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We can’t believe a week has already gone by since last time. Time flies when your kids are sick/almost out of school/have the finally warm weather crazies? Who knows. We almost weren’t even sure that we’d get any updates done, especially since Jenn knocked the site offline yesterday for a few hours, oops (which reminds us to remind you to follow us on Twitter or Facebook just in case)! We rallied the troops and were able to get some goodies posted up though, so here ya go…

+ new Glen solo date added– he’ll be opening for Jake Clemons at Whelans on 7 June.
+ added a scanned ticket from the For The Birds anniversary gig. we love artifacts!
+ finally scanned my copy of the Hot Press special edition from February featuring Glen on the cover (photo by Zoran Orlic) and a great interview about his last 20 years playing music. The interview was conducted while The Frames were in the States in November.
+ Joe & Glen do an acoustic version of Falling Slowly for an RTE2 pre-show thing at Electric Picnic back in Sept.
+ 2 videos of The Frames doing the elevator thing for 3Voor12 in Utrecht in 2007
+ 5 Dutch gig reviews/articles added: 23 June 2007 at Tivoli, 2 Nov 2006,  8 Feb 2007, and 30 Dec 2005 & 31 Jan 2007 both added to Press page

Cheers to those of you who are going to see Glen (and Mark Geary we think!?) tonight at the MET in NYC! We have a 3 day weekend coming up in the States, so good times to those of you who get to participate in that. All the rest of y’all have a groovy weekend too. June with its many gigs is sneaking up so fast….!

Hi all! Just a few updates this week, but a note- If you could do us a favor and let us know if the wait time on the site loading is a problem for you that would be great! It does take wee bit of time to load sometimes, especially for new visitors, but it’s worth the wait.

The biggest add is a Discography section. There’s a lovely discography at www.theframes.ie, but we felt it was one thing that was missing from OITS. It’s not done yet, but we’ll be adding the rest asap.

The rest….
+ we added the Glen date for the Pearl Jam Anniversary throw down on Labor Day Weekend in East Troy, WI.
+ scanned set lists from various gigs –  15 feb & 17 feb 2007,  16 july 2007, 3 dec 2010, 7 dec 2010, 31 mar 2011
+ posted a 3 part interview from 2009 with Glen on OneMoreTune.ie in the TV section
+ a great video of the guys doing Bell x1’s Flame from the gig with Bell x1 17 Feb 2007 in The Hague, NL
+ videos of People Get Ready and (partial) Last Goodbye and Red Chord in Utrecht, NL on 23 June 2007
+ pro-shot video of Young Hearts Run Free from Glen’s appearance at the Barretstown charity gig in April
+ video of Colm performing with Kila at the 2011 Possibilities Summit in Dublin
+ a new add to Your Stories about various Frames-oriented gigs Petr Vlasak has attended

Also, just today Claire announced that the band Favourite Sons will be supporting both Frames June gigs. Have a good weekend!

In case you haven’t heard, The Frames will be performing at Vicar Street in Dublin on 9 June just a couple of days before their Cork gig! If you’re able to go, get your tickets at www.vicarstreet.com.

It’s been birthday madness up in here the past 3 weeks (including Shannon’s 40th!). This time we’re wishing the endlessly talented Colm Mac Con Iomaire a fantastic birthday next week. Happy birthday Colm! Taurus abounds…

We’ve done a bunch of housekeepin’ around here this last week. We’ve decided to finally add a social sharing feature so you can share pages or blog posts at Facebook or Twitter or via email, etc. Just click on the thingamajigger at the bottom of the page or post.

If you were familiar with the +Content page of the site, we’ve done away with it! Instead, as you browse through the gig listings, you’ll see notes next to the clickable gigs about what’s inside those pages without having to click on them. In addition, we created a page where we’ll list all of the gigs for which we have video of the entire show here.

And more….
+ we got Graham back up on the homepage (always too few photos of drummers!)
+ posted the rest of the Melkweg ’06 videos for a whopping total of 17
+ 2 videos for 29 June 2001 at Valmez Castle (with violinist Jan Hruby) for Czech TV1 in TV section
+ a couple new photos to the Prague Dec 2010 gig
+ posted Glen’s interview at Electric Picnic Sept 2010 to the gig page
+ pro-shot video of Midnight Hour to The Commitments’ Dublin 02 show
+ TV performance of Fake from 6 May 2005 to TV section

Finally, we added a bunch of reviews and photos from the Netherlands from 2005, 2006 and 2007. Thank you Maartje! We’d love to have more non-english press (anything, really) on the site so please send along to us if you know of anything. It would be helpful if you have time to translate, but if not we’ll just use a translator and perhaps come back to you with questions.
+ 12 Nov 2005, The Hague, Music in My Head Festival
+ 13 Nov 2005, Utrecht, Tivoli
+ 12 Feb 2007, Groningen, Oosterpoort
+ 16 Feb 2007, Eindhoven, Effenaar
+ 17 Feb 2007, The Hague, Paard van Troje
+ 23 June 2007, Utrecht, Tivoli
+ 24 June 2007, The Hague, Parkpop Festival

See you next week if not before!

We have a lot of new additions to the site this week, but first we want to give an upcoming birthday shout out to the illustrious Joseph Doyle! Yet another Taurus in the Frames camp, no wonder they’re such a tough bunch. Have a rad day Joe!

We have a really exciting add to the site for you this week that we were giddy about having show up in our inbox. The whole gig from 21 November 2006 in Amsterdam at Melkweg. It was filmed for and aired on the now defunct fabchannel.com. One word: TURBIT. It’s a really fantastic gig with an interesting set list and we’re thankful to Lino for sharing it with us! FYI videos are still being added, but we’ll Tweet at ya when it’s all done.

We’re working on filling out the Television appearance section with some clips from the grand irishmusiccentral:
1995 – Fitzcarraldo + Angel At My Table on No Disco
March 2001 – interview w/ Glen on No Disco
29 March 2001 – interview w/ Glen and Dave Odlum, performance of Headlong
May 2001 – interview w/ Glen before Green Energy Fest
August 2001 – interview w/ Glen on Nationwide
3 January 2002 – interview w/ Glen on Ireland AM, performance of Mic Christopher’s Listen Girl
14 September 2004 – Happy on The View, RTE
15 September 2005 – interview w/ Glen on tv3 about Point Depot show in November

The rest…..
+ 2 new Glen solo gigs – 26 May in NYC & 27 June in Chicago / 2 new dates all the way in Nov. for The Commitments
+ This winter Glen chatted with Nicholas Hill at Radio Free Song Club and performed a few songs. Also linked at bottom of the Radio section. (Glen just tweeted this link this morning)
+ thanks to Turbit on the Melkweg footage, I had to go on a Turbit hunt and added 2 other videos from 2006 & 2007, both from the awesome Ivi.
+ video of God Bless Mom & Rent Day Blues at Witnness 2000
+ video of Plateau at Britnness 2001
+ video of A Caution To The Birds from 14 Jan. 2007 at Vicar Street
+ 4 new reviews for The Swell Season movie

Quick follow up to my mention of the marathon last week- Despite lots of rain at the start leaving us all with soggy shoes and socks and making the last 10K quite difficult, I finished on my feet just a little slower than I set out to be. It was a challenging, humbling and uplifting experience and it only took until the next day for me to say I think I could do it again sometime (I’m lookin’ at you Dublin). The best part is we raised almost $2700 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, woo! Thanks to all who wished me luck.

Have a great weekend everyone….J+S