Glen Hansard Announces Release Date for New Live Album, "Don't Settle - Transmissions West"

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"Don+t Settle - Transmissions West" will be released on June 26th, 2026.

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Glen Hansard, co-writer of the musical Once, has set the release of Don+t Settle - Transmissions West, the second volume of his new album Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West. It will be released on June 26th, 2026, via Plateau/Secretly Distribution.

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Recorded over two nights in April 2025 in front of an audience at Berlin’s Funkhaus, the album’s 20-song tracklist features live reinterpretations of songs from across his career, including his four solo albums, his work with The Frames, as well as half of the Oscar-winning duo The Swell Season (with Markéta Irglová).

Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West as a whole encapsulates multiple things at once: a career retrospective opus, a ‘Best Of’ collection, a live record, and a new studio album. Both volumes of Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West feature no vocal overdubs, second takes, autotune, or editing.

Ahead of the release, Hansard has also shared the single “Revelate.” Watch the live performance video filmed at Funkhaus during recording and preorder Vol. 2 now here .

Transmissions East (Vol. 1) was released on April 24th. Hansard recently wrapped a U.K. / EU headline tour in support of Vol. 1 and has a number of tour dates remaining in 2026, including a hometown Dublin in-store performance/signing at Tower Records on July 1st and a show at Trinity College on July 2nd. The current itinerary is below and Tickets for the tour are available HERE.

06.19.26 - Festival Slunovrat - OPAVA

07.01.26 - Tower Records (in-store & signing) - DUBLIN

07.02.26 - Trinity College - DUBLIN

12.11.26 - Barezzi Festival - PARMA

12.12.26 - Auditorium San Francesco - PERUGIA

12.14.26 - Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone - ROME

12.15.26 - Teatro Rossini - PESARO

A founding member of The Frames, Hansard first gained international attention through Alan Parker’s 1991 film The Commitments and a subsequent film, Once (2007), made on a modest budget, became a global success and grossed $23 million worldwide. Co-starring Markéta Irglová, the pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ‘Falling Slowly’ and later recorded and toured as The Swell Season.

Since launching his solo career with 2012’s Rhythm and Repose, Hansard has released four further studio albums: Didn’t He Ramble (2015), Between Two Shores (2018), This Wild Willing (2019), and All That Was East Is West of Me Now (2023).

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/ONCE-Writer-Glen-Hansard-Unveils-Release-Date-for-Volume-2-of-New-Live-Album-20260527)._