Ian Reed Merrifield

Singer/songwriter living and performing in the Bay Area. “Decide what to be and go be it.”

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@ThinkInPeach Take another look at your screenshot. He’s waiting on 19, 6 are waiting on him

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@ShutUpAmanda Time will be the healer once again ❤️

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@TristanMCarroll Go fuck yourself, please

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@Orla_McRide Lol as if we needed more proof that Neko Case is a fucking loon

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@halfbaked_ie @mickthehack Please fuck off when you don’t know shit

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@HenryNewman1888 @mickthehack Please stop speculating when you don’t know shit

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@fearonsliabh @mickthehack Please go fuck yourself, my god

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@sylmontalban @lwoodhouse Please go fuck yourself, take that shit elsewhere

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@LeaveHeardAlone Please go fuck yourself

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@yellowpackjim Please fuck right off

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@seamusrebel Please fuck right off, asap

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@cocamidemea This is absolute bullshit. Please fuck right off.

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@realsashastone Lol what? Loathe Springsteen? For what possible reason?

[Brian Tallerico @Brian_Tallerico]

Glen Hansard’s voice could often make me cry before. Now it feels like it always will.

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@TristanMCarroll With my whole heart: *fuck* you dude

[Spring-Nuts @SpringNuts_]

So heartbreaking and unimaginable. What a tragedy and loss. RIP @Glen_Hansard thank you for all the wonderful memories and music. You were special in every way.

Here's a absolutely beautiful version of Drive All Night with @springsteen and the #Estreetband back in 2013 in Kilkenny. #springsteen #glenhansard

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Ian Reed Merrifield @irmerrifield]

@drjenwolkin Yeah, me too. What a huge loss.

[Dr. Jen Wolkin | ADHD + Trauma Therapist @drjenwolkin]

Parasocial loss is processed through similar “grief circuitry” as real relationships.

Your grief is real, and there’s no shame in grieving the loss of someone you connected with from afar.

Grieving Glen Hansard, today. His music is life-affirming. May his memory be for a blessing. XO, Dr. Jen

[Mike Scott @MickPuck]

Just heard that Glen Hansard has died. Travel on well, Buddy. You made your dreams come true. I'm so sorry that he leaves his wife and 3-year-old child.