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WALTONS TO HANSARD: DROP DEAD
“Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice” sang Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova in the 2007 film Once. Two years on, that option may just have expired. Press release from Friction PR this morning:
“Falling Slowly”, the Oscar-winning song from Irish independent film “Once” has been banned from being played in Waltons Music Shop in Dublin (which features in the film). The owner and staff are sick of hearing it played by all and sundry who come into the shop to check out instruments.
May 25th, 2009.
May 25th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Can’t blame the Waltons Music Shop in Dublin. They’re trying to make a living in there! They are not a tourist stop. Serious music makers only, please.
May 25th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
thats put a big grin on my face..is that the only Glen Hansard song they’ve banned, jeesh they should have gone the whole hog…I know what you would have done Eoin!
May 25th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I wouldn’t have let him in the door in the first place, Cons.
May 25th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
they should flip that motherfucker into a moneyspinner yo! Charge those dawgs a fiver a pop to sing dat Irish shit.
January 24th, 2011 at 11:45 pm
wow, I only said you couldn’t blame the shop for what has happened since the film and music Oscar…. I love Hansard’s music.