The Igloo - "Once" w/ the Swell Season

The Igloo (http://www.eskimofriends.com/forum/index.php)

- Damien Rice (http://www.eskimofriends.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=7)

- - "Once" w/ the Swell Season (http://www.eskimofriends.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12732)

What the **** is up with his accent?

^my first thought exactly! can barely understand him!

^^Oi tink he's just exaggerating it, plus speaking unusually fast.

by the way, how come Marketa didn't get to do her own voice and he did?

^Not to mention that neither Girl, neither the husband seem to be speaking with a Czech accent

(by the way, why is this thread in the Damien Rice section?)

^^ As far as I remember, both Glen and Marketa did the voices for themselves...?

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Originally Posted by Rai (Post 346123)

^Not to mention that neither Girl, neither the husband seem to be speaking with a Czech accent

(by the way, why is this thread in the Damien Rice section?)

because damien was initially involved in the project, i guess. according to glen they were writing the songs together and he even tried to get damien to take the lead role when cillian murphy had to back out, but damien declined so glen took the lead at the director's suggestion. i'm all for moving it now though..

the husband sounded russian.. i thought glen and mar's bit was cute, but otherwise that was a pretty poor episode.

I was dissapointed. Damien Rice was involved in it? I didn't even know he was proud or agknoledged the fact he was irish.

^Yep, he was, very briefly. Though as far as I remember, he co-wrote at least Leave with Glen.

And what is this about his Irishness? I prefer musicians not waving flags, thumping chests or marking territories.

There's a bit more about Damien's involvement in this 2005 interview.

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GH: Yeah. Well, it's important, you know? I'm going to make a fool of myself in January… I'm going to act again.

HM: Are you?

GH: Yeah. Me and a few friends, very small time, we're making a film about a busker. And I'm going to play the busker. He's basically a guy who is in his early thirties, he's kind of disillusioned, but he's good, you know. He has something. He has some songs… and his girlfriend's gone away… And myself and Damien Rice are writing all the songs for it. And basically he meets this Eastern European girl who's selling this magazine, and she somehow inspires him to get off his ass and to get into the studio and make a record and basically go see his girlfriend in London… to get her back with these songs that he's been writing because she's been floored by these tunes he's been writing. It's a very simple story… but we're going to start shooting in January. The script is really good, I'm really happy with it.

HM: So you and Damien Rice are friends? You're tight?

GH: Well, yeah. I mean I guess like anybody, we're the same animal so we both love and hate each other. Well, don't love and hate each other, but we like being in each other's company and at the same time we're a little cautious of each other. It's kind of strange, man. I like him a lot, though.

HM: The tour that you did with him last year, was that the first time you'd met him?

GH: No, no. Geez, I've known him years. He toured with us, he opened up for our shows when he left Juniper first… That's how he started. He first started touring with us, just him and his guitar. So I've known him for a long time.

HM: I didn't realize that he had been in a band before.

GH: Yeah, he was in a band before.

HM: He's another one I don't quite get. Some of his songs I really enjoy, but…

GH: I know what you mean. He's kind of an acquired taste.

HM: I was hoping that seeing him live would help, that it might make it all click… and it didn't. Maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind… you know, so much of that kind of thing is frame of mind.

GH: No, I know what you're saying. A lot of my friends do not get him. I guess if I'm being really honest, I go to myself, his music isn't the strongest element of my friendship with him… he just does what he does, and I do what I do, and somehow we end up getting on in the middle of it. I don't think we ever really talk about each other's music to each other. We just talk about cooking, or…

HM: So how is that going to go, writing these songs with him?

GH: So far, it's been really good. We've sat down and written together, and basically taken the guitars out and… right, here's the scene where I'm playing this song for the first time on the street. This girl walks by and she hears it. What kind of song is it? Where are we? Okay, what have we got? One of us starts playing some chords and we kind of take it from there… and it's been really organic, really simple. You know, what he has to offer and what I have to offer are two very different things, and when they combine they seem to work really well…

thank, shar! i´ve never read this before, though it´s and old one.

i think their friendship evolved a lot since then... in a good way :)

^^ Thanks for finding that! I had never seen it before either.

here's Glen performing at the REM tribute (audio only)
thanks to the original uploader at dime
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MDKKO6ZS

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3538/...18b24257_o.jpg

Wow those are prefect curls. haha love it. thanks Eva.

Thanks for the song and pic Eva!

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Originally Posted by Rai (Post 346394)

So do I.

<33333333333333 i've never read that before! that was pretty interesting! <3 thanks for sharing <33

and thank youuuu for the rem tribute upload!

This is going to be slightly random, but does anyone know the DVD/Video where this screencap came from? I think it's from a concert in the Czech Republic?

http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/t...nmar2005-1.jpg

after this interview maybe? probably not
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du0or...e=channel_page

wow! that was really interesting! that interview about Glen and Damien! so they were writting the music of Once together? and what happened? sorry i'm just finding out about that just now... i had no idea!! so thanks so much for posting "srahman24"!!

devushka, did you read the first page? they kind of sump up about the issue.

http://www.eskimofriends.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=12732

I guess this is a spoiler? So... LOOK AWAY if you actually care about American Idol..?

Anyways, I'm hearing rumors that someone's going to attempt Falling Slowly tonight. I can't imagine this going well. But at least it's the first reason I've found this year to actually watch this show.

It's all up here: http://www.rickey.org/?p=14339

:smiley29:

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Originally Posted by verenita (Post 346899)

devushka, did you read the first page? they kind of sump up about the issue.

http://www.eskimofriends.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=12732

Thank u Verenita!! :D

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Originally Posted by srahman24 (Post 346992)

It's all up here: http://www.rickey.org/?p=14339

:smiley29:

why are you so mean, why did you let me listen to this?.??

American idol.... my friend knows i love glen and mar and when she was watching the worst show in the world she saw this guy singing falling slowly and told me to turn my tv on to the appropriate channel so i did... and i hear this guy covering falling slowly... annnnddd it was aweful.... i'm sorry but it wasn't good... i didn't feel anything.... it's just not the same.. you can't take something like that and sing it like he did... shrug... i wish i never saw it....

^it's a really difficoult song to sing because it's so simple. You just have to pour your soul into it, people have to FEEL you, or it's just another song.

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Originally Posted by dboyd (Post 346998)

at least i didnt have to WATCH this song slaughtered
d(anny)boy(d) : from your youtube comment. i dont know it the guy will be famous outside of france. I think he's even unknown in his own country

I've been listening to all the radio people talk incessantly about idol on my way to the Uni this morning. It is seriously too early to listen to radio hosts saying that the problem was not the singing but the song - "its boring!" - aagh it was kind of frustrating. But yeah i don't think he's that bad of a singer, its just, the arrangement was very whinny and karaoke-ish. He shouldn't have sung that song, its wasn't a good choice period. And that lady singing should just not sing!

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Originally Posted by cille (Post 347000)

^it's a really difficoult song to sing because it's so simple. You just have to pour your soul into it, people have to FEEL you, or it's just another song.

i remember your cover :) (i better say, your version, cause the tempo is different, in a lovely way).
it is brilliant!