Ahead of their 2025 Australian tour, Irish post- punk band Fontaines D.C. have unveiled the music video for their latest single, Bug.
Taken from their most recent album, Romance, the track is a melodic, alt-rock gem. The video, directed by acclaimed English filmmaker Andrea Arnold features footage from her upcoming film, Bird. The film, which stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski and Fontaines’ own Carlos O’Connell is due for release on November 8.
Arnold, a long time fan of the band, explains, “I’ve loved Fontaines since I first heard them. Some music just sits in your bones like it always belonged. It’s why I asked to use ‘Too Real’ and ‘A Hero’s Death’ in Bird. Their music felt like it belonged there, in my world.”
She 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.”
On Bug, Arnold said, “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.”
O’Connell commented: “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’ is a song that happened quickly and convinced everyone quicker. In my eyes, the character Bug, the tattoo ‘Bug’s Life’, Andrea’s essential and 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.”
Bird is Arnold’s fifth feature film, following 2016’s American Honey. It is due for release in Australian cinemas on February 20, 2025. Fontaines D.C. are currently touring Europe and will arrive in Australia in February. Their tour includes shows at Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong and Golden Plains in Victoria.
Watch the music video below.
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