’s Tune comes in on the headphones with no warning. What do you want me to do, sob on the walk home?

Boys In The Better Land. An ace up a really good band’s sleeve! This one always gets a crowd going, although as the opener for Arctic Monkeys, a lot of people didn’t really know Fontaines, but I could see that a lot of them left as brand new Fontaines D.C. fans anyway. They’re so good!

I can think of quite a few people who will enjoy this: Grian doing a quick read of the excellent second verse of Too Real by Fontaines D.C. Even in a casual read, his diction is so good.

The winter evening settles down The bruised and beat up open sky Six o'clock The city in its final dress And now a gusty shower wraps the grimy scraps Of withered leaves all about your feet And then the ringing of a twitching hand Six o'clock, six o'clock

(As pointed out by the comments—because I won't claim to have as vast a knowledge of poetry, though I wish I did!—it's inspired by the T.S. Eliot poem Preludes)

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

Liberty Belle is such a top-notch song

You’d think “to know you is to love you, and I love you even still” was poetry, and you’d be right