Apr 22, 2025
FONTAINES D.C. β Skinty Fia (22 April 2022)
"Skinty Fiaβ is an expression that our drummerβs great auntie used to say. She was an [...] exclusively Irish-speaking person. [...] It roughly translates as βthe damnation of the deer.β I donβt know, it sounds like mutation and doom and inevitability and all these things that I felt were congruous to my idea of Irishness abroad. Like if you go to Boston, that expression of Irishness. Thatβs skinty fia to me. Thatβs that mutation. Thatβs a new thing. Itβs not unlicensed and itβs not impure. [...] Itβs just a completely new beast. ββ Grian Chatten βοΈ
