Kennedy’s is still indeed run as a gig venue, although they’re few and far between these days, but James is well up for it so we’ll leave it to the powers that be at your end, here’s hoping we can welcome you back! : -)
Rip it up at Glastonbury, Christy, and don’t forget us waiting patiently for news of whether we’ll ever see you again in the snug at Paddy Kennedy’s pub in Puckane… 🙂
Christy's reply
is it still run as a gig venue?….I dont actually organize gigs…I just do the singing…the idea certainly appeals to me but others make the gigs happen…thanks for sowing the seed, perhaps others may allow it to happen
Well Christy a chara !! What can I say – Just blown away by the brilliant gig in Derry last night and its not easy to keep me quiet !! Absolute perfection and it was a great pleasure to meet with Mairtin before the gig and Cathal after the gig -5 amazing artists on the one stage all in awe like ourselves – Delighted to be in the company of the 4711ers again and to meet the lovely Jan for the first time and I can see Brian moving over here – all you need is a Honda to get around !! Christy gabh raibh mile maith agaibh go leir aris and its really great to see you in such mighty form – Looking forward to seeing you all again soon Very Best Regards and Love Ger x
another great night in the Forum , we,re blessed to have the chance to share these special times. Enjoy Glastonbury…….tell Young Higgins to watch out , I hear Camilla’s gonna be there this year too.
Don’t worry, I won’t ramble on like Martin Mac (he is a Politician). I just want to tell you that I enjoyed the Derry gigs very much. You and the Mairtin O’Connor band sound fantastic together, worthy of a Live album I would say.
Christy's reply
the idea of an album with The Trad Outfit certainly appeals to us 5…who knows what might happen
Hiya Christy, Thank you most sincerely for an amazing couple of nights @ The Millennium Forum in Derry. A joy to see you in such fine form sir and supported by such a wonderful quartet of accomplished musicians. Don’t see how it could get much better than this, Thanks also for the shout out on “Does This Train Stop On Merseyside”….Brilliant #YNWA ….This was my first time this weekend to see you with the band and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed every second. I loved the easy relaxed way the boys blended together so naturally to follow your every lead ..not only was it brilliant to listen to it was also brilliant to watch. It looked like you were having a lot of fun up there knocking out all the old favourites with such apparent ease…two really soothing and mellow sets Christy which was reflected I think in the reverence and respect shown by the audiences on both evenings. Forum crowds have always been enthusiastic and generous towards you, fair too to say that they have been somewhat boisterous on occasion in the past, tonight however, like me they were simply mesmerised by the magic in the music, jaw dropping stuff !!! ….. Always good to meet up with old friends and fellow fans too on nights like these, special occasions for sure. Fair play to all those who travelled great distances to get to the gigs….Ger H and I only had a short hop home after, up through Bridgend and across the border into the hills….We done our best to dodge the Rally crowd around Letterkenny (mad stuff altogether) before heading on to Donegal Town where we stopped off for a couple of greasy Doner Kebabs, t’was like the old days after a scatter a pints LOL ! ..headed on through after the feed to the port off Killybegs where there was much excitement earlier today when young Seamie Coleman married Rachel his childhood sweetheart …great footballer, great role model and proud Donegal man….Last stop then and home to Kilcar, tired but very grateful….Thanks again …See you soon Love & Respect Martin Mac
Christy's reply
we got caught up in thon Rally crowd when we played Letterkenny last year….certainly a place to be avoided when all them loopers are about and them whizzin about with their arses half an inch from the tarmac….but I’m reminded that there were many headbangers around in my day… but back then a fellow would be lucky to have a 3 Speed on his bike…or a pair of streamlined bicycle clips….JImmy Higgins was tellin me about a fellow in Galway who used to put daubs of petrol on himself going to a dance…the girl he asked out to dance might think that he had a car !!! if he shifted , in the car park he’d say……” the feckin brothers after takin the car again”
Morning Christy, as I said previously I went to see you in the Waterfront in Belfast recently and am heading over to Glasgow in October with a few mates. I just want to make a comment on something which I don’t expect you to reply to as that would put you in an unfair position. I watched a programme on RTE 1 last Monday night called ‘Collusion’ which laid bare some shocking revelations about what went on in the North over the past 40 years. It was heartbreaking at times to view and gave an alternative angle to that which the 26 county media and political Establishment have pushed all these decades i.e. that it was ALL the Northern Nationalists and Republicans fault.
As someone who has spoken on and sang about issues in the North and suffered criticism and ridicule from these same partitionist elements I am sure you have your own strong opinion on this programme and the North. My point is this Christy, there are NO clean hands on what went on and unless there is some sort of Truth and Reconciliation forum in which everyone acknowledges their part in the conflict the past will continue to halt any sort of political progress and agreement. I also believe there are those in the Southern political and media Establishment who would be very, very uncomfortable if the truth ever came out about who exactly was in the pay and service of the British State during the conflict in the North.
Christy's reply
it was shocking but there were not many “revelations”… anyone who cared enough knew already ….with regard to your final comment, I imagine there will be rising paranoia in certain quarters….
Bit worried before tonight’s gig that it couldn’t possibly compete with last night’s – but worried for nothing. Been blessed this weekend with two gigs straight from the top of the pile. Wonderful sounds aha harmonies blending beautifully together – don’t know what or where heaven is but feel like it wasn’t far away for 2 hours. Sweet music roll on .
Christy's reply
we had a right good time ourselves…the best of listening and hospitality, top scran and dry beds….not at all like the old days….sound man John
Energy and friendship shine though the Derry posts, a joy to read. Thanks to all who makes us faraway llisteners feel part of it all with their pictures recordings and messages. What a great community this one. Sure i wont start competing for homeland gig but… “Streets of Santiago” is a great song too 🙂
Christy's reply
and thank you for keeping in touch….a gig in Santiago…that would be something…turn left at New York is it ?
Hi Christy,
Can you please come to Melbourne Australia this year or next?? You have a massive amount of fans out here. Would make my life. When I’ve been in Ireland you havent been playing.
Shayne Mooney
Christy's reply
Morra Shayne and all the Victorian Mooneys…wont be there this year, unlikely next year either….the HairyPlanes dont suit my medication…last time I had to leave the plane in Muscat and spend 3 months in Rehab in the Desert….then I got on the wrong plane comin home and ended up in Hashram in Bangkok…I bought a silk suit that fell apart before I had the fly zipped ….by the time I got home the game was up…the dog chewed up my passport and its road gigs only from here on in….
CM (70)
How are you keeping a mhac?
That song is stuck in my head!!!(john spillane)
My cousins Bertie and Micheál have now become ” hunks ” since they started a band up and go around playing.It was pure craic at first but now its just gotten creepy , someone threw a pair of underwear at them last night ( ha ha ) and mom put her hand over my eyes and said it was time to leave! The lads don’t know what the heck to do! The boats are down on the water.The swans in the Claddagh will get no peace now sailing up and down.Noone feeds them just looking at the boats.
Is the river foyle near where you play tonight.?
CS (10)
P.S I found a baby smólach just out of the nest , down by the spanish arch ,she was standing right where they tie the boat on the post.He was cubby and cute.
.
Christy's reply
ceart go leor mo cara…tell them cousins to open a stall selling all the undies thrown at them..thats what Tom Jones does…makes a packet in Wales every Saturday morning….I’m on the banks of The Foyle here…have to walk across the new Peace Bridge to get to the gig….thats how I met the Dalai Lama last year…he was heading over to get a bag of chips
We sat and watched and listened as the five of you weaved the magic…..awesome , songs , music and the craic. . We had friends in the crowd last night and their twins celebrating their upcoming 18 th, highly accomplished musicians themselves, and they were overwhelmed at the end of the show. Thanks to all involved , it must take some time and effort to bring it all together.
Christy's reply
Whallup there Marty…..we are blest in our line of work…all time and effort spent is very pleasureable…I worked in enough shite jobs to know that myself and these 4 musicians are priviledged to have such work as this…..each time we meet its a joy to sit and play in rehearsal….then all you good listeners come along. You give us the air we need to fly. We appreciate that enormously. Its a two way street
Hi Christy, last night was the first time I’ve seen you with the Maírtin O’Conner band and I thoroughly enjoyed the gig, some fine musicians there. It looked liked you were enjoying yourself too.
Christy's reply
it was great to see you there last night me auld Lowland Mucker….you are a loyal and much loved listener…hope you have the Honda safely parked
Thank you Christy for an absolutely superb gig tonight. I thought you were in the zone right from the off and the guys joined you there to create a special magic. Thanks for singing Nancy – the girls were delighted with it and it was special for them. Shame about the girl who seemed to think you were the Wolfe Tones looking for Streets of New York – I suppose she was thinking of Christmas and Shane. Enjoyed the tricolour verse for what it was – a bit of banter. Looking forward to part 2 tomorrow night – it’s great having you back on the Banks of the Foyle.
Christy's reply
thanks John….I slipped last night…after 90 minutes of that poor drunken lady’s interjections I finally lost the equalibrium, she feckin well got me eventually, I lost it,albeit momentarily…my apologies… I hope she is ok this morning…I am powerless over alcohol…no matter who drinks it !!! I did not realize that there is a song by that name
For the record the last gig in Tralee was 9 th March 2003…with Donal and Declan……Beidh fior failte roimh….H
Christy's reply
Holy God,to think that 12 Roses have been plucked since , how many All-Ireland medals have landed in The Kingdom since 2003 …auld Comrades have passed, new lives have begun…Dingle has blossomed while others declined, Charlie Haughey replaced by Dennis O’Brien,magnate of Irish Water Meters,Irish News and telephone lines, friend of Michael Lowry,Enda Kenny,PJ Mara and, God only knows who else, (shut to fuck or we’ll all end up in court)….but its great to be heading back, to sit down at Christie Hennessy’s monument and remember his Sunshine smile….no one deserves a local gig more then youself Hilary
Kennedy’s is still indeed run as a gig venue, although they’re few and far between these days, but James is well up for it so we’ll leave it to the powers that be at your end, here’s hoping we can welcome you back! : -)
Rip it up at Glastonbury, Christy, and don’t forget us waiting patiently for news of whether we’ll ever see you again in the snug at Paddy Kennedy’s pub in Puckane… 🙂
is it still run as a gig venue?….I dont actually organize gigs…I just do the singing…the idea certainly appeals to me but others make the gigs happen…thanks for sowing the seed, perhaps others may allow it to happen
Well Christy a chara !! What can I say – Just blown away by the brilliant gig in Derry last night and its not easy to keep me quiet !! Absolute perfection and it was a great pleasure to meet with Mairtin before the gig and Cathal after the gig -5 amazing artists on the one stage all in awe like ourselves – Delighted to be in the company of the 4711ers again and to meet the lovely Jan for the first time and I can see Brian moving over here – all you need is a Honda to get around !! Christy gabh raibh mile maith agaibh go leir aris and its really great to see you in such mighty form – Looking forward to seeing you all again soon Very Best Regards and Love Ger x
You’ve said it all there Ger….Thank you
another great night in the Forum , we,re blessed to have the chance to share these special times. Enjoy Glastonbury…….tell Young Higgins to watch out , I hear Camilla’s gonna be there this year too.
she’s barred
Don’t worry, I won’t ramble on like Martin Mac (he is a Politician). I just want to tell you that I enjoyed the Derry gigs very much. You and the Mairtin O’Connor band sound fantastic together, worthy of a Live album I would say.
the idea of an album with The Trad Outfit certainly appeals to us 5…who knows what might happen
RTE Radio 1 tonight at 9pm, on The Rolling Wave programme, have a special tribute show to Frank Harte.
Hope you had two great gigs in Derry….reports and sounds are good..whallup
Keep it comin Larball
Hiya Christy, Thank you most sincerely for an amazing couple of nights @ The Millennium Forum in Derry. A joy to see you in such fine form sir and supported by such a wonderful quartet of accomplished musicians. Don’t see how it could get much better than this, Thanks also for the shout out on “Does This Train Stop On Merseyside”….Brilliant #YNWA ….This was my first time this weekend to see you with the band and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed every second. I loved the easy relaxed way the boys blended together so naturally to follow your every lead ..not only was it brilliant to listen to it was also brilliant to watch. It looked like you were having a lot of fun up there knocking out all the old favourites with such apparent ease…two really soothing and mellow sets Christy which was reflected I think in the reverence and respect shown by the audiences on both evenings. Forum crowds have always been enthusiastic and generous towards you, fair too to say that they have been somewhat boisterous on occasion in the past, tonight however, like me they were simply mesmerised by the magic in the music, jaw dropping stuff !!! ….. Always good to meet up with old friends and fellow fans too on nights like these, special occasions for sure. Fair play to all those who travelled great distances to get to the gigs….Ger H and I only had a short hop home after, up through Bridgend and across the border into the hills….We done our best to dodge the Rally crowd around Letterkenny (mad stuff altogether) before heading on to Donegal Town where we stopped off for a couple of greasy Doner Kebabs, t’was like the old days after a scatter a pints LOL ! ..headed on through after the feed to the port off Killybegs where there was much excitement earlier today when young Seamie Coleman married Rachel his childhood sweetheart …great footballer, great role model and proud Donegal man….Last stop then and home to Kilcar, tired but very grateful….Thanks again …See you soon Love & Respect Martin Mac
we got caught up in thon Rally crowd when we played Letterkenny last year….certainly a place to be avoided when all them loopers are about and them whizzin about with their arses half an inch from the tarmac….but I’m reminded that there were many headbangers around in my day… but back then a fellow would be lucky to have a 3 Speed on his bike…or a pair of streamlined bicycle clips….JImmy Higgins was tellin me about a fellow in Galway who used to put daubs of petrol on himself going to a dance…the girl he asked out to dance might think that he had a car !!! if he shifted , in the car park he’d say……” the feckin brothers after takin the car again”
Morning Christy, as I said previously I went to see you in the Waterfront in Belfast recently and am heading over to Glasgow in October with a few mates. I just want to make a comment on something which I don’t expect you to reply to as that would put you in an unfair position. I watched a programme on RTE 1 last Monday night called ‘Collusion’ which laid bare some shocking revelations about what went on in the North over the past 40 years. It was heartbreaking at times to view and gave an alternative angle to that which the 26 county media and political Establishment have pushed all these decades i.e. that it was ALL the Northern Nationalists and Republicans fault.
As someone who has spoken on and sang about issues in the North and suffered criticism and ridicule from these same partitionist elements I am sure you have your own strong opinion on this programme and the North. My point is this Christy, there are NO clean hands on what went on and unless there is some sort of Truth and Reconciliation forum in which everyone acknowledges their part in the conflict the past will continue to halt any sort of political progress and agreement. I also believe there are those in the Southern political and media Establishment who would be very, very uncomfortable if the truth ever came out about who exactly was in the pay and service of the British State during the conflict in the North.
it was shocking but there were not many “revelations”… anyone who cared enough knew already ….with regard to your final comment, I imagine there will be rising paranoia in certain quarters….
Bit worried before tonight’s gig that it couldn’t possibly compete with last night’s – but worried for nothing. Been blessed this weekend with two gigs straight from the top of the pile. Wonderful sounds aha harmonies blending beautifully together – don’t know what or where heaven is but feel like it wasn’t far away for 2 hours. Sweet music roll on .
we had a right good time ourselves…the best of listening and hospitality, top scran and dry beds….not at all like the old days….sound man John
Derry. Wow. The new sounds. Stunning, Christy. Goosebumps on the quiet ones. Big smile on the rhythmic ones. Stunning. Saol fada chugat. DL
Hey Doug…howshecuttin………thanks for listening and for the thumbs up….fair play to Rose, shes firing on all cylinders
Energy and friendship shine though the Derry posts, a joy to read. Thanks to all who makes us faraway llisteners feel part of it all with their pictures recordings and messages. What a great community this one. Sure i wont start competing for homeland gig but… “Streets of Santiago” is a great song too 🙂
and thank you for keeping in touch….a gig in Santiago…that would be something…turn left at New York is it ?
I swear the hills here are getting steeper every year, must be the erosion.
the erosion of our muscles
Hi Christy,
Can you please come to Melbourne Australia this year or next?? You have a massive amount of fans out here. Would make my life. When I’ve been in Ireland you havent been playing.
Shayne Mooney
Morra Shayne and all the Victorian Mooneys…wont be there this year, unlikely next year either….the HairyPlanes dont suit my medication…last time I had to leave the plane in Muscat and spend 3 months in Rehab in the Desert….then I got on the wrong plane comin home and ended up in Hashram in Bangkok…I bought a silk suit that fell apart before I had the fly zipped ….by the time I got home the game was up…the dog chewed up my passport and its road gigs only from here on in….
CM (70)
How are you keeping a mhac?
That song is stuck in my head!!!(john spillane)
My cousins Bertie and Micheál have now become ” hunks ” since they started a band up and go around playing.It was pure craic at first but now its just gotten creepy , someone threw a pair of underwear at them last night ( ha ha ) and mom put her hand over my eyes and said it was time to leave! The lads don’t know what the heck to do! The boats are down on the water.The swans in the Claddagh will get no peace now sailing up and down.Noone feeds them just looking at the boats.
Is the river foyle near where you play tonight.?
CS (10)
P.S I found a baby smólach just out of the nest , down by the spanish arch ,she was standing right where they tie the boat on the post.He was cubby and cute.
.
ceart go leor mo cara…tell them cousins to open a stall selling all the undies thrown at them..thats what Tom Jones does…makes a packet in Wales every Saturday morning….I’m on the banks of The Foyle here…have to walk across the new Peace Bridge to get to the gig….thats how I met the Dalai Lama last year…he was heading over to get a bag of chips
P.S. fine bit of carpet you had on the stage last night.
flown in specially from The Flea Market of Amsterdam
We sat and watched and listened as the five of you weaved the magic…..awesome , songs , music and the craic. . We had friends in the crowd last night and their twins celebrating their upcoming 18 th, highly accomplished musicians themselves, and they were overwhelmed at the end of the show. Thanks to all involved , it must take some time and effort to bring it all together.
Whallup there Marty…..we are blest in our line of work…all time and effort spent is very pleasureable…I worked in enough shite jobs to know that myself and these 4 musicians are priviledged to have such work as this…..each time we meet its a joy to sit and play in rehearsal….then all you good listeners come along. You give us the air we need to fly. We appreciate that enormously. Its a two way street
Hi Christy, last night was the first time I’ve seen you with the Maírtin O’Conner band and I thoroughly enjoyed the gig, some fine musicians there. It looked liked you were enjoying yourself too.
it was great to see you there last night me auld Lowland Mucker….you are a loyal and much loved listener…hope you have the Honda safely parked
Holland
Thank you Christy for an absolutely superb gig tonight. I thought you were in the zone right from the off and the guys joined you there to create a special magic. Thanks for singing Nancy – the girls were delighted with it and it was special for them. Shame about the girl who seemed to think you were the Wolfe Tones looking for Streets of New York – I suppose she was thinking of Christmas and Shane. Enjoyed the tricolour verse for what it was – a bit of banter. Looking forward to part 2 tomorrow night – it’s great having you back on the Banks of the Foyle.
thanks John….I slipped last night…after 90 minutes of that poor drunken lady’s interjections I finally lost the equalibrium, she feckin well got me eventually, I lost it,albeit momentarily…my apologies… I hope she is ok this morning…I am powerless over alcohol…no matter who drinks it !!! I did not realize that there is a song by that name
For the record the last gig in Tralee was 9 th March 2003…with Donal and Declan……Beidh fior failte roimh….H
Holy God,to think that 12 Roses have been plucked since , how many All-Ireland medals have landed in The Kingdom since 2003 …auld Comrades have passed, new lives have begun…Dingle has blossomed while others declined, Charlie Haughey replaced by Dennis O’Brien,magnate of Irish Water Meters,Irish News and telephone lines, friend of Michael Lowry,Enda Kenny,PJ Mara and, God only knows who else, (shut to fuck or we’ll all end up in court)….but its great to be heading back, to sit down at Christie Hennessy’s monument and remember his Sunshine smile….no one deserves a local gig more then youself Hilary