Fontaines D.C. have shared a music video for ‘Bug’, a track from their new album Romance. The clip was directed by English filmmaker Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank), whose new movie Bird comes out this Friday, November 8. The film stars Barry Keoghan as well as Fontaines D.C.’s own Carlos O’Connell; the music video is billed as “a shortform reimagination” of the film and features unseen footage exclusive to it. Watch it below.
“I’ve loved the Fontaine’s since I first heard them,” Arnold said in a statement. “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. 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.”
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.
