I have been looking for awhile now for tickets to one of your shows but it seems there sold ? My partner is turning 30 in March and had planned to give him tickets to one of your shows at Christmas, he loves your singing and is there any help u could give me ? Thank you ?
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Dear Listeners – I’ll be doing one extra concert at Vicar Street on Monday 29th January 2018. All proceeds will go to Brother Kevin Crowley at Capuchin Day Centre for the homeless in Bow Street, Dublin.
Tickets go on sale this Monday 11th December at 9am and will be available from:
Hi Christy. Im huge fan from a young age, I played with Kieran Kelly for 13years as the Messengerboys, inspired by you, a good friend of mine Adam Sheerwood told me your coming to my local theatre in Gorey next Feb. I played on stage there a few weeks back to raise money for the special Olympics and I sang a song I wrote called “GOREY TOWN”. It would be my absolute dream come through if I could do a little support slot for THE Christy Moore and maybe sing my Gorey song. God loves a tryer, It would help my singing and writing career so much p.s I still have the green ten pound note you signed for me many years ago in mother redcaps, needless to say I didn’t spend it on chips that night lol. Thanks for your time and I hope you get to read this, keep up the amazing work, https://youtu.be/n8uFpouVSYU This is a link to the song GoreyTown. Also my facebook page is DES TOBIN MUSIC, lots of songs on there, thanks again, Des.
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Morra Dessy….well done with your music and song….have everything in place for Gorey….its all planned out and ready to roll…..not poss to change the line-up
Morning Christy
Ratoath on a damp November evening seems a long way off now, back in the humdrum of work. I have made new contacts from that gig and a special thanks to Hilary for getting in touch and steering me to Adam’s photos. Caught up with LLS appearance at the weekend via the Youtube. Top job sir. Once you get on that Youtube rollercoaster it’s hard to jump off. Found some old clips of you and Sinead O’Connor, I miss her beauty and her voice.
I’ve given the plectrum an airing to a few old tunes.
See you again in the not too distant future.
Best Wishes
Frankie
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Morra Frank,
Just home from Belfast where we got to hear Van Morrison and his wonderful Band play.
Ratoath was splendid. Loved the venue and the vibe.
All the 4711ers have grown into a close community since it kicked off a decade back.
Oh but you did many times Christy . Your songs and the songs you sang carried me through some dark times and now they often take me back to some great memories and places in time I otherwise would have surely forgotten . Thank you sir
Christy's reply
Scream bang shout, rattle up a din,
Let The Army know me boys The Brits is comin in ( Joe Mulhearn)
Will head to O`Moore ( well named) Park on Sunday to support the Moores, and hope they can go all the way to Croke Park.
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Little did I think that Sunday in Prosperous in 1959 when Moorefield beat Rathcoffey in the Intermediate that 58 years later we’d be in a Leinster Senior Club Final….the very possibility of playing in Croker on Lá Féile Pádraig is enough to make hair grow again,
we’ll be there or thereabouts…I’m remembering going to Maryboro on a special train from Newbridge to see the Flourbags play Laois in a Leinster Semi….my self, Billy Parkinson, Mickser Reid and Harry Fay…we happened upon a good Ballad Session and never made it to O’Moore Park ( and we missed the train )
10th November 1994 won’t mean much to most people. It was the night my folks brought me, after much pleading, down to Goff’s for my 10th birthday for a gig that I’d never forget. 23 years later and I get the same buzz brining my Dad to see yourself and Dec in Vicar Street every Christmas!
We’ll be there again on Tuesday 19th this year, just a few rows from the front. I planned my flights back from Sydney to make sure I’d be home on time!
If you feel the urge for a bit of Jukebox Time (and you need a breather after Joxter!) I’d love if you played Quiet Desperation. It’s a song that brings me back to a tough time just after I moved to Sydney alone last year, leaving my wife at home. It also reminds me how hard times can pass and how powerful music can be as a coping mechanism.
Loving your new album, it’s vintage stuff and what a crowd! Viva la Quinte Brigada gives me goosebumps every time!
All the best!
John
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“From The Rocks of Sydney Harbour, The Bronx and Birmingham,
The Lilys of The Shortgrass are coming home again”
Well done John Fitz….I recall those Goffs Concerts clearly….almost home turf for me they being but 15 miles from Newbridge….
When I read of listeners going to concerts with their Fathers I always ponder on what might have been
Hope you have a good trip back home to Bognia, that we all have a great night on Dec 19th
It was Floyd Westerman I heard sing in Culver City
“I see too much meanness, I feel too much pain,
there’s another place I gotta be”
Took my first visit to Ireland 2 months back. Loved Derry. Fellow named Ciaran Carlin played a fantastic whistle in a small pub named Peadar O’Donnell’s. Have you ever thought of playing a longer version of Back Home in Derry using all of Bobby Sands words? Would love to hear that! Loved your story about Seamus Heaney by the way! All the best, Milo.
Christy's reply
I’ve not seen all Bobby’s words since I worked on his song almost 40 years ago…
“I was over on The Mainland
doin my act in The Royal Albert Hall.
‘Twas the night before we stormed the Hackney Empire
my adrenalin was pumpin when the crowd demanded more
I could’nt sleep a wink
so I turned on the BBC World service
’twas comin at me from New Delhi
or some other long lost Colonial shore
when this lovely English man came on the wireless
with a beautiful BBC clipped tone
he announced that the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature was a British Poet
Seamus Heaney from Londonderry sez he
as cool as cool could be
I roared out for tea and toasted muffins
and a pair of hard-boiled eggs to calm my nerves
Bejaze yiz never claimed George Best nor Alex Higgins
nor ye never claimed Bellaghy’s other boys
but that the way things are upon The Mainland
Quare Hawks
suckin the wee small birds eggs dry………….. (C.Moore)
I am a “legal alien” from germany, just for the matter that I love irish folk.
Roughly 10 years ago I stumbled across pieces of Planxty on youtube and instantly fell in love.
Till today I consider Planxty as the most shiny gem in irish folk history.
Especally the concert on Vicar Street 2005 was outstanding.
I’ve never seen nor heard a bounch of musicans that where more together then you guys back then.
Just recently I started to listen to your solo stuff and hack I fell in love again.
Well, to the point.
I saw you are still touring and I’d really like to see you.
Stupidly I have to preset my vacation times and it is already set.
Therefor the only match is on march 30th in Bantry.
Unless you plan to add a extra gig on Vicar Street between march 26th and april 2nd.
I’d like to know, is there any chance to hold back 2 tickets for Bantry at least till the end of januar?
You know its december, christmas time and stuff.
I have a big family and 2 little childs on my own.
So I cant plan out nor order a travel and tickets to irland right now.
At least not at the cost of presents for my beloved ones.
thanks in advance,
Arthur Stark
p.s. I apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes, my english education was creepy poor.
Christy's reply
Howdy Arthur….all good this Monday morning….
I’m only the singer in this outfit…I dont handle the tickets…just the songs…
your English is excellent…much better , (to my eternal shame), then my Irish
Hi Christy!
I’m from Italy and I really appreciate your music. I listen to you everywhere, especially in my car during my little voyages. I try also to cover your song with my guitar but I’m not always able to do it… I would like to see you in some lives but I’m very far from you! I hope to come to Ireland someday…or you come to Italy! Bye Christy, cheers from Italy. Keep on your music!
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OK Francesco….you keep singing the songs and I will too…see you on The Via Veneto or The Cliffs of Moher
Scrolling down through the gigs page , I thought for a moment you had changed your name to Christy Moore Sold Out !! The reaction to the Late Late and On The Road has been amazing…. more so than anything that’s gone before….. folks at work saying they want to see you live ….. folks that probably never go to concerts hardly. On the Road is fantastic and seems well named …… I tend to listen mostly while I’m driving around the hills for my job .
Enjoy the Vicar St residency….. it should be special.
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morra Marty…well ,its out there now… we spent a good skelp of time getting it finished..David and Jimmy put in long hours…everyone did their bit and away it went
“away through the widow away on the air..
over the city.. away on the rain”….
seems like its being very well recieved which is always a great bonus…
now its time to don the thinking cap
see ye along the road…
Hi Christy, I’m trying to get two tickets for one of your upcoming gigs in Vicar Street but they’re all sold out. 🙁 I left it too late to book. Is there any chance of adding another gig? By the way you were brilliant on the Late Late show a few weeks ago.
Thx,
Bren.
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Thank you..
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CM ( 72)
I saw the FT article and wanted to comment but they wanted to charge me a euro to subscribe so I could let them know what I thought of their so called “review” . My dadó had a cure for people that do such things.He would say put them in a currach and take them nine miles out to sea and drop them off on sceirde rock .
Only recently I actualy passed there in the volunteer.Then I understood what he meant. CS (13)
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In fairness to the Journalist, he gave the old albund a good review….but I was intrigued by the “folk myth”…..perhaps the good man merely myth the point…..once heard of a London myth that a lot journalism was observed from the high stools of Fleet St Bars…. I never paid much heed to the veracity of that myth for I was usually half pyth myself……I hear there are beautiful mermaids on Sceirde Rock and lots of hot wind turbines too
Hi All. Apropos Ride On and FT…. In his book titled “Ride On ” (Town House Dublin 2002 ) Jimmy Mc Carthy writes ” people oftern as me about this song but, purely and simlpy it is a song of parting. The parting of lovers, the parting of emigrants from their homeland and friends, the parting where illenss or accidents take the life of a loved one. I have been asked to sing this song at many funeral services and somwhow it feels right.
Christy Moore recorded this song on his Ride On Album in 1984 and it was my first hit. I will always be grateful to him for giving me the start with what would have been then regarded as a most unlikely song writing voice. Christy obviously recognised the song as a song of parting when, on its release he dedicated it to the memory of the great Luke Kelly “( page 30 ) BTW thats a great book its dedicated to Ted & Betty parents of Jimmy Mac and much like One Voice it tells the story through the story and background of 37 songs,,, and good to note too that Bright Blue Rose was composed in Kenmare,,, and of course Ride On was recorded in Muckross in Killarney,,, san Riocht freisin !! beir bua agus beannacht.. H
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“The Lassies o’ The Broomielaw on their Cuban heels are dancing”
Unusual review alright but, as you say, 4 stars are 4 stars. Totally baffled by the Ride On comment – reckon the Wolfe Tones will have a cover out next !! Whatever the review, its a gem of an album and a faithful record of the gigs- even though each gig carries its own unique magic. That’s why we love them so.
Thanks for the reply christy.
Wholeheartedly agree about the bastardisation as it happened up here too. Both cruelly and temporarily conquered only to have our spirits unchained by heroes and the passionate selfless .
We are coming on the friday to coill , and i see you have added a second night so if we win enough on ruby at naas races we will come back for more on saturday night.
Charlie will be delighted to hear ‘ronnie’ again in liverpool after being horrified to find a statue to the brainless one in budapest , and a live replica of the fool now in the same chair in washington.we will bury them both.
We adore your own passion and devotion to the music ,the people and the causes for good, justice and equality.
Keep reeking christy, keep reeking
Rory
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Naas Races ! you bring me back to days of glory… bottles of stout, Mrs Lawlors Ballroom, hot tips, Tom Fletchers perfect pints, lock-in in Eddie Marum’s, puppy love in Naas Tennis club, Tom Hickey,…..
heres hopin you coin it at The Races
morning christy, from a nippy but braw scottish borders.
i have been listening today to a compilation album that i got 20 years ago, that the great donal lunny produced ,called ‘common ground’.
it has lain dormant for a while in my piles of music but what an awakening it gave my senses today, lovely tunes none more so than your version of ‘bogie’s bonnie belle’. i wonder if it may return to your wonderful set lists sometime?
me and pals are booked up for killashee ,and me and charlie (hey ronnie reagan) for liverpool , maybe we will hear ‘bogie’ and ‘green island’ then ,but whatever we hear we will be sated by your magic.
lang may yer lum reek
rory
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which night are you coming to Killashee ?
( anglicised from “Coill an Si” meaning “Hill of The Fairies” … all over Ireland beautiful, appropriate, meaningful place names were butchered and bastardised by the cruel all-conquering coloniser )
see Brian Friels wonderful play “Translations”
I’ll try and resurrect Reagan for The Philharmonic ,if you promise to bury him deeper again afterwards
Green Island is a different story… not matter of simple resurrection.it would require a lot of work and time I may not have to spare
Just in from a wonderful event tonight with Paddy Armstrong and Mary Elaine Tynan. Such a warm, joyful man who is enjoying his life after some tough years. Amazing how he has survived such injustice without letting the bitterness and anger seize control. Such an inspiration. Great to know that you were in their corner when it wasn’t fashionable or easy. Your songs have made a difference to many, many lives. Enjoying the new CD and reliving many happy nights.
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Paddy Armstrong is indeed a warmhearted and wonderful man…..his book “Life after Life” gives great insight to the injustice he endured along with Carol Richardson, Paul Hill and Gerry Conlon…..I had the pleasure of singing a few songs at his book launch in Dublin earlier this year…..
the CD is being well recieved so far…here is an interesting review from The Financial Times of London
2 HOURS AGO David Honigmann 0 comments
Christy Moore
On The Road
(Sony)
These recent live performances of Christy Moore’s best-known songs fall into distinct categories. There is rolling comic Irish social history: the Republic’s participation in Uefa Euro 1988, its first run in a foreign tournament, is recalled in “Joxer Goes to Stuttgart”, with a call-out to goalkeeper Packie Bonner. (Stuttgart, for those not keeping score, saw the Republic’s 1-0 victory over England.) To the same tune, “Delirium Tremens” rolls through a satirical nightmare. Moore pitching up at the festival in “Lisdoonvarna”, offers the opportunity for digs at the Irish Establishment. Christie Hennessey’s great song about Irish labourers, “Don’t Forget Your Shovel”, widens out into a comic ramble about the Duchess of Cornwall at Glastonbury. The new “Lingo Politico” is politician-baiting fun.
Then there are traditional songs, sung straight: “Black Is The Colour”, the nostalgic yearning of “Cliffs Of Dooneen”, the class animosity (“yerrah, what care I for me goose-feather bed?”) of “Raggle Taggle Gypsy”.
Songs borrowed from contemporary writers fare well. Ewan McColl’s Radio Ballad “Go Move Shift”, about police harassment of travelling people, is understated and concrete. Shane McGowan’s “Fairytale of New York”, complete with a shaggy-dog tale of drinking with the author, is pitch perfect. Richard Thompson’s “Beeswing” is a delicate song, easy to crush in the singing; Moore’s studio version hobbles it with a bouncing rhythm but here Thompson’s ambivalent regret comes through clearly, even if Moore’s adjustments to the lyrics in each case dull their shine.
The troubled relationship between Ireland and England (now being tested again by the immense carelessness of the British political class) features throughout. That Grafton Street busker’s favourite, “Ride On”, held by folk myth to be about the IRA, is stark and simple. Banned at the time of its release, “McIlhatton”, was written by Bobby Sands, who led the 1981 Hunger Strike. At the end of the album, “North And South”, co-written with U2’s Bono and The Edge, is a memory of reconciliation: “Some high ground is not worth taking/Some connections are not worth making”. But the last song is “Time Has Come”, which Moore and Donal Lunny wrote to mark the death of another hunger striker, Patsy O’Hara; elliptical, but a harder, clearer-eyed, and less sentimental note on which to end.
★★★★☆
surely an indication of where many folk myths are conceived !
but “4 stars is 4 stars” as Sean O’Casey might say
Hi Christy
I have been looking for awhile now for tickets to one of your shows but it seems there sold ? My partner is turning 30 in March and had planned to give him tickets to one of your shows at Christmas, he loves your singing and is there any help u could give me ? Thank you ?
Dear Listeners – I’ll be doing one extra concert at Vicar Street on Monday 29th January 2018. All proceeds will go to Brother Kevin Crowley at Capuchin Day Centre for the homeless in Bow Street, Dublin.
Tickets go on sale this Monday 11th December at 9am and will be available from:
All Ticketmaster Outlets Nationwide
Credit Card Bookings 0818 719 300 (ROI) / 0844 277 4455 (NI)…
If you wish to donate but cannot attend the concert, here is the contact information:
http://www.capuchindaycentre.ie/
info@capuchindaycentre.ie
Glad to hear you saw Van Tuesday night in Belfast, Christy.
I have seen both of you many times over past 20+ years.
You are both “Soul Men”!!
-John
First heard Van 44 years ago…. he still burns bright….still lights the night
Christy love the new album some of the best versions you’ve ever done. Can’t wait to see you in Vicar Street on 2nd January….
that Barrowland choir almost steal the show
Hi Christy. Im huge fan from a young age, I played with Kieran Kelly for 13years as the Messengerboys, inspired by you, a good friend of mine Adam Sheerwood told me your coming to my local theatre in Gorey next Feb. I played on stage there a few weeks back to raise money for the special Olympics and I sang a song I wrote called “GOREY TOWN”. It would be my absolute dream come through if I could do a little support slot for THE Christy Moore and maybe sing my Gorey song. God loves a tryer, It would help my singing and writing career so much p.s I still have the green ten pound note you signed for me many years ago in mother redcaps, needless to say I didn’t spend it on chips that night lol. Thanks for your time and I hope you get to read this, keep up the amazing work, https://youtu.be/n8uFpouVSYU This is a link to the song GoreyTown. Also my facebook page is DES TOBIN MUSIC, lots of songs on there, thanks again, Des.
Morra Dessy….well done with your music and song….have everything in place for Gorey….its all planned out and ready to roll…..not poss to change the line-up
Morning Christy
Ratoath on a damp November evening seems a long way off now, back in the humdrum of work. I have made new contacts from that gig and a special thanks to Hilary for getting in touch and steering me to Adam’s photos. Caught up with LLS appearance at the weekend via the Youtube. Top job sir. Once you get on that Youtube rollercoaster it’s hard to jump off. Found some old clips of you and Sinead O’Connor, I miss her beauty and her voice.
I’ve given the plectrum an airing to a few old tunes.
See you again in the not too distant future.
Best Wishes
Frankie
Morra Frank,
Just home from Belfast where we got to hear Van Morrison and his wonderful Band play.
Ratoath was splendid. Loved the venue and the vibe.
All the 4711ers have grown into a close community since it kicked off a decade back.
Oh but you did many times Christy . Your songs and the songs you sang carried me through some dark times and now they often take me back to some great memories and places in time I otherwise would have surely forgotten . Thank you sir
Scream bang shout, rattle up a din,
Let The Army know me boys The Brits is comin in ( Joe Mulhearn)
Will head to O`Moore ( well named) Park on Sunday to support the Moores, and hope they can go all the way to Croke Park.
Little did I think that Sunday in Prosperous in 1959 when Moorefield beat Rathcoffey in the Intermediate that 58 years later we’d be in a Leinster Senior Club Final….the very possibility of playing in Croker on Lá Féile Pádraig is enough to make hair grow again,
we’ll be there or thereabouts…I’m remembering going to Maryboro on a special train from Newbridge to see the Flourbags play Laois in a Leinster Semi….my self, Billy Parkinson, Mickser Reid and Harry Fay…we happened upon a good Ballad Session and never made it to O’Moore Park ( and we missed the train )
Christy,
10th November 1994 won’t mean much to most people. It was the night my folks brought me, after much pleading, down to Goff’s for my 10th birthday for a gig that I’d never forget. 23 years later and I get the same buzz brining my Dad to see yourself and Dec in Vicar Street every Christmas!
We’ll be there again on Tuesday 19th this year, just a few rows from the front. I planned my flights back from Sydney to make sure I’d be home on time!
If you feel the urge for a bit of Jukebox Time (and you need a breather after Joxter!) I’d love if you played Quiet Desperation. It’s a song that brings me back to a tough time just after I moved to Sydney alone last year, leaving my wife at home. It also reminds me how hard times can pass and how powerful music can be as a coping mechanism.
Loving your new album, it’s vintage stuff and what a crowd! Viva la Quinte Brigada gives me goosebumps every time!
All the best!
John
“From The Rocks of Sydney Harbour, The Bronx and Birmingham,
The Lilys of The Shortgrass are coming home again”
Well done John Fitz….I recall those Goffs Concerts clearly….almost home turf for me they being but 15 miles from Newbridge….
When I read of listeners going to concerts with their Fathers I always ponder on what might have been
Hope you have a good trip back home to Bognia, that we all have a great night on Dec 19th
It was Floyd Westerman I heard sing in Culver City
“I see too much meanness, I feel too much pain,
there’s another place I gotta be”
Took my first visit to Ireland 2 months back. Loved Derry. Fellow named Ciaran Carlin played a fantastic whistle in a small pub named Peadar O’Donnell’s. Have you ever thought of playing a longer version of Back Home in Derry using all of Bobby Sands words? Would love to hear that! Loved your story about Seamus Heaney by the way! All the best, Milo.
I’ve not seen all Bobby’s words since I worked on his song almost 40 years ago…
“I was over on The Mainland
doin my act in The Royal Albert Hall.
‘Twas the night before we stormed the Hackney Empire
my adrenalin was pumpin when the crowd demanded more
I could’nt sleep a wink
so I turned on the BBC World service
’twas comin at me from New Delhi
or some other long lost Colonial shore
when this lovely English man came on the wireless
with a beautiful BBC clipped tone
he announced that the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature was a British Poet
Seamus Heaney from Londonderry sez he
as cool as cool could be
I roared out for tea and toasted muffins
and a pair of hard-boiled eggs to calm my nerves
Bejaze yiz never claimed George Best nor Alex Higgins
nor ye never claimed Bellaghy’s other boys
but that the way things are upon The Mainland
Quare Hawks
suckin the wee small birds eggs dry………….. (C.Moore)
Howdy Christy,
I am a “legal alien” from germany, just for the matter that I love irish folk.
Roughly 10 years ago I stumbled across pieces of Planxty on youtube and instantly fell in love.
Till today I consider Planxty as the most shiny gem in irish folk history.
Especally the concert on Vicar Street 2005 was outstanding.
I’ve never seen nor heard a bounch of musicans that where more together then you guys back then.
Just recently I started to listen to your solo stuff and hack I fell in love again.
Well, to the point.
I saw you are still touring and I’d really like to see you.
Stupidly I have to preset my vacation times and it is already set.
Therefor the only match is on march 30th in Bantry.
Unless you plan to add a extra gig on Vicar Street between march 26th and april 2nd.
I’d like to know, is there any chance to hold back 2 tickets for Bantry at least till the end of januar?
You know its december, christmas time and stuff.
I have a big family and 2 little childs on my own.
So I cant plan out nor order a travel and tickets to irland right now.
At least not at the cost of presents for my beloved ones.
thanks in advance,
Arthur Stark
p.s. I apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes, my english education was creepy poor.
Howdy Arthur….all good this Monday morning….
I’m only the singer in this outfit…I dont handle the tickets…just the songs…
your English is excellent…much better , (to my eternal shame), then my Irish
Hi Christy!
I’m from Italy and I really appreciate your music. I listen to you everywhere, especially in my car during my little voyages. I try also to cover your song with my guitar but I’m not always able to do it… I would like to see you in some lives but I’m very far from you! I hope to come to Ireland someday…or you come to Italy! Bye Christy, cheers from Italy. Keep on your music!
OK Francesco….you keep singing the songs and I will too…see you on The Via Veneto or The Cliffs of Moher
Scrolling down through the gigs page , I thought for a moment you had changed your name to Christy Moore Sold Out !! The reaction to the Late Late and On The Road has been amazing…. more so than anything that’s gone before….. folks at work saying they want to see you live ….. folks that probably never go to concerts hardly. On the Road is fantastic and seems well named …… I tend to listen mostly while I’m driving around the hills for my job .
Enjoy the Vicar St residency….. it should be special.
morra Marty…well ,its out there now… we spent a good skelp of time getting it finished..David and Jimmy put in long hours…everyone did their bit and away it went
“away through the widow away on the air..
over the city.. away on the rain”….
seems like its being very well recieved which is always a great bonus…
now its time to don the thinking cap
see ye along the road…
Hi Christy, I’m trying to get two tickets for one of your upcoming gigs in Vicar Street but they’re all sold out. 🙁 I left it too late to book. Is there any chance of adding another gig? By the way you were brilliant on the Late Late show a few weeks ago.
Thx,
Bren.
Thank you..
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CM ( 72)
I saw the FT article and wanted to comment but they wanted to charge me a euro to subscribe so I could let them know what I thought of their so called “review” . My dadó had a cure for people that do such things.He would say put them in a currach and take them nine miles out to sea and drop them off on sceirde rock .
Only recently I actualy passed there in the volunteer.Then I understood what he meant. CS (13)
In fairness to the Journalist, he gave the old albund a good review….but I was intrigued by the “folk myth”…..perhaps the good man merely myth the point…..once heard of a London myth that a lot journalism was observed from the high stools of Fleet St Bars…. I never paid much heed to the veracity of that myth for I was usually half pyth myself……I hear there are beautiful mermaids on Sceirde Rock and lots of hot wind turbines too
Hi All. Apropos Ride On and FT…. In his book titled “Ride On ” (Town House Dublin 2002 ) Jimmy Mc Carthy writes ” people oftern as me about this song but, purely and simlpy it is a song of parting. The parting of lovers, the parting of emigrants from their homeland and friends, the parting where illenss or accidents take the life of a loved one. I have been asked to sing this song at many funeral services and somwhow it feels right.
Christy Moore recorded this song on his Ride On Album in 1984 and it was my first hit. I will always be grateful to him for giving me the start with what would have been then regarded as a most unlikely song writing voice. Christy obviously recognised the song as a song of parting when, on its release he dedicated it to the memory of the great Luke Kelly “( page 30 ) BTW thats a great book its dedicated to Ted & Betty parents of Jimmy Mac and much like One Voice it tells the story through the story and background of 37 songs,,, and good to note too that Bright Blue Rose was composed in Kenmare,,, and of course Ride On was recorded in Muckross in Killarney,,, san Riocht freisin !! beir bua agus beannacht.. H
“The Lassies o’ The Broomielaw on their Cuban heels are dancing”
Unusual review alright but, as you say, 4 stars are 4 stars. Totally baffled by the Ride On comment – reckon the Wolfe Tones will have a cover out next !! Whatever the review, its a gem of an album and a faithful record of the gigs- even though each gig carries its own unique magic. That’s why we love them so.
I may start taking the FT
Thanks for the reply christy.
Wholeheartedly agree about the bastardisation as it happened up here too. Both cruelly and temporarily conquered only to have our spirits unchained by heroes and the passionate selfless .
We are coming on the friday to coill , and i see you have added a second night so if we win enough on ruby at naas races we will come back for more on saturday night.
Charlie will be delighted to hear ‘ronnie’ again in liverpool after being horrified to find a statue to the brainless one in budapest , and a live replica of the fool now in the same chair in washington.we will bury them both.
We adore your own passion and devotion to the music ,the people and the causes for good, justice and equality.
Keep reeking christy, keep reeking
Rory
Naas Races ! you bring me back to days of glory… bottles of stout, Mrs Lawlors Ballroom, hot tips, Tom Fletchers perfect pints, lock-in in Eddie Marum’s, puppy love in Naas Tennis club, Tom Hickey,…..
heres hopin you coin it at The Races
morning christy, from a nippy but braw scottish borders.
i have been listening today to a compilation album that i got 20 years ago, that the great donal lunny produced ,called ‘common ground’.
it has lain dormant for a while in my piles of music but what an awakening it gave my senses today, lovely tunes none more so than your version of ‘bogie’s bonnie belle’. i wonder if it may return to your wonderful set lists sometime?
me and pals are booked up for killashee ,and me and charlie (hey ronnie reagan) for liverpool , maybe we will hear ‘bogie’ and ‘green island’ then ,but whatever we hear we will be sated by your magic.
lang may yer lum reek
rory
which night are you coming to Killashee ?
( anglicised from “Coill an Si” meaning “Hill of The Fairies” … all over Ireland beautiful, appropriate, meaningful place names were butchered and bastardised by the cruel all-conquering coloniser )
see Brian Friels wonderful play “Translations”
I’ll try and resurrect Reagan for The Philharmonic ,if you promise to bury him deeper again afterwards
Green Island is a different story… not matter of simple resurrection.it would require a lot of work and time I may not have to spare
Just in from a wonderful event tonight with Paddy Armstrong and Mary Elaine Tynan. Such a warm, joyful man who is enjoying his life after some tough years. Amazing how he has survived such injustice without letting the bitterness and anger seize control. Such an inspiration. Great to know that you were in their corner when it wasn’t fashionable or easy. Your songs have made a difference to many, many lives. Enjoying the new CD and reliving many happy nights.
Paddy Armstrong is indeed a warmhearted and wonderful man…..his book “Life after Life” gives great insight to the injustice he endured along with Carol Richardson, Paul Hill and Gerry Conlon…..I had the pleasure of singing a few songs at his book launch in Dublin earlier this year…..
the CD is being well recieved so far…here is an interesting review from The Financial Times of London
2 HOURS AGO David Honigmann 0 comments
Christy Moore
On The Road
(Sony)
These recent live performances of Christy Moore’s best-known songs fall into distinct categories. There is rolling comic Irish social history: the Republic’s participation in Uefa Euro 1988, its first run in a foreign tournament, is recalled in “Joxer Goes to Stuttgart”, with a call-out to goalkeeper Packie Bonner. (Stuttgart, for those not keeping score, saw the Republic’s 1-0 victory over England.) To the same tune, “Delirium Tremens” rolls through a satirical nightmare. Moore pitching up at the festival in “Lisdoonvarna”, offers the opportunity for digs at the Irish Establishment. Christie Hennessey’s great song about Irish labourers, “Don’t Forget Your Shovel”, widens out into a comic ramble about the Duchess of Cornwall at Glastonbury. The new “Lingo Politico” is politician-baiting fun.
Then there are traditional songs, sung straight: “Black Is The Colour”, the nostalgic yearning of “Cliffs Of Dooneen”, the class animosity (“yerrah, what care I for me goose-feather bed?”) of “Raggle Taggle Gypsy”.
Songs borrowed from contemporary writers fare well. Ewan McColl’s Radio Ballad “Go Move Shift”, about police harassment of travelling people, is understated and concrete. Shane McGowan’s “Fairytale of New York”, complete with a shaggy-dog tale of drinking with the author, is pitch perfect. Richard Thompson’s “Beeswing” is a delicate song, easy to crush in the singing; Moore’s studio version hobbles it with a bouncing rhythm but here Thompson’s ambivalent regret comes through clearly, even if Moore’s adjustments to the lyrics in each case dull their shine.
The troubled relationship between Ireland and England (now being tested again by the immense carelessness of the British political class) features throughout. That Grafton Street busker’s favourite, “Ride On”, held by folk myth to be about the IRA, is stark and simple. Banned at the time of its release, “McIlhatton”, was written by Bobby Sands, who led the 1981 Hunger Strike. At the end of the album, “North And South”, co-written with U2’s Bono and The Edge, is a memory of reconciliation: “Some high ground is not worth taking/Some connections are not worth making”. But the last song is “Time Has Come”, which Moore and Donal Lunny wrote to mark the death of another hunger striker, Patsy O’Hara; elliptical, but a harder, clearer-eyed, and less sentimental note on which to end.
★★★★☆
surely an indication of where many folk myths are conceived !
but “4 stars is 4 stars” as Sean O’Casey might say
……but Moriarty didn’t know him. He’d been away too long .
could’nt have put it better