Comments on: The Swell Season stunned me

By: todd

todd — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:06:16 +0000

lovely post
on a lovely blog
about a lovely duo
from a lovely movie
all of which i just
recently discovered.

i can sincerely say
if you love the swell season
you’ll love the greentrees
http://www.thegreentreesmusic.com

all blessings,
todd

By: C.J.

C.J. — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:39:11 +0000

I have been fortunate to see The Band several times and each time it is like the very first time! I am not kidding. I have been to alot of concerts in my day and to say this Band is AWESOME is really putting it mildly!!! They really rocked each time and I felt like they were singing just to our location as I’m sure everyone feels the same towards their experience. I am hoping to see them soon again and I can hardly wait.
Sincerely,
CJ

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uberVU - social comments — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:31:33 +0000

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By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:55:14 +0000

Went to see The Swell Season at the very intimate Quay Theatre at The Lowry in Manchester last night and found this website while searching for ‘High Hopes’, which was one highlight amongst many, especially with the crowd participation. This is the 4th time I have seen band and the performance was every bit as excellent as the other 3, really gentle and really powerful within the same song and Glen is a raconteur par excellence. For those lucky enough to be catching the band at Radio City be sure to catch the support act, Josh Ritter. Have seen him numerous times in Ireland, Scotland and England and he is the real deal, can definitely mentioned in the same breath as Glen and Marketa.

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By: Linds

Linds — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:22:49 +0000

hey Heather, cheers! You’re an inspiration of mine!

http://postchicken.blogspot.com/2009/12/im-working-on-high-hope.html

By: Maine Character

Maine Character — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:01:28 +0000

Thanks, Rand, for the DayTrotter link.

Here’s a new interview and concert from the always classy NPR.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121349049

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121173158&ps=rs

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:37:14 +0000

Someone already mentioned this, but I wanted to ask well. But when they performed High Hopes in Houston, the called Moji up to sing with them (as the other commmentor said, they had heard her singing toward the front. The result is absolutely gorgeous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWrrYikn4Fk

By: avi

avi — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:57:03 +0000

Absolutely beautiful, thank you for posting!

It’s a a shame I don’t see much talk/mention of The Frames, which basically is the same group as The Swell Season (with the addition of lovely Marketa)…
Glen and the lads have been making amazing, mind-blowing music – though many times (much) louder than the beautiful songs from the Swell Season albums, there’s lots of great stuff in there, and even some quiet haunting songs (e.g. The Blood / Headlong / What happens When the Heart Just Stops and more)….

I hope they could do both in the future, release more Frames albums and more Swell Season. And I am so happy that Glen “and Co.” are making it nowadays, been following them for some 12 years…

Ohh, and there’s a version of Red Chord, from a solo acoustic show Glen did in Chicago at Gunther Murphy’s – June 23rd, 1999 – - – there was a lady from the crowd who sand it with him and they finished it off with Last Goodbye (jeff buckley) and that is one of the most beautiful things I ever heard.

alright, that’s it for now…

By: jimbo

jimbo — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:44:11 +0000

2008′s The Swell Season tour with Damien Dempsey is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Absolutely outstanding. I think the cd & dvd in bonus version of the new album, Strict Joy, are from that tour.

The band members are as genuinely nice as they are talented and inspirational in performance. If you can find it, look for their set on Austin City Limits last fall, it’s fantastic! They did a couple of songs with a local Austin-area children’s choir – Falling Slowly and a song with Daniel Johnston, Life In Vain, that will bring tears to your eyes when you listen to the words coming from the incredibly talented and challenged Johnston and the sweet, innocent voices of the choir along with Colm’s soaring violin. The Swell Season performs as the backing band and conduit for an amazing performance. On a lighter note, Jason Segal performed a song with them in LA a couple of weeks ago and it’s quite funny!

ACL is quite protective of their shows, so I’ve only found a couple of YT clips that people have videotaped from their TV and the sound is marginal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPBReF8S8HQ

Jason Segal & TSS is an audience-cam vid, tho not too bad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZF6Kx88LM