Barry Keoghan stars in Fontaines D.C.’s new video for ‘Bug’
The video was directed by Andrea Arnold, and features footage from her upcoming film ‘Bird’, which heavily features the music of the Dublin band
Fontaines D.C. have shared a new video for their track ‘Bug’, starring Barry Keoghan.
The video was directed by Andrea Arnold and is comprised of footage from her upcoming Keoghan-starring film Bird, which heavily features the music of the Dublin band.
“I’ve loved the Fontaines since I first heard them,” Arnold said of the collaboration. “Some music just sits in your bones like it always belonged, like you know it already, like it’s part of you. It’s why I asked to use ‘Too Real’ and ‘A Hero’s Death’ for my Bird film. Their music felt like it belonged there. In my world.
The director added: “They were immediately generous in letting me use those tracks which was just fucking brilliant. That generosity brought energy which gets poured into the life of the film. I am grateful for all the positive energy that comes when you make a film. Extending the images and my Bird world for the ‘Bug’ track felt like the most natural thing in the world. Like part of the same thing. I wouldn’t have done it had I not felt that. And I would hardly do it for anyone.”
The band’s Carlos O’Connell added: “Andrea Arnold was kind enough to cut up a sequence to our tune ‘Bug’ featuring Barry Keoghan playing the character Bug in her new movie Bird. ‘Bug’’s a song that happened quickly and convinced everyone quicker.
“In my eyes, the character Bug, the tattoo “Bug’s Life”, Andrea’s essential & romantic worlds, and the line, ‘Changed my name to “Promise you, Yea”’; when put all together make convincing needless & conviction undeniable. Big thanks to Andrea Arnold for letting us in so close to her visionary universe. She’ll be remembered how we remember Bacon or Goya.”
‘Bug’ is taken from Fontaines’ fourth album, ROMANCE, which landed in August. In a five-star review, Rolling Stone UK said: “Fontaines D.C. have abandoned the serious for the fantastical, the tangible for the surreal. This new identity and successful quest for something, ahem, BIG, suits them down to the ground. They’re in a brilliant world, and indeed a league of their own.”
The band will take the album on a sold-out UK tour this month and their biggest show to date at London’s Finsbury Park next summer.
Andrea Arnold’s Bird hits cinemas on Friday (November 8).