Tag Archives: Glen Hansard

Movie News: The Hunger Games Soundtrack Full Of Muppets

  By Lisa McInerney | March 12, 2012 - 3:00 pm | Movies & TV, Music
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Well, not quite. The Hunger Games soundtrack is released this Friday, March 16th, ahead of the movie which hits screens Friday 23rd. And everyone is mad excited, so they are. The Hunger Games books have sold over 20 million copies worldwide since 2008, which is a pretty big deal, and if you’re still mourning Harry Potter and trying to salve the terrible burns you endured from Twilight, you might consider getting in on this. In the ruins of the United States, where The Capitol metropolis holds absolute power over twelve surrounding districts, sixteen year old Katniss volunteers for the Hunger Games, an annual event in which one boy and one girl from each of the 12 districts are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle in which only one person can survive. Yes, I know it sounds just like Battle Royale, except without the cute uniforms; work with … There’s more →

Under The Covers

  By Lisa McInerney | July 26, 2010 - 10:00 am | Featured Post, Music, Random Whimsy
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Like all drunken Irish balladeers, myself and my friends love a good yowling session of a Saturday night. At our most recent Singstar marathon, my cousin and I got up to sing Erasure’s A Little Respect, and were surprised (really, because we’re terrific singers) to get relatively low scores, until it occurred to us that we’d instead been belting our way through the version by American ridicu-rockers Wheatus. We’d been emphasising the wrong words, rushing through the wrong lines, because we were rocking out to synthpop. Funny thing how a good cover version can nibble its way through your beloved original. It’s not the custom for a cover version to outshine the original (fear not, Erasure fans! I’m not strictly referring to the Wheatus usurpers!), so when you do come across a particularly wonderful cover, it’s a real treat. There are those, like Wheatus’ version of A Little Respect, that … There’s more →

The Frames to re-release career highlights

  By Ronan | April 10, 2010 - 8:06 pm | Featured Post, Music
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I’ve never written about music for culch.ie before (preferring to leave that kind of stuff elsewhere), but I felt this was too amazing not to share (again and again). Fantastic news Frames fans; this summer will see the re-release of two of the Frames’ greatest albums (in my opinion, Glen Hansard’s best ever work appears on these two records). On the 7th of June, Salvo will be issuing remastered and expanded reissues of 1995′s wonderful Fitzcarraldo, and the 1999 follow-up Dance the Devil. The re-release of the albums should bring a whole host of new listeners to songs such as ‘Revelate’, ‘Red Chord’, ‘Seven Day Mile’, ‘Pavement Tune’, and ‘Star Star**’. Some people these days only associate Glen Hansard with the Oscars and with the Swell Season, so I urge anyone who hasn’t heard these records to buy the remastered copies once they come on sale. Each of the albums … There’s more →

The Longest Night - CODES and Gemma Hayes joined by Glen Hansard

  By Darren Byrne | December 17, 2009 - 11:33 am | Events, Music, The Culch
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The 21st of December is the longest night of the year, the worst night of the year to be without a home. Dublin Simon Community are asking you to get onboard and play your part in ending homelessness this December 21st. Some of Ireland’s hottest music acts have been lined up to perform at Dublin Simon’s Longest Night gig on the 21st at The Button Factory, Temple Bar. Dublin’s newest music sensation and friends of Culch.ie, CODES, have been confirmed to perform at the event, along with one of Ireland’s most accomplished female artists, Gemma Hayes. Also performing will be the extraordinarily talented Colm Mac Con Iomaire, the fiddle player with The Frames. Colm supported Swell Season last December in the Olympia and was amazing in his own right. Speaking of Swell Season, Glen Hansard has just been confirmed to join the lineup. The Longest Night is a fundraising project … There’s more →

Why fans of Irish music should see The Yellow Bittern: The Life and Times of Liam Clancy

  By darraghdoyle | September 8, 2009 - 2:35 am | Featured Post, Movies & TV, The Arts, The Culch
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An important Irish film is being released this Friday. It’s a documentary charting the rise of Liam Clancy and is directed by Alan Gilsenan. It’s called The Yellow Bittern: The Life and Times of Liam Clancy. I saw the movie at its premiere last week at the Lighthouse Cinema and got speaking to some people after the show to see what they thought: (My thanks to Paul Brady, Eamon Ryan TD, Glen Hansard and the other lovely contributor for all their feedback.)

Return of The Swell Season

  By Darren Byrne | August 18, 2009 - 7:55 pm | Music, The Culch
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It was one of the best gigs of last year for me - The Swell Season in The Olympia. Lottie, Anthony McG and me arrived just before the support act came on stage. There was a bit too long of a delay between the excellent Hare’s Corner departing and Swell Season taking to the stage, which quietened the crowd a little. Hansard et al didn’t get the rapturous greeting they deserved. Indeed, the first few songs, which were sweet and melodic, were met with applause and some polite whoops. But when they played their Oscar winning song, Falling Slowly, the mood turned and it became a night to remember. Falling Slowly was delivered with such passion and gusto that it was hard not to be drawn into the performance. From that point on, they had us in the palms of their hands.