Glen Hansard & Jack Johnson - I Shall Be Released/Gloria

  This creation of this film was totaly spontaneous. I was in Italy with Glen Hansard to direct two music video promo's for his new album. While we were there Glen had a gig in Ferrara, and I accompanied him shootingt B-Roll to include in the video for his song 'No Mountain'. There was some time to spare before his performance and we wandered in to a backstage area only to be met by the legend Jack Johnson and his band, who were sitting there with their instruments, warming up. Glen was then invited to jam a song with them, and I happened to have my camera with me. 

None of it was planned. The audio is from my camera, and I asked a friend Andrea Scarso to help me capture the concert audio on their phone. I asked Glen's good friend Seán to film a wide from on-stage with my phone. Both results were surprisingly great! If you had asked me before this event, did think it possible to shoot a live concert performance with only one camera, a phone and no audio from the desk, I would have laughed at the idea and yet here's the evidence that such spontaneous efforts can be rewarded! 

              Phone cam footage of concert: Seán Kangataran Audio of concert: Andrea Scarso

                                                                Myles O"Reillly 

                                                https://www.patreon.com/mylesoreilly

    Glen James Angus Hansard (21 April 1970 - 29 July 2026)

 

Glen Hansard - Astral Weeks ( Van Morrison) R.I.P.

 

                                       Glen Hansard (Dublin, 21 april 1970 - aldaar, 29 juli 2026) R.I.P.

Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970) is an Irish songwriter, actor, vocalist and guitarist for the Irish group The Frames, and one half of folk rock duo The Swell Season. He is known for his acting, having appeared in the BAFTA-winning film The Commitments

                         Astral Weeks (album Astral Weeks )

Morrison described the song "Astral Weeks" as being: "like transforming energy, or going from one source to another with it being born again like a rebirth. I remember reading about you having to die to be born. It's one of those songs where you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and that's basically what the song says." Morrison told Steve Turner that he was working on the song back in Belfast in 1966 when he visited painter Cecil McCartney who had drawings on astral projection "and that's why I called it "Astral Weeks"

Glen Hansard - Astral Weeks (Stage On Sixth Austin Texas, March 16-2012)

 Hansard has remarked about his musical influences: In my house, when I was a kid, there was the holy trinity, which was Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan with Bob sitting center."Hansard and The Frames toured as the support act for Bob Dylan in Australia and New Zealand in August 2007 and Hansard often performs Van Morrison's songs in concert. Two such songs include "Into the Mystic", and "And the Healing Has Begun" which were included on the collector's edition of the soundtrack for the film Once.

"Astral Weeks" is the title song and opening track on the 1968 album Astral Weeks by Van Morrison

One of those songs where you can see the light at the end of the tunnel… I don’t think I can elaborate on it any more than that." V.M.