Footage resurfaces of pre-fame Fontaines D.C. covering The Strokes’ ‘Reptilia’ in 2014

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Fontaines D.C., performing a cover of The Strokes‘ ‘Reptilia’ in 2014.The footage was shared on YouTube earlier this month by a channel that goes by the handle Fontaines D.C.

Archive, and shows the members performing at the BIMM Music Institute back in 2014.The band’s performance at the music school comes as the members were once students at the Dublin site, and graduated shortly before they signed to Partisan Records, which is also the home to IDLES, Cigarettes After Sex and many more.In the clip, which is just over four minutes long, frontman Grian Chatten is seen chatting with the audience as the band ease their way into a rendition of The Strokes’ 2003 classic ‘Reptilia’, which arrived on the ‘Room On Fire’ album.From there, a lively rendition of the track follows and the crowd begin singing along.

Chatten also takes a minute to lean into the audience and pull an audience member’s arms above his head to make him clap along.The gig was also discussed back in 2020, when BIMM shared an update on its website to celebrate the band hitting Number Two on the UK Albums Chart back in 2020, with their second album ‘A Hero’s Death’.In the recollection of the 2014 show, the organisers highlighted how the set was performed as part of “BIMM Dublin’s ‘Live & Lyrical’ gig in October”, and also saw the band play an early song they wrote called ‘The One In-Between’.“Immediately we were struck by their raw energy, charisma and post-punk sensibility,” Anne Marie Shields, Head of Careers, Industry Liaison and Events for BIMM Dublin explained in the update. “Over the next few years Fontaines D.C.