Artist: glen hansard

Jerry Fish has announced that his special guests for the big Christmas gig in The Sugar Club on December 18th are Cathy Davey and Glen Hansard! This should mean an almost immediate sell-out! Get your tickets here: http://www.tickets.ie/events.a spx/search?s=jerry%20fish You Ain't Goin' Nowhere-Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova by djblakemall

At a very special press conference in Liberty Hall this morning, four exciting gigs were announced. The original cast of the Commitments are getting back together to play nationwide shows in March 2011 to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the classic Irish film. The line-up includes Oscar winner Glen Hansard as Outspan Foster, but sadly [...]

Yesterday was Mic Christopher's birthday. He would now be a young 41! Here is a short guide to Mic Christopher RIP. Stolen from Wikipedia: "Mic Christopher was born in the Bronx, New York to Irish parents Harry Christopher from Dublin and Vaun Heaney from Sixmilecross. Because of his parents' Irish heritage they moved back to Dublin, Ireland in 1972 and together with an all-Irish school upbringing in Coláiste Chilliain Clondalkin, Christopher started to play traditional Irish music with [...]

Here's Dan Hegerty Interview with Glen Hansard at the Electric Picnic: This is Glen performing Low Rising: The Frames played the main stage at The Electric Picnic on Saturday. Get details and the setlist here: http://www.swearimnotpaul.com/ 2010/09/setlist-the-frames-ele ctric-picnic-4-september-2010. html What Happens When The Heart Just Stops:

The Avett Brothers have been on a seemingly non-stop tour ever since releasing the critically acclaimed I And Love And You last September. So it really should come as no surprise that the North Carolina-based act's next release will come in the form of a live album, which will be simply titled Live, Volume 3 . The 16-track album, which will also be released on DVD , was recorded at a hometown gig at the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte on Aug. 8 of last year and features [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Video , Exclusive From his busking days to his current success, Swell Season and Frames frontman Glen Hansard has had his fair share of connections to Bob Dylan . In recent years, the Swell Season has covered Dylan's 'You Ain't Goin' Nowhere' for the ' I'm Not There ' film soundtrack, and the Frames had the opportunity to open for Dylan in 2007. But for Hansard, [...]

A hugely enjoyable debut album from Galwegian Seán Kangataran. It's a singer-songwriter album with global appeal. Easily one of the best albums of the year. When I haven't written a review on the blog for a few days it's usually because I'm really enjoying the next album I'm about to write about. It's a nice perk to the blog when a talented songwriter approaches me to write a review. I get to be one of the first batch of people to have heard the [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Holy Hell After the tragic suicide of Michael Pickels at a Swell Season concert last week, the band is offering free grief counseling sessions to any fans who were at the show. The group and its crew met with counselors after the events, which they talked about in an official statement on their website . "While we likely will never gain the answers we need, what [...]

Dear god, Kanye West knows how to work the media and keep up a super-human momentum that will always keep folks talking about him. More like it: FROM THE NEWS NEST: Kanye West on stage again and more. FROM THE NEWS NEST: Kanye West drops new single and more. Kanye West records again

This past week has been incredibly tough for Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of The Swell Season. Following the sad news, in which a fan, identified as Michael Pickels, committed suicide by jumping from a balcony on to the stage during their show in Saratoga Winery, the Academy Award-winning pair have announced that they're going on hiatus. It appears that the decision to split is unrelated to the Saratoga tragedy, and the duo will finish out the remainder of their European fall tour dates. Hansard told Spinner.com that he and Irglova are going their [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive The Swell Season , fronted by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova , have stayed busy touring since releasing their latest album, 'Strict Joy.' But the next chapter for the two musicians may take them in separate ways, at least for a brief period of time. The Frames , Hansard's original band, have recently announced a handful of upcoming concerts, and the notion of Irglova [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , R.I.P. , Holy Hell Charles Haddon , lead singer of the up-and-coming UK synth pop trio Ou Est Le Swimming Pool , has died after apparently jumping from a telephone mast behind the stage at Belgian music festival Pukkelpop Friday night, NME reports . Haddon, 22, apparently climbed up the mast, situated above a parking lot, following his band's performance at the festival. Police are calling the death a suicide. The organizers of Pukkelpop, which [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Holy Hell Al Pereira, WireImage On Thursday night, an unidentified man reportedly killed himself by jumping from a nearby building onto the stage during a Swell Season show at California's Saratoga Mountain Winery. According to local reports, the man ran toward the edge of the roof, leapt near the lighting rig and landed close to singer Glen Hansard . "Glen was just finishing a little [...]

The Swell Season at Celebrate Brooklyn! (07/30/10) Photo : Geoff Green Given their considerable appeal to the neighborhood demographic, it's no surprise that the The Swell Season played to a more than sold out crowd at Prospect Park on July 30, 2010 . Glen Hansard and Market Irglova (or Glen and Mar as I call them) entertained the Brooklyn faithful with a number of selections from the Academy Award winning soundtrack to the movie Once [...]

I've been a fan of the A.V. Club Undercover series for months now, and I feel like it hasn't really caught on like it should, considering the incredible quality of a couple of entries. The premise is some artist or band comes in to the publication's office and covers another song they chose from a predetermined list. Previous awesome covers included Ted Leo & The Pharmacists covering Tears for Fears , Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison doing The Lemonheads , and The Clientele's twee re-imagining of M.I.A.'s hit "Paper Planes." But this [...]

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Some Frames news here .... The Frames have announced a New York gig on 20Th November 2010 in Terminal 5, New York City Tickets: $27 advance / $30 day of show According to Wikipedia: ... Terminal 5 "a fascinating place to see a show: muddled sound at times, but visually, with its battered furniture, stained tables, slick bars, Grand Guignol chandeliers, and scary-dark stairwells and other passages—ghosts of the space's former tenant." I was watching House last night when I begin to [...]

The Swell Season covers Neutral Milk Hotel If you haven't heard much of the AV Club's Undercover series, you're an idiot . Ha, just kidding. This week, there's finally a relevant piece for those Neutral Milk Hotel fans that go nuts every time we write up something on the band - with only four weeks to go on the show, The Swell Season chose to cover NMH's "Two-Headed Boy" for the sessions, which despite the usual fears about covers of the band, was pretty awesome. [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Canada Calgary's Prince Island adopted the state of Virginia's slogan for just under an hour on Friday night as the Swell Season melted hearts across the sold-out crowd of 12,000 with their earnest love songs. Performing both as a duo -- as they do on the majority of songs in their Academy Award-winning film ' Once ' -- and with a backing band, Irishmen Glen Hansard and his Czech ex-girlfriend, singer and pianist Markéta Irglová [...]

Here's an old acoustic number Frank Black did with Glen Hansard of The Frames . And a new one off his latest LP, NonStopErotik . There's still tix for tonight's show in Petaluma . C'mon up! Frank Black & Glen Hansard "The Aul' Triangle" from TodayFM Session 7.15.03 Black Francis "Dead Man's Curve" from NonStopErotik • • • • RELATED : Show Report: Devendra Banhart at the Mystic [...]

With Oxegen 2010 just one day away, I thought I'd help remind you of what makes the festival so special. This list is for those of us who are not going, and also those of us who are busy packing those last essential items before we have to get the Dublin Bus to the campsite [...]