I see Mary B has announced she’s retiring Christy! Janey Mac it only seems like last year that she did “The Dark Eyed Sailor” and “Anachie Gordon” in the Abbey in Howth! 1980? And she still only a chisler!
How’s everyone? Just wondering if anyone has received the pre sale link yet as I haven’t and panicking slightly. Cheers.
Christy's reply
You should sign up for the newsletter on Christy’s current website asap as the link for presale is going out overnight. sign up here http://www.christymoore.com
Many people who signed up in the past used older or different email addresses to those they use now, or did not reconfirm their email address when Christy’s site transitioned to a new platform a few years ago – so to be sure you should sign up again now.
Hi All
Hope everyone is well
Anyone know if there’s a presale for the vicar St Gigs that go on sale this Friday
TY
Christy's reply
You should sign up for the newsletter on Christy’s current website asap as the link for presale is going out overnight. sign up here http://www.christymoore.com
Many people who signed up in the past used older or different email addresses to those they use now, or did not reconfirm their email address when Christy’s site transitioned to a new platform a few years ago – so to be sure you should sign up again now.
Hi Christy,
What a tremendous gig at Leisureland in Galway on Fri Sept 5th!! In my younger days before moving from Oranmore & Salthill to Canada that same stage rocked us with Thin Lizzy, Rory G, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, and so many more – but to see you in my hometown was absolutely amazing. I’ve see you many many times all over our beautiful Island but never in Galway and what a treat it was. We are visiting home with 7 others from Ontario, Canada, 5 of whom were moved from The Creggan, Derry in ’72 and this was their 1st time seeing you live and to hear “Back Home in Derry” was a topper! We will miss this week’s gig in Leisureland because we will be back in their hometown in Derry………my brother David, a frequent flyer in Christy gigland and his wife & son Nuala & Ciaran were also in attendance – and thanks to them for securing the tickets for us, and to Hilary for ensuring we had great seats.
Christy, you are an Irish Gem, thank you for the music, the passion you bring to the words, and the humanity & compassion you share – to say we are grateful is a gross understatement. God Bless, good health to you and best of luck in Galway again this week.
BTW – The Voyage, and the dedication to Johnny D – only from you does that dedication have meaning………well done & RIP JD
Christy's reply
Hope all going well for you and your company in Derry….thanks for feedback…returning after years overseas is always an eye opener….I was away myself for 7 years and might never had got back were it not for Planxty forming in 1972….I soon settled back in and have not budged since….
very best to you and your good companeros
Hi Christy its Harry. Well done on Friday you were on fire. The set was incredible, I dont know how you managed to get all your biggest hits in and still have time for the few you wanted to play for your self. I thought Delirium tremens and lingo politico were hilarious as usual. However what really stole the show for me was Smoke and Strong Whiskey. The melody is class and the lyrics are fascinating. I love how the first verse focuses on the little things whilst the latter part of the song tackles greater issues. I was bursting to get home and learn it. Ive also found that it sounds great in D and Ive also found beeswing to work great in G. Im also going to see you again this Friday. Id love if you could play Spancil Hill but no pressure. Anyways, Well done again on the last night and Ill see you on Friday. Ride On, Harry.
Christy's reply
Fair play to you Harry…
it was the first Wally Page song I covered back in 1991…it made a comeback when requested at a gig last december… back in the set now and I reall enjoy singing it…each verse a song in itself…
are you busking these days ?
Radio last night…a John Peel type mix by Stuart Maconie…a fascinating collection…
a highlight being ‘Poor Creature’…I knew the band was a mix of ‘Landless’ and ‘Lankum’,but reading the biog,it seems that the creature emerged in lockdown.so,the bonus to your excellent workroom sessions.
So,three absorbing bands,full of mystery and drones…have a good day,I’m heading to YouTube!
Well C that was a great start to season 59 ?? another high energy gig and a very deliberate setlist, the Galway choir sure sang their hearts out !! a truly international brigade from NFL, mainland Canada, Germany and who knows where else ?? I’ ve been wondering if The Least We Could Do by Gerry Murray might fit into the current topical setlist ?https://youtu.be/GeX3VhJYIEU?si=zZhHKQ9rVwEG7ceW
Also, I see there is a documentary on TG4 at 8pm anocht Tom Munnelly Fear na N-Amhran it’s probably available globally. Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Christy's reply
Galway delivered again….always a great gig town….dont get into the City much these days…still hanker after days in kennys Bookshop and Art gallery, Sonny Molloys, The Harbour Bar, The Cellar, Bridie Hogan’s, the might crack and capers with Pete Galligan, Mickey Finn, Corky, Tony Small,
Fair play to ye Christy, cycled to Croker and back, in ‘61 slopes or no slopes that’s when “bikes were bikes” hope the Lillywhites done the business for all your efforts ! Kerry were a ‘hill’ too far for us on this years visit to Croker.
We were down in Newbridge a few years ago and with a couple minutes left and Tyrone 5 points down we congratulated the Kildare supporters on their performance and began to make our way around the ground for a quick get away back north, when out of the blue Tyrone scored a goal and from the restart went straight up the field and scored a second goal !
We came up the road feeling like the outlawed Reinardine, famed in the Tyrone song “The Mountains of Pomeroy”.
Good Luck,
Sam
Christy's reply
64 years later Sam I cannot recall the match itself…Kildare were playing but my arse was saddlesore and I was dreading the journey back…I was cycling an old Rudge bike that weighed half a ton..my pal had a better bike altogether and thought he was in the Rás Tailteann…he tore on ahead as we passed thru Naas and left to on my own for the last 8 miles..
……………..NEWBRIDGE OR NOWHERE…….
its easy betimes to become deluded by the deluge of delusions that are out there on the air…I try to get back down and embrace the drones.. to avertmy ear from all the prittle prattle that goes on iup there in the higher registers….I love the reality of the regulator
Hello Christy,
I can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday afternoon than being deluded with 25 new songs. Not sure my brain would be able to keep up!
Messing about with drones here this afternoon. Wanted to do this for yonks and now an old shruti box has turned me and the guitar into a human set of uillean pipes. https://youtu.be/DYrkoitUNFQ?si=_QnX7dKZQ_GDPD_o
Rebecca
Christy's reply
a good and proper drone makes for a great foundation
Hi Christy,
The oul chutney is a big hit.
Saves on the Christmas present buying lark.
Your name is in the pot for the December batch.
Mightn’t get it until February in Vicar Street.
Then again A Post have upped their game recently.
Our Hillary’s name is also in the pot.
The way she was minding The Newfoundlanders,
Germans and other long distance men – women too.
Totes Ledge as our young companeros might say.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Christy's reply
now turning my attention to this week’s return to The Hanger
seems like I’ll have quite a few listeners coming back for night 2
to show my appreciation I will attempt to vary the gig accordingly
(maybe give the auld Marquee a whirl)
‘Knockin the best out of it’ sounds like a great LP title…sessions powered by stewed tea,strong cheese and Mrs B’s chutney…sounds like food of the Gods to me!
Bert Jansch sounding mellow on this warm Autumn morning.
Dave
Christy's reply
I met Bert maybe 4 or 5 times…
at a very early Cambridge Folk Festival we sat in the artists bar for a while.. we drank Carlsberg Specials and did’nt say too much…I remember him speaking fondly of Hamish Imlach..then we met at a fuckin mad St Patricks Night gig in (I think) Berlin or maybe Franfurt….Pentangle ,The Wild Geese and myself sharing a bill…it was fairly gargled garbled and hallucinogenic…last time was Whelan’s in Dublin…he played a beautiful set, met him briefly afterwards in a quiet dressing room… he was smiling and gentle and laid back…we did’nt say very much…I hardly knew the man but I really liked him…RIP Bert
that Ferry may have sailed Eoghan….Its not for the lack of want…its more a case of working within personal capacity…of looking after whats left and knockin the best out of it….its nigh on 60 years since the first visit to Auld Reekie… heard January Man that night and met Owen Hand, Dolina MacLennan, Paddie Bell…visited Sandy Bell’s, Kushis and got the skipper on Henderson Row….became a regular visitor over the following decades….hearing Dick Gaughan, Aly Bain, Barbara Dickson,Sara Gray, the list could go on…Hamish Imlach, Archie Fisher,The MacAlmans,Jeannie Richardson, Jimmy Mcbeath, playin the Police Club, Traverse , Auld Triangle, Easter Rd with Andy Scapp, strong black hashish and steaming Rogan Josh…. Josh McCrea, Jimmy Hutchinson, High Speed Grass, played from Dumfries up to Inverness and on up to Dounreay to the Nuclear Folk Club in Caithness, The Mucky Byre in St Andrews and The Elbow Room in Kircaldy ( dancing on the streets of Raith !!!!)lowering Old Peculiar, hiding the haggis, sailing the Firth….maybe I need to get back….zzzzzzz
Go raibh míle maith agat.
I’ll treasure that set list.
Mrs B wondering if the chutney was OK …
Christy's reply
We went to a singin session Yesterday
a gaggle of life long song obsessives gathered to honour one of our own
it was remarkable, unforgetable, emotional and ALMIGHTY CRACK….the first song was sung at 3 pm …we left at 7pm ….the gathering was dwindling but we were not the last to leave….over the 4 hours I’d guess that we heard 50 songs, at least half of them I’d never heard before….
(I’m leading up to an answer to Mrs B’s query)
after the song marathon I was leppin with the hunger…by the time we got home twas too late to make the dinner….
I got out the Batch Loaf and toasted a few chunks….I sliced some slivers of aged red cheese, slavvered some country butter on the slightly burned toast, carefully laid the cheese and THEN….out came Mrs B’s jar of Western Chutney…. distributed generously it was the magic ingredient…..it turned an ordinary honest-to-god sangwedge into a feast of delight…each mouthful washed down with stewed sweet tea ….Thank You Mrs B
Hi,
Could you please let me know if there will be some Christy gigs on in Vicar Street over the Christmas period this year?
If so could you please let me know when the tickets will go on sale?
Last year unfortunately I missed out and would love to go again this year if the gigs are happening.
Kind Regards,
Sean
Christy's reply
12 gigs will soon announced across Nov/Dec/Feb
if you sign up for newsletter there will be advance notice
4711ers get first dibs
we’re in serious training:
Paddy walkin the dog
Mick doin press-ups
Davy like a whippet
Dickon on the ball
Johnny doin lengths of the bay at Rossnowlagh
Geoff tweakin the abs
Cian at the weights
Con drivin the lamps
Marius deliverin the goods
I’m hangin on for dear life
Míle buíochas a chara.
Any chance of a setlist from last night’s fun.
Bourkey
Christy's reply
as soon as I get out of the scratcher I’ll be on the case Bourkey….then I’ll have a cut at thon Chutney… I got a whiff of it last night apres gig and it fairly got the mouth watering
City Of Chicago
Viva La Quinte Brigada
Johnny Boy
Ride On
Black & Amber
Delerium Tremens
Two Conneelys
On The mainland
Back Home in Derry
Voyage
Palestine
Yellow Triangle
Cliffs Of Dooneen
Lingo Politico
Boy in The Wild
Smoke & Strong Whisky
Beeswing
Cumann na mBan
Lisdoonvarna
Lemon 7s
McIlhatton
Sonny
Ordinary Man
Morning Christy just want to thank you for another mighty night in Leisureland you were in flying form you had us all in the palm of your hand I really liked Black and Amber and Boy in the wild your voice is getting better with age
Thanks for the shout outs and Ailbhe was over the moon with request for Beeswing.
Thanks again. Face the puck out
Christy's reply
you were pullin hard on the low ball last night Iggy
I see Mary B has announced she’s retiring Christy! Janey Mac it only seems like last year that she did “The Dark Eyed Sailor” and “Anachie Gordon” in the Abbey in Howth! 1980? And she still only a chisler!
How’s everyone? Just wondering if anyone has received the pre sale link yet as I haven’t and panicking slightly. Cheers.
You should sign up for the newsletter on Christy’s current website asap as the link for presale is going out overnight. sign up here http://www.christymoore.com
Many people who signed up in the past used older or different email addresses to those they use now, or did not reconfirm their email address when Christy’s site transitioned to a new platform a few years ago – so to be sure you should sign up again now.
Regards,
Paddy Doherty
Hi All
Hope everyone is well
Anyone know if there’s a presale for the vicar St Gigs that go on sale this Friday
TY
You should sign up for the newsletter on Christy’s current website asap as the link for presale is going out overnight. sign up here http://www.christymoore.com
Many people who signed up in the past used older or different email addresses to those they use now, or did not reconfirm their email address when Christy’s site transitioned to a new platform a few years ago – so to be sure you should sign up again now.
Regards,
Paddy Doherty
Hi Christy,
What a tremendous gig at Leisureland in Galway on Fri Sept 5th!! In my younger days before moving from Oranmore & Salthill to Canada that same stage rocked us with Thin Lizzy, Rory G, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, and so many more – but to see you in my hometown was absolutely amazing. I’ve see you many many times all over our beautiful Island but never in Galway and what a treat it was. We are visiting home with 7 others from Ontario, Canada, 5 of whom were moved from The Creggan, Derry in ’72 and this was their 1st time seeing you live and to hear “Back Home in Derry” was a topper! We will miss this week’s gig in Leisureland because we will be back in their hometown in Derry………my brother David, a frequent flyer in Christy gigland and his wife & son Nuala & Ciaran were also in attendance – and thanks to them for securing the tickets for us, and to Hilary for ensuring we had great seats.
Christy, you are an Irish Gem, thank you for the music, the passion you bring to the words, and the humanity & compassion you share – to say we are grateful is a gross understatement. God Bless, good health to you and best of luck in Galway again this week.
BTW – The Voyage, and the dedication to Johnny D – only from you does that dedication have meaning………well done & RIP JD
Hope all going well for you and your company in Derry….thanks for feedback…returning after years overseas is always an eye opener….I was away myself for 7 years and might never had got back were it not for Planxty forming in 1972….I soon settled back in and have not budged since….
very best to you and your good companeros
Hi Christy its Harry. Well done on Friday you were on fire. The set was incredible, I dont know how you managed to get all your biggest hits in and still have time for the few you wanted to play for your self. I thought Delirium tremens and lingo politico were hilarious as usual. However what really stole the show for me was Smoke and Strong Whiskey. The melody is class and the lyrics are fascinating. I love how the first verse focuses on the little things whilst the latter part of the song tackles greater issues. I was bursting to get home and learn it. Ive also found that it sounds great in D and Ive also found beeswing to work great in G. Im also going to see you again this Friday. Id love if you could play Spancil Hill but no pressure. Anyways, Well done again on the last night and Ill see you on Friday. Ride On, Harry.
Fair play to you Harry…
it was the first Wally Page song I covered back in 1991…it made a comeback when requested at a gig last december… back in the set now and I reall enjoy singing it…each verse a song in itself…
are you busking these days ?
Hi Christy
Radio last night…a John Peel type mix by Stuart Maconie…a fascinating collection…
a highlight being ‘Poor Creature’…I knew the band was a mix of ‘Landless’ and ‘Lankum’,but reading the biog,it seems that the creature emerged in lockdown.so,the bonus to your excellent workroom sessions.
So,three absorbing bands,full of mystery and drones…have a good day,I’m heading to YouTube!
Dave
I was on silent retreat
Apologies TG4 Prog started at 7.15 pm ! H
ceart go leor
Well C that was a great start to season 59 ?? another high energy gig and a very deliberate setlist, the Galway choir sure sang their hearts out !! a truly international brigade from NFL, mainland Canada, Germany and who knows where else ?? I’ ve been wondering if The Least We Could Do by Gerry Murray might fit into the current topical setlist ?https://youtu.be/GeX3VhJYIEU?si=zZhHKQ9rVwEG7ceW
Also, I see there is a documentary on TG4 at 8pm anocht Tom Munnelly Fear na N-Amhran it’s probably available globally. Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Galway delivered again….always a great gig town….dont get into the City much these days…still hanker after days in kennys Bookshop and Art gallery, Sonny Molloys, The Harbour Bar, The Cellar, Bridie Hogan’s, the might crack and capers with Pete Galligan, Mickey Finn, Corky, Tony Small,
Fair play to ye Christy, cycled to Croker and back, in ‘61 slopes or no slopes that’s when “bikes were bikes” hope the Lillywhites done the business for all your efforts ! Kerry were a ‘hill’ too far for us on this years visit to Croker.
We were down in Newbridge a few years ago and with a couple minutes left and Tyrone 5 points down we congratulated the Kildare supporters on their performance and began to make our way around the ground for a quick get away back north, when out of the blue Tyrone scored a goal and from the restart went straight up the field and scored a second goal !
We came up the road feeling like the outlawed Reinardine, famed in the Tyrone song “The Mountains of Pomeroy”.
Good Luck,
Sam
64 years later Sam I cannot recall the match itself…Kildare were playing but my arse was saddlesore and I was dreading the journey back…I was cycling an old Rudge bike that weighed half a ton..my pal had a better bike altogether and thought he was in the Rás Tailteann…he tore on ahead as we passed thru Naas and left to on my own for the last 8 miles..
……………..NEWBRIDGE OR NOWHERE…….
Deluged.
its easy betimes to become deluded by the deluge of delusions that are out there on the air…I try to get back down and embrace the drones.. to avertmy ear from all the prittle prattle that goes on iup there in the higher registers….I love the reality of the regulator
Hello Christy,
I can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday afternoon than being deluded with 25 new songs. Not sure my brain would be able to keep up!
Messing about with drones here this afternoon. Wanted to do this for yonks and now an old shruti box has turned me and the guitar into a human set of uillean pipes.
https://youtu.be/DYrkoitUNFQ?si=_QnX7dKZQ_GDPD_o
Rebecca
a good and proper drone makes for a great foundation
Hi Christy,
The oul chutney is a big hit.
Saves on the Christmas present buying lark.
Your name is in the pot for the December batch.
Mightn’t get it until February in Vicar Street.
Then again A Post have upped their game recently.
Our Hillary’s name is also in the pot.
The way she was minding The Newfoundlanders,
Germans and other long distance men – women too.
Totes Ledge as our young companeros might say.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
now turning my attention to this week’s return to The Hanger
seems like I’ll have quite a few listeners coming back for night 2
to show my appreciation I will attempt to vary the gig accordingly
(maybe give the auld Marquee a whirl)
Hi Christy
‘Knockin the best out of it’ sounds like a great LP title…sessions powered by stewed tea,strong cheese and Mrs B’s chutney…sounds like food of the Gods to me!
Bert Jansch sounding mellow on this warm Autumn morning.
Dave
I met Bert maybe 4 or 5 times…
at a very early Cambridge Folk Festival we sat in the artists bar for a while.. we drank Carlsberg Specials and did’nt say too much…I remember him speaking fondly of Hamish Imlach..then we met at a fuckin mad St Patricks Night gig in (I think) Berlin or maybe Franfurt….Pentangle ,The Wild Geese and myself sharing a bill…it was fairly gargled garbled and hallucinogenic…last time was Whelan’s in Dublin…he played a beautiful set, met him briefly afterwards in a quiet dressing room… he was smiling and gentle and laid back…we did’nt say very much…I hardly knew the man but I really liked him…RIP Bert
Will you visit soon?
Best,
Eóghan
that Ferry may have sailed Eoghan….Its not for the lack of want…its more a case of working within personal capacity…of looking after whats left and knockin the best out of it….its nigh on 60 years since the first visit to Auld Reekie… heard January Man that night and met Owen Hand, Dolina MacLennan, Paddie Bell…visited Sandy Bell’s, Kushis and got the skipper on Henderson Row….became a regular visitor over the following decades….hearing Dick Gaughan, Aly Bain, Barbara Dickson,Sara Gray, the list could go on…Hamish Imlach, Archie Fisher,The MacAlmans,Jeannie Richardson, Jimmy Mcbeath, playin the Police Club, Traverse , Auld Triangle, Easter Rd with Andy Scapp, strong black hashish and steaming Rogan Josh…. Josh McCrea, Jimmy Hutchinson, High Speed Grass, played from Dumfries up to Inverness and on up to Dounreay to the Nuclear Folk Club in Caithness, The Mucky Byre in St Andrews and The Elbow Room in Kircaldy ( dancing on the streets of Raith !!!!)lowering Old Peculiar, hiding the haggis, sailing the Firth….maybe I need to get back….zzzzzzz
Go raibh míle maith agat.
I’ll treasure that set list.
Mrs B wondering if the chutney was OK …
We went to a singin session Yesterday
a gaggle of life long song obsessives gathered to honour one of our own
it was remarkable, unforgetable, emotional and ALMIGHTY CRACK….the first song was sung at 3 pm …we left at 7pm ….the gathering was dwindling but we were not the last to leave….over the 4 hours I’d guess that we heard 50 songs, at least half of them I’d never heard before….
(I’m leading up to an answer to Mrs B’s query)
after the song marathon I was leppin with the hunger…by the time we got home twas too late to make the dinner….
I got out the Batch Loaf and toasted a few chunks….I sliced some slivers of aged red cheese, slavvered some country butter on the slightly burned toast, carefully laid the cheese and THEN….out came Mrs B’s jar of Western Chutney…. distributed generously it was the magic ingredient…..it turned an ordinary honest-to-god sangwedge into a feast of delight…each mouthful washed down with stewed sweet tea ….Thank You Mrs B
Dagrab, a great tune. Sandy Denny sang. Those of us not then acquainted with Lord of the Rings, we got references to ‘ringwraiths’.
Ed returns…..
Hi,
Could you please let me know if there will be some Christy gigs on in Vicar Street over the Christmas period this year?
If so could you please let me know when the tickets will go on sale?
Last year unfortunately I missed out and would love to go again this year if the gigs are happening.
Kind Regards,
Sean
12 gigs will soon announced across Nov/Dec/Feb
if you sign up for newsletter there will be advance notice
4711ers get first dibs
we’re in serious training:
Paddy walkin the dog
Mick doin press-ups
Davy like a whippet
Dickon on the ball
Johnny doin lengths of the bay at Rossnowlagh
Geoff tweakin the abs
Cian at the weights
Con drivin the lamps
Marius deliverin the goods
I’m hangin on for dear life
Míle buíochas a chara.
Any chance of a setlist from last night’s fun.
Bourkey
as soon as I get out of the scratcher I’ll be on the case Bourkey….then I’ll have a cut at thon Chutney… I got a whiff of it last night apres gig and it fairly got the mouth watering
City Of Chicago
Viva La Quinte Brigada
Johnny Boy
Ride On
Black & Amber
Delerium Tremens
Two Conneelys
On The mainland
Back Home in Derry
Voyage
Palestine
Yellow Triangle
Cliffs Of Dooneen
Lingo Politico
Boy in The Wild
Smoke & Strong Whisky
Beeswing
Cumann na mBan
Lisdoonvarna
Lemon 7s
McIlhatton
Sonny
Ordinary Man
Black is The Colour
Joxer
1 hour 35 minutes
Morning Christy just want to thank you for another mighty night in Leisureland you were in flying form you had us all in the palm of your hand I really liked Black and Amber and Boy in the wild your voice is getting better with age
Thanks for the shout outs and Ailbhe was over the moon with request for Beeswing.
Thanks again. Face the puck out
you were pullin hard on the low ball last night Iggy
Battle of Evermore !!
boys o boys ’tis then there was ructions
I got a lick from Felim McHugh
I replied to his introduction
kicked up a terrible hullabaloo