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The Swell Season

THE SWELL SEASON

About Me


Glen Hansard of the Irish band, The Frames and Marketa Irglova first happened upon one another when The Frames were touring the Czech Republic. The pair met through Irglova's father who is a musician and gig promoter.
In 2005 they recorded an album together in Prague, 'The Swell Season', which was released in April 2006 and also featured two Interference musicians, Marja Tuhkanen (violin) and Bertrand Galen (cello). In many ways, it was to prove partly inspirational for John Carney’s 'Once', a low-budget indie film that was one of the most successful independent features of 2007. The pair not only wrote the songs for the movie but they both starred in it as well.
Since the release of the film, Glen and Marketa have toured extensively as 'The Swell Season' and appeared on a number of high profile US TV shows including 'Letterman' and 'Tonight Show’ with Jay Leno'.
This Irish success story was rounded off in February by winning an Academy Award for ‘Falling Slowly’ in the ‘Best Original Song’ category.
The year ahead will see Hansard work on the new Frames album while both himself and Marketa will perform with The Swell Season at the prestigious Coachella festival on the 25th of April, Boonaroo on the 12th of June and tour the U.S. and Europe in the next few months. Evidently, 2008 is shaping up to be another busy year for the couple…
VISIT THE OFFICIAL FRAMES WEBSITE
Into the Mystic, performed exclusively for Later....with Jools Holland 08/04/2008
Lies (Live from The Artists Den)
Falling Slowly (Letterman, Sept. 2007)
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/13/2006
Band Website: theframes.ie
Band Members: GLEN HANSARD - vocals/guitar
MARKETA IRGLOVA - vocals/piano
Sounds Like: !-Change image when hover over-!!code author:Eileen mySpace code Tutorials The Swell Season
released in Apr. 2006
Get it in The Frames Store

Tracklist:

1. This Low
2. Sleeping
3. Falling Slowly
4. Drown Out
5. Lies
6. When Your Mind's Made Up
7. The Swell Season
8. Leave
9. Moon
10. Alone Apart

!-Change image when hover over-!!code author:Eileen mySpace code Tutorials Live from The Artists Den DVD
released 15th Apr. 2008
Buy It Now

Tracklist:

1. Say It To Me Now
2. Lay Me Down
3. All The Way Down
4. This Low
5. When Your Mind's Made Up
6. Lies
7. Drown Out
8. Falling Slowly
9. Golden
10. Pavement Tunes
11. Once
12. If You Want Me
13. Concentric
14. Star Star

!-Change image when hover over-!!code author:Eileen mySpace code Tutorials Once Soundtrack
released May 2007
Get it in The Frames Store

Tracklist:

1. Falling Slowly
2. If You Want Me
3. Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy
4. When Your Minds Made Up
5. Lies
6. Gold
7. The Hill
8. Fallen From The Sky
9. Leave
10. Trying To Pull Myself Away
11. All The Way Down
12. Once
13. Say It To Me Now

Record Label: PLATEAU / OVERCOAT
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Appearance on Jimmy Kimmel-Footages from Good Morning America and Jools-Coachella Live Webcast

Heya, You can catch The Swell Season on Jimmy Kimmel Live on the 22nd of April...Lots of site listed the performance for the 25th but according to the latest updates that came in Glen and Mar will be ...
Posted by The Swell Season on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:44:00 PST

Swell Season DVD:Live From the Artists Den now available

Hi everyone, The first live DVD of The Swell Season will be released on the 15th of April but you can pre-order it if you go to the following site www.artistsden.com/theswellseasondvd   First co...
Posted by The Swell Season on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:02:00 PST

films on the road

so were in melbourne, on the second week of the Bob Dylan tour..it's been a great joy to be so close to a master and weve been learning a lot..his people have been truly gret to us.. anything we've ne...
Posted by The Swell Season on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:04:00 PST

Ahh... :-(

Ok guys, the fun ends here. I am flying to Dublin tomorrow and the internet connection where i live is so bad that its gonna be hard for me to reply to you all as fast as I have up until now, so pleas...
Posted by The Swell Season on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:45:00 PST

:-)

Hello everyone, in addition to Glens blog Id also like to thank everybody who came to support us on our tour in the US, every night we had a great gig for we were playing to the coolest audience. You ...
Posted by The Swell Season on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:26:00 PST

july/aug u.s. tour..

hey.. im sitting in aukland airport super jet lagged at the beginning of a 3 week tour with The Frames opening for Bob Dylan and its exiting.. but my head is reeling from the Amazing response myself a...
Posted by The Swell Season on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:47:00 PST

Hello from Mar

Hello everyone, Marketa here. I never went anywhere near a computer in the past, somehow I never managed to get on with it, it would turn off on me and refuse to send emails Id been writing for hours ...
Posted by The Swell Season on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:28:00 PST

sundance youtube ONCE footage

heres a little youtube footage from the festival.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu6Ev9-e7tc
Posted by The Swell Season on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:26:00 PST

O N C E at Sundance Film Festival

Were in Park City Utah, at Sundance, weve been here a week now and ive only just got time to write something now.. its been so overwhelming... i suppose i expected a very different reaction to our fil...
Posted by The Swell Season on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:48:00 PST

ONCE

So last january, Me and Marketa and friend John Carney made a movie.. called "Once"it was made on a super low budget over three weeks, its the story of a street musician who falls for a Czech girl who...
Posted by The Swell Season on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:15:00 PST