Hi Christy, hope this finds you well and in good spirits. Safe travel to the North West this weekend and sincere apologizes in advance for my absence. I have swapped the hills of Donegal this week for the much higher mountains of the Catalan Pyrenees. Visiting with some old friends in a tiny little village called Farrera, population of about 25 I am told. A beautiful place to visit, good for mind, body and soul. Got to a home game at the Nou Camp on Saturday en route here, had been really looking forward to seeing the little magician Messi in action. I think I must have jinxed him though as he went off injured after 10 minutes. Nevertheless Luis Suarez managed to score a couple which lessened the disappointment somewhat. Great experience and another ticked off the To Do List. Anyways Christy I look forward to catching up in the Banner and in Liverpool in a few weeks time #YNWA Love & Respect Martin Mac
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The Nou Camp Martin ! Very Fancy ! Fair Play to you…I hear that its a great experience…..enjoy your break and keep coming back….had grand cake last night with a Companero celebrating 50 years odaat
Hope you are well Christy and enjoying the late summer. Enjoyed the Saturday night in Carlow. Yourself and Jimmy were in great form. We had a lovely sing song and tunes in Spink last Saturday night. One of your neighbours, originally from our area, was there with her family and they all joined in. I’ll try ‘The Contender’ for the quiz – a great song!
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Hey John…good to hear from Spink…a great song but not the one
Hi Christy,
Is it Foxy Devil ???
Its a long time since “Sweeneys Men” were in action…just back from a visit to some relations of my Wife in Rugby. The World Cup in full flow there……although they are not too happy with the weekend results.I had to restrain myself on Saturday night during the England game !!!!.
Bags only partially unpacked…. will be soon needed for the Barrows….by all accounts there is a right gaggle gathering to hit the Clyde.
Ride on.
Patsy
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Only 2 days to go and a name will be drawn from The Hat…..did anyone here actually see the original Sweeneys Men in their day ? I’d love to read some such reminiscing….I dont think they recorded prior to Joe’s departure…..the Rugby is indeed a great treat (for some at least)…..Had a few Tunes with Robbie Henson prior to their departure…hes a good box player…hope he is available on Sunday
Myself and my fiancée Áine have gotten engaged in the past few weeks, we are going to your concert in letterkenny this Friday the 2nd of October, we are very big fans of yours, if you could give us a shout out to Philip and Áine and if you got a chance play “the reel in the flickering light” as this is aines favourite song. Thanks very much! Philip.
Morning Chisty,
I hope that life is treating you well!
After a bit of a hiatus from gigs, I came out of the shell to see Declan and Vickie in the Riverbank last week – a really lovely gig in a lovely hall (have you played it? – been to your shows in Ryston & Keadeen).
Next up is your gig at the Keadeen in November and then Bono and crew a week later in Dublin. I wonder which one I’ll enjoy most…
I liked the remark you made earlier about each gig being different to every listener. I remember the Ryston gig a couple of years back when I went to the show in bad form, soon relaxed into the show, then I shouted out for Musgrave, you sang it and I remember the show as one of the best ever.
That really is my favourite song.. I bought a print of The Meeting on the Turret stairs purely because it takes me into the time and place and mood of that song.
Stay well and see you in November.
Colum
BTW, I reckon the competition song is “The Contender”
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Love the way you have linked Musgrave to the painting….
used to play Riverbank in its earlier days….but there came an administrator to that fine building who considered the work to be “low brow”…. we took ourselves to Ryston and Keadeen where we feel welcomed and “at home”….
The number of correct answers continue to go into the tombola….but Jack Doyle is not a contender……hope you enjoy both gigs
So … after perusing the lyrics page which took half the night, my only suggestions for the “prime” song are “Foxy Devil” or “The Contender”. Now, if you’re being a fly man, the song in question could be the “Hackler from Grouse Hall” (love that title) where it says, “When I was young I danced and sung and drank good whiskey, too.” That’s another way of saying I was in my prime, surely.
This little exercise proved to be interesting as I came across songs I hadn’t heard in a long time as well as songs I don’t know at all. I like the song “Blackwater Side” and haven’t heard you sing it. The reference to scrumpy in the song “Mercy” brought back memories … can you still get that stuff? I was sitting on the sofa singing away as I went through all the lyrics and not one drop of scrumpy or anything in me. Good job there was nobody around.
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The number of correct answers is slowly increasing …names are entering the lottery…I’m reminded of the last competition some years back !
I gather that Scrumpy is still available in parts of England’s West-Country. An astonishing bevvy,I sampled it on 3 seperate occasions in the 60s…the result was always the same…..rough at first,quickly becoming palatable as the buzz commenced.This was soon followed ( pint 3) by uncontrolable hilarity which quickly descended into oblivion.
I recall it being available in a pub around Earl’s Court in London in the mid 60s.The Landlords were a pair of famous boxing brothers.There was a “special” bar in the pub where the scrumpy was served.
Lovely to hear mention of “Blackwater side”.I sang it in my early days. Anne Briggs version was beautiful. My own sister,Anne Rynne, has sung it all her life. Speaking of my Sister Anne Rynne, she is commencing work on her first recording this very day. I wish her the very best. She has been singing since she was a girl. She took up the guitar at 60 and has now embarked on an album project.Our Sis does not rush into anything.
Hi ya Christy – hope u are well.Great rugby been played… bag packed camera been polished counting the days to Letterkenny and Sligo sounds like the resent gigs were great good reports coming back.. still get the same buzz just before a set of gigs… safe trip to Donegal… always wanted to ask this but keep forgetting has the song Farewell To Pripyat ever made it back into the set –
prop way of on the song been mentioned but u never know–
“. Never Smelt The Roses” Johnny McEvoy
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Hey Adam…good to hear from you,that we will see you up in the North West…
thats a good song you mention…written by a friend,Tim Dennehy, who resides upon The West Coast Of Clare. He has written many fine songs and is a very fine singer (he has a number of albums) My fave song of his commences
“Write and keep in touch, My Love, tho we are far apart”…..pehaps I’ll get Pripyat out again but ,at the moment, I’m working on new songs and time is scarce…see you up there Adam
Back again with another postcard!
Answer: Foxy Devil
When I was young and handy in my prime
In taverns I would sit and bide my time
It’s there I met your company
I’d sit and drink my fill.
It’s there that you took hold of me
I think you’ve got me still.
My big son has just got tickets for Declan in the Black Box, Belfast. Hope to do the same tomorrow!
Regards Mary
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only correct answers will go into the hat…..5 days to go
CM (70)
Farewell To Carlingford ..(slán le lough cairlinn)Tommy Makem
also foxy devil (diabhail an sionnach) or contender (iomaitheoir)
the town of carraroe ach ní cas tú é sin a raibh
CS (11 )
P.S. Extremely large tide wednesday Gaillimh -0.0 / 5.7M chart datum Dé Máirt Baile áth cliath -0.0/4.5M .Sin trá aisteach .
Hi christy
I know this is a big ask is there any way I could contact u private as me and my partner are getting married and he is a massive fan as so is a lot off his family and would love if I could get you to come and play a few tunes I no is impossible but worth asking, I say that would just make are day more more special.
Thanks xx
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I have been barred from playing at weddings since 1984…a life sentence was imposed on me by a senior member of the bench ( in camera) …it was unfortunate affair, I was on medication and over-indulged on the morning…all was well in the Church where I performed satisfactorily in the Organ Loft with 2 sopranos and a bass baritone..but things started to go awry at the reception…I had taken some champagne upon arrival (but only about 12 glasses)… the wine waiter, a Moving Hearts Fan, kept leaving the wine bottle at my elbow so I did slightly over indulge on the white and red…then the licquer came around and I chanced a few Remy Martins …during the speeches I stumbled and fell into the trifle , falling out of the bowl I knocked over the 5 tier weeding cake which fell into the lap of the bride’s mother, her husband ( the bride’s stepfather – she was married 4 times) fell into an apoplectic rage,but while trying to assault me the poor man suffered a fatal heart attack and shat himself in the process.. as the priest knelt to administer the last rites…his clerical garb rose and revealed that he was wearing sado masochistic bondage gear …most of us did not recognise his attire and assumed it was part of the RC wedding clobber but the best man, he being well travelled, recognised the significance of the priestly attire and let the cat out of the bag….the bride screamed blue murder, the groom changed teams and left hand in hand with the bride’s first cousin who was the entertainment officer on a cruise ship out of Bangcock ….it was special alright but for all the wrong reasons
I write to you today again in order to ask for a special favour for a huge fan of yours, namely my uncle. 🙂 As he’s going to celebrate his entry to the 60’s in one month on October 4th, we thought it would be just great if he’d get a very special birthday message from you on that occasion. He is going to see you in concert in November, as my auntie plans to surprise him a bit this year. ?
Sooooooooo it’d be just so great from you to please send me just a few lines of your birthday wishes for my beloved Uncle Sepp, who is turning 60 in October, to make his special day a bit more awesome!! You can contact me on: rici.hofer@gmail.com – again, I and my whole family would be very grateful to you as you are an inspiration and exceptional artist in my uncle’s eyes and I am sure he shall never ever forget his 60th if he could read some lines directly from you, when he’s going to see you in concert one month after that!!
I’d be very very pleased to hear from you soon, my family counts on you, Mr. Moore, and shoots a very big THANK YOUUUUUUUU ahead!! ?
All the best from your young follower Rici
Hi All,,, lovely sunny morning here too,,,my curiousity got the better of me,, my first thought was The Contender,,,, but Google tells me otherwise ,, a nonsense song with several floating verses from Hull in North Riding Yorkshire, ,, there is a recording also from the British Library of an old man singing with a dog barking !!!,and the prize must go to Google !!!,, When I was young and in my prime
I wanted to go to sea
And so I bought an Indian ship
And sailed away to sea
An Indian chief came up to me
And said that I looked fine
Hmmm hmmm
And put me in the bed to fry
Singing scatoothebungela
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Heavens above no!….it is from a song that I recorded and sung a while back….I had to adjust it slightly…to prevent google solution ….would make the excercise pointless (which it may very well be anyway, sez Cúnla !!)
How it goin Christy ? Did ya watch Ray Darcys new show? He said he’d pay to see ya on strictly come dancing. not my cupán tae but stranger things…. Gearing up for the Barrowlands here can’t wait. Have been mad to catch a gig there since you talked about in on the late late a few years back. Celtic Aberdeen is the early kick off the next day if your sticking around and hopefully Ireland will be in a World Cup final that afternoon. Carlsberg don’t do weekends……wind it down then at the Keadeen a couple of weeks later. Looking forward to the documentary and the new release. Keep her lit!!!!
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Never Better, Thanks Be….here in the scratcher this Mon Morn at the start of a new week…just commencing the recording process on a new album this week, in good shape as I leap once more into that mysterious abyss, I’ve no idea what way the wind will rise but I’m gonna let it carry me along, let the notes tumble out of whatever instruments come my way…..always an exciting time, embracing new songs,arrangements,harmonies,sounds,intros, outros, breaks,crescendoes,a little more of this plus a little less of that…then you think its all over til you remember you need a running order,a title, sleeve artwork, sleevenotes, you think your finished and then you gotta talk to the Radio/TV/Papers and ,THEN, the whole bloody business starts all over again (Beckett) and I LOVE every minute of the entire process….bring it on…..
“O when I was young and I was in my Prime” (title anyone.? correct answers within a week of NOW go into a draw….winner gets 2 tickets to gig of choice)
Hi I have been a fan since I was 10, back in 1995 after hearing your Ordinary Man album during a trip to Dublin and drive to Galway. I recently written a book across between Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings, I am looking to create a few songs to go with it. As it is set in a medieval world I was wondering if you would be interested in helping my to put some music to the words I already have? my goal is to donate around 20% of my sales to cancer research and dementia charities.
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I’m not the right man for this job…I seldom write music myself..more of a lyricist ,I often turn to others for the melodics….good luck with your book and thanks for your offer
Go raibh míle maith agat as an oíche breá aréir Christy súil go raibh turas breá abhaile agat .I couldn’t believe it when I stood up and saw all the people in the hall .I never knew it was such a big place.
Dúirt Róísín go bhain sí taitneamh as freisin.
Did you see anything interesting in Clifden?
P.S. I wonder is Lambay island far from the mainland?
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ceart go leor mo cara. CS11..
I did surely…I saw a man and a boy thrashin tobacco into beans and 2 pigs wrestlin for stirabout, one of the beans flew through a dead wall and killed a stoned dog lyin in the ditch, every tear I let fall the nose on me cheek cut 16 fathoms a turf enough to set a mill goin, me two shin bones were stuck in me pocket and me head was stuck under me arm…. I was sittin down every minute til I met John James the hackney coachman who was drivin 16 dead jackasses in an empty steam coach loaded with 13 roasted milestones, told me he knew where John Knox lived..twas up a down street where a dog bit a hatchet and was laid up in hospital for 6 weeks..thats all I saw in Clifden…CM70
Christy, we were in Rathangan or ” ra ang gen” on Thur`last, herself can not remember the wet night night at the Carnival in Rathangan when Planxty played in the leaky Marquee. There were four + of us over from Newbridge on a bus from Neesons. a few from Kildare, Edenderry and Robertstown, not one of the great nights, do you have any remories of that night ?…………..
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John Boy..greetings to you both in Clogh ( from Clock to Clogh)…..I remember that night in 1972 like twas yesterday….and for very good reason (which I wont divulge here but will share with you when we next meet) afterwards we went back to Prosperous, Anne and Davoc were still in residence and we rawmaished the night away…..
Thinking back John,that was a very early Planxty gig…before we had any crew…I drove the van (Liam shared the driving) we had 2 speakers,(Hurley Crazy boxes from Glenamaddy) a 100 watt Marshall amp, 4 microphones and a Binson Echo, we set the gear up and Donal would tweek the amp, afterwards Andy would do the settlements and we’d hit the road as Happy as Larrys..our repertoire included
Raggle Taggle
Jolly Beggar
Si Bheag Si Mhor
Merrily Kiss The Quaker
Only Our Rivers
Sally Brown
When First Unto This Country
Cúnla
3 Drunken Maidens
Follow Me up to Carlow
West Coast of Clare
Planxty Irwin
Corney is Coming
Bean Phaidín
The Bucks of Oranmore
The Gold Ring
Sweet Thames
Yarmouth Town………….there was hair, flares,clogs, hash and patchouli
Hello xx I know this is probably a long shot myself and my fella are heading to nenagh to see the main man tomorrow night christy moore is probably the only thing we have in common we both love him but I think philly might love christy more than me haha 🙂 we are together 7 years and philly has a running joke that the year he shakes christys hand he’ll propose now I know that’s not possible but if I could get a shout out for philly glennon 2mrw night id really appreciate it either way we’ll be there cannot wait x thank so much melissa slevin
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Christy got the hand shook off him on Hill 16 last Sunday…his personal hand surgeon has told him no more handshakes til after the next election…after 7 years you might consider putting it up to Philly….shape up or ship out…shite or get off the pot
Hi Christy, hope this finds you well and in good spirits. Safe travel to the North West this weekend and sincere apologizes in advance for my absence. I have swapped the hills of Donegal this week for the much higher mountains of the Catalan Pyrenees. Visiting with some old friends in a tiny little village called Farrera, population of about 25 I am told. A beautiful place to visit, good for mind, body and soul. Got to a home game at the Nou Camp on Saturday en route here, had been really looking forward to seeing the little magician Messi in action. I think I must have jinxed him though as he went off injured after 10 minutes. Nevertheless Luis Suarez managed to score a couple which lessened the disappointment somewhat. Great experience and another ticked off the To Do List. Anyways Christy I look forward to catching up in the Banner and in Liverpool in a few weeks time #YNWA Love & Respect Martin Mac
The Nou Camp Martin ! Very Fancy ! Fair Play to you…I hear that its a great experience…..enjoy your break and keep coming back….had grand cake last night with a Companero celebrating 50 years odaat
Christy thanks for a great night in Clifden,enjoyed every minute of it.As for the quiz Contender seems too easy,so i’ll go with Joe Dolans Foxy Devil.
whack fol de diddle fol de di do dey
Hope you are well Christy and enjoying the late summer. Enjoyed the Saturday night in Carlow. Yourself and Jimmy were in great form. We had a lovely sing song and tunes in Spink last Saturday night. One of your neighbours, originally from our area, was there with her family and they all joined in. I’ll try ‘The Contender’ for the quiz – a great song!
Hey John…good to hear from Spink…a great song but not the one
Hi Christy,
Is it Foxy Devil ???
Its a long time since “Sweeneys Men” were in action…just back from a visit to some relations of my Wife in Rugby. The World Cup in full flow there……although they are not too happy with the weekend results.I had to restrain myself on Saturday night during the England game !!!!.
Bags only partially unpacked…. will be soon needed for the Barrows….by all accounts there is a right gaggle gathering to hit the Clyde.
Ride on.
Patsy
Only 2 days to go and a name will be drawn from The Hat…..did anyone here actually see the original Sweeneys Men in their day ? I’d love to read some such reminiscing….I dont think they recorded prior to Joe’s departure…..the Rugby is indeed a great treat (for some at least)…..Had a few Tunes with Robbie Henson prior to their departure…hes a good box player…hope he is available on Sunday
Dear Christy,
Myself and my fiancée Áine have gotten engaged in the past few weeks, we are going to your concert in letterkenny this Friday the 2nd of October, we are very big fans of yours, if you could give us a shout out to Philip and Áine and if you got a chance play “the reel in the flickering light” as this is aines favourite song. Thanks very much! Philip.
Congrats
Morning Chisty,
I hope that life is treating you well!
After a bit of a hiatus from gigs, I came out of the shell to see Declan and Vickie in the Riverbank last week – a really lovely gig in a lovely hall (have you played it? – been to your shows in Ryston & Keadeen).
Next up is your gig at the Keadeen in November and then Bono and crew a week later in Dublin. I wonder which one I’ll enjoy most…
I liked the remark you made earlier about each gig being different to every listener. I remember the Ryston gig a couple of years back when I went to the show in bad form, soon relaxed into the show, then I shouted out for Musgrave, you sang it and I remember the show as one of the best ever.
That really is my favourite song.. I bought a print of The Meeting on the Turret stairs purely because it takes me into the time and place and mood of that song.
Stay well and see you in November.
Colum
BTW, I reckon the competition song is “The Contender”
Love the way you have linked Musgrave to the painting….
used to play Riverbank in its earlier days….but there came an administrator to that fine building who considered the work to be “low brow”…. we took ourselves to Ryston and Keadeen where we feel welcomed and “at home”….
The number of correct answers continue to go into the tombola….but Jack Doyle is not a contender……hope you enjoy both gigs
So … after perusing the lyrics page which took half the night, my only suggestions for the “prime” song are “Foxy Devil” or “The Contender”. Now, if you’re being a fly man, the song in question could be the “Hackler from Grouse Hall” (love that title) where it says, “When I was young I danced and sung and drank good whiskey, too.” That’s another way of saying I was in my prime, surely.
This little exercise proved to be interesting as I came across songs I hadn’t heard in a long time as well as songs I don’t know at all. I like the song “Blackwater Side” and haven’t heard you sing it. The reference to scrumpy in the song “Mercy” brought back memories … can you still get that stuff? I was sitting on the sofa singing away as I went through all the lyrics and not one drop of scrumpy or anything in me. Good job there was nobody around.
The number of correct answers is slowly increasing …names are entering the lottery…I’m reminded of the last competition some years back !
I gather that Scrumpy is still available in parts of England’s West-Country. An astonishing bevvy,I sampled it on 3 seperate occasions in the 60s…the result was always the same…..rough at first,quickly becoming palatable as the buzz commenced.This was soon followed ( pint 3) by uncontrolable hilarity which quickly descended into oblivion.
I recall it being available in a pub around Earl’s Court in London in the mid 60s.The Landlords were a pair of famous boxing brothers.There was a “special” bar in the pub where the scrumpy was served.
Lovely to hear mention of “Blackwater side”.I sang it in my early days. Anne Briggs version was beautiful. My own sister,Anne Rynne, has sung it all her life. Speaking of my Sister Anne Rynne, she is commencing work on her first recording this very day. I wish her the very best. She has been singing since she was a girl. She took up the guitar at 60 and has now embarked on an album project.Our Sis does not rush into anything.
Hi ya Christy – hope u are well.Great rugby been played… bag packed camera been polished counting the days to Letterkenny and Sligo sounds like the resent gigs were great good reports coming back.. still get the same buzz just before a set of gigs… safe trip to Donegal… always wanted to ask this but keep forgetting has the song Farewell To Pripyat ever made it back into the set –
prop way of on the song been mentioned but u never know–
“. Never Smelt The Roses” Johnny McEvoy
Hey Adam…good to hear from you,that we will see you up in the North West…
thats a good song you mention…written by a friend,Tim Dennehy, who resides upon The West Coast Of Clare. He has written many fine songs and is a very fine singer (he has a number of albums) My fave song of his commences
“Write and keep in touch, My Love, tho we are far apart”…..pehaps I’ll get Pripyat out again but ,at the moment, I’m working on new songs and time is scarce…see you up there Adam
Back again with another postcard!
Answer: Foxy Devil
When I was young and handy in my prime
In taverns I would sit and bide my time
It’s there I met your company
I’d sit and drink my fill.
It’s there that you took hold of me
I think you’ve got me still.
My big son has just got tickets for Declan in the Black Box, Belfast. Hope to do the same tomorrow!
Regards Mary
only correct answers will go into the hat…..5 days to go
Answer on a postcard!
Steve Gardham (English Folk Collection) When I was young and in my prime…
Two tickets did you say?
Mary Shannon
Lol christy!! So I take it u can’t play at wedding lol!! Thanks for replying 🙂
CM (70)
Farewell To Carlingford ..(slán le lough cairlinn)Tommy Makem
also foxy devil (diabhail an sionnach) or contender (iomaitheoir)
the town of carraroe ach ní cas tú é sin a raibh
CS (11 )
P.S. Extremely large tide wednesday Gaillimh -0.0 / 5.7M chart datum Dé Máirt Baile áth cliath -0.0/4.5M .Sin trá aisteach .
bad weather for paddling
Hi christy
I know this is a big ask is there any way I could contact u private as me and my partner are getting married and he is a massive fan as so is a lot off his family and would love if I could get you to come and play a few tunes I no is impossible but worth asking, I say that would just make are day more more special.
Thanks xx
I have been barred from playing at weddings since 1984…a life sentence was imposed on me by a senior member of the bench ( in camera) …it was unfortunate affair, I was on medication and over-indulged on the morning…all was well in the Church where I performed satisfactorily in the Organ Loft with 2 sopranos and a bass baritone..but things started to go awry at the reception…I had taken some champagne upon arrival (but only about 12 glasses)… the wine waiter, a Moving Hearts Fan, kept leaving the wine bottle at my elbow so I did slightly over indulge on the white and red…then the licquer came around and I chanced a few Remy Martins …during the speeches I stumbled and fell into the trifle , falling out of the bowl I knocked over the 5 tier weeding cake which fell into the lap of the bride’s mother, her husband ( the bride’s stepfather – she was married 4 times) fell into an apoplectic rage,but while trying to assault me the poor man suffered a fatal heart attack and shat himself in the process.. as the priest knelt to administer the last rites…his clerical garb rose and revealed that he was wearing sado masochistic bondage gear …most of us did not recognise his attire and assumed it was part of the RC wedding clobber but the best man, he being well travelled, recognised the significance of the priestly attire and let the cat out of the bag….the bride screamed blue murder, the groom changed teams and left hand in hand with the bride’s first cousin who was the entertainment officer on a cruise ship out of Bangcock ….it was special alright but for all the wrong reasons
Dearest Mr. Moore,
I write to you today again in order to ask for a special favour for a huge fan of yours, namely my uncle. 🙂 As he’s going to celebrate his entry to the 60’s in one month on October 4th, we thought it would be just great if he’d get a very special birthday message from you on that occasion. He is going to see you in concert in November, as my auntie plans to surprise him a bit this year. ?
Sooooooooo it’d be just so great from you to please send me just a few lines of your birthday wishes for my beloved Uncle Sepp, who is turning 60 in October, to make his special day a bit more awesome!! You can contact me on: rici.hofer@gmail.com – again, I and my whole family would be very grateful to you as you are an inspiration and exceptional artist in my uncle’s eyes and I am sure he shall never ever forget his 60th if he could read some lines directly from you, when he’s going to see you in concert one month after that!!
I’d be very very pleased to hear from you soon, my family counts on you, Mr. Moore, and shoots a very big THANK YOUUUUUUUU ahead!! ?
All the best from your young follower Rici
Hi All,,, lovely sunny morning here too,,,my curiousity got the better of me,, my first thought was The Contender,,,, but Google tells me otherwise ,, a nonsense song with several floating verses from Hull in North Riding Yorkshire, ,, there is a recording also from the British Library of an old man singing with a dog barking !!!,and the prize must go to Google !!!,, When I was young and in my prime
I wanted to go to sea
And so I bought an Indian ship
And sailed away to sea
An Indian chief came up to me
And said that I looked fine
Hmmm hmmm
And put me in the bed to fry
Singing scatoothebungela
Heavens above no!….it is from a song that I recorded and sung a while back….I had to adjust it slightly…to prevent google solution ….would make the excercise pointless (which it may very well be anyway, sez Cúnla !!)
How it goin Christy ? Did ya watch Ray Darcys new show? He said he’d pay to see ya on strictly come dancing. not my cupán tae but stranger things…. Gearing up for the Barrowlands here can’t wait. Have been mad to catch a gig there since you talked about in on the late late a few years back. Celtic Aberdeen is the early kick off the next day if your sticking around and hopefully Ireland will be in a World Cup final that afternoon. Carlsberg don’t do weekends……wind it down then at the Keadeen a couple of weeks later. Looking forward to the documentary and the new release. Keep her lit!!!!
Never Better, Thanks Be….here in the scratcher this Mon Morn at the start of a new week…just commencing the recording process on a new album this week, in good shape as I leap once more into that mysterious abyss, I’ve no idea what way the wind will rise but I’m gonna let it carry me along, let the notes tumble out of whatever instruments come my way…..always an exciting time, embracing new songs,arrangements,harmonies,sounds,intros, outros, breaks,crescendoes,a little more of this plus a little less of that…then you think its all over til you remember you need a running order,a title, sleeve artwork, sleevenotes, you think your finished and then you gotta talk to the Radio/TV/Papers and ,THEN, the whole bloody business starts all over again (Beckett) and I LOVE every minute of the entire process….bring it on…..
“O when I was young and I was in my Prime” (title anyone.? correct answers within a week of NOW go into a draw….winner gets 2 tickets to gig of choice)
Hi I have been a fan since I was 10, back in 1995 after hearing your Ordinary Man album during a trip to Dublin and drive to Galway. I recently written a book across between Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings, I am looking to create a few songs to go with it. As it is set in a medieval world I was wondering if you would be interested in helping my to put some music to the words I already have? my goal is to donate around 20% of my sales to cancer research and dementia charities.
I’m not the right man for this job…I seldom write music myself..more of a lyricist ,I often turn to others for the melodics….good luck with your book and thanks for your offer
Go raibh míle maith agat as an oíche breá aréir Christy súil go raibh turas breá abhaile agat .I couldn’t believe it when I stood up and saw all the people in the hall .I never knew it was such a big place.
Dúirt Róísín go bhain sí taitneamh as freisin.
Did you see anything interesting in Clifden?
P.S. I wonder is Lambay island far from the mainland?
ceart go leor mo cara. CS11..
I did surely…I saw a man and a boy thrashin tobacco into beans and 2 pigs wrestlin for stirabout, one of the beans flew through a dead wall and killed a stoned dog lyin in the ditch, every tear I let fall the nose on me cheek cut 16 fathoms a turf enough to set a mill goin, me two shin bones were stuck in me pocket and me head was stuck under me arm…. I was sittin down every minute til I met John James the hackney coachman who was drivin 16 dead jackasses in an empty steam coach loaded with 13 roasted milestones, told me he knew where John Knox lived..twas up a down street where a dog bit a hatchet and was laid up in hospital for 6 weeks..thats all I saw in Clifden…CM70
Christy, we were in Rathangan or ” ra ang gen” on Thur`last, herself can not remember the wet night night at the Carnival in Rathangan when Planxty played in the leaky Marquee. There were four + of us over from Newbridge on a bus from Neesons. a few from Kildare, Edenderry and Robertstown, not one of the great nights, do you have any remories of that night ?…………..
John Boy..greetings to you both in Clogh ( from Clock to Clogh)…..I remember that night in 1972 like twas yesterday….and for very good reason (which I wont divulge here but will share with you when we next meet) afterwards we went back to Prosperous, Anne and Davoc were still in residence and we rawmaished the night away…..
Thinking back John,that was a very early Planxty gig…before we had any crew…I drove the van (Liam shared the driving) we had 2 speakers,(Hurley Crazy boxes from Glenamaddy) a 100 watt Marshall amp, 4 microphones and a Binson Echo, we set the gear up and Donal would tweek the amp, afterwards Andy would do the settlements and we’d hit the road as Happy as Larrys..our repertoire included
Raggle Taggle
Jolly Beggar
Si Bheag Si Mhor
Merrily Kiss The Quaker
Only Our Rivers
Sally Brown
When First Unto This Country
Cúnla
3 Drunken Maidens
Follow Me up to Carlow
West Coast of Clare
Planxty Irwin
Corney is Coming
Bean Phaidín
The Bucks of Oranmore
The Gold Ring
Sweet Thames
Yarmouth Town………….there was hair, flares,clogs, hash and patchouli
Hello xx I know this is probably a long shot myself and my fella are heading to nenagh to see the main man tomorrow night christy moore is probably the only thing we have in common we both love him but I think philly might love christy more than me haha 🙂 we are together 7 years and philly has a running joke that the year he shakes christys hand he’ll propose now I know that’s not possible but if I could get a shout out for philly glennon 2mrw night id really appreciate it either way we’ll be there cannot wait x thank so much melissa slevin
Christy got the hand shook off him on Hill 16 last Sunday…his personal hand surgeon has told him no more handshakes til after the next election…after 7 years you might consider putting it up to Philly….shape up or ship out…shite or get off the pot