Glen Hansard to release solo material

You can get a sneak preview by hopping on a plane and catching Glen’s March 19 show at Pianos in New York.
Support is provided by his – chortle – Czech mate Marketa Irglov.
Meanwhile, 15 years after The Commitments, Hansard is playing the lead role in a low-budget Irish film about a busker.
“He meets this East European girl, and she inspires him to get off his ass and to get into the studio and make a record and go see his girlfriend in London…to get her back with these songs that he's been writing,” Glen reveals. “The script is really good, I'm very happy with it.”
Even more interestingly, Glen is writing the accompanying soundtrack with Damien Rice.
“We’ve taken the guitars out and (I’ve said), ‘Right, here's the scene where I'm playing this song for the first time on the street. This girl walks by and she hears it. What kind of song is it? Where are we? Okay, what have we got?’
“One of us starts playing some chords and we kind of take it from there. It’s been really organic, really simple. What he has to offer and what I have to offer are two very different things, and when they combine they seem to work well.”