On the way in this evening Christy…. On the off chance ya see this if you could give the reel in The flickering light a whirl for my dad’s 60th birthday it’d be class!
Dear Christy, it´s an absolutely magic Album, Magic Nights, wow.
I quite often attend your concerts all over Ireland. To be honest, I would be very happy to enjoy you again back home in Germany. Is there any realistic chance to welcome you here in 2020 / 2021? Or would you recommend to return to Ireland, if I would like to see you again? Best regards from Germany.
Christy's reply
Dear Awa,
Sorry to say it is unlikely that I will sing in Germany again….I have great memories from my tours there….but time moves on and we need to adjust to circumstance…
I’ll share a song with you, it was written by my Brother Barry Moore (aka Luka Bloom) when he was starting his journey as a singer…I recorded it in 1976
Wave up to The Shore
A daffodil is born and rises in the spring
It opens out its beauty to hear the cricket sing
But as quick as it does grow it decays away so soon
Before the summer sunshine has reached its golden noon
A stream it does rise in the mountains so tall
It swells into a river as gently it does fall
It meanders to country through city and through town
And in the boundless ocean the river it is drowned
On the seas the winds do rage and the waves grow so high
As they turn into white horses leaping towards the sky
But soon the waves grow gentle no longer do they roar
As they make their lonesome passageway up to the pebble shore
If I were like a daffodil so fair upon the ground
Or like a gentle river with its sweet and mellow sound
Like a wave up to the shore like a river into the sea
I’d lay down in my resting place contented I would be
Talking with Bryan Bowers last night at a gig and told him we were going to your 1/14 concert in Dublin. He was reminiscing about opening for you years ago and singing Goodnight Irene with you before the concert. He had good memories and sends his regards. Kathleen
Dear Christy, I hope you are well. The dark ages commence. The legitimacy of the far right made concrete. The demonisation of a decent man. I don’t know what we can do.
We went to see a Luke Kelly tribute last night at the Irish Centre in Hammersmith. Happily sang along and came to realise I spent too many years of my youth in pubs. But it was a break from the sadness. And thanks to you for your highlighting of how we all need to rally against hate speech. Keep the warmth in and don’t climb the roof like Rod Hull did with emu. Rosalita and Jack. Xx
Christy's reply
O The Pubs The Pubs
Neesons,Floods,The Hangedman’s,McCabe’s,The Standhouse,Eddie Marum’s,The Hideout,Annie Keogh’s,The Pack Horse, The Morning Star,The Upper George,The Causeway Foot, The Rugby, Old Blue Bell, Old Contemptible,The Fighting Cocks,The Robin Hood, Fasan’s Kneipe,Swiebel,Slattery’s,O’Donoghues,The Meeting Place, Rakish Paddy’s,THe Kon Tiki,Coolera House, The Cellar, The Harbour, Hogans, The Phoenix,The Brown Pub,The Chariot and a thosand others to mention but a few, The College,The White Hart, Scruffy Murphy’s,Fibber McGees,The Pound Loney,The Cat & Cage, Hal Hannigan’s,
fill us two pints there Phyllis,will you take somethin yourself, am I ok for the slate, thank God we’re not fond of it, tis a hoor when it gets in on you, another basin there Badger and I’ll have a vera & super in the meantime,
How’s ye Christy. They have me on Garden County Radio tomorrow in Greystones, Sunday at 9pm. It’s a new show of mine called ‘Your Kind Of Folk’. 9pm-10pm. Dialing it in from over here in Nashville. Giving it a go & giving ye a spin. Rattle the walls for the Vicar over Crimbo 👍
Christy's reply
Great stuff Dylan…hope it all goes well..blasting it out from Nashville all the way to Greystones..have a good one
Dear Christy, just heading from Dusseldorf to Dublin and really looking forward to another “Magic Night” at Vicar Street on Monday – where I had the great pleasure to see you last year as well. Would be great if you could put Sail on Jimmy and/or Ordinary Man in the hat (the first being my new favourite from last year, the latter my favourite for decades, of course among many other…). I wish you on and behind stage and us in the audience a lot of fun 🙂 and a “magic night”!
cheers Birgit
Christy's reply
Birgit…Hope you have a happy visit to Dublin..we will pull out all the stops come Monday Night at Vicar St…guitars will be tuned, bows will be rosined, skins will be taut, vocals honeyed and warmed….both songs you mentioned are very regular in the current set, Magic Nights too…..
I wish you, and all listeners, as good a time as we (the Band) hope to have …
hi christy,
I believe you have a famous brother and been a while since in Dublin when first began listen to Irish music and feel little rusty. I lived in Dublin for my holidays as my ship company were from Liverpool and Dublin was our last Port before returning to liverpool -Blue Funnel. It is hard to believe that I feel Dublin close to my heart, met a girl from Tipperary who knew for some years but that never had any family then, but today have a wonderful son Rory 23, who at present is doing a degree in Music Production in Worthing, UK and gigs at present with a English singer called Odette Mitchel, as violin and mandolin but Rory has a go at most instruments. He is now with me, my wife and youngest Luke. 18 on Christmas holiday. Am sure my links to Irish music that began with the late great Rory Gallagher (did you ever play with him) as I met Rory few times at gigs, his brother and his family and thus going back 40 years feel part of my identity was laid there in the early 1970s. We miss Rory greatly, and I am yet to go to his 3 day festival in his home town Ballyshannon (have you played there). I hope your concert which would love to be there this month are great ones and you do not mind me sharing little bit of my life. My wife is a singer/vocalist and wrote songs and who I met at University in Plymouth, 1990 and recorded one album only, then family came along but she still plays with Rory and a local Church.
May i wish you a festive season and great new year in 2020
anthony
Christy's reply
Anthony,
greetings to Lapland,
I have 3 Sisters and two Brothers, all happy and healthy this day and firmly rooted here on The Island, Thanks Be…..
I never did play with Rory but I did meet him occasionally and I cherish the memory of those meetings……
I played at The Ballyshannon Folk Festival but never at “The Rory”….
I sang a song for Rory some years back…
Rory is Gone
Nigel Rolfe/Christy Moore
Rory is gone to play the blues in heaven.
above the clouds With all the angels singing there.
His records scratched Like his beaten-up old Fender,
But the songs are strong and the notes hang in the air.
Gone with Stevie Ray and Jessie Ed Davis.
Died too young and much too premature
Another rock’n’roller gone but not forgotten,
As his old guitar still mourns and plays,wails and screams the blues.
It sings for Mississippi Fred and Muddy Waters,
for Son House, Sleepy John and The Nighthawk too.
Blacks,whites,blues,greens ‘n reds,all the colours mixed together
Since Rory’s gone to Heaven to play the blues.
Rory’s gone to play the blues in Heaven,
Rory’s gone to Heaven to play the blues
Jim Page sang at a great Ballisodare folk festival the weekend prior to Carnsore, Aug ’78, and left a long-lasting impression with me. I got mixed with that ‘Campbell’ surname, so ‘Ian Campbell’ was that man’s name.
Hi Christy , Would like to just say what an Idol you have been for me over the years , your passion in your songs is something not many can protray. I have listened to you for years , My father would often tell me about the night he met you in John Coffey’s pub in Clough in Co Laois many years ago ,
I now am fortunate enough to be playing music with The Crooked Jacks doing some irish ballads and folk music , and its because of your commitment and passion to Irish music that we are now able to perform all over the world .
I hope to catch one of your shows this coming year 2020, your version of The Magdalene Laundrys is one of my favourites..
Keep well , Trad and roll
David
Christy's reply
Its such a well written song….exposes the horror,lock,stock and barrel…..it invariably brings the night down a bit and so it should…we need to remember…it was going on in our time….
“Those bloodless brides of Jesus,
if they could just once glimpse their groom,
they’d drop the stones concealed behind their rosaries
They wilt the grass they walk upon
they leech the light right out of a room
They’d like to wash those girls down the drains
of The Magdalen Launderies”……….( Joni Mitchell)
The men of cloth conspired with them, as did the Government . Many citizens were complicit some of whom even condemned their own daughters to those Hellholes
You made me laugh with:
“ I had to deal with a loose slate,a blocked drain, a slow puncture, a leaking water tank, a cranky neighbour, a new song, a dead battery,an exposed wire,a twisted colleague, a sharp exterior and a new proposal….between the jigs and reels I forgot to switch on the wireless…”
It almost fits the Mr Cash’s “Ive Been Everywhere” Maybe a new song in a similar vein about every troublesome task in life! Oh, by the way, thank you so much for your response.
it is not a good morning watching the news, but nonetheless Good Morning Christy,
As your latest year of gigs draws to a conclusion i have witnessed a variety of uplifting shows ,in a range of venues ,over the year and every one was special. can i just thank you and the lads and lassies of the crew, the band and the support staff. in a dark year for global sanity your music has been a beacon of bright light.
Anyway i just wanted to mention ,with two gigs to go,that the day before your next gig is the 75th anniversary of the birth of the great Chico Mendes, and five days after your last gig of the year is the 31st anniversary of his murder. Wise and Holy Woman (you and wally’s beautiful song) should be resounding in many more households, tents, caravans, doorways and huts than it will, to remember the bravery of such people.
keep on keeping on.
regards
Rory
Christy's reply
7.30am on a Friday morning here in Dun Leary…the wind is howling around the chimney pots not far above my head…just woke from a dream that featured this song:
“down from the mountains came the squadrons and platoons
four and twenty fighting men and a couple stout gasúns
when going into action held each musket by the butt
they marched along and sang a song with Slattery’s Mounted Foot”:
as always,good to hear from you…going to hear a young Band tonight called Nava….heard them first at the Bantry Masters last year in County Cork…been following them since
Christy moore Just wondering whats the chords you play on guitar looks like 3 r 4 of the same chords with capo on 1 2 & 3rd fret on guitar for a lot of songs
Thanks Bobby
Christy's reply
spot on there Bobby…. my chords are C F G Am Em Dm E D A B7 and few Ds that I dont know the name of and a diminshed something or other….occasionally I capo further up the frets.I stay completely away from the dusty end…..for the first 35 years I was always a bit paro about my guitar playing but I got over that…I’m more then happy with it now….as long as the songs keep coming the chords will look after themselves
I see a ‘Jack Campbell’ mentioned in one of your replys below. Was he at the gig or was there a call out for one of his songs? I think you credit Jack Campbell for the song ‘The Sun is Burning’ do you?
Christy's reply
“Rosalita & Jack Cambell” , a song from Sean Mone is on the recent album ‘”Magic Nights”….
Ian Cambell wrote “The Sun is Burning” which was on the album “Iron Behind The Velvet”in 1978.
Ian was a major voice in the UK Folk Revival.I sang at his Folk Club in Digbeth, Birmingham in 1968 where I first heard him sing “The Old man’s Song”. He spent his latter years in Co Kilkenny
I clicked on the link below, the great Jim Page, my You Tube links, on my right-hand-side of page, took then to Anna Mae, a great song, sung in Athlone on his last appearance here. Great guy and performer and a great man on the guitar, just the man need to ask and pose those ‘awkward’ questions on the evening we await exit polls to see is the UK going to run by this Boris chap who’ll tramp on any outstretched hand if you’re sick, unemployed or ‘foreign’, gawd help you. Jim and his ilk more needed than ever.
Christy's reply
Jim came over and sang at Carnsore Point 1978..thats where we hooked up and he shared “Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette” which Moving Hearts recorded in 1981
Having qualified once again for the welsh team Christy,we will be heading over to lough Melvin in June,Staying in Bundoran for a week,looking forward already, see you along the way Christy.
Christy's reply
Have a good visit to Bundoran..beware of moving statues
Hey Christy,
Listened to you on Radio 2 yesterday!
Lovely music and a grand sound. I really like the way you expose a whole range of songs to the listener, both traditional and some not so. I’ll be listening a whole lot more. I may even send you a couple of my folksie ones one day LOL.
Keep on singing and a thanks to Steve for the intro!
Christy's reply
That interview was recorded over the phone last week…….I got snarled up yesterday with chores…I had to deal with a loose slate,a blocked drain, a slow puncture, a leaking water tank, a cranky neighbour, a new song, a dead battery,an exposed wire,a twisted colleague, a sharp exterior and a new proposal….between the jigs and reels I forgot to switch on the wireless…
Happy to hear that (so far) the chat has been well recieved …..
Over the years I’ve had many chats on the Beeb. John Peel, Johnny Walker, Ned Sherrin,Michael Parkinson,Terry Wogan,Gloria Hunniford, Bob Harris,Mike Harding, a Mr Morley,Libby Purvis,Jools,Sam Costa,Wally Whyton,Kirsty Young and evergreen Melvyn Bragg spring to mind….
By far,my favourite was the late Gerry Anderson who worked with BBC Northern Island….I chatted with Gerry a number of times and always enjoyed his company
as the clock winds down is some song a great inclusion in the set, hope you got a good recording of it . been listening to Jim page last few days he has done some fantastic songs this is a very good song called Collateral damage
What a fabulous collection of songs and stories you and the band treated us to last night in Vicar street, the energy and adrenaline in the room was palpable throughout the evening, jaysus it was brilliant. In what must be over my 10th gig at this stage, I always come away with a new song or story to enjoy when the dust has settled, last night I got two, Rosalita & Jack Campbell, and also Dark End of the Street by the Hearts, kindly suggested by Deccy!. Last time in the Marquee was Sail on Jimmy! I continue to enjoy the gigs more and more as I was delighted to hear the Biko Drum get a lash last night!
Keep the gigs & songs coming!
Chris
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The caravan rolls on….songs come and go….gig went off at a gallop last night…I simply could not rein it in…got a few prompts (“you’re going very fast”)from my right but I could not control the beast…..managed to settle intemittently with “First Time Ever”and “Dark End of The Street”….both were fragile , gentle and fragile,……that Dark End is a powerful song from Dan Penn & Chips Moman…I’ve not gigged it but Declan & I would do it occasionally at rehearsals….First Time Ever from Ewan MacColl is another classic….both songs have been covered by many yet never (to me) sound hackneyed or tired….both songs are beyond that…..
Michael is his name!
Happy 60th Michael…..
On the way in this evening Christy…. On the off chance ya see this if you could give the reel in The flickering light a whirl for my dad’s 60th birthday it’d be class!
you wrote in too late ! hope ye had a good gig
Dear Christy, it´s an absolutely magic Album, Magic Nights, wow.
I quite often attend your concerts all over Ireland. To be honest, I would be very happy to enjoy you again back home in Germany. Is there any realistic chance to welcome you here in 2020 / 2021? Or would you recommend to return to Ireland, if I would like to see you again? Best regards from Germany.
Dear Awa,
Sorry to say it is unlikely that I will sing in Germany again….I have great memories from my tours there….but time moves on and we need to adjust to circumstance…
I’ll share a song with you, it was written by my Brother Barry Moore (aka Luka Bloom) when he was starting his journey as a singer…I recorded it in 1976
Wave up to The Shore
A daffodil is born and rises in the spring
It opens out its beauty to hear the cricket sing
But as quick as it does grow it decays away so soon
Before the summer sunshine has reached its golden noon
A stream it does rise in the mountains so tall
It swells into a river as gently it does fall
It meanders to country through city and through town
And in the boundless ocean the river it is drowned
On the seas the winds do rage and the waves grow so high
As they turn into white horses leaping towards the sky
But soon the waves grow gentle no longer do they roar
As they make their lonesome passageway up to the pebble shore
If I were like a daffodil so fair upon the ground
Or like a gentle river with its sweet and mellow sound
Like a wave up to the shore like a river into the sea
I’d lay down in my resting place contented I would be
Talking with Bryan Bowers last night at a gig and told him we were going to your 1/14 concert in Dublin. He was reminiscing about opening for you years ago and singing Goodnight Irene with you before the concert. He had good memories and sends his regards. Kathleen
I think I’ll take a liitle trip downtown
Dear Christy, I hope you are well. The dark ages commence. The legitimacy of the far right made concrete. The demonisation of a decent man. I don’t know what we can do.
We went to see a Luke Kelly tribute last night at the Irish Centre in Hammersmith. Happily sang along and came to realise I spent too many years of my youth in pubs. But it was a break from the sadness. And thanks to you for your highlighting of how we all need to rally against hate speech. Keep the warmth in and don’t climb the roof like Rod Hull did with emu. Rosalita and Jack. Xx
O The Pubs The Pubs
Neesons,Floods,The Hangedman’s,McCabe’s,The Standhouse,Eddie Marum’s,The Hideout,Annie Keogh’s,The Pack Horse, The Morning Star,The Upper George,The Causeway Foot, The Rugby, Old Blue Bell, Old Contemptible,The Fighting Cocks,The Robin Hood, Fasan’s Kneipe,Swiebel,Slattery’s,O’Donoghues,The Meeting Place, Rakish Paddy’s,THe Kon Tiki,Coolera House, The Cellar, The Harbour, Hogans, The Phoenix,The Brown Pub,The Chariot and a thosand others to mention but a few, The College,The White Hart, Scruffy Murphy’s,Fibber McGees,The Pound Loney,The Cat & Cage, Hal Hannigan’s,
fill us two pints there Phyllis,will you take somethin yourself, am I ok for the slate, thank God we’re not fond of it, tis a hoor when it gets in on you, another basin there Badger and I’ll have a vera & super in the meantime,
How’s ye Christy. They have me on Garden County Radio tomorrow in Greystones, Sunday at 9pm. It’s a new show of mine called ‘Your Kind Of Folk’. 9pm-10pm. Dialing it in from over here in Nashville. Giving it a go & giving ye a spin. Rattle the walls for the Vicar over Crimbo 👍
Great stuff Dylan…hope it all goes well..blasting it out from Nashville all the way to Greystones..have a good one
Dear Christy, just heading from Dusseldorf to Dublin and really looking forward to another “Magic Night” at Vicar Street on Monday – where I had the great pleasure to see you last year as well. Would be great if you could put Sail on Jimmy and/or Ordinary Man in the hat (the first being my new favourite from last year, the latter my favourite for decades, of course among many other…). I wish you on and behind stage and us in the audience a lot of fun 🙂 and a “magic night”!
cheers Birgit
Birgit…Hope you have a happy visit to Dublin..we will pull out all the stops come Monday Night at Vicar St…guitars will be tuned, bows will be rosined, skins will be taut, vocals honeyed and warmed….both songs you mentioned are very regular in the current set, Magic Nights too…..
I wish you, and all listeners, as good a time as we (the Band) hope to have …
hi christy,
I believe you have a famous brother and been a while since in Dublin when first began listen to Irish music and feel little rusty. I lived in Dublin for my holidays as my ship company were from Liverpool and Dublin was our last Port before returning to liverpool -Blue Funnel. It is hard to believe that I feel Dublin close to my heart, met a girl from Tipperary who knew for some years but that never had any family then, but today have a wonderful son Rory 23, who at present is doing a degree in Music Production in Worthing, UK and gigs at present with a English singer called Odette Mitchel, as violin and mandolin but Rory has a go at most instruments. He is now with me, my wife and youngest Luke. 18 on Christmas holiday. Am sure my links to Irish music that began with the late great Rory Gallagher (did you ever play with him) as I met Rory few times at gigs, his brother and his family and thus going back 40 years feel part of my identity was laid there in the early 1970s. We miss Rory greatly, and I am yet to go to his 3 day festival in his home town Ballyshannon (have you played there). I hope your concert which would love to be there this month are great ones and you do not mind me sharing little bit of my life. My wife is a singer/vocalist and wrote songs and who I met at University in Plymouth, 1990 and recorded one album only, then family came along but she still plays with Rory and a local Church.
May i wish you a festive season and great new year in 2020
anthony
Anthony,
greetings to Lapland,
I have 3 Sisters and two Brothers, all happy and healthy this day and firmly rooted here on The Island, Thanks Be…..
I never did play with Rory but I did meet him occasionally and I cherish the memory of those meetings……
I played at The Ballyshannon Folk Festival but never at “The Rory”….
I sang a song for Rory some years back…
Rory is Gone
Nigel Rolfe/Christy Moore
Rory is gone to play the blues in heaven.
above the clouds With all the angels singing there.
His records scratched Like his beaten-up old Fender,
But the songs are strong and the notes hang in the air.
Gone with Stevie Ray and Jessie Ed Davis.
Died too young and much too premature
Another rock’n’roller gone but not forgotten,
As his old guitar still mourns and plays,wails and screams the blues.
It sings for Mississippi Fred and Muddy Waters,
for Son House, Sleepy John and The Nighthawk too.
Blacks,whites,blues,greens ‘n reds,all the colours mixed together
Since Rory’s gone to Heaven to play the blues.
Rory’s gone to play the blues in Heaven,
Rory’s gone to Heaven to play the blues
Jim Page sang at a great Ballisodare folk festival the weekend prior to Carnsore, Aug ’78, and left a long-lasting impression with me. I got mixed with that ‘Campbell’ surname, so ‘Ian Campbell’ was that man’s name.
Hi Christy , Would like to just say what an Idol you have been for me over the years , your passion in your songs is something not many can protray. I have listened to you for years , My father would often tell me about the night he met you in John Coffey’s pub in Clough in Co Laois many years ago ,
I now am fortunate enough to be playing music with The Crooked Jacks doing some irish ballads and folk music , and its because of your commitment and passion to Irish music that we are now able to perform all over the world .
I hope to catch one of your shows this coming year 2020, your version of The Magdalene Laundrys is one of my favourites..
Keep well , Trad and roll
David
Its such a well written song….exposes the horror,lock,stock and barrel…..it invariably brings the night down a bit and so it should…we need to remember…it was going on in our time….
“Those bloodless brides of Jesus,
if they could just once glimpse their groom,
they’d drop the stones concealed behind their rosaries
They wilt the grass they walk upon
they leech the light right out of a room
They’d like to wash those girls down the drains
of The Magdalen Launderies”……….( Joni Mitchell)
The men of cloth conspired with them, as did the Government . Many citizens were complicit some of whom even condemned their own daughters to those Hellholes
You made me laugh with:
“ I had to deal with a loose slate,a blocked drain, a slow puncture, a leaking water tank, a cranky neighbour, a new song, a dead battery,an exposed wire,a twisted colleague, a sharp exterior and a new proposal….between the jigs and reels I forgot to switch on the wireless…”
It almost fits the Mr Cash’s “Ive Been Everywhere” Maybe a new song in a similar vein about every troublesome task in life! Oh, by the way, thank you so much for your response.
thats an interesting suggestion…thanks Kerry
it is not a good morning watching the news, but nonetheless Good Morning Christy,
As your latest year of gigs draws to a conclusion i have witnessed a variety of uplifting shows ,in a range of venues ,over the year and every one was special. can i just thank you and the lads and lassies of the crew, the band and the support staff. in a dark year for global sanity your music has been a beacon of bright light.
Anyway i just wanted to mention ,with two gigs to go,that the day before your next gig is the 75th anniversary of the birth of the great Chico Mendes, and five days after your last gig of the year is the 31st anniversary of his murder. Wise and Holy Woman (you and wally’s beautiful song) should be resounding in many more households, tents, caravans, doorways and huts than it will, to remember the bravery of such people.
keep on keeping on.
regards
Rory
7.30am on a Friday morning here in Dun Leary…the wind is howling around the chimney pots not far above my head…just woke from a dream that featured this song:
“down from the mountains came the squadrons and platoons
four and twenty fighting men and a couple stout gasúns
when going into action held each musket by the butt
they marched along and sang a song with Slattery’s Mounted Foot”:
as always,good to hear from you…going to hear a young Band tonight called Nava….heard them first at the Bantry Masters last year in County Cork…been following them since
Christy moore Just wondering whats the chords you play on guitar looks like 3 r 4 of the same chords with capo on 1 2 & 3rd fret on guitar for a lot of songs
Thanks Bobby
spot on there Bobby…. my chords are C F G Am Em Dm E D A B7 and few Ds that I dont know the name of and a diminshed something or other….occasionally I capo further up the frets.I stay completely away from the dusty end…..for the first 35 years I was always a bit paro about my guitar playing but I got over that…I’m more then happy with it now….as long as the songs keep coming the chords will look after themselves
I see a ‘Jack Campbell’ mentioned in one of your replys below. Was he at the gig or was there a call out for one of his songs? I think you credit Jack Campbell for the song ‘The Sun is Burning’ do you?
“Rosalita & Jack Cambell” , a song from Sean Mone is on the recent album ‘”Magic Nights”….
Ian Cambell wrote “The Sun is Burning” which was on the album “Iron Behind The Velvet”in 1978.
Ian was a major voice in the UK Folk Revival.I sang at his Folk Club in Digbeth, Birmingham in 1968 where I first heard him sing “The Old man’s Song”. He spent his latter years in Co Kilkenny
I clicked on the link below, the great Jim Page, my You Tube links, on my right-hand-side of page, took then to Anna Mae, a great song, sung in Athlone on his last appearance here. Great guy and performer and a great man on the guitar, just the man need to ask and pose those ‘awkward’ questions on the evening we await exit polls to see is the UK going to run by this Boris chap who’ll tramp on any outstretched hand if you’re sick, unemployed or ‘foreign’, gawd help you. Jim and his ilk more needed than ever.
Jim came over and sang at Carnsore Point 1978..thats where we hooked up and he shared “Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette” which Moving Hearts recorded in 1981
Having qualified once again for the welsh team Christy,we will be heading over to lough Melvin in June,Staying in Bundoran for a week,looking forward already, see you along the way Christy.
Have a good visit to Bundoran..beware of moving statues
Hey Christy,
Listened to you on Radio 2 yesterday!
Lovely music and a grand sound. I really like the way you expose a whole range of songs to the listener, both traditional and some not so. I’ll be listening a whole lot more. I may even send you a couple of my folksie ones one day LOL.
Keep on singing and a thanks to Steve for the intro!
That interview was recorded over the phone last week…….I got snarled up yesterday with chores…I had to deal with a loose slate,a blocked drain, a slow puncture, a leaking water tank, a cranky neighbour, a new song, a dead battery,an exposed wire,a twisted colleague, a sharp exterior and a new proposal….between the jigs and reels I forgot to switch on the wireless…
Happy to hear that (so far) the chat has been well recieved …..
Over the years I’ve had many chats on the Beeb. John Peel, Johnny Walker, Ned Sherrin,Michael Parkinson,Terry Wogan,Gloria Hunniford, Bob Harris,Mike Harding, a Mr Morley,Libby Purvis,Jools,Sam Costa,Wally Whyton,Kirsty Young and evergreen Melvyn Bragg spring to mind….
By far,my favourite was the late Gerry Anderson who worked with BBC Northern Island….I chatted with Gerry a number of times and always enjoyed his company
ps Ray Gravell, Cerys Matthews
Hi christy
as the clock winds down is some song a great inclusion in the set, hope you got a good recording of it . been listening to Jim page last few days he has done some fantastic songs this is a very good song called Collateral damage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6adT1Fcc7EQ&list=RDMM6adT1Fcc7EQ&start_radio=1
Great song and Guitar Sound from Jim…he keeps the flag flying, he stands to be counted,we met him during the year when we played in Gormanstown
Hi Christy nice to hear you talking to Steve Right on Radio 2 this afternoon,keep them songs coming 👍
I’ll do my best Ger..we gotta keep casting over the stormy waters
Christy,
What a fabulous collection of songs and stories you and the band treated us to last night in Vicar street, the energy and adrenaline in the room was palpable throughout the evening, jaysus it was brilliant. In what must be over my 10th gig at this stage, I always come away with a new song or story to enjoy when the dust has settled, last night I got two, Rosalita & Jack Campbell, and also Dark End of the Street by the Hearts, kindly suggested by Deccy!. Last time in the Marquee was Sail on Jimmy! I continue to enjoy the gigs more and more as I was delighted to hear the Biko Drum get a lash last night!
Keep the gigs & songs coming!
Chris
The caravan rolls on….songs come and go….gig went off at a gallop last night…I simply could not rein it in…got a few prompts (“you’re going very fast”)from my right but I could not control the beast…..managed to settle intemittently with “First Time Ever”and “Dark End of The Street”….both were fragile , gentle and fragile,……that Dark End is a powerful song from Dan Penn & Chips Moman…I’ve not gigged it but Declan & I would do it occasionally at rehearsals….First Time Ever from Ewan MacColl is another classic….both songs have been covered by many yet never (to me) sound hackneyed or tired….both songs are beyond that…..