In Paredes de Coura with Fontaines DC, the big band became a big band | Music

The last day of Vodafone Paredes de Coura was also the day of the biggest flood of this edition of the festival. The guarantee given by the organization hours before could be verified by the empirical observation that, a few moments before Fontaines DC, perhaps one of the most interesting bands making rock music today (or post-punk, or post-punk with gothic features, or whatever you want to call it), occupied the main stage – where we would be able to see the flag of Palestine as soon as the lights came on. Everyone wanted to see the Irish band that had announced only five years ago in the first song of their first album: “My childhood was small/ But I will be big“. The singer Grian Chatten was not autobiographical when he wrote that verse – bigAs the band has long made clear, it looks at the unhealthy aspects of over-ambition – but in any case, whether the group is emotionally ready for it or not, the prophecy has come true.