Quote of the month

"I'm probably gonna curse a lot, it's just an Irish thing. It's not meant in any malicious way, it's just part of the way we speak. For hundreds of years our language was beaten out of us by the English and then we had to learn their language. Which was ok, but we decided at a very early stage to pervert their language as much as possible. If we had to speak it at all. So in Ireland cursing is just descriptive it's not actually in anyway malicious." - Glen Hansard

The Swell Season Live

Most amazing live show.

Strict Joy.

This made me happy.

"This song is about being in Ireland lying in the middle of a field drunk looking up at the stars. Well, actually looking at some grey clouds and knowing that the stars are beyond them. And having a conversation over the shoulders of the clouds, at the stars"

- Glen Hansard (The Swell Season/ The Frames)

Star Star

Star star teach me how to shine shine

Teach me so I know what's going on in your mind

'Cause I don't understand these people

Who say the hill's to steep

Well they talk and talk forever

But they just never climb

Falling down into situations

Bringing out the best in you

You're flat on your back again

And star you're ever word I'm heeding

Can you help me to see

I'm lost in the dark

Star star teach me how to shine shine

Teach me so I know what's going on in your mind

'Cause I don't understand these people

Who say we're all asleep

They'll toss and turn forever

But no rest will they find...

Listen to the song here...

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Star_Star_Live_/23364951

If you don't own 'Strict Joy' by the Swell Season... you should.