“A song only becomes what it is through witness,” says Glen Hansard, speaking from a makeshift stage ... The resulting album, ‘All That Was East Is West of Me Now’, is by turns noisy and meditative, ...

The road to stardom for Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard and his band the Frames ... him the title of his latest solo album: All That Was East Is West of Me Now. He is definitely older now ...

The lights are a distraction for Glen Hansard. Beard streaked with colour ... last year’s fifth record under his own name, All That Was East Is West of Me Now. As frontman of Irish rock veterans ...