Swell Season Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/swell-season/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 16:02:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Swell Season Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/swell-season/ 32 32 I Can Siiiiiiiiiinnnng! ‘Once’ Is Coming To Broadway https://staging2.theplaylist.net/i-can-siiiiiiiiiinnnnf-once-is-coming-20081016/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/i-can-siiiiiiiiiinnnnf-once-is-coming-20081016/#respond Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:17:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9771 How do you add extra fromage to an already semi-cheesy musical? Take it to the Broadway where people can siiiiiiiing! And emo-te! That’s the plan with the feel-good indie movie, “Once,” about buskers looking for love in Ireland (or whatever it was about). The Oscar-winning film that starred Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of the band the Swell Season (Hansard also plays in The Frames) and their love-dovey songs, is aiming to hit the Broadway stage around 2010 or 2011 once they find the most over-the-top actors for the roles and musicians who can take the existing songs and wring them free of any emotional truth so they’ll be more sentimental and saccahrine then they already were.

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/i-can-siiiiiiiiiinnnnf-once-is-coming-20081016/feed/ 0 Oscar Success Begats Publishing Deal For Swell Season ‘Once’ Duo; Twosome Touring In The Spring https://staging2.theplaylist.net/oscar-success-begats-publishing-dea-20080229/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/oscar-success-begats-publishing-dea-20080229/#respond Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:37:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=11283 Sometimes when one wins an Academy Award, those thathave their head’s up their asses don’t usually pay attention, pay attention. So, fresh off their Oscar victory for Best Original Song, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova have unsurprisingly signed a music publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group.

Warner/Chappell will handles songs composed by by Hansard’s The Frames outfit and future recordings by the duo under the name The Swell Season.

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