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Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten Joins Pogues to Perform ‘Streams of Whiskey’

Fontaines D.C.'s Grian Chatten joined the Pogues to perform 'Streams of Whiskey' during their show in Dublin on Tuesday.

At a show that found a new generation of Irish rockers and even one rapper paying tribute to MacGowan and the band, a symbolic passing of the torch occurred when Grian Chatten, frontman of Fontaines D.C., emerged to take the lead on “Streams of Whiskey.” In light of MacGowan’s death in November 2023, from pneumonia at 65 after decades of hard living, the lyrics — “I have cursed, bled and sworn/Jumped bail and landed up in jail/Life has often tried to stretch me/But the rope always was slack” — were fitting too. As Finer told Rolling Stone UK, “That’s the amazing thing, these shows happened organically and it sort of became evident that Shane was there in spirit… I don’t think we’d have ever sat down and wondered if we thought we could do some gigs.

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