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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Carl[/i] [br][url="http://www.myspace.com/theswellseason"][b]The Swell Season[/b][/url], consisting of The Frames' Glen Hansard and Czech pianist Marketa Irglova, who both star in and recorded the soundtrack for the film [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907657/"][i]Once[/i][/url], have been covering Cactus live. You can currently download the version recorded at the 9.30 Club in DC [url="http://theqspeaks.blogspot.com/2007/07/swell-season-930-club.html"]here[/url] or [url="http://popdrivel.blogspot.com/2007/07/swell-season-live-at-930-club-7-27-2007.html"]here[/url]. Various live reviews below: [url="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12100950"][b]NRP: Live Music from the Film 'Once'.[/b][/url] [hr] [url="http://metromusicscene.blogspot.com/2007/07/swell-season-is-upon-us-concert-review.html"][b]MetroMusicScene.com: The Swell Season is upon us (Concert Review)[/b][/url] [font=Trebuchet MS]The surprise of the set was a lively cover of the Pixies [i]Cactus[/i], which nicely complemented the energy of the Frames' [i]Pavement[/i].[/font=Trebuchet MS] [hr] [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702372.html"][b]washingtonpost.com.[/b][/url] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Hansard played some tunes from his other band, the Frames, paid homage to [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Van+Morrison?tid=informline"]Van Morrison[/url] ("Into the Mystic") and conducted a pointless romp through [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Bob+Dylan?tid=informline"]Bob Dylan[/url]'s "You Ain't Going Nowhere." The evening's most telling (and edgiest) interlude, however, was a slashing electric-guitar-and-voice duet with Irglova on the Pixies' "Cactus." Too bad it's not on the soundtrack.[/size=3][/font=Times New Roman] [hr] [url="http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/reviews/critics/mmx-0730ovn_swelljul30,1,560253.story"][b]Metromix - Nothing fake about 'Once' musicians.[/b][/url] [font=Verdana]In addition to faithful, stirring renditions of the film's centerpiece and potential Academy Award contender "Falling Slowly" and "When Your Mind's Made Up," Hansard and Irglova threw some curve balls in the form of a blistering, sardonic cover of the Pixies' "Cactus" and a prayerful "Ohio River Boat Song" by Will Oldham.[/font=Verdana] [hr] [url="http://www.hellosputnik.com/2007/08/02/the-swell-season/"][b]hello, sputnik - The Swell Season.[/b][/url] [font=Times New Roman][size=3][teal]They covered The Pixies’ “Cactus” and played something else I can’t recall before thanking us and walking off stage.[/teal][/size=3][/font=Times New Roman] [hr] [url="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-swell3aug03,1,6752832.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews&track=crosspromo"][b]Los Angles Times - Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová harmonize at the El Rey.[/b][/url] [font=Arial]He celebrated all night long, spinning yarns before nearly every song, covering Van Morrison and the Pixies with Irglová, even inviting his pal Damien Rice to perform one of his own rather dour compositions. Hansard vented some rage too but was just as eager to sing a song about enjoying bananas.[/font=Arial] [hr] [url="http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934327.html?categoryid=1266&cs=1"][b]Variety.com - Swell Season Review.[/b][/url] [font=Times New Roman][size=3][teal]The 90-minute show--a series of Hansard’s lovelorn ballads and Irglova’s middle-European-influenced laments drawn from the film’s soundtrack (Sony) and their self-titled debut (Overcoat) --hewed closely to the offhand intimacy and shambling charm of the film (even the cover of the Pixies’ “Cactus,” with a narrator seated among the broken furniture of a relationship, fit the show’s mood).[/teal][/size=3][/font=Times New Roman] [hr] [url="http://phillyist.com/2007/08/03/swooning_for_sw.php"][b]Phillyist: Swooning for Swell.[/b][/url] [font=Arial]The lyrics are sometimes bittersweet ("Falling Slowly" always makes me cry), but it's hard not to want to cuddle to the music, sometimes. At least, when they're playing [i]their[/i] music. Their cover of The Pixies' "Cactus" was significantly less cuddle-able, but nonetheless awesome.[/font=Arial] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.