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9/03
The Frames, Set List
July 25 2003 |
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Stop the presses: a five star review.
Can the darlings of Ireland's music scene really be this good? By Bruce
Elder.
The Frames, Set List (Plateau
Records/MRA), *****
You've got to be special to knock
U2 off their perch. Enter the Frames, who topped both the best group and
best live act categories in this year's readers' poll in Hot Press, Ireland's
premier music paper. Brian Eno also described their 2001 London concert
as the best he had seen in five years.
This glorious live recording shows
exactly why the Frames are the darlings of Ireland's music scene.
It captures the excitement, passion,
enthusiasm and love which can make concerts so special and memorable.
Who would have ever thought that
Glen Hansard, the red-headed guitarist in The Commitments, would give his
career such shape and promise?
It has taken the Frames a decade
to get to this point. Since they formed back in the early 1990s, they have
recorded six albums and enjoyed some chart success in Ireland.
Yet it is with Set List, a sublime
distillation of the very best of their work to date, that they lay claim
to being extraordinary.
Their strange mix of post-punk power
pop, Pearl Jam, Irish folk (why else have a fiddle in a band?) and, for
want of a better term, the ambience of Tim Buckley and Nick Drake, is original
and captivating. They understand the importance of light and shade and
the complex dynamics of live performance, moving from a whisper to a shout,
a sweet melody to a grinding guitar riff, a floating fiddle line to, of
all things, a few lines of Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
Factory and a chorus from Bob Marley's Redemption Song.
There are moments of transcendental
magic on this album, when the warmth between the audience and the musicians
spills over into shared ecstasy. At one point in the middle of the gorgeous
Lay Me Down, as the audience is singing along, one of the members of the
band, hearing the perfect symbiosis between the fans and Glen Hansard,
lets out a spontaneous "wow" at the emotion of the moment.
Local audiences can go wow when the
band tours in November.
IN THE PICTURE
Formed: Dublin, 1990
Named: The Frames because Glen Hansard
used to repair bicycles and had bicycle frames around the house
See: The Commitments and marvel at
what Hansard looked like 12 years ago |
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