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Carl
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 Posted - 08/06/2007 : 16:08:45
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The Swell Season, consisting of The Frames' Glen Hansard and Czech pianist Marketa Irglova, who both star in and recorded the soundtrack for the film Once, have been covering Cactus live. You can currently download the version recorded at the 9.30 Club in DC here or here. Various live reviews below:
NRP: Live Music from the Film 'Once'.
MetroMusicScene.com: The Swell Season is upon us (Concert Review)
The surprise of the set was a lively cover of the Pixies Cactus, which
nicely complemented the energy of the Frames' Pavement.
washingtonpost.com.
Hansard played some tunes from
his other band, the Frames, paid
homage to Van Morrison ("Into the
Mystic") and conducted a pointless
romp through Bob Dylan'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.
Metromix - Nothing fake about 'Once' musicians.
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.
hello, sputnik - The Swell Season.
They covered The Pixies’ “Cactus” and played something else I can’t recall
before thanking us and walking off stage.
Los Angles Times - Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová harmonize at the El Rey.
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.
Variety.com - Swell Season Review.
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).
Phillyist: Swooning for Swell.
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 their music. Their cover of The Pixies' "Cactus" was significantly less cuddle-able, but nonetheless
awesome. |
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Swell Season feat. Glen Hansard do Cactus.
