Bands: Glen Hansard, Doug Paisley
Location: 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
- Falling Slowly (The Swell Season)
- You Will Become
- Maybe Not Tonight
- Talking with the Wolves
- Love Don't Leave Me Waiting (with covers of Respect and Please Please Please)
- Low Rising (The Swell Season)
- Banana Man
- When Your Mind's Made Up (The Swell Season)
- Bird of Sorrow
- Leave (The Swell Season)
- Broken Hearted Hoover Fixed Sucker Guy (The Swell Season)
- In These Arms (The Swell Season)
- High Hope
- Your Heart's Not in It Babe (The Frames)
- Way Back When
- Smile (Pearl Jam Cover with tease of Hey Hey My My cover of Neil Young)
- Fitzcarraldo (The Frames)
- Song of Good Hope
- This Gift
Encore:
20. Say It to Me Now
21. Gold (Interference Cover)
22. Enter Sandman (Metallica cover intro)
23. Her Mercy
24. Don't Do It (Marvin Gaye cover)
25. Drive All Night (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
Glen Hansard. I'm not even 100% sure how to describe Glen Hansard as a singer and as a performer in general. A little background on Hansard, he along with his partner Markéta Irglová acted in and sang in the movie Once, for which they won an Oscar for best original song for Falling Slowly.
It was a two hour forty-five minute set that started with Falling Slowly under the premise that his voice had been iffy as of late and he would need to do a harder to sing song first. It didn't sound like there was any problem with his voice and the crowd helped him along. Something about how the crowd was there for him seemed to carry him through the whole set. For a man who started the shows with an questionable voice and said that he might only be able play four songs, Glen Hansard put on one of the best single man performances I've ever seen and in any other concert year he might easily be placed in a top ten list of shows.
He moved through the set with an easy grace from song to song and appeared to be almost making it up as he went along, throwing in songs from his own reasonably large catalogue as well as covers of Pearl Jam, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen and even a tease of the opening of Enter Sandman by Metallica. Towards the end of the show it seemed as he if he didn't want the show to end and might have kept playing for hours but eventually he ended, after a long encore where he seemed to struggle to find new things to excite a crowd to an even higher level than he had, which would be a difficult task for even the best of performers. To say the least, Glen Hansard was born to sing, and can run between genres with such ease that you would think they were his specialty.
Next time he is around, you can be sure that I will be at his show, standing in the very front row hanging on to his every word, he is just that good.
It was a two hour forty-five minute set that started with Falling Slowly under the premise that his voice had been iffy as of late and he would need to do a harder to sing song first. It didn't sound like there was any problem with his voice and the crowd helped him along. Something about how the crowd was there for him seemed to carry him through the whole set. For a man who started the shows with an questionable voice and said that he might only be able play four songs, Glen Hansard put on one of the best single man performances I've ever seen and in any other concert year he might easily be placed in a top ten list of shows.
He moved through the set with an easy grace from song to song and appeared to be almost making it up as he went along, throwing in songs from his own reasonably large catalogue as well as covers of Pearl Jam, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen and even a tease of the opening of Enter Sandman by Metallica. Towards the end of the show it seemed as he if he didn't want the show to end and might have kept playing for hours but eventually he ended, after a long encore where he seemed to struggle to find new things to excite a crowd to an even higher level than he had, which would be a difficult task for even the best of performers. To say the least, Glen Hansard was born to sing, and can run between genres with such ease that you would think they were his specialty.
Next time he is around, you can be sure that I will be at his show, standing in the very front row hanging on to his every word, he is just that good.
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