***Glen Hansard Appreciation Thread***

bflynn1

The show in Tulsa last night was my first time seeing Glen live. I was definitely not disappointed.

Dr. Delight

This suck, its dark and pouring down rain right now in Austin ahead of his Stubbs outdoor show tonight.

PJ_Soul

Dr. Delight said:

This suck, its dark and pouring down rain right now in Austin ahead of his Stubbs outdoor show tonight.

Did the show go ahead?

JH6056

Bummer!!! I've been to Stubbs, that would be such a bummer in pouring rain... I hope it cleared up? Was it a go?

Dr. Delight

PJ_Soul said:

Dr. Delight said:

This suck, its dark and pouring down rain right now in Austin ahead of his Stubbs outdoor show tonight.

Did the show go ahead?

The rain held off.
It was a good show, much looser performances with the change up of personnel. Wasnt the best setlist he chose IMO.
Maybe it was the venue and setlist but it was a much better performance on his last tour, I saw him in Charleston. Something was missing last night.

No Coder

Okay, so Glen opened his Australian tour in Brisbane last night. I have seen him a few times previously in support of EV, and couldn't wait for this show.
I'm not sure there is a better singer/storyteller around at the moment. He has a wonderful way of retelling a story that makes you feel like you were there with him. His lead in stories about some of the songs were perfect. He has a that perfect Irish sense of humour and even dropped some Aussie slang a few times.
His band complete his sound to its full effect and I found that I was constantly smiling during this show. No support act, and he started right on 7:30pm, which caught some of the crowd at the bar still, but he played for a solid 2.5 hours with really only a 1 minute break.

Can't recommend seeing Glen live enough. One of my favourite shows I've ever been too

PJ_Soul

Dr. Delight said:

PJ_Soul said:

Dr. Delight said:

This suck, its dark and pouring down rain right now in Austin ahead of his Stubbs outdoor show tonight.

Did the show go ahead?

The rain held off.
It was a good show, much looser performances with the change up of personnel. Wasnt the best setlist he chose IMO.
Maybe it was the venue and setlist but it was a much better performance on his last tour, I saw him in Charleston. Something was missing last night.

I feel like there is pretty much always something missing at outdoor shows compared to indoor. Maybe that was it.

goldrush

This is pretty cool

http://youtu.be/5t0KSIUE4T4

In anticipation and celebration of Glen's upcoming performances this weekend, Sydney Opera House and its Major Partner Intel Australia took Glen inside the spectacular heart and guts of the iconic venue.

As part of a new digital collaboration produced in the Intel Broadcast Studios, Nooks & Crannies is a unique live music series celebrating iconic architecture and artistic expression in unexpected and spectacular spaces inside Sydney Opera House.

Written during his time just across the way in The Rocks, ‘Stay The Road’ from 2015 release ‘Didn’t He Ramble’ feels right at home as the perfect ode to the hidden acoustic ceiling inside and above the iconic Concert Hall stage.

samjam

Oops, never posted the picture of my tattoo....but it's to come! I have to get another picture of it...the one I have is right after it was completed (took 1.5 hours) and it doesn't look as nice as a healed picture.

But I'm obsessed. With Glen, and the tat

buck502000

Time to revive this thread

buck502000

bootlegger10

Glen's great but the last show I saw was just too mellow. It felt like 90 degrees in the balcony though so that may have been it.

Falling Slowly duet at Taormina will be spectacular.

PJ_Soul

His new single is out... It's okay. I really like the last third of it, when it picks up and gets a lot more interesting and unique (and a tiny bit reminiscent of that nice song at the very end of Gladiator, with the female vocals) ... the first two-thirds is pretty and slow and a little bit boring TBH, but nice sounding as usual.

derbydave

NEW US TOUR DATES!!!

Mikeo

Anyone have the spotify code for Minneapolis they can PM me? We need a Glen Show!!  Thanks.

Jdgoldsmith21

Mikeo said:

Anyone have the spotify code for Minneapolis they can PM me? We need a Glen Show!!  Thanks.

Did you get a code?  I can’t find one anywhere...

Given2Fly

Got Seattle.. yay

benjs

Given2Fly said:

Looking for a Seattle code if anybody has one

Oh man! On the week I happen to be in Seattle before the EV show no less!

goldrush

There's a really cool session from Paste Studios online now.

https://youtu.be/qrgtd6h2hxw

1. I'll Be You, Be Me 3:31
2. Fool's Game 15:00
3. Race to the Bottom 28:51
4. Don't Settle 40:35

Irish singer/songwriter Glen Hansard stopped by the Paste Studio this week to perform songs from his fourth solo album This Wild Willing, out on April 12 via ANTI- Records.

The former Frames frontman’s new album was recorded at Black Box studios in Paris and is rooted in experimentation, improvisation and spontaneous collaboration. Hansard utilized the support and influence of classically trained musicians—the Khoshravesh brothers and Dublin-based electronica artists Deasy and Dunk Murphy. In an interview between songs, the enigmatic Hansard explained that he had no clear framework mapped out for this LP:

"There are times in one’s life where you feel like you have to take something by the horns, and you have a vision and you follow it. You go after it and captain the ship from top to bottom. That’s the imagined songwriter’s lot. You have a burst of inspiration. You write it down. You basically instruct the double bass player or the piano player, and you give a reference of what kind of sound you want it to have. You go after it and the idea is that you come out the other end, and it sounds like your vision of the song. And nine times out of 10, that’s probably how it goes. But for me, whatever was going on in my life, I just had this feeling that I wanted to draw people in because I knew that I didn’t know. I knew that whatever was going to happen with this record, my vision for it was very unclear, which for me is really freeing because usually I’d be quite specific. I invited all of these people in kind of a vulnerable way. I said, ‘Just come and join me.’ I had these scraps, I had these thoughts, I had these lines, these threads. I didn’t have anything built. I knew if I had the right people beside me, I would be propelled somehow. Really operating on this idea that beauty exists outside of comfort."

Hansard performed the opening four tracks from This Wild Willing: “I’ll Be You, Be Me,” “Fool’s Game,” “Race to the Bottom” and “Don’t Settle.” Hansard puts on a hair-raising performance of “I’ll Be You, Be Me,” marked by a pulsing electronic drum beat, cooing piano, rousing synths and Hansard’s grizzled, hushed vocals. His performance of the sparse “Fool’s Game” is another highlight as it’s the kind of subtle, moving folk song that slowly sparks until you realize there’s a robust blaze crackling in the hearth of your soul.

You can catch Hansard in Pelham, Tenn. for a live taping of PBS’s Bluegrass Undergroundon March 29, and he’ll return to the states in May for tour stops in Boston, Philadelphia, New York City and Washington D.C.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/03/watch-glen-hansard-perform-in-the-paste-studio.html?utm_source=PMNL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=190327

PJ-Cubs

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