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Wow it’s been awhile since we’ve done a blog update! For the most part we’ve been keeping up with Glen’s US gigs and now European tour. All reports of Glen’s shows have been stellar and well received by new fans, which is always lovely to hear! We have setlists, reviews, photos….the usual for most of the gigs. If you’re wondering why we’re missing videos of new songs, we’re respecting Glen’s wishes of not sharing them online. We feel it’s best to leave those there in the moment and space where they happen for now. Soon enough everyone will be able to enjoy them, so we’ll hold on until then.

Simply click through to Glen’s Gig listings and any of the recently passed dates to see lots of cool stuff from the shows.

In addition to that, just a few adds:
+ link to a very cool video of 5 songs by The Frames on German TV from 2005
+ we added a video of Graham playing with Snow Patrol on Later with Jools Holland. Also, Graham will be playing at the Led Zeppelin IV 40th Anniversary Tribute this weekend (1 Oct) at the Sugar Club in Dublin. Johnny Boyle will be there too!
+ Glen performed some songs with Damien Dempsey at Vicar Street a few weeks ago
+ we’re still keeping track of news and release information about the Swell Season Movie as well as the Once musical here

If you are going to any of the upcoming gigs with Glen & Mark Geary, we love fan reviews, setlists, etc…please send along! Thanks, see you soon!

Hi everyone- 3 weeks since our last update summary! Here’s a list of what we’ve added since then. We’ve tweeted or facebooked most of these as they were posted, so this all might be old news to you.

We’ve added a couple of new dates for Glen in Europe this fall, one in Prague (this may be sold out now or close to it) & one in Letterkenny, IE. Both of these gigs, as well as 4 others, feature Glen’s longtime mate Mark Geary as support. See Glen’s full list of dates here, or as usual at theswellseason.com or theframes.ie. An additional way of keeping up with Glen is his Official Facebook page.

We were really excited to post up 13 videos from Glen’s recent gig in Telc, CZ at the Holidays In Telc Festival. It’s his full performance minus videos of new, unreleased songs. This was an extraordinary performance so take the time to go through and check it out.

Last time we mentioned part 1 of a Hot Press interview & performance with the guys at Electric Picnic in 2006. We put up the other 6 parts of this very cool interview here.

And more!
+ a really lovely and extensive interview Graham did with drummer Mike Dolebear at his blog
+ a new short vid clip from Glen’s MET show in NYC in May
+ another video of the Billie Jean cover from The Frames’ 20th anniversary gig in Seattle
+ another review from Glen & Eddie V’s first night at the Beacon Theater in NYC
+ St. Louis dates added for screening of The Swell Season movie

+ pages for Glen’s other most recent gigs in Iceland, CZ, Ireland (Cork) and just this week in LA:
23 July -Borgarfjörður-Eystri, Iceland, Braedslan Festival (setlist, video)
26 July – Reykjavic, Iceland, Cafe Rosenberg (preview, fan review, video)
29 July – Náměšť nad Oslavou, CZ, Folk Holidays Festival (video)
30 July – Telc, CZ, Holidays in Telc (setlist, videos)

31 July – Cúil Aodha, County Cork, IE, Féile na Laoch (Festival of Heroes) (previews, setist, video)
17 August – Los Angeles, CA, The Hollywood Bowl (as part of a Joni Mitchell tribute performance) (setlist, reviews, video)

Alrighty, that’s it for now. Just like The Happenings, we’ll see yoooou in September…

Heeellooooo! Long time no posty. We’ve just a few updates to share….

As most everyone knows now, Glen’s heading out to tour Europe in September & October. We have the dates here. He’ll be bringing Mark Geary along for some of the shows as well. Get more info at www.theframes.ie. Also it was noted there that Glen’s solo album is set for release in 2012.

We’ve caught up on the gig pages for the Eddie Vedder tour (see below for a few details). One special audio bit we added was a wonderful story Eddie told in Seattle about meeting a young fan in Ireland in 1996. Have a listen for a good cheer up.

Other:
+ Gig pages for both Iceland shows- the Braedslan Festival and Cafe Rosenberg. Setlist for one, videos for both. More videos from Cafe show coming soon.
+ Glen won’t be the only Frame in Europe this fall- Rob Bochnik will be touring with Marketa so we’ve added the dates here.
+ Ed tour: reviews for Seattle 1, Oakland, Chicago 1, Millennium Park (a pics link)
+ cute new fan story at Your Stories about meeting Glen at the Beacon in NYC last month
+ an old Hot Press video interview with the band and an old tv interview with Glen- in the TV section
+ Q+A with the Swell Season doc makers

We do have a few more things on the to do list so once those get up and done we’ll let ya know! In the meantime, here’s an oldie in case you’re newer around here. When we started the site we had this idea to highlight certain songs we each loved and why. As things got busier with actual content we’ve sort of abandoned it. Hope to revive it eventually! Here’s Shannon’s look at Hollocaine…