Apr 22, 2025
FONTAINES D.C. — Skinty Fia (22 April 2022)
"Skinty Fia” is an expression that our drummer’s great auntie used to say. She was an [...] exclusively Irish-speaking person. [...] It roughly translates as “the damnation of the deer.” I don’t 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. That’s skinty fia to me. That’s that mutation. That’s a new thing. It’s not unlicensed and it’s not impure. [...] It’s just a completely new beast. — Grian Chatten ☘︎
