Fontaines D.C. manager Trevor Dietz passes away
In an Instagram post Tuesday, the Irish band described being “heartbroken” by the passing of their friend Dietz, who was a “sixth member of the band.”
Photo courtesy of Fontaines D.C./Instagram
Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. announced today that their manager and longtime friend, Trevor Dietz, has died at the age of 47. His cause of death has not yet been made public, but the band wrote on Instagram: “We are utterly heartbroken to let you know that on Sunday June 7th we lost our dear friend and manager Trevor. Trevor was beside us from the beginning of our journey as a band, we have never known Fontaines D.C. without him, the sixth member of the band. He cared passionately for us and for what was fair and right in the wider world. He was fearless in his beliefs. We will miss him always.” The band has asked for privacy for itself and Dietz’s family.
Condolences and fond memories of the deceased manager flowed in from fellow UK creatives, including Kneecap, Lambrini Girls, Inhaler, and Aisling Bea. Dietz was a beloved figure in the Dublin music scene and had been working with Fontaines D.C. since 2016, when they were music students not yet signed to a label. He spearheaded a program at Dublin’s Workman’s Club, where he’d been since 2010, that showcased unsigned music acts on bank holiday Sundays. He invited Fontaines D.C. to play the club multiple times before signing them, stating in a 2019 WIX interview that he “wouldn’t have worked with the band if they hadn’t had huge expectations and huge dreams.” Hot Press Magazine editor Niall Stokes called Dietz “truly one of the rock ‘n’ roll good guys.”
Dietz managed Fontaines D.C. through the releases of their four critically acclaimed albums, spanning 2018’s Dogrel to 2024’s Romance. “If other people had heard the conversation that day they would have gone, ‘Jesus, these guys are nuts, it’s not going to happen,’” Dietz said of the band in that WIX interview. “But I knew we could go well beyond Ireland with this.” Fontaines D.C. will live out Dietz’s vision this summer with a European tour that will see them bouncing from Spain to their first ever headliner festival slot at Reading & Leeds.
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