Old school radio is the best…push a button,turn a dial…magic…
Interesting info from ITMA…2pm Tomorrow,Fri 19th…for 10 Euro a great escape from retail carnage.(My words,not theirs)
A talk,visuals,insights. Into the life and work of fiddler,Tommie Potts…chat by Sean Potts,music transcriber, Aoife NI Bhriain…fronted by RTE,The Rolling Wave presenter,Aoife NI Cormaic…sounds ideal..
‘ you lucky people’ as Tommy Trinder used to say..
Dave
Christy's reply
just finished reading “The Sorrowful and The Great” about the life and music of Tommie Potts, Beautifully written and compiled by his grand-nephew Sean Potts Junior…I became aware of Tommie Potts when Claddagh released the album ” The Liffey Banks” in 1972….I heard him play live but once….Tommie’s music is unique.. the purest of the pure drop…
Hi Christy,
We are back in our old barn in the wilds of Warwickshire after a wonderful few days in Dublin topped off by a very special night in your company at Vicar Street.
I have been thinking when we first saw you. It must have been the late 1970s or early 1980s. I’ve lost count of the number of your gigs we have attended. We’ve seen you in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry and many more places in the U.K. Plus a show in Dundoran and a couple in Dublin. We seen you on your own and with others. Some great performances over the years. I must say there is something extra special about those we have seen in Ireland. Where you obviously have a special relationship with the audience. They are my favourite. I’m not sure how many more we will see but Vishva and I would like to thank you for playing such a role in our lives. Strangely Ride On has become one of our favourites in our later years when we contemplate a time when we might be alone.
Once again thank you Christy. Best wishes for Christmas and the new year. Here’s to even more special gigs in 2026
Tom and Vishva
Christy's reply
my earliest visit to Coventry was circa 1968..a club run by Barry Skinner….later there was a club in a venue called The Cofa’s Tree….
Hi Christy,
By all accounts the run was picking up a bit of speed the last two Mondays.
Fair play to yoursel and the crew – enjoy the break.
Thanks for the heads up about the TnaG doc.
Thing can get lost beneath the deluge this time of year.
Look forward to that and a bit of break as well.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Christy's reply
the joint was rockin the last few weeks
mondays were like the new saturdays
the latest generation to take up the ballads are coola boola
they sing like the bejasus
songs on the go since before their parents were born
an excitement in the air
like when we first heard Brennan on The Moor and Rosin The Bow
65 years ago
a good three weeks now to plan next years set
same songs different lights
new in-ear hearing aids and fresh corset
Feeling like a dreamer today, as we’re heading to see the Mary Wallopers in the Barrowlands. Been a dream of mine to go to that venue and delighted today is the day. Have your Barrowlands playing and I’m as excited as could be.
Hope all is well with yourself.
Nollaig
Christy's reply
them boys will rattle the rafters at Mags McIvors
Glory Hallelujah
The Cod Liver Oil and The Orange Juice
Hello Christy. The jubilee album of Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ is No.1 in the selling charts of my online record shop. That made me listen to ‘Listen’ and your wonderful and impressive version of ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’. Great guitar playing of Declan.
Enjoy the break after your Vicar St. gigs.
Great to read they are running overwhelming.
Thanks for your personal reponses with insights to life and musical career.
I wish you a Merry Christmas.
And to all users of this guestbook as well.
Günter
Morning Christy hope all is well with you great to read the comments about the gigs and they’re going so well fair play, enjoy the break for the turkey or goose. We’ll be heading to see you for the throw in of 26 in Mullingar looking forward to it stay well face the puck out
Christy's reply
get that Ferguson TVO serviced before Mullingar….
all good here Thanks Be…
we have a spatchcocked Hen ordered from Kilcock……. a basin of sprouts, a pot of spuds, a hape of stuffin, a serious trifle with a base of broken biscuits ( go easy on the sherry) a Cadbury’s Selection Box and a flop on the couch..
then after Stephen’s day we’ll have the ITMA TG4 doc on new year’s Eve ..then back to work and a traunche of lively ballad sessions lined up to get us into 2026…Year 60 of the tour Iggy…this time 60 years ago I’d have settled for 1 gig…then I got me foot in the door and never once looked back (nt)
wishing all the Broderick Clan a happy and peaceful time
Hi C well that was some gig to round off 2025, a carefully curated setlist of important songs which were so well received and had a good balance of serious and light hearted. My personal favourites were Matty, Lyra, Lemon 7s and the grand finale of Spancilhill. Vicar St was buzzing as others have already noted, the Choir were well up for it especially for Joxer, Lisdoon and Fairytale. Your individual attention to people in the audience from the Timoleague Tourist to the Dubs from Blackrock and Ballybrack, to the couple celebrating an important wedding anniversary, to the now grown up Tallulah, to the woman in the front who was totally engaged with the gig and on whom you bestowed the prompt sheet was so generous and much appreciated. It is utterly amazing how you can notice and include so many each night and create such important memories for people. So enjoy your break, I hope the immersion is n’t on in the Hot Press or ye will melt away !! GRMMA to you and all the team, Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise dhaoibh go léir. Beir bua agus beanancht. H
Christy's reply
Morra H,
We fairly topped it off last Monday night at HQ…
I love your “carefully curated”. It waa carefully curated for the first 3 numbers….Chicago, Quinte and How Long were planned…after that we were on the hoof….
The woman directly in front of me was really boppin, I gave her the list of 40 songs I thought I might sing…that list was curated carefully but I never looked at it even once…I enjoy making those lists but seldom reference them…. I have another list in “the menu”, that has 100 songs I might sing of a night but I never look at it….then I have a list of specific requests mainly gleaned from this platform….Natives for Mero from “The Brack”, Marquee for David our Timoleague Rambler, Voyage for our Warwick Love Birds, Flickering Light for Tallulah from Brighton ( Hove actually) Lisdoonvarna for Pat Mangan from Carbury..
Pat is one of the finest to ever have donned a Kildare jersey, he starred for the Lily Whites in the mid 1960s…Johnny Doyle prompted me with a text an hour before the gig saying Pat was coming in with Armagh’s favourite Son, Kieran McGeeney…
then of course there was the “top table”…speaking of which….
am I right in thinking that you attended every gig this year ? or did you miss one? gallivanting off to hear Paul Simon in New York…
what about Bob in Killarney ? Hes a quare hawk ,that old Song & Dance man ….we went to hear him in the Tríona…
what a fuckin horrid kip of a venue…its a bit like the Aviva…they dont give a shite about their patrons as long as they shift loads a gargle…I’m really happy to have attended, to honour Bob …
he who has nothing to prove to anyone, he who always travels with the very best of players, it waa a pleasure and privilige to sit before our beloved balladeer, he who who had hitch hiked all the way from Minnesota…but the fuckin in-and-out of the constant garglers and piss merchants became a total pain in the hole… I mean its fuckin Bob Dylan up there…you’ve taken the trouble, splashed out 160 yo-yos, surely to fuck you can sit for 90 minutes and listen to the man !!….having confiscated smart phones ( Nokia ok) they might shut the fuckin bar ..or at least corral the perpetual thirsty ducks until they’ve swallowed their potions ..like they do in Croker….I can hear the porter sharks wailing already….
and I must remember,I too was that soldier …..more then once I travelled to matches and never got to use my ticket…lorryin loose pints of Arthur in some kip adjacent and then missing the train home…what a sorrowfull sight to see !
Yes H…it has been a great year of gigs…I think 43 in all plus the various benefits and low key gaggles….the extended version of Terrible Beauty was a good recording project…a personal high light was the interaction with ITMA,,,getting all the bits and pieces into the National Archive…working with Cian Ó Maonaigh on the Doc that goes out on TG4 on New Years Eve….also loved being part of Alan Gilsenan’s James Connolly Film….and John Creedon’s ” Back Home In Derry” with Colm Scullion from Bellaghy who knew Bobby so well…I enjoyed doing a New York Times interview from the dressing Room in Mountmellick and Ellius Grace’s video of ” Boy in THe Wild” was special ( congrats to Ellius for the awards he gained)….
my typing finger is seizing up here H….back to the scratcher
First saw you in ’85 in London. So many different gigs, different times, different places since then. Last night at Vicar Street was on another level. The energy evolving from the stage was exhilarating. A performance that will stay with me … and everyone who was there. Thanks Christy.
Christy's reply
Where in London in ’85 ? Dominion? Roundhouse ? Forum Kentish Town? Albert Hall ? Mean Fiddler? Hackney Town Hall? Brixton Academy? or maybe one of the Theatres on a Black Sunday..Drury Lane.. Palladium …..
Good to have you back John….I never expected this tour to last so long..our Da was gone at 41
Took your advice Christy,
Black and amber & stitch in time got me through the day. It made a hard days graft of knocking doors a lot easier. I miss messing with music full time I can’t wait to get back to it.
There’s a new guitar waiting for me when I get home next week I’m buzzing to give a go.
Absolutely buzzing for the national concert hall gigs, managed to snag second row this time
Christy's reply
tell us about your new guitar…when you’ve played it
Hey Christy
One of the many times I have seen you live was in the Hamilton Town House. Probable one of my favourites. Small, intimate and great acoustics. I could really see the sweat lashing off you 🤣. I know like me own the old bones are creaking nowadays. But when are you going to grace us with your presence again in Scotia? Hamilton Town House, Barrowlands, Glasgow Concert Hall. Take your pick. You’ve been such an important part of my life ever since Lisdoonvarna. fado fado. Some man for one man. Keep the faith.
Christy's reply
“we sang the Nicky Tams in the back room of The Scotia
we drank sweet wines and called for neon pints of Fidel Castro
until it was time to fly to Dreamland
out of Bairds, up the stairs, to Hell or to Heaven we’d go” ( Git & Waldo)
enjoy the break in the gigs, thanks for a lovely gig last night…beautiful to hear Sweet Thames and The Reel….hadn’t heard in an age….every gig has a surprise..it’s what makes them special… thank you.
Christy's reply
gonna climb into the Hot Press with Michael D
Nice one Larball
“The Rats & The Worms were still as mice
the poor auld Pigeon said ‘thats nice’
a shimmering veil on a lovely bride
and we danced to the reel in the flickering light”
………( Colm Gallagher)
Good Morning Christy.
I hope you have recovered from an amazing night. I was tired just watching you. It was truly a fantastic concert. As Mam would have said about a wedding dress. Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.
Vishva and I were not expecting another mention so it was the icing on the cake when you sang The Voyage for us once again. We are truly grateful. You probably couldn’t see but I was in tears. As were many who surrounded us. I’m not sure how many more times we will have the pleasure of being in your company. I hope we all have a few more left in us. Thanks again Christy. Take care. Best wishes to you and all of your family.
Tom and Vishva Murtha.
Christy's reply
I spotted ye in the heaving throng…a lovely moment as Vishva laid her head upon your shoulder….
Hi Christy,
We could feel the crescendo rising some 15 minutes before you came on stage……what a finish to what has been an amazing year of Gigs. Each one unique, special and different. Thanks to you and all the team that make it happen, it is really appreciated. Relax and enjoy the Festive season.
Ride on.
Best regards.
Christy's reply
I could sense it myself Patsy
up there in the dressing room
the roar of the greasepaint
the smell of the crowd
final prep as the time approached
the 15 minute call
Mick telling me
” a young crowd tonight, its like a Saturday night down there”
yet again I’m nervous
Mick checks me over
leads me down,
Johnny mikes me up
the excitement from the room is palpable
David recites the mantra
lights go down
the ball is in
the game is on
Hello Christy.Thanks for a fantastic gig tonight. What a Christmas present to get when you sang Saturday night in the Big Marquee. It is a night I will never forget. It was great to hear more rare songs.You were on fire tonight .what an end to 2025.Finally may I wish you and your family a very happy Christmas. Let the music 🎶 keep our spirits high.
Christy's reply
Dave, me auld flower
you were in great voice last night
it was a lovely moment
when you stood up and accepted the glory heaped upon your presence
The Big Marquee is gaining momentum
lovely hurling boy
Thank you for a wonderful gig at Vicar Street this evening. It’s amazing – every time it’s perfect and I think that it can’t get any better than that, and then the next gig is even more perfect! A great atmosphere tonight. Thank you for singing Sweet Thames, and Spancil Hill, and all the others, the selection worked so well together. Looking forward to seeing you again at Vicar Street on 2nd March and then the NCH on 2nd May.
Very best wishes,
Anne
Christy's reply
Many Happy Returns Anne
You Good Listeners carried me along last night
Such a gathering from near & far
many from across the Sea
the verses tumbled out, the battery ran down
Shane topped it off
my head is still spinning
I’m only gone 18 this year meself Christy. I may be wrong but from my own experience I don’t meet much listeners around my age. I just find this type of music to be some of the best.
I found the love for the culture through my grand parents and then your music came my way and I was just blown away entirely.
I haven’t a box with me to bash for the week and my fingers are itching to play some go move shift or something
Christy's reply
hard to go a week without a strum or a pluck upon thon strings
a bit of accapella might soothe your longing
at that age I was below in Clonmel
twas there I first heard The Galtee Mountain Boy
You know they say clogherhead is Ireland’s hidden Spain… although im up in sunny tuam doing a bit of work, I got the crew on board with lisdoonvarna through the drive… it’s hard to turn heads with a guitar when they’re flat out on techno. Lisdoon always makes for a good vibe. Trad and folk enjoyers my age are few now but I’m glad to be one of them.
Christy's reply
“Trad & Folk enjoyers my age are few now”….
that intrigues me Finn..
what age are you ?
Clogherhead was a favourite Planxty destination back in 1972/3…
Ned Byrne was our host and promoter…
The Cherry Tree was one of Planxty’s early hot spots….
and we witnessed the dawn as we recrossed the Boyne waters….
Hi Christy
Old school radio is the best…push a button,turn a dial…magic…
Interesting info from ITMA…2pm Tomorrow,Fri 19th…for 10 Euro a great escape from retail carnage.(My words,not theirs)
A talk,visuals,insights. Into the life and work of fiddler,Tommie Potts…chat by Sean Potts,music transcriber, Aoife NI Bhriain…fronted by RTE,The Rolling Wave presenter,Aoife NI Cormaic…sounds ideal..
‘ you lucky people’ as Tommy Trinder used to say..
Dave
just finished reading “The Sorrowful and The Great” about the life and music of Tommie Potts, Beautifully written and compiled by his grand-nephew Sean Potts Junior…I became aware of Tommie Potts when Claddagh released the album ” The Liffey Banks” in 1972….I heard him play live but once….Tommie’s music is unique.. the purest of the pure drop…
Hi Christy,
We are back in our old barn in the wilds of Warwickshire after a wonderful few days in Dublin topped off by a very special night in your company at Vicar Street.
I have been thinking when we first saw you. It must have been the late 1970s or early 1980s. I’ve lost count of the number of your gigs we have attended. We’ve seen you in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry and many more places in the U.K. Plus a show in Dundoran and a couple in Dublin. We seen you on your own and with others. Some great performances over the years. I must say there is something extra special about those we have seen in Ireland. Where you obviously have a special relationship with the audience. They are my favourite. I’m not sure how many more we will see but Vishva and I would like to thank you for playing such a role in our lives. Strangely Ride On has become one of our favourites in our later years when we contemplate a time when we might be alone.
Once again thank you Christy. Best wishes for Christmas and the new year. Here’s to even more special gigs in 2026
Tom and Vishva
my earliest visit to Coventry was circa 1968..a club run by Barry Skinner….later there was a club in a venue called The Cofa’s Tree….
Hi Christy,
By all accounts the run was picking up a bit of speed the last two Mondays.
Fair play to yoursel and the crew – enjoy the break.
Thanks for the heads up about the TnaG doc.
Thing can get lost beneath the deluge this time of year.
Look forward to that and a bit of break as well.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
the joint was rockin the last few weeks
mondays were like the new saturdays
the latest generation to take up the ballads are coola boola
they sing like the bejasus
songs on the go since before their parents were born
an excitement in the air
like when we first heard Brennan on The Moor and Rosin The Bow
65 years ago
a good three weeks now to plan next years set
same songs different lights
new in-ear hearing aids and fresh corset
Hi Christy
A bleak night…great ,warming music needed …BBC radio folk show…Lisa O’Neill,’ In the bleak Midwinter’…class.
Dave
god be with the days when we could simply turn on the wireless and head straight into broadcasting house….
Hi Christy,
Feeling like a dreamer today, as we’re heading to see the Mary Wallopers in the Barrowlands. Been a dream of mine to go to that venue and delighted today is the day. Have your Barrowlands playing and I’m as excited as could be.
Hope all is well with yourself.
Nollaig
them boys will rattle the rafters at Mags McIvors
Glory Hallelujah
The Cod Liver Oil and The Orange Juice
Hello Christy. The jubilee album of Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ is No.1 in the selling charts of my online record shop. That made me listen to ‘Listen’ and your wonderful and impressive version of ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’. Great guitar playing of Declan.
Enjoy the break after your Vicar St. gigs.
Great to read they are running overwhelming.
Thanks for your personal reponses with insights to life and musical career.
I wish you a Merry Christmas.
And to all users of this guestbook as well.
Günter
Remember when we were young
Morning Christy hope all is well with you great to read the comments about the gigs and they’re going so well fair play, enjoy the break for the turkey or goose. We’ll be heading to see you for the throw in of 26 in Mullingar looking forward to it stay well face the puck out
get that Ferguson TVO serviced before Mullingar….
all good here Thanks Be…
we have a spatchcocked Hen ordered from Kilcock……. a basin of sprouts, a pot of spuds, a hape of stuffin, a serious trifle with a base of broken biscuits ( go easy on the sherry) a Cadbury’s Selection Box and a flop on the couch..
then after Stephen’s day we’ll have the ITMA TG4 doc on new year’s Eve ..then back to work and a traunche of lively ballad sessions lined up to get us into 2026…Year 60 of the tour Iggy…this time 60 years ago I’d have settled for 1 gig…then I got me foot in the door and never once looked back (nt)
wishing all the Broderick Clan a happy and peaceful time
Hi C well that was some gig to round off 2025, a carefully curated setlist of important songs which were so well received and had a good balance of serious and light hearted. My personal favourites were Matty, Lyra, Lemon 7s and the grand finale of Spancilhill. Vicar St was buzzing as others have already noted, the Choir were well up for it especially for Joxer, Lisdoon and Fairytale. Your individual attention to people in the audience from the Timoleague Tourist to the Dubs from Blackrock and Ballybrack, to the couple celebrating an important wedding anniversary, to the now grown up Tallulah, to the woman in the front who was totally engaged with the gig and on whom you bestowed the prompt sheet was so generous and much appreciated. It is utterly amazing how you can notice and include so many each night and create such important memories for people. So enjoy your break, I hope the immersion is n’t on in the Hot Press or ye will melt away !! GRMMA to you and all the team, Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise dhaoibh go léir. Beir bua agus beanancht. H
Morra H,
We fairly topped it off last Monday night at HQ…
I love your “carefully curated”. It waa carefully curated for the first 3 numbers….Chicago, Quinte and How Long were planned…after that we were on the hoof….
The woman directly in front of me was really boppin, I gave her the list of 40 songs I thought I might sing…that list was curated carefully but I never looked at it even once…I enjoy making those lists but seldom reference them…. I have another list in “the menu”, that has 100 songs I might sing of a night but I never look at it….then I have a list of specific requests mainly gleaned from this platform….Natives for Mero from “The Brack”, Marquee for David our Timoleague Rambler, Voyage for our Warwick Love Birds, Flickering Light for Tallulah from Brighton ( Hove actually) Lisdoonvarna for Pat Mangan from Carbury..
Pat is one of the finest to ever have donned a Kildare jersey, he starred for the Lily Whites in the mid 1960s…Johnny Doyle prompted me with a text an hour before the gig saying Pat was coming in with Armagh’s favourite Son, Kieran McGeeney…
then of course there was the “top table”…speaking of which….
am I right in thinking that you attended every gig this year ? or did you miss one? gallivanting off to hear Paul Simon in New York…
what about Bob in Killarney ? Hes a quare hawk ,that old Song & Dance man ….we went to hear him in the Tríona…
what a fuckin horrid kip of a venue…its a bit like the Aviva…they dont give a shite about their patrons as long as they shift loads a gargle…I’m really happy to have attended, to honour Bob …
he who has nothing to prove to anyone, he who always travels with the very best of players, it waa a pleasure and privilige to sit before our beloved balladeer, he who who had hitch hiked all the way from Minnesota…but the fuckin in-and-out of the constant garglers and piss merchants became a total pain in the hole… I mean its fuckin Bob Dylan up there…you’ve taken the trouble, splashed out 160 yo-yos, surely to fuck you can sit for 90 minutes and listen to the man !!….having confiscated smart phones ( Nokia ok) they might shut the fuckin bar ..or at least corral the perpetual thirsty ducks until they’ve swallowed their potions ..like they do in Croker….I can hear the porter sharks wailing already….
and I must remember,I too was that soldier …..more then once I travelled to matches and never got to use my ticket…lorryin loose pints of Arthur in some kip adjacent and then missing the train home…what a sorrowfull sight to see !
Yes H…it has been a great year of gigs…I think 43 in all plus the various benefits and low key gaggles….the extended version of Terrible Beauty was a good recording project…a personal high light was the interaction with ITMA,,,getting all the bits and pieces into the National Archive…working with Cian Ó Maonaigh on the Doc that goes out on TG4 on New Years Eve….also loved being part of Alan Gilsenan’s James Connolly Film….and John Creedon’s ” Back Home In Derry” with Colm Scullion from Bellaghy who knew Bobby so well…I enjoyed doing a New York Times interview from the dressing Room in Mountmellick and Ellius Grace’s video of ” Boy in THe Wild” was special ( congrats to Ellius for the awards he gained)….
my typing finger is seizing up here H….back to the scratcher
First saw you in ’85 in London. So many different gigs, different times, different places since then. Last night at Vicar Street was on another level. The energy evolving from the stage was exhilarating. A performance that will stay with me … and everyone who was there. Thanks Christy.
Where in London in ’85 ? Dominion? Roundhouse ? Forum Kentish Town? Albert Hall ? Mean Fiddler? Hackney Town Hall? Brixton Academy? or maybe one of the Theatres on a Black Sunday..Drury Lane.. Palladium …..
Good to have you back John….I never expected this tour to last so long..our Da was gone at 41
Took your advice Christy,
Black and amber & stitch in time got me through the day. It made a hard days graft of knocking doors a lot easier. I miss messing with music full time I can’t wait to get back to it.
There’s a new guitar waiting for me when I get home next week I’m buzzing to give a go.
Absolutely buzzing for the national concert hall gigs, managed to snag second row this time
tell us about your new guitar…when you’ve played it
Hey Christy
One of the many times I have seen you live was in the Hamilton Town House. Probable one of my favourites. Small, intimate and great acoustics. I could really see the sweat lashing off you 🤣. I know like me own the old bones are creaking nowadays. But when are you going to grace us with your presence again in Scotia? Hamilton Town House, Barrowlands, Glasgow Concert Hall. Take your pick. You’ve been such an important part of my life ever since Lisdoonvarna. fado fado. Some man for one man. Keep the faith.
“we sang the Nicky Tams in the back room of The Scotia
we drank sweet wines and called for neon pints of Fidel Castro
until it was time to fly to Dreamland
out of Bairds, up the stairs, to Hell or to Heaven we’d go” ( Git & Waldo)
enjoy the break in the gigs, thanks for a lovely gig last night…beautiful to hear Sweet Thames and The Reel….hadn’t heard in an age….every gig has a surprise..it’s what makes them special… thank you.
gonna climb into the Hot Press with Michael D
Nice one Larball
“The Rats & The Worms were still as mice
the poor auld Pigeon said ‘thats nice’
a shimmering veil on a lovely bride
and we danced to the reel in the flickering light”
………( Colm Gallagher)
Good Morning Christy.
I hope you have recovered from an amazing night. I was tired just watching you. It was truly a fantastic concert. As Mam would have said about a wedding dress. Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.
Vishva and I were not expecting another mention so it was the icing on the cake when you sang The Voyage for us once again. We are truly grateful. You probably couldn’t see but I was in tears. As were many who surrounded us. I’m not sure how many more times we will have the pleasure of being in your company. I hope we all have a few more left in us. Thanks again Christy. Take care. Best wishes to you and all of your family.
Tom and Vishva Murtha.
I spotted ye in the heaving throng…a lovely moment as Vishva laid her head upon your shoulder….
Hi Christy,
We could feel the crescendo rising some 15 minutes before you came on stage……what a finish to what has been an amazing year of Gigs. Each one unique, special and different. Thanks to you and all the team that make it happen, it is really appreciated. Relax and enjoy the Festive season.
Ride on.
Best regards.
I could sense it myself Patsy
up there in the dressing room
the roar of the greasepaint
the smell of the crowd
final prep as the time approached
the 15 minute call
Mick telling me
” a young crowd tonight, its like a Saturday night down there”
yet again I’m nervous
Mick checks me over
leads me down,
Johnny mikes me up
the excitement from the room is palpable
David recites the mantra
lights go down
the ball is in
the game is on
fair play to Mr Mushatt
My few lines written on board the aircoach home to Cork
the carrots are very hard in The Gresham
Hello Christy.Thanks for a fantastic gig tonight. What a Christmas present to get when you sang Saturday night in the Big Marquee. It is a night I will never forget. It was great to hear more rare songs.You were on fire tonight .what an end to 2025.Finally may I wish you and your family a very happy Christmas. Let the music 🎶 keep our spirits high.
Dave, me auld flower
you were in great voice last night
it was a lovely moment
when you stood up and accepted the glory heaped upon your presence
The Big Marquee is gaining momentum
lovely hurling boy
Hello Christy,
Thank you for a wonderful gig at Vicar Street this evening. It’s amazing – every time it’s perfect and I think that it can’t get any better than that, and then the next gig is even more perfect! A great atmosphere tonight. Thank you for singing Sweet Thames, and Spancil Hill, and all the others, the selection worked so well together. Looking forward to seeing you again at Vicar Street on 2nd March and then the NCH on 2nd May.
Very best wishes,
Anne
Many Happy Returns Anne
You Good Listeners carried me along last night
Such a gathering from near & far
many from across the Sea
the verses tumbled out, the battery ran down
Shane topped it off
my head is still spinning
I’m only gone 18 this year meself Christy. I may be wrong but from my own experience I don’t meet much listeners around my age. I just find this type of music to be some of the best.
I found the love for the culture through my grand parents and then your music came my way and I was just blown away entirely.
I haven’t a box with me to bash for the week and my fingers are itching to play some go move shift or something
hard to go a week without a strum or a pluck upon thon strings
a bit of accapella might soothe your longing
at that age I was below in Clonmel
twas there I first heard The Galtee Mountain Boy
Round we go, heel to the toe, we’re goin to have some fun tonight … looking forward to the gig later, hup ye boya x
failte arais….
You know they say clogherhead is Ireland’s hidden Spain… although im up in sunny tuam doing a bit of work, I got the crew on board with lisdoonvarna through the drive… it’s hard to turn heads with a guitar when they’re flat out on techno. Lisdoon always makes for a good vibe. Trad and folk enjoyers my age are few now but I’m glad to be one of them.
“Trad & Folk enjoyers my age are few now”….
that intrigues me Finn..
what age are you ?
Clogherhead was a favourite Planxty destination back in 1972/3…
Ned Byrne was our host and promoter…
The Cherry Tree was one of Planxty’s early hot spots….
and we witnessed the dawn as we recrossed the Boyne waters….