Glen Vilpu

ONCE is a modern day musical set on the streets of Dublin. Featuring Glen Hansard, lead singer of the Irish band "The Frames," the film tells the story of a street musician and a Czech immigrant during an eventful week as they write, rehearse and record songs that reveal their unique love story. Contains 13 original songs written and performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, all of which are performed in the film. A collector's edition of the soundtrack was released on 4 December 2007 in the US with additional songs and a bonus DVD with live performances and interviews about the film. The additional songs were two previously unreleased Van Morrison covers: Hansard's "And the Healing Has Begun", and Hansard and Irglová's "Into the Mystic".

This fine twofer is very much tied in with Ace’s history, especially with original Chiswick label. The first album on Chiswick in 1977 was 'Hollywood Rock’n’Rol'” which contained some tracks by Glen Glenn that attracted appreciative reaction from European fans. Ace founder Ted Carroll met Glen near Los Angeles soon after and was able to assemble a new album that included alternate takes of his best-known songs plus some radio and TV performances.
This was issued as 'The Glen Glenn Story' in 1982, once again to much acclaim around the UK and Europe, which spurred Glen to return to the studio to make a new album, 'Everybody’s Movin’ Again', released on Ace in 1984…

The 2008 recording captures Glen in fine form, on a mixture of career hits and other favourites from his peerless career. The set included such signatures as “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Galveston,” as well as his interpretations of originals by Lou Reed (“Jesus”), Foo Fighters (“Times Like These”), Tom Petty (“Walls”), and Paul Westerberg (“Sadly Beautiful”). The show not only displays Campbell in fine voice and nimble form on guitar, and communicating with his admiring audience as warmly as ever, but showcases a band featuring no fewer than four of his children. The line-up also includes session and live players also known for their work with Beck, Jellyfish, Jane’s Addiction, Murphy’s Law, D Generation, and Danzig.