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Hi everyone!

This week we welcomed our 100th friend on Facebook, so that was pretty cool! We’ll sometimes make updates there or tweets over on Twitter randomly during the week, so join us at either or both. Whatever works for you.

+ Speaking of Tweets and status updates, last Friday we alerted everyone to a new update to the site- full video of The Frames’ first gig (or first that we have on record here) at The Project Arts Center in Dublin in 1991. It was shot by Donal Scannell, David & Niamh (anyone have last names?). It’s a must see!

+ We also added full video for a performance at the Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands from 2006. The whole thing is choice, but if you’re short on time, be sure to watch Dance the Devil.

+ There are 7 new beautiful gig posters in the Gig Posters section.

+ Various set lists from the 2000’s

+ Put up a few photos on the FTB 30 March gig page

+ I (Jenn) got a special treat this week when a friend sent along two live versions of Giving It All Away, one of my absolute favorites that I have never heard live. I put them on each gig page to share, both 1995- Nancy Spains in Cork & Andrews Theatre in Dublin.

+ We fancied up the Coachella 2007 gig page with more of Zoran’s photos. Even with just visuals you can tell that was an amazing (and insanely hot) show. At least The Swell Season is playing at night this Saturday!

+ There are 4 new pieces in the Press section from 1995, 1999 & 2002 x 2.

Finally, If you haven’t noticed the +Content page under Past Gigs before, this is a place where we list past dates that have things on the page other than simply a set list (videos, clippings, photos, etc…). This way you can go there to more easily click through to find things than going through all of the Year pages. This week we made it even easier for you to find what you might be interested in by noting on +Content what is actually on the page before you click the link. Each time we add something to a past gig page, we will add a link to it on +Content as well. Note, +Content does not include any of the 20th Anniversary gigs from 2010, but there’s tons of stuff there, just go to that section.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Do you have some free time this weekend? We’re here to help fill it up with some ridiculously awesome things we’ve added to the site this week….

In addition to all of the lovely updates below we are so excited to be able to bring you these 4 amazing sets of videos!
+ a full 1993 crowd shot performance at Trinity College. Total classic and must see. Goggles!
+ all 5 songs performed at Parkpop in the NL in 2007
+ the (soon to be, we are still uploading) full Pinkpop Festival gig from 2005 in NL
+ a 4 song + interview thing with Glen in an elevator (glen-in-an-ele-va-tor!…sorry) in Amsterdam from 2006

+ We’ve updated the photos on the homepage so go have a look if you rarely go there! As usual, we moved the former photos to the Photography section. We were sad to move them, but now we are celebrating Coachella (Swell Season will be there next week) this month with a few Zoran Orlic shots from 4 years ago. We also snuck in a Zoran shot from 2005 at the ACL Fest & a fave of ours of the lads at Town Hall in NYC by Patrick Glennon.

+ At the 2001 For The Birds page we’ve posted a little piece of history with Glen talking about For The Birds track by track for RTE radio. It’s totally worth 15 minutes of your time! Also added links to RTE’s review of FTB at the time.

+ A bunch of new stuff on the 30 March FTB gig page– Emmet O’Brien’s pre-show speech (you can read and listen here), photos, 10 more videos and a great blog post from Jen about her experience at the gig with her guide dog O.J! (posted at Your Stories)

+We made a gig page for Glen’s appearance at the Barretstown Foundation fundraiser including full video that ran during the online stream – 4 songs and an interview

+ speaking of Coachella 2007 – we added a couple of cool shots from that same show (more to come soon)

+a video of What Happens to the Belfast gig from the 20th Tour

+ a super cool shot of Glen at Shepherds Bush in London from the 20th as well

+ a performance of Fake from 2002 on Dutch television in the TV section

+ Hot Press review of The Commitments at the O2

+ Lots more videos for each Commitments gig

+ a beautiful video of See-Line woman from the Glen & Liam gig at Whelan’s in March shot by Steve Mogerley

That’s it for now. Is that quite enough? We want to reiterate, if you see something on the site that you recorded and don’t want posted here, please don’t hesitate to contact us and we will remove it. Thanks to everyone who’s helped so far in the last 3 short months! Until next time, remember, “Freeebiiiird!” = still not funny.