Set List

One of Ireland's best-kept secrets. The Frames' Set List contains songs culled from The Frames’ four album repertoire, honed and refined over 14 years of intense, elating and near-legendary live shows. The sense of profound connection forged between the band and its audience has often been compared to the evangelical feeling at shows by Springsteen and U2 – albeit with more skewed sensibilities – and it’s there for the hearing on Set List: in the indoor fireworks of "Revelate" and "God Bless Mum"; in the audience’s full-throated contribution to the warped earthenware folk of "Lay Me Down"; in the rambling, poignant and funny monologue that prefaces the aching "When The Heart Just Stops"; in a version of the epic "Fitzcarraldo" so incendiary one of the guitar amps went up in flames. The Frames’ open-heart surgery songs deal in love and anger, mourning and ambition, art and blood, stealing from sources as diverse as Werner Herzog and John Fante as much as Dylan or The Pixies or Sparklehorse or maverick figures like Steve Albini (who recorded the band’s fourth album "For The Birds").