This industry is screwed – the 99 per cent of people who’re in it because they think they can make money out of it, and the other one per cent does it because they have to do it – and I’m in that one per cent. – JM
John Murry’s songwriting is not for the faint of heart. You know anyone who pens a line such as “what keeps me alive/ is going to kill me in the end” is confronting their nightmares more than living their dreams.
Glen Hansard will make his return to the Opera House, to play his first shows since touring with his band The Frames, in early 2013.
An album of cosmic Americana that like Wilco and the National sits somewhere between the dark confessionals of Neil Young and the intense slow rock of Bill Callahan.
” I just happened to make one of the ones that got lucky. That’s the only difference, you know.”
John Murry calls The Graceless Age a prayer to his salvation.