Anyone heard of The Frames?

harmless_little_f***

Only just heard them, and they seem really good. Anyone know anything about them?

Irish Al

Yeah they're Irish...been around for years....some great songs some not so great.....the lead singer was in the Commitments (outspan I think he was called) Definitely a live band worth checkin out.

EDIT: Bell X1 are better IMO

Jennytree

Utter shite really... they have about two good songs and the rest blend into a big load of mlehhhh...

but indeed, they are Irish, and BellX1 are better

harmless_little_f***

Jennytree wrote:

Utter shite really... they have about two good songs and the rest blend into a big load of mlehhhh...

but indeed, they are Irish, and BellX1 are better

Hmm, I must try out this BellX1. I like The Frames so far.

Edit: Weird. Just listened to a few things by BellX1. I personally prefer The Frames. Different strokes I spose.

moster78

I saw the guy that was in The Frames open for Damien Rice the other night with his new solo stuff. Guys name is Glen Hansard. Really good stuff.

AvocadoLady

Irish Al wrote:

Yeah they're Irish...been around for years....some great songs some not so great.....the lead singer was in the Commitments (outspan I think he was called) Definitely a live band worth checkin out.

Glen Hansard was in the Commitments??

Taft

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

Only just heard them, and they seem really good. Anyone know anything about them?

The Frames are my third favorite band after PJ and Radiohead, I fell in love with them about 2 years ago. They are amazing, and I have turned a lot of people onto them...

You are in for a great ride of you are just getting into them. Definitely get some live stuff, that is where they are at their best. Also, their new album "The Cost" was recorded live.

Check out there recent show on fabchannel.com, awesome!

Taft

moster78 wrote:

I saw the guy that was in The Frames open for Damien Rice the other night with his new solo stuff. Guys name is Glen Hansard. Really good stuff.

FYI, The Frames are still a band, and very active. Hansard is just doing a side project right now (which is great, I was at the Damien Rice show too). The Frames new album (The Cost) comes out in the US on Feburary 20th, and they will be touring the US in April/May.

Here is another link to them live, a few months ago at Lollapalooza:

http://blueroom.att.com/inc_mediaplayer/player.php?id=1883

moster78

Taft wrote:

FYI, The Frames are still a band, and very active. Hansard is just doing a side project right now (which is great, I was at the Damien Rice show too). The Frames new album (The Cost) comes out in the US on Feburary 20th, and they will be touring the US in April/May.

Here is another link to them live, a few months ago at Lollapalooza:

http://blueroom.att.com/inc_mediaplayer/player.php?id=1883

Cool, I wasn't sure if they were still together or not, or if he was going solo. My roommate who I went to the show with has some of their stuff on CD. I need to give it a listen.

Side note, how amazing is Damien Rice? Seriously.

LifeWasted21

Taft wrote:

The Frames are my third favorite band after PJ and Radiohead, I fell in love with them about 2 years ago. They are amazing, and I have turned a lot of people onto them...

You are in for a great ride of you are just getting into them. Definitely get some live stuff, that is where they are at their best. Also, their new album "The Cost" was recorded live.

Check out there recent show on fabchannel.com, awesome!

They work better live for sure. Te albums can drag a bit, at least "burn the maps"

but dance the devil and for the birds are brilliant. Great live band as well. love the way each song builds.

floyd1975

They toured with Josh Ritter recently. Josh Ritter was really good.

off_the_record

the frames are good stuff. "for the birds" is a great album.

Irish Al

AvocadoLady wrote:

Glen Hansard was in the Commitments??

Yep

AvocadoLady

Yep

Like, the movie? Or were they an actual band? I don't remember...

Wow, no way. I will have to check that out. Thanks Irish Al!

Irish Al

AvocadoLady wrote:

Like, the movie? Or were they an actual band? I don't remember...

Yes. He played the guitarist in the movie. I think the band played a few gigs but then glen said it was all bullshit and went back to the frames

Schmakt

that IS pretty cool... Thanks

Irish Al

Schmakt wrote:

that IS pretty cool... Thanks

You're more than welcome

Taft

Just got some tickets to see The Frames in Boston in April, should be sick!

Hitch-Hiker

Frames are boring boring shite. They're decent enough live I guess but Glen Hansard is such a horrible smug fucker. There's a reason they haven't gotten noticed outside of Ireland in the last 15 years.

Taft

Glen Hansard's (lead man for the Frames) movie "Once" is the talk of the town at Sundance this week, widely considered the best movie at the festival:

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_popmachine/2007/01/hey_we_loved_a_.html

Chicago Tribune-
Mark Caro:
What a film I saw last night. You'll read more about the amazing new Irish picture "Once" in Sunday's Tribune Arts & Entertainment section, but clearly it's the talk and the joy of this year's Sundance Film Festival. No American distributor yet, but unless the potential buyers have their heads up their lattes, it will sell and you will see it soon enough.

Shot with the breathless, fluid immediacy of an early French New Wave picture, filled with enough music to qualify it as a musical, director/screenwriter John Carney's tale of a Dublin street busker (Glen Hansard, of the Irish band The Frames) and a Czech-born immigrant (Marketa Irglova) is one of the best films about young love and young artists pouring their hearts into song I've seen in years.

Hansard was in the cast of "The Commitments," which certainly has its fans (including my brother-in-law, Gorman). But even in the bubble of a film festival, where moderately charming pictures play like gangbusters and then go on to international shrugs and obscurity, "Once" really does feel like a sleeper. Wednesday night's added screening was followed by a wee concert, which My Esteemed Colleague Mark Caro (M.E.C.M.C., pronounced "meck-mick") will relay to you in all its scruffy glory:

Joyous movie. You feel like you're out on the streets and in the cramped apartments and the instruments store and the recording studio with these characters as they make music together and capture each other's hearts. Ours, too.

No corny Hollywood stuff. No big Hollywood payoff. It feels just right. Everyone loved it, standing ovation for Hansard and Irglova went they came out afterward.

The movie is considered a hard sell.

Well, someone will wise up eventually. In the meantime, we'll always have Sundance (Em-Pee and I at least…).

The great part was that after director Carney and his stars answered questions at the screening (which had been added due to high demand), Hansard pulled out the same beaten-up guitar he plays in the movie, and he and Irglova sang two of the songs that they co-wrote and sing in the film.

For fhe first one they didn't use a microphone. The second one she sang her sweet, unaffected voice in the direction of a mic while she played Hansard's guitar. Because neither one of them had brought a capo, Hansard sang his harmonies while hanging over her shoulder holding a pen against one of the guitar's frets.

It sure beat seeing another movie about kids getting abused and/or killed.

P.S. Hansard and Irglova just got scheduled to play a set at the Music Café on Main Street Thursday afternoon – after Donovan

AvocadoLady

Huh, very cool. Yay for Glen!