The Frames

Glenn was in there.

and John was the bass player for the Frames before he got into film.

But he's made two great movies, one with Bono's Daughter.

He hadn't done the one that just came out, too, but the one with Bono's Daughter.

Yeah.

But yeah, so that was a Carney movie.

And his original, the one that I like is Sink Street, which is really an homage to either U2 or his own band, The Frames.

But it's a great movie.

your mind's made up When your mind's made up There's no point even talking

We like the frames.

Oh, yeah.

And quite rightly.

Oh, in Ireland? Yeah.

Obviously, The Frames with Glenn.

There was a band called Watercress from Belfast, who I became quite friendly with, Dan Donnelly from that band as well.

There's the Frank and Walters, a great band from Cork.

And there are some really fond stories and memories and not everyone has heard them.

The one when he first recommended why people should see you back in the early 2000s and everything else and gradually how that friendship blossomed.

Yeah, it's still, I still kind of, I haven't, processed it at all like do you know and like even like I his death I mean you know it's really really an awful awful shock to the whole music community I'm sure Bono talked about how there were 78,000 people or something who claim he was their best friend friend and none of them are lying or something to that extent I thought that was very accurate and very nice but I would have known Glenn sort of peripherally from the frames we mentioned earlier he was so you know prior to um i know you know all this but just for any listeners who may not like the viewers who may not like prior to the oscar and the swell season and his solo career and again afterwards glenn was in a band called the frames who were very very big in ireland they were they were they were and they were also very very good you know that that kind of came about on the after um The Commitments, which he was in as well, of course.

But I would go to see the Frames.

I'm gonna be playing from Imesh.

We're gonna be hearing from The Frames, Karen Casey, The Pogues, Suzanne Deffaine, and Green Linnet's, uh, compilation album of jigs.

So that's what we're gonna start off the show with.

But today, right now, the first thing we're gonna hear is from Imesh, from their album, Sinners Make the Best of Saints, with P Stands for Paddy.

... that she wanted.

Yeah.

And before that, you heard from Fitzcarraldo, which is the album The Frames put out, oh, I wanna say in the '90s at some point.

And the name of the song was Your Face.

It's, it's crazy.

And you can see, like, The Frames are literally down at the bottom of the bill here in '91, you know? So it, uh, it just shows you the difference over the years.

I see The Saw Doctors.

They're still going, see.

You knew that.

But, like, The Frames-

Have you seen the film?

... are huge.

And when we're full of doubt.

We met him first through the movie The Commitments, filmed back in his hometown of Ballymun, and his band, The Frames.

But since then, he has shared a stage with giants like Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Bruce Springsteen, and he has created a body of work that maps the joy and sorrows of life.

For a heart of gold.

I sang for him a couple of times." And then he just goes into this story about Woody Guthrie, and I'm just like, "Oh my God, I'm talking to Bob Dylan." And we talked for, you know, maybe a minute, not about Bob, not about the gigs, not about anything, just about Woody.

And, uh, he, he left, and I was like, "Fucking hell.

What is going on? This is..." We have just completed a complete s- a circle there And the next day, there was a phone call to the rehearsal room saying, "Someone wants to talk to, to Glen," I'm the, the singer from The Frames.

And it was Bob Dylan's manager, Jeff Kramer.

Glen Hansard's road began as a young teenager busking on the streets of Dublin, but it has taken him to some of the biggest arenas in the world, and an Academy Award for Best Song.

We met him first through the movie The Commitments, filmed back in his hometown of Ballymun, and his band, The Frames.

But since then, he has shared a stage with giants like Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Bruce Springsteen, and he has created a body of work that maps the joy and sorrows of life.

His song making has given him a platform to not just make great music, but to be a champion for the voiceless.

I sang for him a couple of times." And then he just goes into this story about Woody Guthrie, and I'm just like, "Oh my God, I'm talking to Bob Dylan." And we talked for, you know, maybe a minute, not about Bob, not about the gigs, not about anything, just about Woody.

And, uh, he, he left, and I was like, "Fucking hell.

What is going on? This is..." We have just completed a complete s- a circle there And the next day, there was a phone call to the rehearsal room saying, "Someone wants to talk to, to Glen," I'm the, the singer from The Frames.

And it was Bob Dylan's manager, Jeff Kramer.

I didn't do a lot of music videos.

I did a video for The Frames.

Very cool bunch of guys.

I did a little bit with YouTube, but it wasn't actually the full band.