Hi
Really looking forward to seeing you play next Thursday in Southbank. I bought the concerts tickets for my brother John Fahy who will be celebrating his birthday that night! He has travelled far and wide to hear you and going to hear his favourite singer perform made the best birthday birthday present!
See you in London!
Maeve
Christy's reply
Maeve is definitely my favourite spelling of your name….I had an Auntie Maeve who was a constant part of my young life….although yours is the Anglicised spelling it has always had a feelgood factor for me, reminding me of Maeve Laffan from Beauparc, County Meath. She was my Godmother. While she neither questioned nor interfered with my spiritual affairs she was always good for the ten shilling note at Christmas and Birthday time. I spent manys the Summer Holiday at her home in Clontarf,Dublin where I was utterly spoiled like a son she never had. She was best school friend of my Mother since girlhood days in Yellow Furze on the Banks of The River Boyne. It was a friendship that lasted their entire lives.
I look forward to singing for your brother..maybe “Yellow Furze Woman”
It’s been a while, but we’re really looking forward to seeing you in Worthing on Monday night. Tallulah thought she couldn’t come as her band we’re playing a gig, but thankfully it’s the night after; Christy one night, hardcore punk the next! Think this will be her 4th gig of yours. Noah can’t come, too late on a school night, but he’ll be there with us in spirit. Anyway, have a safe journey and a great gig and thanks for stopping nearby. Be well love from us all, Helen, Manuel, Tallulah and Noah
Christy's reply
Hope Tallulah has a good gig….great that she has a band….just packing the passport and muesli here
Hi Christy,
I am an A-Level Media Studies student from Berkshire and I’ve been assigned the task of making a music video for a track that doesn’t have a music video in order to complete my portfolio. I’m very interested in using your track ‘Ride On’ because I believe that I can create a very fitting video to accompany it as well as the fact that there is no already existing music video. I am writing to request permission from you to use the track in my video and would greatly appreciate the opportunity. If you could please let me know soon, I would be very grateful.
Thank you for your time.
Yours Sincerely,
Sam Davis.
Christy's reply
Hey Sam, I did not write the song…if you were making a commercial video you would need permission from the author….however,since you wish to use the song for a study assignment, I am happy for you to use my recording of Jimmy MacCarthy’s song..
Ride On Sam….
Looking forward to Sunday in Watford. Although tinged with sadness…We lost Mum earlier this month…..Rita Coleman ages 95…a powerful proud Mayo woman. Strange request but could you sing a song for her on Sunday….? If so….you’d make 9 people in row K very happy indeed….Her funeral is the day after the Watford gig…..so we’ll be on our best behaviour….Safe travels and see you Sunday x
Christy's reply
always exciting to play a new City…never played Watford before…
sorry to read of your loss..
Our Mother Nancy died in 1992…..we still miss her and talk about her….twas like a boat being separated from its moorings to drift away from whence it came….. the same vintage as your Rita, our Nancy grew up in County Meath and never forgot her roots. her old neighbours and school pals…
I used always sing new songs for her…she would be my final sounding board before recording songs….her opinions and advice always worth hearing
Morning Christy
The Cropredy festival was marvellous as usual last month. The weather was kind and the crowd as gentle as always. Highlight for me was the unexpected appearance of Ralph McTell with Fairport for a couple of songs. That man’s voice is like no other and in an age of auto tuning and sameness in the mainstream it is a blessing that such music as yours and McTell have a long life ahead of them. I don’t call it folk music it’s just good music.
Great news for me. I have 2 tickets sourced for Ratoath on 11th November so making a flying visit over and will drag my cousin Rosemary from Stillorgan out with me for the night. Maybe get a chance to shake your hand which would be a great honour for me.Can’t wait
Look after yourself
Frankie
Christy's reply
Cropredy always sounds good….have always had a soft spot for Fairport since first hearing them in 1969….last time was at Leeds Folk festival in 1982 or 83…
Ralph and I go back to 1967 when I played support to him at a Folk Club in Madchester run by Rai and Maureen Birnes….Ralph gave me great encouragement back then..advised me to change to a steel strung guitar, get into a bit of plectrum playing… came with me to Ivor Mairants in London to get my first “proper” guitar… ( a Yamaha FG 180)
See you in Ratoath
Hi Christy,
I’m the one here commenting but sadly wasn’t able to come to your gig on Saturday night in Carlow. Thank you for the shout out and for the full gig for me to listen to. Songs like Ronnie Reagan and Who Cares matter most in the recent few years. Hope you are well. Hope you can make it back over to Glasgow very soon. Loved seeing you in the Barras! Aswell it was a good day for Celtic supporters! Take care.
Christy's reply
that was a rare rattling hot humorous steamy loving night down Gallowgate on April 29th…..done a good few gigs since than but Barrowlands always resonates…hope to be back again towards the end of next year..it usually takes me about 18 months to recover
a trip down memory lane as this came across this morning..thanks for posting…it was my first time on TV and I was very nervous…..I was 24, still finger pickin an old Spainish Guitar, that same year I made my first album with Dominic Behan, long since deleted it was called “Paddy on The Road”….I got my first steel strung guitar , a £40 Yamaha FG 180 from Ivor Mairants in London..( Ralph McTell advised me to “go steel” and accompanied me to Mairants)…. I had a 1956 blue VW Beetle which I bought from “Uncle Harry” in Nether Edge Sheffield for £50..it was my pride and joy, my mobile home, my wardrobe and mode of transport…Shay Healy compered that TV series on RTE ( Irish TV)… other guests that night included Ronnie Drew and a Band from New Ross called The Emerald Folk who sang Woody Guthrie’s “Plane Crash at Los Gatos” ( I have been opening with it of late)
“Some of us are illegal, most are not wanted
our work contracts out and we must move on
the 600 miles to the Mexican Border
they drive us like outlaws, like rustlers,like thieves”
it was an exciting time for me…first radio show, first TV show, first album and all this within 3 years of leaving The National Bank in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo …..that year I heard Ewan MacColl sing ,met The Watersons, moved to Yorkshire from Lancashire with my good buddy Derek McEwan….50 years later I feel very priviledged, very fortunate to still have “skin in the game”.. the world is a very different place,its louder, smaller, more dangerous, more populated…I’m older,wiser,balder,fatter,slower (sober,I hope)… yet the songs still resound..
Its sweet to reflect upon those early days…
an interesting aside…got a book from Jim Higgins last week, written by his Father ( Jimmy Higgins) its called “Are Ye The Band? ( a memoir of the showband era) it includes the top 30 chart from August 1967 which included at:
(2)The Black Velvet Band………Johnny Kelly
(3) Tar and Cement……………Joe Dolan
(8) Boston Burglar……………Johnny McEvoy
(11) All for me Grog………….The Dubliners
(21) The Maid in The Garrett…..Sweeneys Men
(25) Seven Drunken Nights……..The Dubliners
(26) Enniskillen Dragoon……….The Ludlows
(29) Curragh of Kildare………..The Johnstons
………..at Number one were The Beatles ……..”All You Need is Love”
Hello Christy, September man is standing near to saddle up another year…..
Hope all is well and Summertime has been good.
Will we see you in the lowlands someday?
Our first gig of the band O’Dreams starts this Thursday. Beautiful location in the oldest Open air theater Valkenburg in the lowlands. Way down south in the province of Limburg.
Just released a videoclip of one of our own songs written by Danny Guinan (originally from Ferbane) Hope you like it.
Good luck with the upcoming gigs!
John
good man John …I like your new song..love that moment where the hand reaches out to help the boy on the ground…hope ye have a good winter with your songs and music…no current plans for Holland but that could change at any time..
Ride On O’DREAMS
Sligo, Christy. Can’t contain my excitemen!. So many years later, finally the gods are bringing me back to the home of my heart, and your music that I love so well.
And a million thanks to Hilary Scanlon for her wise counsel and help. Seeing ya soon! <3
Hey Christy.
I had a dear departed friend lived in Clane, and the odd time we’d flee Manzors and head over to Dowlings. I was fakin’ it with a Planxty tribute band in and around Bray at the time. Had a bag and chanter made for me by Denis Quigley in Aughrim. (Now if you ever get to that desert island!)
Btw, I saw your reply to the next post… my dad was born and raised in Harbour View Cobh (ref Holy Ground). He was about 9 years older than Jack . But a little under 20 years ago on a bus going into York races I sat next to, and got chatting to a guy named Michael Taub, said he’d written a book about Champion Hurdler Danoli and also a biography of Jack Doyle. ” You probably think the bloodstock dealer” he says. No, says I, would it be the Gorgeous Gael? He was genuinely surprised I’d heard of him. So, after writing many short stories, and toying with the idea, my first novel has commenced well, there’s no shortage of anecdotal ammunition is there? Love your take on McCarthy’s masterpiece.
Christy's reply
good luck with your story Christy…that your pen may race across the page…that your story may unfold with ease…
never a night passes here without at least one of Jimmy MacCarthy’s..some nights two, some nights three….
Wally Page I know, has many fans among your readers here Christy and this coming Friday, 8th, Wally plays his regular gig in The Annesley House Pub on the North Strand Road.
Along with Johnny Mulhearn and the band they’ll be knockin out the hits you listed below in reply to Nicola CA. Always a great gig. Friday 8th at 9pm..I’ll be on the Pest side of the Danube..
She wouldn’t let me go to your gig in Brighton back in 2010, so I offered the tickets gratis on 4711. You phoned me and I nearly choked on my sandwich. “Come to London instead”, ya said. We didn’t. But the next ‘wan came and loved ya… but then we split too. You wrote: I have the letter in my pocket. I sang “Fairytale” to my own dear boy Sean as he lay dead on the slab. My 6yo Emma Roisin danced as I played “Kangaroo.” She’s 13 now: plays the uke. Her fingers hurt until she learned a chord or two. After three weeks camping in Dordogne we’re tight . Hardly had to buy a beer all holidays… ” Give us something by Christy Moore!” … “Turn it up…turn it up!”
Worthing, Monday night. I’ll be palpitating
Since Dowlings in Prosperous in ’72 you’ve been the soundtrack for one ordinary man.
Thanks a million.
Christy's reply
Morra Christy O’D…..I’ve great respect for long haul listeners, thanks for sticking about…did you frequent Pat Dowlings in 1972 or do you reference that 1971 album Prosperous ?….
I’m reminded of that Summer with Liam O’Flynn,Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny..how that album came together..how it has survived and still gets played…heard it on a Radio show last week ….
Just wanted to say thank you so much for a great gig last night. It was so nice of you to play The Voyage, meant a lot to Peter and I, I wa the one who asked for 16 Fishermen, I love that song and have been waiting years to hear you sing it live. You can tell Wally Page the scallion-eaters are big fans! To be honest, we use the line ‘Why face the angry squall when you could go go-go dancing?’ as our family motto. That’s how come we have lasted the 25 years… Thanks again, let the music roll on..
Christy's reply
Wally writes great lyrics……
Biko Drum,
Finglas Boys
Smoke & Strong Whiskey
This Is the Day
16 Jolly Ravers
Mercy
………. and we worked together on
Yellow Furze Woman
Johnny Conners
Lovely Young One.
………..and many more too…his gigs always worth checkin out
cheers, charlie would be absolutely delighted if that were possible.
the solo gig was so wonderfully intimate ,it felt like you were saying’its where i come from’, and what better place to ramble or to get lost than among friends christy.
regards
rory
christy thank you for last night in carlow. what fun and enchanting music we had with you. it was especially kind to play ‘hey ronnie reagan’ for my son charlie in glasgow, he is delighted to hear of your rendition even at that distance and he toasted you no doubt in malones and several other hostelries in saint mungo’s city.. we look forward to hearing you again when you ‘go to the clyde’ again soon. regards rory (and charlie).
Christy's reply
I find myself in a totally different zone at these Solo gigs. Over the years I have,betimes, abandoned the Solo performance completely. The confidence goes quickly when this happens. Everything sounds bare and flat without the accompanying music of good companeros . This year I vowed to rekindle the solo gig for its there “from whence I came”. I am enjoying the challenge….last night I was able to dart hither and thither and got to sing songs that are seldom aired. Got lost once or twice but well aimed prompts soon had me back on track ! There may well be an audience recording coming your way which you can share with your Charlie Clydeside……
“Hey Ronnie Reagan,I’m Black and I’m Pagan,
I’m Gay and I’m Leftand I’M Free”……………………. (John Maguire 1984)
Hi Christie, back from another night of listening to you perform – this time in Carlow. Fantastic as usual. Thanks for touring.
Christy's reply
Hey Kaye,
Thanks for your feedback…..that Carlow Visual is a real funky groovy venue….great facilities, great room and great audience…..the acoustics in the G.B.S. Theatre are perfect…most importantly, the staff are welcoming and very helpful..makes such a difference when crew and band are made to feel welcome in a venue… have to say its mainly the case these days…we have brilliant venues around Ireland now….but there are a few still dragging their heels with their heads back in the dark days of “anything will do”
I practiced “Follow Me Up To Carlow” yesterday and then forgot to sing it
Hi Christy,autumn is on its way,the swallows are heavy full of flies,all sitting on the power Iines contemplating when is the right time to start on the long journey,life is an ocean love is a boat,in troubled waters it keeps us afloat,The rugby has started tomotoes ready to harvest,going to be a busy few months Christy,Might climb up mandolin mountain a few times along the way,Shine on you crazy Diamond,over and out Geraint.
Christy's reply
One season seems to run into the next….especially for those on the Lions squad…whilst the game has become professional, exciting and very popular, I do sometimes harken back to days of yore….back to when Hookers hooked, wingers threw in to lineouts ,where two lines of eight was the rule, scrum-halves put in straight, tries followed strikes against the head, backs were not shaped like props,
Playing for Cashel in the Munster Junior Cup over 50 years ago I overheard a Limerick prop berate his out half…”Don’t you EVER pass that ball to me again”
We were fruitpicking down in Kent……went to Craven Cottage to see Fulham v Arsenal…Johnny Haynes was masterful, Tony Macedo kept a clean sheet, Jimmy Conway shone…took on a gallon of Light & Keg after, woke up at the end of the District line in Richmond….twas the last tube and I had to trudge back in to Gunnersbury…that sobered me up…but did I learn my lesson ?
Hi
Really looking forward to seeing you play next Thursday in Southbank. I bought the concerts tickets for my brother John Fahy who will be celebrating his birthday that night! He has travelled far and wide to hear you and going to hear his favourite singer perform made the best birthday birthday present!
See you in London!
Maeve
Maeve is definitely my favourite spelling of your name….I had an Auntie Maeve who was a constant part of my young life….although yours is the Anglicised spelling it has always had a feelgood factor for me, reminding me of Maeve Laffan from Beauparc, County Meath. She was my Godmother. While she neither questioned nor interfered with my spiritual affairs she was always good for the ten shilling note at Christmas and Birthday time. I spent manys the Summer Holiday at her home in Clontarf,Dublin where I was utterly spoiled like a son she never had. She was best school friend of my Mother since girlhood days in Yellow Furze on the Banks of The River Boyne. It was a friendship that lasted their entire lives.
I look forward to singing for your brother..maybe “Yellow Furze Woman”
It’s been a while, but we’re really looking forward to seeing you in Worthing on Monday night. Tallulah thought she couldn’t come as her band we’re playing a gig, but thankfully it’s the night after; Christy one night, hardcore punk the next! Think this will be her 4th gig of yours. Noah can’t come, too late on a school night, but he’ll be there with us in spirit. Anyway, have a safe journey and a great gig and thanks for stopping nearby. Be well love from us all, Helen, Manuel, Tallulah and Noah
Hope Tallulah has a good gig….great that she has a band….just packing the passport and muesli here
Hi Christy,
I am an A-Level Media Studies student from Berkshire and I’ve been assigned the task of making a music video for a track that doesn’t have a music video in order to complete my portfolio. I’m very interested in using your track ‘Ride On’ because I believe that I can create a very fitting video to accompany it as well as the fact that there is no already existing music video. I am writing to request permission from you to use the track in my video and would greatly appreciate the opportunity. If you could please let me know soon, I would be very grateful.
Thank you for your time.
Yours Sincerely,
Sam Davis.
Hey Sam, I did not write the song…if you were making a commercial video you would need permission from the author….however,since you wish to use the song for a study assignment, I am happy for you to use my recording of Jimmy MacCarthy’s song..
Ride On Sam….
Looking forward to Sunday in Watford. Although tinged with sadness…We lost Mum earlier this month…..Rita Coleman ages 95…a powerful proud Mayo woman. Strange request but could you sing a song for her on Sunday….? If so….you’d make 9 people in row K very happy indeed….Her funeral is the day after the Watford gig…..so we’ll be on our best behaviour….Safe travels and see you Sunday x
always exciting to play a new City…never played Watford before…
sorry to read of your loss..
Our Mother Nancy died in 1992…..we still miss her and talk about her….twas like a boat being separated from its moorings to drift away from whence it came….. the same vintage as your Rita, our Nancy grew up in County Meath and never forgot her roots. her old neighbours and school pals…
I used always sing new songs for her…she would be my final sounding board before recording songs….her opinions and advice always worth hearing
Morning Christy
The Cropredy festival was marvellous as usual last month. The weather was kind and the crowd as gentle as always. Highlight for me was the unexpected appearance of Ralph McTell with Fairport for a couple of songs. That man’s voice is like no other and in an age of auto tuning and sameness in the mainstream it is a blessing that such music as yours and McTell have a long life ahead of them. I don’t call it folk music it’s just good music.
Great news for me. I have 2 tickets sourced for Ratoath on 11th November so making a flying visit over and will drag my cousin Rosemary from Stillorgan out with me for the night. Maybe get a chance to shake your hand which would be a great honour for me.Can’t wait
Look after yourself
Frankie
Cropredy always sounds good….have always had a soft spot for Fairport since first hearing them in 1969….last time was at Leeds Folk festival in 1982 or 83…
Ralph and I go back to 1967 when I played support to him at a Folk Club in Madchester run by Rai and Maureen Birnes….Ralph gave me great encouragement back then..advised me to change to a steel strung guitar, get into a bit of plectrum playing… came with me to Ivor Mairants in London to get my first “proper” guitar… ( a Yamaha FG 180)
See you in Ratoath
Hi Christy,
I’m the one here commenting but sadly wasn’t able to come to your gig on Saturday night in Carlow. Thank you for the shout out and for the full gig for me to listen to. Songs like Ronnie Reagan and Who Cares matter most in the recent few years. Hope you are well. Hope you can make it back over to Glasgow very soon. Loved seeing you in the Barras! Aswell it was a good day for Celtic supporters! Take care.
that was a rare rattling hot humorous steamy loving night down Gallowgate on April 29th…..done a good few gigs since than but Barrowlands always resonates…hope to be back again towards the end of next year..it usually takes me about 18 months to recover
Labor Day here Christy, came across this lovely number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNpXE8q_p4s
a trip down memory lane as this came across this morning..thanks for posting…it was my first time on TV and I was very nervous…..I was 24, still finger pickin an old Spainish Guitar, that same year I made my first album with Dominic Behan, long since deleted it was called “Paddy on The Road”….I got my first steel strung guitar , a £40 Yamaha FG 180 from Ivor Mairants in London..( Ralph McTell advised me to “go steel” and accompanied me to Mairants)…. I had a 1956 blue VW Beetle which I bought from “Uncle Harry” in Nether Edge Sheffield for £50..it was my pride and joy, my mobile home, my wardrobe and mode of transport…Shay Healy compered that TV series on RTE ( Irish TV)… other guests that night included Ronnie Drew and a Band from New Ross called The Emerald Folk who sang Woody Guthrie’s “Plane Crash at Los Gatos” ( I have been opening with it of late)
“Some of us are illegal, most are not wanted
our work contracts out and we must move on
the 600 miles to the Mexican Border
they drive us like outlaws, like rustlers,like thieves”
it was an exciting time for me…first radio show, first TV show, first album and all this within 3 years of leaving The National Bank in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo …..that year I heard Ewan MacColl sing ,met The Watersons, moved to Yorkshire from Lancashire with my good buddy Derek McEwan….50 years later I feel very priviledged, very fortunate to still have “skin in the game”.. the world is a very different place,its louder, smaller, more dangerous, more populated…I’m older,wiser,balder,fatter,slower (sober,I hope)… yet the songs still resound..
Its sweet to reflect upon those early days…
an interesting aside…got a book from Jim Higgins last week, written by his Father ( Jimmy Higgins) its called “Are Ye The Band? ( a memoir of the showband era) it includes the top 30 chart from August 1967 which included at:
(2)The Black Velvet Band………Johnny Kelly
(3) Tar and Cement……………Joe Dolan
(8) Boston Burglar……………Johnny McEvoy
(11) All for me Grog………….The Dubliners
(21) The Maid in The Garrett…..Sweeneys Men
(25) Seven Drunken Nights……..The Dubliners
(26) Enniskillen Dragoon……….The Ludlows
(29) Curragh of Kildare………..The Johnstons
………..at Number one were The Beatles ……..”All You Need is Love”
Hello Christy, September man is standing near to saddle up another year…..
Hope all is well and Summertime has been good.
Will we see you in the lowlands someday?
Our first gig of the band O’Dreams starts this Thursday. Beautiful location in the oldest Open air theater Valkenburg in the lowlands. Way down south in the province of Limburg.
Just released a videoclip of one of our own songs written by Danny Guinan (originally from Ferbane) Hope you like it.
Good luck with the upcoming gigs!
John
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MbzQLFRNVL4
good man John …I like your new song..love that moment where the hand reaches out to help the boy on the ground…hope ye have a good winter with your songs and music…no current plans for Holland but that could change at any time..
Ride On O’DREAMS
Sligo, Christy. Can’t contain my excitemen!. So many years later, finally the gods are bringing me back to the home of my heart, and your music that I love so well.
And a million thanks to Hilary Scanlon for her wise counsel and help. Seeing ya soon! <3
have a good trip Wolf… see you beneath Dún Maeve
Hey Christy.
I had a dear departed friend lived in Clane, and the odd time we’d flee Manzors and head over to Dowlings. I was fakin’ it with a Planxty tribute band in and around Bray at the time. Had a bag and chanter made for me by Denis Quigley in Aughrim. (Now if you ever get to that desert island!)
Btw, I saw your reply to the next post… my dad was born and raised in Harbour View Cobh (ref Holy Ground). He was about 9 years older than Jack . But a little under 20 years ago on a bus going into York races I sat next to, and got chatting to a guy named Michael Taub, said he’d written a book about Champion Hurdler Danoli and also a biography of Jack Doyle. ” You probably think the bloodstock dealer” he says. No, says I, would it be the Gorgeous Gael? He was genuinely surprised I’d heard of him. So, after writing many short stories, and toying with the idea, my first novel has commenced well, there’s no shortage of anecdotal ammunition is there? Love your take on McCarthy’s masterpiece.
good luck with your story Christy…that your pen may race across the page…that your story may unfold with ease…
never a night passes here without at least one of Jimmy MacCarthy’s..some nights two, some nights three….
Wally Page I know, has many fans among your readers here Christy and this coming Friday, 8th, Wally plays his regular gig in The Annesley House Pub on the North Strand Road.
Along with Johnny Mulhearn and the band they’ll be knockin out the hits you listed below in reply to Nicola CA. Always a great gig. Friday 8th at 9pm..I’ll be on the Pest side of the Danube..
O The Holy Ground
She wouldn’t let me go to your gig in Brighton back in 2010, so I offered the tickets gratis on 4711. You phoned me and I nearly choked on my sandwich. “Come to London instead”, ya said. We didn’t. But the next ‘wan came and loved ya… but then we split too. You wrote: I have the letter in my pocket. I sang “Fairytale” to my own dear boy Sean as he lay dead on the slab. My 6yo Emma Roisin danced as I played “Kangaroo.” She’s 13 now: plays the uke. Her fingers hurt until she learned a chord or two. After three weeks camping in Dordogne we’re tight . Hardly had to buy a beer all holidays… ” Give us something by Christy Moore!” … “Turn it up…turn it up!”
Worthing, Monday night. I’ll be palpitating
Since Dowlings in Prosperous in ’72 you’ve been the soundtrack for one ordinary man.
Thanks a million.
Morra Christy O’D…..I’ve great respect for long haul listeners, thanks for sticking about…did you frequent Pat Dowlings in 1972 or do you reference that 1971 album Prosperous ?….
I’m reminded of that Summer with Liam O’Flynn,Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny..how that album came together..how it has survived and still gets played…heard it on a Radio show last week ….
” for a stormy morning brings on a sunny day”
Just wanted to say thank you so much for a great gig last night. It was so nice of you to play The Voyage, meant a lot to Peter and I, I wa the one who asked for 16 Fishermen, I love that song and have been waiting years to hear you sing it live. You can tell Wally Page the scallion-eaters are big fans! To be honest, we use the line ‘Why face the angry squall when you could go go-go dancing?’ as our family motto. That’s how come we have lasted the 25 years… Thanks again, let the music roll on..
Wally writes great lyrics……
Biko Drum,
Finglas Boys
Smoke & Strong Whiskey
This Is the Day
16 Jolly Ravers
Mercy
………. and we worked together on
Yellow Furze Woman
Johnny Conners
Lovely Young One.
………..and many more too…his gigs always worth checkin out
cheers, charlie would be absolutely delighted if that were possible.
the solo gig was so wonderfully intimate ,it felt like you were saying’its where i come from’, and what better place to ramble or to get lost than among friends christy.
regards
rory
keep coming back
christy thank you for last night in carlow. what fun and enchanting music we had with you. it was especially kind to play ‘hey ronnie reagan’ for my son charlie in glasgow, he is delighted to hear of your rendition even at that distance and he toasted you no doubt in malones and several other hostelries in saint mungo’s city.. we look forward to hearing you again when you ‘go to the clyde’ again soon. regards rory (and charlie).
I find myself in a totally different zone at these Solo gigs. Over the years I have,betimes, abandoned the Solo performance completely. The confidence goes quickly when this happens. Everything sounds bare and flat without the accompanying music of good companeros . This year I vowed to rekindle the solo gig for its there “from whence I came”. I am enjoying the challenge….last night I was able to dart hither and thither and got to sing songs that are seldom aired. Got lost once or twice but well aimed prompts soon had me back on track ! There may well be an audience recording coming your way which you can share with your Charlie Clydeside……
“Hey Ronnie Reagan,I’m Black and I’m Pagan,
I’m Gay and I’m Leftand I’M Free”……………………. (John Maguire 1984)
Hi Christie, back from another night of listening to you perform – this time in Carlow. Fantastic as usual. Thanks for touring.
Hey Kaye,
Thanks for your feedback…..that Carlow Visual is a real funky groovy venue….great facilities, great room and great audience…..the acoustics in the G.B.S. Theatre are perfect…most importantly, the staff are welcoming and very helpful..makes such a difference when crew and band are made to feel welcome in a venue… have to say its mainly the case these days…we have brilliant venues around Ireland now….but there are a few still dragging their heels with their heads back in the dark days of “anything will do”
I practiced “Follow Me Up To Carlow” yesterday and then forgot to sing it
Hi Christy,autumn is on its way,the swallows are heavy full of flies,all sitting on the power Iines contemplating when is the right time to start on the long journey,life is an ocean love is a boat,in troubled waters it keeps us afloat,The rugby has started tomotoes ready to harvest,going to be a busy few months Christy,Might climb up mandolin mountain a few times along the way,Shine on you crazy Diamond,over and out Geraint.
One season seems to run into the next….especially for those on the Lions squad…whilst the game has become professional, exciting and very popular, I do sometimes harken back to days of yore….back to when Hookers hooked, wingers threw in to lineouts ,where two lines of eight was the rule, scrum-halves put in straight, tries followed strikes against the head, backs were not shaped like props,
Playing for Cashel in the Munster Junior Cup over 50 years ago I overheard a Limerick prop berate his out half…”Don’t you EVER pass that ball to me again”
oh my, just listen to yourself and your mate,,, astounding stuff…. and god bless Imlach .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTgD-QveQrU
We were fruitpicking down in Kent……went to Craven Cottage to see Fulham v Arsenal…Johnny Haynes was masterful, Tony Macedo kept a clean sheet, Jimmy Conway shone…took on a gallon of Light & Keg after, woke up at the end of the District line in Richmond….twas the last tube and I had to trudge back in to Gunnersbury…that sobered me up…but did I learn my lesson ?
thank you so much for all your works, your songs, your shovel…. your owruns bowrons, choc ices,,, you will never be forgotten…
oh my Christy, how much i love loving you… and Shane lol..