Fontaines DC: 'There was a longing for home'

Fontaines DC have completed work on their second album. Here, the Dublin five-piece speak with Ed Power about the recording process and life under lockdown

Fontaines DC. 'It’s just shocking that the political parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, have gotten away with ignoring the signal for change that was given in the election result.' Picture: Ellius Grace

In early March, as Ireland hurtled towards the unknown, Fontaines DC played their final full concert before the shutdown. 

They barnstormed through a headliner set at the Rock Against Homelessness night at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, pushing past the exhaustion of 18 months of almost constant touring.