<\/p>\n
CHICAGO, Ill. \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>Oscar speeches come and go. Each year a new batch replaces the old with only a select few penetrating public consciousness enough to make a best-of reel. Fewer still can survive a replay without an element of cringe.<\/p>\nNot so much for Glen Hansard and Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1, whose timeless \u201cFalling Slowly\u201d from the 2007 indie darling \u201cOnce\u201d won for best original song at the 2008 ceremony. <\/p>\nHansard\u2019s bewildered appeal to \u201cmake art, make art!\u201d and host Jon Stewart bringing the then 19-year-old Irglov\u00e1 back on stage post-commercial break after the orchestra cut her off to deliver a wide-eyed message (\u201cFair play to those who dare to dream and don\u2019t give up\u201d) carved a spot in people\u2019s hearts that even surpassed the goodwill brought on by starring in the film as two strangers who change each other\u2019s lives through song.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/picture> <\/svg> <\/button> <\/ps-youtubeplayer> <\/div><\/div><\/div>\nThe relentless touring as the Swell Season that followed while simultaneously embarking on an ill-fated love affair in real life only added to their Hollywood story (and fueled a cycle of celebrity gossip, especially in Hansard\u2019s native Ireland, the pair hopes to never experience again).<\/p>\nRemarkably, the duo is still making good on those speeches. They\u2019ve never stopped dreaming big or making art, and now, almost 20 years later, they\u2019ve reconvened as the Swell Season with a gorgeous new album, \u201cForward,\u201d and tour that stops at the Greek Theatre on Sept. 19.<\/p>\nSitting side by side in a tiny box of a dressing room sporting an absurdly robust tea selection in July hours before performing at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, both recall over an hour-long conversation the initial phone call (or text \u2014 they can\u2019t agree) that jump-started this reunion of sorts. \u201cIt\u2019s not like we\u2019ve lost contact, but [it was] very loose,\u201d Hansard explained through a haze of burning sage balanced precipitously on the vanity. \u201cMar sings on my records and Mar will send me songs every so often.\u201d<\/p>\nIn Hansard\u2019s retelling, reaching out was a spur-of-the moment decision made while having breakfast at Mel\u2019s Drive-In on Sunset Blvd., while in Southern California for Eddie Vedder\u2019s Ohana Festival. An idea no doubt brought on by all of the time the pair spent in the area during the Oscar campaign while staying at a friend\u2019s house on Miller Drive. \u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m gonna text her and see does she fancy playing a few gigs,\u2019 because as musicians that\u2019s the best way to see your friends,\u201d he reasoned.<\/p>\nFor Irglov\u00e1, the inquiry was a long time coming.<\/p>\n\u201cEver since we stopped touring, I always assumed that we would do another tour. It\u2019s like, why did we stop touring? It was supposed to be a break. But then it just became more and more than a break, but it was unsaid. Nobody decided it. The conversation never happened,\u201d the Czech-born pianist said.<\/p>\n\u201cI would have always liked receiving that phone call, but by the time it came, I definitely stopped waiting for it in any shape or form. I felt like, that\u2019s also OK if it never happens. But then Glen called and all of the sudden I\u2019m faced with the reality.\u201d<\/p>\nIrglov\u00e1 wondered if the strength of their creative connection had withstood the intervening years. \u201cWith me and Glen, we\u2019re either really great together or terrible together depending on how well we align with our energies,\u201d she confessed.<\/p>\nAfter all, a lot of life happened since 2009\u2019s \u201cStrict Joy\u201d and their ascendance in pop culture \u2014 the Venn diagram of musicians depicted in animated form on \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d referenced lovingly in \u201cTed Lasso\u201d and feted at the Tony Awards for a Broadway musical is miniscule.<\/p>\nIrglov\u00e1, 37, relocated to Iceland with her now husband, had three kids (the youngest is 7) and released a trilogy of dreamlike solo albums. In the last three years, the 55-year-old Hansard became a father, and husband to Finnish poet Maire Saaritsa, splitting his time between Helsinki, Dublin and wherever his self-inflicted rigorous touring schedule takes him. \u201cI\u2019m kind of institutionalized by touring,\u201d he admitted, noting his four solo albums that needed promoting. \u201cI love it. It\u2019s where I know who I am.\u201d<\/p>\nBuoyed by the interpersonal success of a five-gig \u201ctest drive,\u201d the duo embarked on making \u201cForward\u201d over three fruitful sessions at Irglov\u00e1\u2019s home studio run by her husband, Sturla Mio Thorisson, who also produces. Family life etched itself into the bones of the album with grandparents and fair-haired kids mingling for backyard hangs roasting marshmallows and shooting hoops and even lending some background vocals, which Irglov\u00e1 captured and turned into a 45-minute making-of documentary called \u201cThe Forward Journey.\u201d<\/p>\nSomeone with a parasocial attachment to the pair would have a field day trying to decipher which of the album\u2019s eight tracks are about the other. And, yes songs like Irglov\u00e1\u2019s wistful \u201cPeople We Used to Be\u201d with lyrics such as \u201cHow I miss the people we used to be \/ And all those things that you brought out in me\u201d and Hansard\u2019s pleading \u201cStuck in Reverse,\u201d which begins, \u201cMy love, can we go backwards \/ Back to the days before the going got rough,\u201d throw fuel on any theories about lingering feelings, but they are also amalgams of many years and experiences. Sorry to disappoint the shippers.<\/p>\nAutobiographical details come directly in \u201cFactory Street Bells\u201d where Hansard calls Christy, his 3-year-old son, a \u201cfull-blown, solid gold miracle\u201d before launching into one of his signature yelps that stretches a single syllable into a voyage between dimensions. Unsurprisingly, welcoming a child into the world radically shifted Hansard\u2019s perspective. \u201cIt made me think much more about staying alive,\u201d he said quietly.<\/p>\nTrading in pints of Guinness at the pub in post-concert celebrations for Guinness Zero, Hansard now writes the number of days without alcohol on his inner wrist to keep track. \u201cI stopped drinking. Just because I have no time for it. I have no emotional space for it. It\u2019s just very selfish,\u201d he concluded. \u201c[Christy] has definitely affected my relationship with living. I choose porridge over the bacon and eggs.\u201d<\/p>\nThe album\u2019s soaring closer, \u201cHundred Words\u201d came to Irglov\u00e1 \u201cin a dream.\u201d She woke up with a melody and the craving to receive 8.3 dozen specific terms from a partner. She still can\u2019t identify them. \u201cI wonder about the 100 words as well. I thought maybe it would come to me over time,\u201d she admitted. Instead of discarding the idea in lieu of clarity, she trusted in the delivery method and Hansard helped fill in the blanks.<\/p>\nThe song hits that sweet spot unique to the Swell Season where the somber and celestial meld. Where lines like \u201cdon\u2019t give up; don\u2019t stop believing; keep the faith\u201d can transform from overworn platitudes into a chant of quiet confidence and inflate the listener\u2019s heart like the Grinch on Christmas. Written the way many of the old songs came into being \u2014 sitting in a room bouncing ideas back and forth \u2014 the track holds a special place in Irglov\u00e1\u2019s heart because it\u2019s \u201cthe one song on the album which is equally me and Glen,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s our song.\u201d<\/p>\nIrglov\u00e1 exudes a boundless presence in this iteration of the Swell Season. Her contributions always felt integral, but often sweetly complimentary to Hansard\u2019s outsized showmanship. Even live, she often seemed tucked away on the side of the stage, her piano acting as a physical border between her and the rest of the action. Now, her angelic voice acts as a force for Hansard to push up against instead of flattering his parts. Later that evening onstage in Chicago, the lush, tender album Hulks-out with drummer Piero Perelli and original bassist Joseph Doyle. These lean, muscular renditions allow Hansard and Irglov\u00e1 to completely lock in with each other for a riveting dance.<\/p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s nobody on this Earth that I\u2019ve ever met who can do what Mar does when we sing together,\u201d Hansard affirmed.<\/p>\nGoing back to that life-changing Oscar, Irglov\u00e1 reveals that back then she viewed it as an incredible time for Hansard and points out if you rewatch the footage, she immediately looks at him to gauge his reaction as their names get called out. \u201cAt the time, I really felt like, \u2018I\u2019m on Glen\u2019s journey,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI thought, \u2018It\u2019s really Glen\u2019s moment and I\u2019m so happy that I somehow got to contribute to it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\nToday, she revels in ownership over the honor: \u201cThat was for me too and I recognize what my part in that was. I know I was put in this role for this,\u201d she attested.<\/p>\nHansard relied on that sure-footedness in the studio where Irglov\u00e1 \u201ccut to the chase\u201d and reined in his tendency to tinker and noodle \u2014 a tactic his band The Frames indulged in when not on hiatus. \u201cMar would be like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna go pick up the kids and put on the lunch, have those lyrics finished by the time I get back and we\u2019ll record it.\u2019 And for me, that\u2019s shocking \u2018cause I can spend years writing a song,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd she was like, \u2018Have it done by 12 o\u2019clock,\u2019 which is an amazing challenge.\u201d<\/p>\nAccepted \u2014 and won.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO, Ill. \u00a0\u2014\u00a0Oscar speeches come and go. 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Not so much for Glen Hansard and Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1, whose timeless \u201cFalling Slowly\u201d from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Swell-Seasons-Glen-Hansard-and-Marketa-Irglova-reunite-on-Forward.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Not so much for Glen Hansard and Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1, whose timeless \u201cFalling Slowly\u201d from the 2007 indie darling \u201cOnce\u201d won for best original song at the 2008 ceremony. <\/p>\n
Hansard\u2019s bewildered appeal to \u201cmake art, make art!\u201d and host Jon Stewart bringing the then 19-year-old Irglov\u00e1 back on stage post-commercial break after the orchestra cut her off to deliver a wide-eyed message (\u201cFair play to those who dare to dream and don\u2019t give up\u201d) carved a spot in people\u2019s hearts that even surpassed the goodwill brought on by starring in the film as two strangers who change each other\u2019s lives through song.<\/p>\n
The relentless touring as the Swell Season that followed while simultaneously embarking on an ill-fated love affair in real life only added to their Hollywood story (and fueled a cycle of celebrity gossip, especially in Hansard\u2019s native Ireland, the pair hopes to never experience again).<\/p>\n
Remarkably, the duo is still making good on those speeches. They\u2019ve never stopped dreaming big or making art, and now, almost 20 years later, they\u2019ve reconvened as the Swell Season with a gorgeous new album, \u201cForward,\u201d and tour that stops at the Greek Theatre on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n
Sitting side by side in a tiny box of a dressing room sporting an absurdly robust tea selection in July hours before performing at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, both recall over an hour-long conversation the initial phone call (or text \u2014 they can\u2019t agree) that jump-started this reunion of sorts. \u201cIt\u2019s not like we\u2019ve lost contact, but [it was] very loose,\u201d Hansard explained through a haze of burning sage balanced precipitously on the vanity. \u201cMar sings on my records and Mar will send me songs every so often.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Hansard\u2019s retelling, reaching out was a spur-of-the moment decision made while having breakfast at Mel\u2019s Drive-In on Sunset Blvd., while in Southern California for Eddie Vedder\u2019s Ohana Festival. An idea no doubt brought on by all of the time the pair spent in the area during the Oscar campaign while staying at a friend\u2019s house on Miller Drive. \u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m gonna text her and see does she fancy playing a few gigs,\u2019 because as musicians that\u2019s the best way to see your friends,\u201d he reasoned.<\/p>\n
For Irglov\u00e1, the inquiry was a long time coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cEver since we stopped touring, I always assumed that we would do another tour. It\u2019s like, why did we stop touring? It was supposed to be a break. But then it just became more and more than a break, but it was unsaid. Nobody decided it. The conversation never happened,\u201d the Czech-born pianist said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have always liked receiving that phone call, but by the time it came, I definitely stopped waiting for it in any shape or form. I felt like, that\u2019s also OK if it never happens. But then Glen called and all of the sudden I\u2019m faced with the reality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irglov\u00e1 wondered if the strength of their creative connection had withstood the intervening years. \u201cWith me and Glen, we\u2019re either really great together or terrible together depending on how well we align with our energies,\u201d she confessed.<\/p>\n
After all, a lot of life happened since 2009\u2019s \u201cStrict Joy\u201d and their ascendance in pop culture \u2014 the Venn diagram of musicians depicted in animated form on \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d referenced lovingly in \u201cTed Lasso\u201d and feted at the Tony Awards for a Broadway musical is miniscule.<\/p>\n
Irglov\u00e1, 37, relocated to Iceland with her now husband, had three kids (the youngest is 7) and released a trilogy of dreamlike solo albums. In the last three years, the 55-year-old Hansard became a father, and husband to Finnish poet Maire Saaritsa, splitting his time between Helsinki, Dublin and wherever his self-inflicted rigorous touring schedule takes him. \u201cI\u2019m kind of institutionalized by touring,\u201d he admitted, noting his four solo albums that needed promoting. \u201cI love it. It\u2019s where I know who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buoyed by the interpersonal success of a five-gig \u201ctest drive,\u201d the duo embarked on making \u201cForward\u201d over three fruitful sessions at Irglov\u00e1\u2019s home studio run by her husband, Sturla Mio Thorisson, who also produces. Family life etched itself into the bones of the album with grandparents and fair-haired kids mingling for backyard hangs roasting marshmallows and shooting hoops and even lending some background vocals, which Irglov\u00e1 captured and turned into a 45-minute making-of documentary called \u201cThe Forward Journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Someone with a parasocial attachment to the pair would have a field day trying to decipher which of the album\u2019s eight tracks are about the other. And, yes songs like Irglov\u00e1\u2019s wistful \u201cPeople We Used to Be\u201d with lyrics such as \u201cHow I miss the people we used to be \/ And all those things that you brought out in me\u201d and Hansard\u2019s pleading \u201cStuck in Reverse,\u201d which begins, \u201cMy love, can we go backwards \/ Back to the days before the going got rough,\u201d throw fuel on any theories about lingering feelings, but they are also amalgams of many years and experiences. Sorry to disappoint the shippers.<\/p>\n
Autobiographical details come directly in \u201cFactory Street Bells\u201d where Hansard calls Christy, his 3-year-old son, a \u201cfull-blown, solid gold miracle\u201d before launching into one of his signature yelps that stretches a single syllable into a voyage between dimensions. Unsurprisingly, welcoming a child into the world radically shifted Hansard\u2019s perspective. \u201cIt made me think much more about staying alive,\u201d he said quietly.<\/p>\n
Trading in pints of Guinness at the pub in post-concert celebrations for Guinness Zero, Hansard now writes the number of days without alcohol on his inner wrist to keep track. \u201cI stopped drinking. Just because I have no time for it. I have no emotional space for it. It\u2019s just very selfish,\u201d he concluded. \u201c[Christy] has definitely affected my relationship with living. I choose porridge over the bacon and eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The album\u2019s soaring closer, \u201cHundred Words\u201d came to Irglov\u00e1 \u201cin a dream.\u201d She woke up with a melody and the craving to receive 8.3 dozen specific terms from a partner. She still can\u2019t identify them. \u201cI wonder about the 100 words as well. I thought maybe it would come to me over time,\u201d she admitted. Instead of discarding the idea in lieu of clarity, she trusted in the delivery method and Hansard helped fill in the blanks.<\/p>\n
The song hits that sweet spot unique to the Swell Season where the somber and celestial meld. Where lines like \u201cdon\u2019t give up; don\u2019t stop believing; keep the faith\u201d can transform from overworn platitudes into a chant of quiet confidence and inflate the listener\u2019s heart like the Grinch on Christmas. Written the way many of the old songs came into being \u2014 sitting in a room bouncing ideas back and forth \u2014 the track holds a special place in Irglov\u00e1\u2019s heart because it\u2019s \u201cthe one song on the album which is equally me and Glen,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s our song.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irglov\u00e1 exudes a boundless presence in this iteration of the Swell Season. Her contributions always felt integral, but often sweetly complimentary to Hansard\u2019s outsized showmanship. Even live, she often seemed tucked away on the side of the stage, her piano acting as a physical border between her and the rest of the action. Now, her angelic voice acts as a force for Hansard to push up against instead of flattering his parts. Later that evening onstage in Chicago, the lush, tender album Hulks-out with drummer Piero Perelli and original bassist Joseph Doyle. These lean, muscular renditions allow Hansard and Irglov\u00e1 to completely lock in with each other for a riveting dance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nobody on this Earth that I\u2019ve ever met who can do what Mar does when we sing together,\u201d Hansard affirmed.<\/p>\n
Going back to that life-changing Oscar, Irglov\u00e1 reveals that back then she viewed it as an incredible time for Hansard and points out if you rewatch the footage, she immediately looks at him to gauge his reaction as their names get called out. \u201cAt the time, I really felt like, \u2018I\u2019m on Glen\u2019s journey,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI thought, \u2018It\u2019s really Glen\u2019s moment and I\u2019m so happy that I somehow got to contribute to it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, she revels in ownership over the honor: \u201cThat was for me too and I recognize what my part in that was. I know I was put in this role for this,\u201d she attested.<\/p>\n
Hansard relied on that sure-footedness in the studio where Irglov\u00e1 \u201ccut to the chase\u201d and reined in his tendency to tinker and noodle \u2014 a tactic his band The Frames indulged in when not on hiatus. \u201cMar would be like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna go pick up the kids and put on the lunch, have those lyrics finished by the time I get back and we\u2019ll record it.\u2019 And for me, that\u2019s shocking \u2018cause I can spend years writing a song,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd she was like, \u2018Have it done by 12 o\u2019clock,\u2019 which is an amazing challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Accepted \u2014 and won.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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