Acknowledged as one of Ireland’s most successful music acts of their generation, The Frames are thrilled to celebrate their 35th anniversary with an Australian exclusive appearance at Misneach an Irish Festival in The Domain, Sydney on Sunday March 16.
Formed in 1990, after lead singer Glen Hansard was signed by Island Records, the band became as known for their electric live gigs as for their consistently excellent albums, five of which landed in the Irish top-ten charts. Never content to repeat themselves, The Frames have remained artistically restless, creating a catalogue of music where rousing anthems can coexist with moments of strangeness, intimacy, and stillness: where searing tributes to pulling metaphorical (and literal) ships over mountains (“Fitzcarraldo”) can rest alongside love songs drowning in the last fevers of the Spanish Flu (“Santa Maria”). The band veers from silence to cacophony, never shying away from soaring emotional and dynamic shifts.
No stranger to line-up changes, Misneach will bring together singer Hansard, founding member and violinist Colm Mac Con Iomaire, bassist Joseph Doyle, who joined the group with 1996’s Dance the Devil, and guitarist Rob Bochnik, who was poached from Steve Albini’s studio during the recording of 2001’s For the Birds. They will be joined on the night by drummer Tim Neuhaus.
Photo credit Darragh McDonagh
“We are really looking forward to playing to our old friends in Australia and making lots of new ones too. It has been far too long… “ ⭐️ Colm
Photo credit Piper Ferguson