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BeatRoute Magazine AB Edition September 2019

BeatRoute Magazine is a monthly arts and entertainment paper with a predominant focus on music – local, independent or otherwise. The paper started in June 2004 and continues to provide a healthy dose of perversity while exercising rock ‘n’ roll ethics. Currently BeatRoute’s AB edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton (by S*A*R*G*E), Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120

BeatRoute Magazine is a monthly arts and entertainment paper with a predominant focus on music – local, independent or otherwise. The paper started in June 2004 and continues to provide a healthy dose of perversity while exercising rock ‘n’ roll ethics. Currently BeatRoute’s AB edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton (by S*A*R*G*E), Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120

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DANIEL TOPETE<br />

MUSiC CONCERT PREVIEWS<br />

FONTAINES D.C.<br />

k CONTINUED FROM PG. 13<br />

that resolutely pins the city’s heart to to<br />

the arch of the band’s sleeve.<br />

At nearly every corner, they debunk<br />

the reductive description that they’re<br />

a post-punk band. Task delegation and<br />

discipline is something the band think<br />

about often. Their ability to prevent<br />

their flair for experimentation from careening<br />

off a cliff is a calculated effort.<br />

FONTAINES D.C.<br />

Friday, Sept. 13<br />

“It’s important for us that every element, even if<br />

it’s a very simple element, is all necessary. The most<br />

important thing is to take yourself out, and to serve<br />

the song and not serve the musician,” he continues.<br />

While much of their music has been described as<br />

a clear-headed portrait of a specific moment in Dublin’s<br />

cultural history, Fontaines D.C. consider their<br />

method far less rigid. By relying on the mechanics of<br />

poetry to examine themes of frustration and disillusionment,<br />

gusto and joy, rather than crafting a love<br />

letter to their city, they’re more invested in writing<br />

an unedited state of the union signed off by those<br />

at the bottom.<br />

“We didn’t want to ignore any aspect of the place<br />

we lived in, and just tried to see the honesty in the<br />

place. A lot of the times those feelings weren’t necessarily<br />

unpleasant, but we didn’t want to brush it<br />

off. We wanted to understand them.”<br />

To illustrate this point, O’Connell recites the following<br />

line from Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue<br />

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Raincoat” from memory, and without<br />

missing a beat: “And thanks, for<br />

the trouble you took from her eyes / I<br />

thought it was there for good so I never<br />

tried.”<br />

“Those lyrics just speak to the value<br />

of ambiguity. The listener can place<br />

whoever they want in the role of the<br />

subject,” he says. “I think speaking of<br />

lyrics too much can be damaging to the song. The<br />

most important thing we have is our own interpretation<br />

of things.”<br />

In an era of cultural hyperspecificity, perhaps offering<br />

listeners the agency to define the contents of<br />

a song is more than a rejection of ego; it provides<br />

an opportunity to dismantle the long-held assumptions<br />

of who gets to be the protagonist in rock’s<br />

most legendary stories. In an interview with The<br />

Guardian, lead singer Grian Chatteren explained<br />

that one reading of “Boys in the Better Land” could<br />

be from the perspective of an ambiguous, multicultural<br />

taxi driver asserting his Irishness.<br />

“Most places more or less have the same broad,<br />

political backbone. It has its flaws, and there’s good<br />

things,” he finishes. “I suppose that’s part of the<br />

reason why it resonates with people: because even<br />

though they’re not from the same place that we got<br />

all that inspiration from, there’s a mirror image in<br />

all these different cities.” ,<br />

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14 BEATROUTE SEPTEMBER <strong>2019</strong>

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