Glen Hansard releases live performance video for ‘My Little Ruin’

Glen Hansard has shared the live performance video for ‘My Little Ruin’.

"I wrote ‘My Little Ruin’ for a close friend who was going through a precarious self-destruct period," said Hansard. "Someone who is blessed with the greatest of gifts, and who just couldn't see how they were letting folks walk all over them.

"It was a sort of intervention song. A friend who will risk being honest might save you years of slow figuring it out by yourself. Gotta tread lightly though."

‘My Little Ruin’ is the Irish singer-songwriter's latest track from his forthcoming album Don+t Settle - Transmissions East, set to be released on April 24 via Plateau/Secretly Distribution.

The live performance video is the third one to have been released, following the visuals of ‘Didn't He Ramble’ and ‘Down On Our Knees’, both of which feature in the upcoming LP.

Don+t Settle - Transmissions East was recorded over two nights last April in front of a dedicated audience at Berlin's historic former East German radio facility, Funkhaus.

The upcoming 10-track record is said to be a career retrospective opus, a best-of collection, a live record, and a new studio album, featuring songs from Hansard's solo career as well as his work as frontman of Irish rock band The Frames, and half of the Oscar-winning duo The Swell Season.

Don+t Settle - Transmissions East is the first release of a two-volume set. The second release, Transmission West, is set to appear later this year. Both albums have no vocal overdubs, second takes, autotune or editing.

Later this spring, Hansard is heading out on a UK and Europe tour, which includes a Dublin date at Trinity College on July 2.

Tickets are available now here.

You can pre-order Don+t Settle - Transmissions East here.

Watch the video for ‘My Little Ruin’ below: