Tag: High Hopes

  • Kodaline: Love Like This (Video)

    Kodaline: Love Like This (Video)

    Kodaline2013So the lads from Kodaline have finally put themselves in front of the camera for the vid for their forthcoming single, ‘Love Like This’. The track is a bit more uptempo than ‘All I Want’ or ‘High Hopes’.

    I spoke to Kodaline in December when they played the DCU Christmas Ball, somewhere along the way the album release for “In A Perfect World’ was pushed back from March to June. When I spoke to them about their EP releases and how prolific they were, they joked about recording a brand new EP over Christmas and releasing an extra EP in June. That obviously won’t be happening as the album has a June release date but it’s great to know that we won’t have to wait for a difficult second album if they are writing like that.

    Kodaline are hitting the festival highway, here are some upcoming dates.

    Thursday 16th May – The Great Escape (Brighton)
    Friday 14th June – Pinkpop Festival (Holland)
    Sunday 16th June – Isle of Wight Festival
    Friday 21st June – Hurricane Festival (Germany)
    Saturday 22nd June – Southside Festival (Germany)
    Friday 28th June – Glastonbury Festival
    Saturday 29th June – Hard Rock Calling (London)
    Saturday 20th July – Longitude Festival (Ireland)
    Saturday 27th July – Stockton Weekender
    Saturday 10th August – Summersonic Festival (Japan)
    Saturday 17th August – Pukkelpop Festival (Belgium)

    Here’s the video:

    You can hear my interview with Kodaline here:

    Kodaline Interview: Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM by Nessy on Mixcloud

  • Glen Hansard: High Hope (Video)

    Glen Hansard: High Hope (Video)

    GlenHansardGlen Hansard returns to his roots in his new video for ‘High Hope’. Ballymun is the setting for the Hedi Rose directed video. The ‘mun and its people are beautifully shot and I really like the slow transition from black and white to colour.

    High Hope is taken from ‘Rhythm And Repose’ and recently featured in Parenthood where Glen also appeared singing the tune. The episode featured Kristina Braverman’s (Monica Potter) struggle with breast cancer. Part of the profits from the sale of High Hope on iTunes will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer. You can grab it here on iTunes.

    Ballymun is about a fifteen minute walk from where I’m currently sitting. I would have loved to have been in the Shopping Centre when that busking session happened.

    You can catch Glen live in Ireland in just ten days time,

    Sun 16 Dec – Ulster Hall, Belfast
    Mon 17 Dec – Vicar St, Dublin
    Tues 18 Dec – Vicar St, Dublin