Filmmaker Myles O’Reilly has posted a short film he made from his travels with Glen & the Band in Italy this past April. From the YouTube post:
In April 2013 filmmaker Myles O’Reilly was invited on board the good ship Hansard to accompany Glen and his band around Italy for a few days while touring Italy in Europe to promote his debut solo album, Rhythm And Repose. Created over a year and a half while living in New York City, Rhythm And Repose was recorded by Patrick Dillett (David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, Laurie Anderson) and produced by Thomas Bartlett (Doveman, The National, Antony and the Johnsons) and is Glen’s first release since The Swell Season’s Strict Joy (2009)
updates
Recent Colm interviews & upcoming solo gigs
Colm has done a few radio interviews recently in Ireland. You can listen online…
5 May – Miriam Meets on RTE – This week, Miriam O’Callaghan interviews musician Colm Mac Con Iomaire and his wife Sheila McNally.
29 April – With Nadine on The Kiosk at Phantom talking about In The Deep Shade
15 April – Arena on RTE Radio 1 – Colm & Conor Masterson talk about In The Deep Shade
Colm also has a few solo gigs scheduled in Ireland at this point in time. One is this weekend at the Fiddle Fair in Baltimore, West Cork. The other 2 are in July: on the 14th at Inis Oirr Arts Centre on the Aran Islands & on the 18th at Balor Arts Centre in Ballybofey, County Donegal.
The Butchershop Quartet
Another project Rob is involved in, The Butcher Shop Quartet, will be performing 3 shows in May to support their recent release, “The Rite of Spring”. This record & shows commemorate the 100th anniversary of the “riot inducing” Paris debut of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
The Butchershop Quartet’s version of the Rite of Spring was released in March 2004 in time for a series of performances with choreographer Julie Atlas Muz as part of the 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York City. Two new members, Nathaniel Braddock (guitar) and Dan Sylvester (drums) joined in place of Rob Bochnik and Dylan Posa, both having left Chicago. Upon completion of the tour the new group reconvened at Electrical Audio Recording to capture their rendition. Engineered by Greg Norman, the tapes sat until late 2012 when Bochnik, having since returned to Chicago, set about mixing them with plans to release them in conjunction with a few select performances celebrating the 100 year debut of Stravinsky’s masterpiece.
You can hear & purchase BSQ’s “The Rite of Spring” here, read about the project here or check out their website. Gig dates here and more info soon!
May 26th – Chicago, IL – Township
May 29th – Brooklyn, NY – Littlefield
May 30th – Manhattan, NY – The Living Room
Hiya / Update
How’s everyone? We just wanted to say hi and fill you in on some upcoming events in the coming week (there’s many!) & provide a little recap of recent stuff. So here’s a calendar of sorts:
Saturday 13th
– Glen is playing the MusicNow Festival in Cincinnati Ohio
Sunday 14th
– There is a The Frames: In The Deep Shade screening at Lincoln Hall in Chicago as well as one at DeBarra’s in Cork
– Glen will join The Love Reading Series at Arlene’s Grocery NYC
Wednesday 17th
– Graham & friends are Square Pegs! This time they will be playing some Chicago Blues, 50’s R&B & New Orleans Blues at Whelans front bar from 7-9pm
– Glen is participating in Poetry & The Creative Mind at Lincoln Center in NYC
Thursday 18th
– Colm will perform for the Dalai Lama at the Millenium Forum in Derry
– Glen will be at the Glucksman Ireland House at NYU for a discussion about music & songwriting
Friday 19th
– Graham & Joe will play with lots of other folks at The Sugar Club in Dublin for a Tribute to Levon Helm. Money raised will go to the Irish Cancer Society.
– Glen joins John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery in NYC
– The Frames: In The Deep Shade starts a week long run at the Lighthouse Theatre in Dublin
Not to mention, April & May bring lots of Framesy birthdays! Happy happy birthday to Glen, Claire, Joe & Colm, a bevy of Tauruses.
Conor Masterson’s The Frames: In The Deep Shade has further screenings scheduled in LA, Portland, Belfast & Rotterdam for now. You can keep an eye at the ITDS website. We have a page here too with news & links to reviews/interviews as they appear.
Sounds like Australia & New Zealand were a fantastic time for everyone! We’ve got setlists & the usual over here & also some interviews & performances on local radio & the like over here at TV & Radio and here at Features & Interviews.
In case you haven’t poked around, we have pages for each current band member on the site as well so have a click through to Graham, Colm & Rob‘s pages to see what those guys have been up to.
Thanks y’all, have a great weekend…. jenn & shannon
(photo by Ivi!)
Graham & Joe at Levon Tribute
Graham & Joe will be a part of the 19th April Levon Helm Tribute at the Sugar Club in Dublin. Proceeds go to the Irish Cancer Society. For more info & tickets check out the Sugar Club website and the Tribute page on Facebook! From Graham’s Facebook:
April 19th marks the first anniversary of the death of Levon Helm. The year passed so quickly. He’s honestly a man who never leaves my mind, and he is certainly with me everytime I play. It’s been so great playing ‘Don’t Do It’ nearly every night on tour with Glen. We’ve been getting booties shaking just as Levon would like it!!
So, it’s fantasic that there’s a tribute gig for Levon being held in the Sugar Club, Dublin on Friday April 19th. Myself and Joe Doyle have just been invited to play alongside other bands. We said ‘Yes’ straight away of course!
Then we asked the fantastic House of Horns along!!… Michael Buckley, Ronan Dooney and Paul Frost…They said yes! Cormac Curran from Villagers is gona plays keys!! And the groove meister Conor Brady will be on guitar. There’s too many The Band/Levon songs to choose from. But come along, support the Irish Cancer Society and the memory of Levon Helm to find out!!