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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

Greetings! We have just a few new updates for you to chew on this weekend….

First, FYI, Glen scheduled his own gig on 17 June in Massachusetts, the first off-night of the Vedder tour. Tickets and details here. It was only announced a few days ago and it’s a small venue (an indie cinema) so best to be quick!

+ Glen performed at another Doveman organized show at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC with lots of other great musicians. Glen sang Lately by Stevie Wonder and everyone joined in for Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams.

+ Added 3 videos from an acoustic performance for 3Voor12 television in the Netherlands in August 2006. Sad Song, Falling Slowly & People Get Ready.

+ Created a page for The Swell Season documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Fest last Friday. We have the trailer, credits, previews, reviews and a link to a video of a Q+A with the directors.

+ posted yet another (very cool) gig poster

On a personal note, this weekend Shannon and I will be together in real life for the first time since the 20th gigs and since before we made this site! For the past 4 months I’ve been collecting donations for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and training to run a marathon in honor of Shannon’s daughter who has Type 1 diabetes. Shannon and her family will be out supporting me and it would be spectacular if any of you reading this could send out some good energy vibes to me Sunday morning (EST) if you remember!

To keep this relevant, I’ll share some of my favorite Frames songs for on the run, in particular order:

+ Fighting On The Stairs- it’s all about the beat
+ Fitzcarraldo- because if Fitz and his crew can pull a ship over a mountain, I certainly can run up that measly hill (Kate Bush also good for this)
+ Heyday- a true motivator…in running terms, the Frames take up Mic’s baton
+ Stars Are Underground- always good for a kick in the pants (and some air bass and drumming)
+ Keepsake- has a way of making your run seem more cinematic in a just burned my house down now i’m running away way
+ Revelate- it goes without saying, various versions of this are sprinkled through my ipod to be called upon when needed
+ 7 Day Mile- cause it’s just a matter of tiiiime, you’ve been running so fast….
+ Santa Maria- a slow burner, but epic during a windy downpour or snowfall
+ Monument- just like with Stars, go go go!
+ Crazy Horses– the Osmonds get you going, 26 April 2007 at 9:30 Club
+ Debaser– the Witnness 2003 version of this Pixies song is killer

Ok I’ll stop there, but if any wants to talk running or running+music, drop me and email or comment!
We’ll see you next time in the month of May (…month of May).

First of all, Happy Birthday to both Glen and Claire! We hope it’s been stellar so far. We also just noticed it’s OITS’ 4th month birthday today. So, cake all around!

Lately we’ve been spending the free time we have to work on the site by doing some behind the scenes clean up, so updates will be a little light until we get through all of the formatting issues (that only we notice, probably, ha!) we want to tidy up. Here’s what we have for you this week:

+ a new date for Glen – 17 August at the Hollywood Bowl in LA for a jazz oriented Joni Mitchell tribute concert. (We love that he is listed between Herbie Hancock & Chaka Khan).

+ added a page for The Swell Season at Coachella with setlist, comments and videos

+ added the rest of the audio for the Andrews Lane Theatre gig from 1995 that we mentioned last week

+ added audio for all of the songs and more photos to Austin City Limits Festival from 2005. Great gig story and awesome Glen & Joe interview with Paste Magazine afterward.

+ Lots of new stuff for Colm in the Other Projects section

+ Giving It All Away mp3 from an FM Broadcast of a gig at Whelan’s in 1994

+ 3 new gig posters for 2002 & 2003

If anyone is going to see any of the screenings of The Swell Season documentary, which opens at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC tomorrow, we’d love to hear what you think. Just drop us a line!

Thanks and Happy Easter to those of you that celebrate it, and for those of you that don’t, happy day after Easter candy sales!