The Frames
Verfasst: 25.04.2007, 20:02

The Frames is an Irish band based mainly in Dublin. As of late 2004, the band consists of Glen Hansard (vocals, guitar), Joe Doyle (bass guitar, vocals), Colm Mac Con Iomaire (violin, keyboard and vocals), Rob Bochnik (lead guitar) and Johnny Boyle (drums). Various people played drums during 2004, including Graham Hopkins who drummed on Dance the Devil, Burn the Maps and the band's latest album The Cost. On both versions of the album Fitzcarraldo the band went by the moniker "The Frames DC", to avoid confusion with a United States band.
The band has existed since 1990 and is a survivor of Dublin's prolific early 90s rock and roll scene. They have also been central to the development of the current crop of emerging Irish rock bands, including Turn, and have toured with other Irish artists as support, including Damien Rice and Bell X1. In December 2004, Hansard appeared on stage to collaborate with singer songwriter Paddy Casey.
The name "The Frames" arose from Hansard's habit, at a young age, of fixing the bicycles of many of his friends. The large number of bicycle frames lying around his house led neighbours to dub it the "house with the frames". In a 2001 interview, Hansard said, "I worked in a bicycle shop for a little while, but the name came from… my back garden was so full of frames, my house became known as The Frames house, much to my mother’s distaste, she hated it. But my garden was full of frames, old bikes, I would make up bikes for my friends out of all the old bikes. So it sort of became known if anybody found a bike up on the hill on the way home they would throw it into my garden, a graveyard for old bikes".
The band released its sixth studio album, The Cost, on September 22, 2006.

Trivia
- Colm Mac Con Iomaire was previously a member the Irish folk music group Kíla in from 1987-1991.
- Glen Hansard played the character Outspan Foster in the 1991 film The Commitments, and the unnamed Dublin street-musician credited as "Guy" in the 2007 film Once.
- Irish actress Bronagh Gallagher, who appeared with Glen Hansard in The Commitments, wears a Frames t-shirt during a scene in the movie Pulp Fiction.
- The band frequently perform the song "Heyday" by Mic Christopher at live gigs in tribute to him.
- They often intersperse snippets of songs into their own songs. These songs vary from "Two Little Boys", "Redemption Song" and "Ring Of Fire" to "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
- Glen Hansard is the main parodied star of the Irish music/comedy website Eyebrowy.com
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