Hello Christy,
Thankyou for putting your setlists on here. They seem to be getting more and more personal. Good!
Had a shifty at Patrick’s Arrival after Mary asked about it and you responded. It’s got a brilliant rhythm to it, hasn’t it. 3 lots of 3 per bar (slip jig?) Then 9 lines per verse. It’s enough to keep me fascinated for a long while. Takes me back to walking along as a teenager with rhythm whirling round my head and steps.
Love the bit about the salmon.
“And the leg most politely complied…”
Eileen Og, for that me darling’s name is
Through the Barony her features they were famous
If we loved her who was there to blame us
For wasn’t she the Pride of Petrovore.
Sorry for mistakes, it’s from memory
Rebecca
Christy's reply
“It was at the Fair of Ballintubber
Eileen met McGrath the cattle jobber
if I could lay me hands upon the robber
that stole away the Pride of Petravore”
….on of Percy French’s classic ballads… a favourite of my Father’s….he’d sing as he drove the old green Hillman Huskey around the roads of Co Kildare
I loved every second of the NCH gig last night. Firstly, happy birthday to Christy next week. He looks so well, fit, strong, nimble and the voice is as good as ever. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen Christy… maybe 30 or 40 times. First time was The Mean Fiddler around 1997 (Damien Dempsey supported(, The Royal Spa gigs with Donal and Declan in early 2000’s on multiple occasions, Ennis, Galway, Limerick, Vicar Street, RDS (Lisdoonvarna festival). Hard to believe I’m still saying..”he’s getting better”. Last night was mastery and I feel privileged to have had a ringside seat.
Magic nights is right. . . The audience singing from the start – in front and behind. City of Chicago, Viva la Quinta, Johnny Boy/, Ride on – 3 songs from Wally Page. Sitting with my 18 year old son – boy in the wild hit me right in the heart. Songs from our great songwriters Ringing the bell, Gortatogert – I was in dreamland back to my own Gortatogert (Ballyferode, Gleann Rua, Co. Limerick, where the red fuschia weeps).
Place, people, family, scandal, fun, joy, despair, injustice, poignance, nonchalance, pride it had it all. In the company of a sage. Christy keeps simplifying, and it gets better. Absolute norouishment for the soul. He held us together. It was fabulous.
The songs flowed throught you, through us and throughout the great hall. The opposite of Hull and Halifax and Hell. Heaven Sunday 27th April at the NCH then I’ll start
Wishing you continued health and happiness.
Le grá
Peter C
Christy's reply
Morra Peter,
Thank you…Thats as good a review as a fellow could hope for…I enjoyed it myself, great listeners in the room…its uplifting to have such an audience…..lovely to read that you had your Son with you last night….I love to sing Wally Page’s songs….top man, good companero, great songwriter,
Last night’s set:
City of Chicago
Viva la Quinte Brigada
Johnny Boy
Ride On
Black & Amber
Smoke & Whiskey
Boy in The Wild
Goin to hear Bob Dylan
Ringing The Bell
Beeswing
Welcome to the cabaret
Gortatagort
The Big Marquee
Cumann na Mná
Dalesman’s Litany
Ordinary Man
They never came home ( Stardust)
On The mainland
Back in Derry
Palestine
Yellow Triangle
Nancy Spain
Bogman
Honda 50
Magdalene Laundry
Lisdoonvarna
if I get an encore
Cliffs of Dooneen
Mixed emotions heading to NCH tonight, first time at a gig since my father passed away in January. Despite his Alzheimer’s, the music kept his spirits high…he never forgot your music especially Nancy Spain! He sang his heart out when he lost his speaking voice, Silent Night, I’ll tell me Ma and Nancy Spain.
Christy's reply
In the midst of heartbreak, it is a beautiful thing when those afflicted with Alzheimers recall songs, join in, express recognition in the midst of their confusion…I’m reading your post 30 minutes before tonight’s gig starts…I think of my own father…he died in October 1956 when I was 11…I’m remembering him now…how he used to sing The Kerry Dances and The Pride of Petravore….songs contain and unleash many emotions…
I hope you have a good night here in The National Concert Hall…..
This is for your perusal. Might be of interest to some. Auctioneer based in West Limerick but I have not viewed the prints in person only online.
Two high quality Christy Moore pub concert photographs printed on canvas.
https://www.easyliveauction.com/catalogue/lot/edacdb5527faeeccb4101d9296f862e9/0af8d24542e81eb9357e7ef448a6646f/we-have-been-instructed-to-a-private-collection-of-musi-lot-5/
Hello Christy,
Thankyou for putting your setlists on here. They seem to be getting more and more personal. Good!
Had a shifty at Patrick’s Arrival after Mary asked about it and you responded. It’s got a brilliant rhythm to it, hasn’t it. 3 lots of 3 per bar (slip jig?) Then 9 lines per verse. It’s enough to keep me fascinated for a long while. Takes me back to walking along as a teenager with rhythm whirling round my head and steps.
Love the bit about the salmon.
“And the leg most politely complied…”
Eileen Og, for that me darling’s name is
Through the Barony her features they were famous
If we loved her who was there to blame us
For wasn’t she the Pride of Petrovore.
Sorry for mistakes, it’s from memory
Rebecca
“It was at the Fair of Ballintubber
Eileen met McGrath the cattle jobber
if I could lay me hands upon the robber
that stole away the Pride of Petravore”
….on of Percy French’s classic ballads… a favourite of my Father’s….he’d sing as he drove the old green Hillman Huskey around the roads of Co Kildare
I loved every second of the NCH gig last night. Firstly, happy birthday to Christy next week. He looks so well, fit, strong, nimble and the voice is as good as ever. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen Christy… maybe 30 or 40 times. First time was The Mean Fiddler around 1997 (Damien Dempsey supported(, The Royal Spa gigs with Donal and Declan in early 2000’s on multiple occasions, Ennis, Galway, Limerick, Vicar Street, RDS (Lisdoonvarna festival). Hard to believe I’m still saying..”he’s getting better”. Last night was mastery and I feel privileged to have had a ringside seat.
Magic nights is right. . . The audience singing from the start – in front and behind. City of Chicago, Viva la Quinta, Johnny Boy/, Ride on – 3 songs from Wally Page. Sitting with my 18 year old son – boy in the wild hit me right in the heart. Songs from our great songwriters Ringing the bell, Gortatogert – I was in dreamland back to my own Gortatogert (Ballyferode, Gleann Rua, Co. Limerick, where the red fuschia weeps).
Place, people, family, scandal, fun, joy, despair, injustice, poignance, nonchalance, pride it had it all. In the company of a sage. Christy keeps simplifying, and it gets better. Absolute norouishment for the soul. He held us together. It was fabulous.
The songs flowed throught you, through us and throughout the great hall. The opposite of Hull and Halifax and Hell. Heaven Sunday 27th April at the NCH then I’ll start
Wishing you continued health and happiness.
Le grá
Peter C
Morra Peter,
Thank you…Thats as good a review as a fellow could hope for…I enjoyed it myself, great listeners in the room…its uplifting to have such an audience…..lovely to read that you had your Son with you last night….I love to sing Wally Page’s songs….top man, good companero, great songwriter,
Last night’s set:
City of Chicago
Viva la Quinte Brigada
Johnny Boy
Ride On
Black & Amber
Smoke & Whiskey
Boy in The Wild
Goin to hear Bob Dylan
Ringing The Bell
Beeswing
Welcome to the cabaret
Gortatagort
The Big Marquee
Cumann na Mná
Dalesman’s Litany
Ordinary Man
They never came home ( Stardust)
On The mainland
Back in Derry
Palestine
Yellow Triangle
Nancy Spain
Bogman
Honda 50
Magdalene Laundry
Lisdoonvarna
if I get an encore
Cliffs of Dooneen
1 hour 47 minutes
Mixed emotions heading to NCH tonight, first time at a gig since my father passed away in January. Despite his Alzheimer’s, the music kept his spirits high…he never forgot your music especially Nancy Spain! He sang his heart out when he lost his speaking voice, Silent Night, I’ll tell me Ma and Nancy Spain.
In the midst of heartbreak, it is a beautiful thing when those afflicted with Alzheimers recall songs, join in, express recognition in the midst of their confusion…I’m reading your post 30 minutes before tonight’s gig starts…I think of my own father…he died in October 1956 when I was 11…I’m remembering him now…how he used to sing The Kerry Dances and The Pride of Petravore….songs contain and unleash many emotions…
I hope you have a good night here in The National Concert Hall…..