I hope all’s well with you. This is an odd one.. I woke up one morning a few years ago after having this really vivid dream about a homeless man in Dublin. The last thing I remember just before I came around was him grabbing me and saying: ‘My Name is Joe! Tell them my name is Joe!’. It was bizarre.
I was messing with the guitar the next day, trying to remember as much of the dream that I could, and the lyrics just wrote themselves. That hasn’t happened to me before or since.
I feel like I should do something with it, but I genuinely don’t know where to begin.
I recorded a version of it but I’m not a singer..
On Grafton Street
Under a plastic sheet
Awake to the morning air
The crowds walk by
Near where I lie
And few of them do care.
Do they see me here?
Do they shed a tear?
Or am I just some ‘thing’
That lives and dies
And drinks and cries
Beyond their reckoning.
My name is Joe,
My name is Joe
& I came to Dublin
Years ago
To live my life
Maybe find a wife
In the years
When I had hope.
So, I hold my sign
& I pass the time
Dreaming of what’s not
Images of warm firesides
And the kettle and the hob
But this sleeping bag
Won’t stop the cold
Or protect me from the rain
And the shelter’s warm
But it’s dangerous
And the Guards can be a pain.
My name is Joe etc.
You know I saw someone
From long ago
And miles from where I sat
But if they saw me
Or who I used to be
Well they didn’t stop to chat
They disappeared
Into the crowd
As if they never were
But I wonder if
She thinks of me
And the way I stroked her hair.
My name is Joe etc.
At the GPO,
Where long ago
A Nation was born in flame
I shake my cup,
For help I look
Amid the sorrow and the shame.
So, if you see me
Have no fear
I mean no harm to you
My name is Joe
And years ago
I had hopes and dreams like you.
Hello Christy,
Thank you ever so much for the sessons, they are great and it really feels like a personal concert for each one of us listeners. A deep thank you from a fan from Germany since 1988 when I first heard “Ride On” in a music shop at the Dublin Millenium. Saw you first in1990 during my studies in Hull and then again last year at “Vicar Street” on 15th of January. This woderful concert I will never forget, also because that very evening my dad died (without me knowing) while I was listening very emotionally to your songs a few hundred miles away … Maybe you could integrate “Lisdoonvarna” into one of your next sessions?. Let the music keep the spirits high! Thomas
Christy's reply
Sad Story about your Dad Thomas….
“Lisdoonvarna” might need the energy of an audience to raise me up but maybe I’ll try a lockdown version
Hi Christy
Thank you so much to you and Andy for the sessions it really is something to look forward to. I was supposed to be over hearing you in Limerick last week but hey ho. Just waiting on my refund from Ryanair that’ll be a while. If you get chance or feel inclined please play “Where I come from” in your next session. I love this because you mention the Dowling girls and my mum was a Dowling girl so I think of her.
Cheers to you and your family
Ian (yer Dowling man).
Hello Christy,
Thankyou for the songs this afternoon. I loved them all, all for different reasons, but the one your wife requested jumped straight into my head. Vivid pictures and some lovely vocal twiddles towards the end.
I’m looking forward to a bit more freedom as soon as it can get here. There’s a folk club in Brighouse that I found right before the lockdown. A flute player said to come along. Playing the harp is good for some things. Not travelling though. I tell taxi drivers it’s a great big guitar so things don’t get too confused.
Hope we’ll see you treading the boards again soon.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
its no joke Rebecca, getting around with a Harp….I wish you well
Hope you, family and friends are all well Christy,
Sent an email to you today regarding a new single, we were in touch before regarding a previous release,
Would love your feedback on it sometime!
Good morning Christy,
Thanks for lockdown session #4- really grateful for the bit of connection. You do a good job capturing the tenor of these days. I’m looking forward to the possibility of a Ewan MacColl night…do you ever sing his Joy of Living? Such a beautiful one.
We tuned in for the Wally Page/Johnny Mulhearn gig on Saturday as well- was delighted to hear him sing So Do I- there’s a couple old YouTube videos of the three of you playing matty and so do i that I love and check out over and over. It’s always interesting to me to hear how different artists approach the same material- and bring songs to life in subtly different ways.
Be well until next time and thanks again.
Christy's reply
I did work on the “Joy Of Living”many years ago….such a beautiful song….I failed to inhabit it but I’m older now… maybe I’ll try it again
Wonderful lockdown 4,Christy…sincere thanks so much.
No spoilers for listeners waiting for the weekly treat,but a great choice of songs-and fab to see how much you’re enjoying the format…fair play to the family production team as well.
A few years ago,I sat in The Bridgewater Hall as you and Declan played a superb version of Dylan’s ‘I pity the poor immigrant’…it reminded me of the power of your interpretations of the ‘protest’ song…and I’m reminded again now…the genre is in good hands-thank you.
That’s 4 positive memories of lockdown-they’re such a boost…
Dave
Christy's reply
that man whom with his fingers cheats
who lies with every breath
Thanks for the songs today Christy, longer video was a lovely treat on this dark rainy Thursday!
Put an auld pep in the step….
The sign we’re taking away from Nancy is that it’s time to start thinking about life on the road again, hopefully it’s not too many months away now….good man Andy, fair play for giving the dig out and for helping making these videos happen.
Keep the faith!
Morning Christy,
Earlier, 6.30am topping up the birdbath I was watched by Lon Dubh waiting for a cool drink after his morning gig. Thanks to Marty for clip of hurling stick guitar. There’s about ten hurls the garage. My son took over my workshop yesterday with a lovely piece of ash which he is splitting to make a stick with. Thanks to Hilary for piece about Leonard Cohen. It reminded me, of seeing him in Belfast in 2009…poster framed. And, much earlier, memories of Songs of Leonard Cohen, rising from the radiogram, his bass voice captured forever in concentric circles: the spinning grooves of vinyl. Christy, the thought of him singing in Kilmainham Gaol…Saw Marianne and Leonard words of love in Queen’s Film Theatre. So from singing birds to hurling guitars to Leonard C…adieu! Mary
PS ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez – a rock icon who never was and worth watching.Sorry for rambling… the kettle’s whistling so away for cuppa! Go well!
Christy's reply
We always welcome Ramblers here…it was our primary purpose when first launched…Ramble on Mary, whenever the notion takes you…
we caught the fil m”Sugar Man” a few years back and then got to hear him when he played in Vicar Street a few years back…
it was the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham that Leonard played…did you hear him sing “Kevin Barry ”
just got the morning cuppa and had a good read of the Irish Central 2019 piece ,looking back at Liam Clancy’s life…I hadn’t fully appreciated the article’s depth earlier and the quality film clips…it ties in so well with your recall.Hope you (and fellow fans)get chance to check it out…D
Terrific to read your recall of the Clancy’s impact on your youth…if there’s a rime machine trip on offer,I’m away to Greenwich Village,1962/3 (with a detour to Dallas,November ’63)
Some great Dylan/Liam pieces available (and many a rabbit hole diversion!)Always great to see/hear Bob’s admiration of Liam sincet rhe early 60s days in the NYC coffee houses…
There’s a terrific Youtube clip of Bob on the banks of the Boyne,chatting about the Clancys/Liam…filmed just before Dylan’s gig at Slane Castle.1984 I’ve walked that area so often (as you will have also done…) its worth a look for the scenery…some tasty intercut Clancy’s film too…
In 2019,to mark a decade since Liam died,there’s an excellent piece at http://www.irishcentral.com hit the ‘search’ icon and ‘liam clancy’ gets numerous articles.The first item has a great account of the times in NYC that mean so much to many… On the same site,if you put your name in the search,there’s a good choice too…and countless articles of Irish historical interest…enjoy,for whatever time can be spared…that’s me sorted until your lockdown 4 hits ! Greatly anticipated!
Keep the Atkin ringing…
Dave
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There was a Fleadh Ceol in the town of Bunclody back in 1963 (ish)
we went there in Mick Curran’s Bedford Van…
we dossed in a Haybarn outside the town
when the Farmer found us there on Sunday morning, ( 10 of us)
he said…”hope you are all comfortable there lads
but if ye are still there when I get back from Mass
you’ll like get the prongs of this hay fork up your arse”
We went back into town, dishevelled, thirsty and hungover..
later that afternoon I heard Liam Clancy sing on the Street..
his handsome head tilted back, his eyes closed..
he was singing “The Streams of Bunclody”..
my future was decided there and then..
…thats my story, and I’m stickin to it
Been tuned in , Thank you for the music and to every musician that has taken the time to share their music online , Although its kind of the new norm at the moment I do miss live gigs so much , It’s a strange time for everyone that’s out of work at the moment weather you are a Musician or a Barber or whatever you are used to doing ,
I don’t want to say it’s a happy time because it’s not ,I don’t want to be listening to the birds all day it does nothing for me , The world was breathing just fine for me too,
The government are destroying small time people by keeping us locked down and letting every chain store in the country remain open , This is our liveleyhood , This lockdown is bullshit , I see people all over the place , I see supermarkets full , Yet a Musician can’t go out and play a gig in front of a few people , A small time worker cannot go out and continue what he loves to do . The government have purchased our soul for €350 per week , I want my soul back ! I want our gigs back and I want my job back.
Jimi The Barber (Once upon a time)
Kilrush
Co.Clare
Christy's reply
Morra Jimi,
Good to hear from you…
sad to read of your predicament….
most are suffering in different ways…
may we all survive this pandemic and find peace of mind..
Good morning Christy,
Myself and the kids passed a bit of time by creating our own little suggestions for our individual Bunker Island Discs Plus.
This involved selecting certain items to take into the bunkers, a little like the desert island one you did a few years ago.
Ours consisted of
5 discs, but they could not all be from the same musical type eg not all folk or rock or classical etc
2 books
3 course meal
1 drink
2 meal guests, 1 living, 1 dead
1 luxury
Anyway having completed that it had me thinking of great tunes without lyrics, having flirted with including one in my 5.
There’s The Chieftains ‘lots of drops of brandy’, ‘The Edinburgh set’ by you and the lads, Cathal’s ‘Rock’, Liam’s ‘Sean O Duibhir A Ghlianna’, Knopfler’s ‘Local Hero’ or the current favourite, that whisks me back to John O’ Dreams when he hides from me, which is the album ‘The River Holds It’s Breath’ by Colm Mac Con Iomaire.
Anyway, enough ramblings from the Hawick bunker. The Swifts and Sand Martins will be out catching breakfast so i shall pull back the blackout curtain, brew up a tea, and watch them dance.
Looking forward to set 4 from the Moore Bunker and whatever songs emerge.
Regards for the day ahead
Rory
Christy's reply
3 course meal (to die for)
Paté of Sheeps Eyes and Mashed Mangolds
Festering Horse between Two Mattresses
Chopped Straws in Buttermilk
loved last week online songs looking forward to the new one,
Came across this gig of the clancy b from tipperary in 95 on youtube last night , a good watch. i remeber Liam clancy did a gig in the Mermaid in Bray not long before he passed missed the chance to see him play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw-TuYggM0w&t=1330s
Christy's reply
Hey Adam…
the original line-up was a sight to behold…of course it was a very different time…
Many of us have riffed on Dylan’s talents,for many a long day…In the current climate of protest and awareness,its worth a few minutes to listen to ‘young Bob’ as he uses a radio forum to sing his newly written songs ,to raise awareness of numerous wrongs…youtube-Broadside sessions,1962…a year later,he and Joan Baez joined and performed at ‘the march on Washington…Nearly 80 now-the world awaits his forthcoming LP…viva Bob.
Keep well
Dave
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in the lead up to this weeks episode ( hopefully we’ll put it up tomorrow) I got a number of requests for “The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll”
It got me thinking of Liam Clancy…
My best school pal was Pat McGowan ( aka The Meg, aka Paul-in London only) Pat and I used to listen to Luxembourg 208 as young lads, we were rock and roll kids in the late 50 (Maisie Behan used to take our trousars in, narrow the legends to 10″)…we saw “rock around the clock” and “the girl can help it”…but all that changed when Turlough McGowan came home from exile with a Clancy Brothers LP..I became sotted in The Clancys and listened to nothing else
Last week I realised that Dylan may have been listening to Liam Clancy in Greenwich Village at the same time..
Those Clancy Brothers had a far reach….looking back at them now, for me they went way beyond “cool”..when their music landed back in Ireland we were a priest ridden, church controlled nation….the irreverence of The Clancys gave many of us a nudge in the right direction..they were a beacon of light in a dark place….Thank You Liam,Paddy and Tom Clancy, Thank you Tommy Makem…
Many years later both Pat and Turlough McGowan died in London….two good men a long time gone
when I heard Arlo play in Dublin years ago..he spoke of trying to write songs in the era of Dylan…said it was like trying to fish downstream from Bob….he’s feel like shouting up “Hey Bob! throw some of the little ones back in”…
Christy mo chara- thanks so much for the tunes online these past few weeks. It has been a real tonic in these bizarre and unsettling times.
It’s a long shot, I know, but if you could play Lily this week it would mean the world to my family.
My cousin Colin Doody passed away this day 3 years ago in Omaha, Nebraska. Col grew up in Hawkfield and later in Scarletstown in Newbridge. He went to school in Milltown and played football with them for years.
Col ended up going to the States on a soccer scholarship and settled there and married Katie (they came home for the Irish part of the wedding and got married again in Newbridge College, with the aftershock in the Keadeen) and then had 3 beautiful kids Jack, Alison and Adia in the years that followed. Lovingly known by us all as the Yankee Doodys.
Col was an absolute rogue of the highest order and was always getting into scrapes as a kid growing up in Newbridge but really made good when he went to the States and made a great life for himself. He was a big dreamer with the biggest heart and had a real love for music (yours in particular) and poetry and sport and always had a real yearning for home.
In March 2017 I went with the Scarletstown crew to see you play in Milltown Church and you played Lily and I streamed it over to Colin in Nebraska and the words of the song were just the perfect fit for the boy from Newbridge, dreaming of coming home again.
Col tragically never made it home again, and died in June 2017, leaving behind his gorgeous family in Omaha and his equally gorgeous parents Dan and Phyllis in Newbridge as well as brothers Shane and Niall, sisters Danielle and Deborah and a large extended Doody clan. Life has never been the same since but your music in particular keeps him very close in all our hearts.
Wishing you and yours all the very best Christy. Keep going strong – the work is powerful.
Cormac Doody
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Dear Cormac
this weeks episode already recorded and should go out tomorrow….
I’ll see how next week emerges….will do my best…requests are now in the thousands but your post hits home…I well remember the Doody Family from my boyhood days in Newbridge….
Can I add a note of thanks to all that joined us for the online gig last Saturday evening to listen and watch Wally Page perform along with Johnny Mulhearn…I know a lot tuned in because they had seen posts here, I appreciate that. It has had almost 4,000 views and we will do lots more gigs this year..improving as we go…Sat was good learning curve for us all..it was fun. Thanks again..
I’m all over ‘Ordinary Man’ and ‘Unfinished Revolution ‘ LPs this week..beauties…and the sun is back..thanks again..stay safe..L x
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well done Lar, we watched every minute…I might have a couple of observations..let me know
Hi Christy,
I hope all’s well with you. This is an odd one.. I woke up one morning a few years ago after having this really vivid dream about a homeless man in Dublin. The last thing I remember just before I came around was him grabbing me and saying: ‘My Name is Joe! Tell them my name is Joe!’. It was bizarre.
I was messing with the guitar the next day, trying to remember as much of the dream that I could, and the lyrics just wrote themselves. That hasn’t happened to me before or since.
I feel like I should do something with it, but I genuinely don’t know where to begin.
I recorded a version of it but I’m not a singer..
https://soundcloud.com/667sounds/my-name-is-joe-1/s-DMQaN
Joe
On Grafton Street
Under a plastic sheet
Awake to the morning air
The crowds walk by
Near where I lie
And few of them do care.
Do they see me here?
Do they shed a tear?
Or am I just some ‘thing’
That lives and dies
And drinks and cries
Beyond their reckoning.
My name is Joe,
My name is Joe
& I came to Dublin
Years ago
To live my life
Maybe find a wife
In the years
When I had hope.
So, I hold my sign
& I pass the time
Dreaming of what’s not
Images of warm firesides
And the kettle and the hob
But this sleeping bag
Won’t stop the cold
Or protect me from the rain
And the shelter’s warm
But it’s dangerous
And the Guards can be a pain.
My name is Joe etc.
You know I saw someone
From long ago
And miles from where I sat
But if they saw me
Or who I used to be
Well they didn’t stop to chat
They disappeared
Into the crowd
As if they never were
But I wonder if
She thinks of me
And the way I stroked her hair.
My name is Joe etc.
At the GPO,
Where long ago
A Nation was born in flame
I shake my cup,
For help I look
Amid the sorrow and the shame.
So, if you see me
Have no fear
I mean no harm to you
My name is Joe
And years ago
I had hopes and dreams like you.
My name is Joe etc.
Thanks for sharing…
you are a singer
Hello Christy,
Thank you ever so much for the sessons, they are great and it really feels like a personal concert for each one of us listeners. A deep thank you from a fan from Germany since 1988 when I first heard “Ride On” in a music shop at the Dublin Millenium. Saw you first in1990 during my studies in Hull and then again last year at “Vicar Street” on 15th of January. This woderful concert I will never forget, also because that very evening my dad died (without me knowing) while I was listening very emotionally to your songs a few hundred miles away … Maybe you could integrate “Lisdoonvarna” into one of your next sessions?. Let the music keep the spirits high! Thomas
Sad Story about your Dad Thomas….
“Lisdoonvarna” might need the energy of an audience to raise me up but maybe I’ll try a lockdown version
Beautiful song..
https://youtu.be/HnijXZI8ce4
Published on Jun 11, 2014
Christy Moore talks to John Murray on RTE1 about Tony Small and he sings Tony’s “Mandolin Mountain”
I often wonder where all these recordings are stored !
Never heard this before nor seen the footage
Thanks Tracey
Hi Christy
Thank you so much to you and Andy for the sessions it really is something to look forward to. I was supposed to be over hearing you in Limerick last week but hey ho. Just waiting on my refund from Ryanair that’ll be a while. If you get chance or feel inclined please play “Where I come from” in your next session. I love this because you mention the Dowling girls and my mum was a Dowling girl so I think of her.
Cheers to you and your family
Ian (yer Dowling man).
Thanks Ian
Hello Christy,
Thankyou for the songs this afternoon. I loved them all, all for different reasons, but the one your wife requested jumped straight into my head. Vivid pictures and some lovely vocal twiddles towards the end.
I’m looking forward to a bit more freedom as soon as it can get here. There’s a folk club in Brighouse that I found right before the lockdown. A flute player said to come along. Playing the harp is good for some things. Not travelling though. I tell taxi drivers it’s a great big guitar so things don’t get too confused.
Hope we’ll see you treading the boards again soon.
Rebecca
its no joke Rebecca, getting around with a Harp….I wish you well
Hope you, family and friends are all well Christy,
Sent an email to you today regarding a new single, we were in touch before regarding a previous release,
Would love your feedback on it sometime!
Stay safe, through this madness!
CM
CM
Sounds good to me
CM
Good morning Christy,
Thanks for lockdown session #4- really grateful for the bit of connection. You do a good job capturing the tenor of these days. I’m looking forward to the possibility of a Ewan MacColl night…do you ever sing his Joy of Living? Such a beautiful one.
We tuned in for the Wally Page/Johnny Mulhearn gig on Saturday as well- was delighted to hear him sing So Do I- there’s a couple old YouTube videos of the three of you playing matty and so do i that I love and check out over and over. It’s always interesting to me to hear how different artists approach the same material- and bring songs to life in subtly different ways.
Be well until next time and thanks again.
I did work on the “Joy Of Living”many years ago….such a beautiful song….I failed to inhabit it but I’m older now… maybe I’ll try it again
Wonderful lockdown 4,Christy…sincere thanks so much.
No spoilers for listeners waiting for the weekly treat,but a great choice of songs-and fab to see how much you’re enjoying the format…fair play to the family production team as well.
A few years ago,I sat in The Bridgewater Hall as you and Declan played a superb version of Dylan’s ‘I pity the poor immigrant’…it reminded me of the power of your interpretations of the ‘protest’ song…and I’m reminded again now…the genre is in good hands-thank you.
That’s 4 positive memories of lockdown-they’re such a boost…
Dave
that man whom with his fingers cheats
who lies with every breath
Thanks for the songs today Christy, longer video was a lovely treat on this dark rainy Thursday!
Put an auld pep in the step….
The sign we’re taking away from Nancy is that it’s time to start thinking about life on the road again, hopefully it’s not too many months away now….good man Andy, fair play for giving the dig out and for helping making these videos happen.
Keep the faith!
the night is bursting into morning
Morning Christy,
Earlier, 6.30am topping up the birdbath I was watched by Lon Dubh waiting for a cool drink after his morning gig. Thanks to Marty for clip of hurling stick guitar. There’s about ten hurls the garage. My son took over my workshop yesterday with a lovely piece of ash which he is splitting to make a stick with. Thanks to Hilary for piece about Leonard Cohen. It reminded me, of seeing him in Belfast in 2009…poster framed. And, much earlier, memories of Songs of Leonard Cohen, rising from the radiogram, his bass voice captured forever in concentric circles: the spinning grooves of vinyl. Christy, the thought of him singing in Kilmainham Gaol…Saw Marianne and Leonard words of love in Queen’s Film Theatre. So from singing birds to hurling guitars to Leonard C…adieu! Mary
PS ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez – a rock icon who never was and worth watching.Sorry for rambling… the kettle’s whistling so away for cuppa! Go well!
We always welcome Ramblers here…it was our primary purpose when first launched…Ramble on Mary, whenever the notion takes you…
we caught the fil m”Sugar Man” a few years back and then got to hear him when he played in Vicar Street a few years back…
it was the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham that Leonard played…did you hear him sing “Kevin Barry ”
Leonard Cohen – Kevin Barry (live 1972) – YouTube
just got the morning cuppa and had a good read of the Irish Central 2019 piece ,looking back at Liam Clancy’s life…I hadn’t fully appreciated the article’s depth earlier and the quality film clips…it ties in so well with your recall.Hope you (and fellow fans)get chance to check it out…D
its all go here today
Hi Christy
Terrific to read your recall of the Clancy’s impact on your youth…if there’s a rime machine trip on offer,I’m away to Greenwich Village,1962/3 (with a detour to Dallas,November ’63)
Some great Dylan/Liam pieces available (and many a rabbit hole diversion!)Always great to see/hear Bob’s admiration of Liam sincet rhe early 60s days in the NYC coffee houses…
There’s a terrific Youtube clip of Bob on the banks of the Boyne,chatting about the Clancys/Liam…filmed just before Dylan’s gig at Slane Castle.1984 I’ve walked that area so often (as you will have also done…) its worth a look for the scenery…some tasty intercut Clancy’s film too…
In 2019,to mark a decade since Liam died,there’s an excellent piece at http://www.irishcentral.com hit the ‘search’ icon and ‘liam clancy’ gets numerous articles.The first item has a great account of the times in NYC that mean so much to many… On the same site,if you put your name in the search,there’s a good choice too…and countless articles of Irish historical interest…enjoy,for whatever time can be spared…that’s me sorted until your lockdown 4 hits ! Greatly anticipated!
Keep the Atkin ringing…
Dave
There was a Fleadh Ceol in the town of Bunclody back in 1963 (ish)
we went there in Mick Curran’s Bedford Van…
we dossed in a Haybarn outside the town
when the Farmer found us there on Sunday morning, ( 10 of us)
he said…”hope you are all comfortable there lads
but if ye are still there when I get back from Mass
you’ll like get the prongs of this hay fork up your arse”
We went back into town, dishevelled, thirsty and hungover..
later that afternoon I heard Liam Clancy sing on the Street..
his handsome head tilted back, his eyes closed..
he was singing “The Streams of Bunclody”..
my future was decided there and then..
…thats my story, and I’m stickin to it
Hi Christy,
Been tuned in , Thank you for the music and to every musician that has taken the time to share their music online , Although its kind of the new norm at the moment I do miss live gigs so much , It’s a strange time for everyone that’s out of work at the moment weather you are a Musician or a Barber or whatever you are used to doing ,
I don’t want to say it’s a happy time because it’s not ,I don’t want to be listening to the birds all day it does nothing for me , The world was breathing just fine for me too,
The government are destroying small time people by keeping us locked down and letting every chain store in the country remain open , This is our liveleyhood , This lockdown is bullshit , I see people all over the place , I see supermarkets full , Yet a Musician can’t go out and play a gig in front of a few people , A small time worker cannot go out and continue what he loves to do . The government have purchased our soul for €350 per week , I want my soul back ! I want our gigs back and I want my job back.
Jimi The Barber (Once upon a time)
Kilrush
Co.Clare
Morra Jimi,
Good to hear from you…
sad to read of your predicament….
most are suffering in different ways…
may we all survive this pandemic and find peace of mind..
Good morning Christy,
Myself and the kids passed a bit of time by creating our own little suggestions for our individual Bunker Island Discs Plus.
This involved selecting certain items to take into the bunkers, a little like the desert island one you did a few years ago.
Ours consisted of
5 discs, but they could not all be from the same musical type eg not all folk or rock or classical etc
2 books
3 course meal
1 drink
2 meal guests, 1 living, 1 dead
1 luxury
Anyway having completed that it had me thinking of great tunes without lyrics, having flirted with including one in my 5.
There’s The Chieftains ‘lots of drops of brandy’, ‘The Edinburgh set’ by you and the lads, Cathal’s ‘Rock’, Liam’s ‘Sean O Duibhir A Ghlianna’, Knopfler’s ‘Local Hero’ or the current favourite, that whisks me back to John O’ Dreams when he hides from me, which is the album ‘The River Holds It’s Breath’ by Colm Mac Con Iomaire.
Anyway, enough ramblings from the Hawick bunker. The Swifts and Sand Martins will be out catching breakfast so i shall pull back the blackout curtain, brew up a tea, and watch them dance.
Looking forward to set 4 from the Moore Bunker and whatever songs emerge.
Regards for the day ahead
Rory
3 course meal (to die for)
Paté of Sheeps Eyes and Mashed Mangolds
Festering Horse between Two Mattresses
Chopped Straws in Buttermilk
Hi christy! Hoped to travel to your show in the inec but corona unfortunately got in the way, hope to see you at some stage!
maybe Ballybunion
Bet u never thaught you would hear a Hurley stick sound this good..
https://youtu.be/xI6wkNhA4WM
Amazing..
life is full of surprises….you’re right Marty..never dreamt of such a thing….I’ve always loved the “the clash of the ash”
Face the puck out
Hi Christy
loved last week online songs looking forward to the new one,
Came across this gig of the clancy b from tipperary in 95 on youtube last night , a good watch. i remeber Liam clancy did a gig in the Mermaid in Bray not long before he passed missed the chance to see him play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw-TuYggM0w&t=1330s
Hey Adam…
the original line-up was a sight to behold…of course it was a very different time…
Hi Christy
Many of us have riffed on Dylan’s talents,for many a long day…In the current climate of protest and awareness,its worth a few minutes to listen to ‘young Bob’ as he uses a radio forum to sing his newly written songs ,to raise awareness of numerous wrongs…youtube-Broadside sessions,1962…a year later,he and Joan Baez joined and performed at ‘the march on Washington…Nearly 80 now-the world awaits his forthcoming LP…viva Bob.
Keep well
Dave
in the lead up to this weeks episode ( hopefully we’ll put it up tomorrow) I got a number of requests for “The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll”
It got me thinking of Liam Clancy…
My best school pal was Pat McGowan ( aka The Meg, aka Paul-in London only) Pat and I used to listen to Luxembourg 208 as young lads, we were rock and roll kids in the late 50 (Maisie Behan used to take our trousars in, narrow the legends to 10″)…we saw “rock around the clock” and “the girl can help it”…but all that changed when Turlough McGowan came home from exile with a Clancy Brothers LP..I became sotted in The Clancys and listened to nothing else
Last week I realised that Dylan may have been listening to Liam Clancy in Greenwich Village at the same time..
Those Clancy Brothers had a far reach….looking back at them now, for me they went way beyond “cool”..when their music landed back in Ireland we were a priest ridden, church controlled nation….the irreverence of The Clancys gave many of us a nudge in the right direction..they were a beacon of light in a dark place….Thank You Liam,Paddy and Tom Clancy, Thank you Tommy Makem…
Many years later both Pat and Turlough McGowan died in London….two good men a long time gone
when I heard Arlo play in Dublin years ago..he spoke of trying to write songs in the era of Dylan…said it was like trying to fish downstream from Bob….he’s feel like shouting up “Hey Bob! throw some of the little ones back in”…
Christy mo chara- thanks so much for the tunes online these past few weeks. It has been a real tonic in these bizarre and unsettling times.
It’s a long shot, I know, but if you could play Lily this week it would mean the world to my family.
My cousin Colin Doody passed away this day 3 years ago in Omaha, Nebraska. Col grew up in Hawkfield and later in Scarletstown in Newbridge. He went to school in Milltown and played football with them for years.
Col ended up going to the States on a soccer scholarship and settled there and married Katie (they came home for the Irish part of the wedding and got married again in Newbridge College, with the aftershock in the Keadeen) and then had 3 beautiful kids Jack, Alison and Adia in the years that followed. Lovingly known by us all as the Yankee Doodys.
Col was an absolute rogue of the highest order and was always getting into scrapes as a kid growing up in Newbridge but really made good when he went to the States and made a great life for himself. He was a big dreamer with the biggest heart and had a real love for music (yours in particular) and poetry and sport and always had a real yearning for home.
In March 2017 I went with the Scarletstown crew to see you play in Milltown Church and you played Lily and I streamed it over to Colin in Nebraska and the words of the song were just the perfect fit for the boy from Newbridge, dreaming of coming home again.
Col tragically never made it home again, and died in June 2017, leaving behind his gorgeous family in Omaha and his equally gorgeous parents Dan and Phyllis in Newbridge as well as brothers Shane and Niall, sisters Danielle and Deborah and a large extended Doody clan. Life has never been the same since but your music in particular keeps him very close in all our hearts.
Wishing you and yours all the very best Christy. Keep going strong – the work is powerful.
Cormac Doody
Dear Cormac
this weeks episode already recorded and should go out tomorrow….
I’ll see how next week emerges….will do my best…requests are now in the thousands but your post hits home…I well remember the Doody Family from my boyhood days in Newbridge….
Can I add a note of thanks to all that joined us for the online gig last Saturday evening to listen and watch Wally Page perform along with Johnny Mulhearn…I know a lot tuned in because they had seen posts here, I appreciate that. It has had almost 4,000 views and we will do lots more gigs this year..improving as we go…Sat was good learning curve for us all..it was fun. Thanks again..
I’m all over ‘Ordinary Man’ and ‘Unfinished Revolution ‘ LPs this week..beauties…and the sun is back..thanks again..stay safe..L x
well done Lar, we watched every minute…I might have a couple of observations..let me know