Watch Fontaines D.C.’s woozy cover of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Say Yes To Heaven’

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Fontaines D.C. have performed a reimagined cover of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Say Yes To Heaven’ in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge – check out footage below.The Dublin band delivered their woozy rendition of the US singer-songwriter’s 2023 track while appearing in the Radio 1 studio on Wednesday (October 2) for Live Lounge Month.The cover comes just over a year since Del Rey officially dropped the song herself.

Recorded back in 2013, the standalone track was originally intended to feature on her third studio album ‘Ultraviolence’, and snippets of the song made their way onto social media over the years before the singer-songwriter officially released it.Watch Fontaine’s D.C’s cover of ‘Say Yes To Heaven’ below.Fontaines frontman Grian Chatten has made no secret over the years that he’s a fan of the ‘Summertime Sadness’ singer.This August they played Reading & Leeds on the same day as Del Rey, after the band once claimed that they thought they could write “a really good tune” with her.“Yeah, I’m going to muscle my way past security and pitch the living fuck out of our band to her!” Chatten joked when NME asked in a recent video interview if they might try and connect at the festival.“I’m going to bring all my Lana Del Rey records for her to sign as well.

No, I don’t really have any interest in pushing for anything in that kind of way. If it happens naturally, then it happens naturally.