Fashion: Mr Grian Chatten On Music, Insomnia And Irish Identity

The worst thing anyone could say to Mr Grian Chatten is that he’s not really Irish. As frontman and chief lyricist of the Dublin post-punk quintet Fontaines D.C., Chatten has channelled life growing up in Ireland into his band’s music, songs that take in themes of mental health, corrupt governments, religion and community. In many ways, his country defines him, as a songwriter, as an artist and as a person. But the singer was born in Barrow-In-Furness in the north of England. He moved to Ireland at the grand old age of one month and if someone said that meant he wasn’t truly of the Emerald Isle, Chatten would be broken. “It would hurt me a lot because I draw so much from it,” he says over Zoom from his flat in Kentish Town, north London. “It would invalidate me.”

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