Don+t Settle Transmissions East
Glen Hansard
Don+t Settle (Vol. 1 – Transmissions East) is a live album from Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, released April 24, 2026 via Plateau/Secretly Distribution. Recorded over two nights in April 2025 — coinciding with Hansard's 55th birthday — at Berlin's historic Funkhaus, a vast former East German radio facility, the album presents ten career-spanning tracks drawn from his solo work as well as his time with The Frames and The Swell Season. The inspiration for the project traces back to a rain-soaked outdoor show in The Hague in the summer of 2024, where Hansard invited audience members onstage during a storm — an impromptu communal moment that helped shape the record's spirit. Crucially, the album was made with no vocal overdubs, second takes, autotune, or editing, capturing the raw immediacy that has long defined Hansard as a live performer.
The ten-song set moves across the full breadth of Hansard's catalog, from the driving defiance of the title track to the haunting Swell Season cut "Back Broke," the Frames classic "Fitzcarraldo," and the traditional Irish folk song "Carrickfergus." Hotpress gave the album an 8/10, calling it "powerful and spellbinding," noting echoes of Joy Division in "Down On Our Knees" and Leonard Cohen in "Back Broke," while praising the virtuoso backing band — which includes Frames members Joe Doyle and Graham Hopkins. The album functions simultaneously as a career retrospective, a live document, and something forward-looking: Hansard himself has said this isn't nostalgia but rather an artist planting a flag in the present. A second volume, Transmissions West, is due later in 2026.
Don+t Settle (Vol. 1 – Transmissions East) is a live album from Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, released April 24, 2026 via Plateau/Secretly Distribution. Recorded over two nights in April 2025 — coinciding with Hansard's 55th birthday — at Berlin's historic Funkhaus, a vast former East German radio facility, the album presents ten career-spanning tracks drawn from his solo work as well as his time with The Frames and The Swell Season. The inspiration for the project traces back to a rain-soaked outdoor show in The Hague in the summer of 2024, where Hansard invited audience members onstage during a storm — an impromptu communal moment that helped shape the record's spirit. Crucially, the album was made with no vocal overdubs, second takes, autotune, or editing, capturing the raw immediacy that has long defined Hansard as a live performer.
The ten-song set moves across the full breadth of Hansard's catalog, from the driving defiance of the title track to the haunting Swell Season cut "Back Broke," the Frames classic "Fitzcarraldo," and the traditional Irish folk song "Carrickfergus." Hotpress gave the album an 8/10, calling it "powerful and spellbinding," noting echoes of Joy Division in "Down On Our Knees" and Leonard Cohen in "Back Broke," while praising the virtuoso backing band — which includes Frames members Joe Doyle and Graham Hopkins. The album functions simultaneously as a career retrospective, a live document, and something forward-looking: Hansard himself has said this isn't nostalgia but rather an artist planting a flag in the present. A second volume, Transmissions West, is due later in 2026.
Don+t Settle Transmissions East
Glen Hansard
Don+t Settle (Vol. 1 – Transmissions East) is a live album from Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, released April 24, 2026 via Plateau/Secretly Distribution. Recorded over two nights in April 2025 — coinciding with Hansard's 55th birthday — at Berlin's historic Funkhaus, a vast former East German radio facility, the album presents ten career-spanning tracks drawn from his solo work as well as his time with The Frames and The Swell Season. The inspiration for the project traces back to a rain-soaked outdoor show in The Hague in the summer of 2024, where Hansard invited audience members onstage during a storm — an impromptu communal moment that helped shape the record's spirit. Crucially, the album was made with no vocal overdubs, second takes, autotune, or editing, capturing the raw immediacy that has long defined Hansard as a live performer.
The ten-song set moves across the full breadth of Hansard's catalog, from the driving defiance of the title track to the haunting Swell Season cut "Back Broke," the Frames classic "Fitzcarraldo," and the traditional Irish folk song "Carrickfergus." Hotpress gave the album an 8/10, calling it "powerful and spellbinding," noting echoes of Joy Division in "Down On Our Knees" and Leonard Cohen in "Back Broke," while praising the virtuoso backing band — which includes Frames members Joe Doyle and Graham Hopkins. The album functions simultaneously as a career retrospective, a live document, and something forward-looking: Hansard himself has said this isn't nostalgia but rather an artist planting a flag in the present. A second volume, Transmissions West, is due later in 2026.
Don+t Settle (Vol. 1 – Transmissions East) is a live album from Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, released April 24, 2026 via Plateau/Secretly Distribution. Recorded over two nights in April 2025 — coinciding with Hansard's 55th birthday — at Berlin's historic Funkhaus, a vast former East German radio facility, the album presents ten career-spanning tracks drawn from his solo work as well as his time with The Frames and The Swell Season. The inspiration for the project traces back to a rain-soaked outdoor show in The Hague in the summer of 2024, where Hansard invited audience members onstage during a storm — an impromptu communal moment that helped shape the record's spirit. Crucially, the album was made with no vocal overdubs, second takes, autotune, or editing, capturing the raw immediacy that has long defined Hansard as a live performer.
The ten-song set moves across the full breadth of Hansard's catalog, from the driving defiance of the title track to the haunting Swell Season cut "Back Broke," the Frames classic "Fitzcarraldo," and the traditional Irish folk song "Carrickfergus." Hotpress gave the album an 8/10, calling it "powerful and spellbinding," noting echoes of Joy Division in "Down On Our Knees" and Leonard Cohen in "Back Broke," while praising the virtuoso backing band — which includes Frames members Joe Doyle and Graham Hopkins. The album functions simultaneously as a career retrospective, a live document, and something forward-looking: Hansard himself has said this isn't nostalgia but rather an artist planting a flag in the present. A second volume, Transmissions West, is due later in 2026.