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Fontaines D.C.

Irish rock band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Fontaines D.C. are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 2014. The band consists of Grian Chatten (vocals), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor "Deego" Deegan III (bass), Tom Coll (drums), and Carlos O'Connell (guitar).

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This entry incorporates text from Fontaines D.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.