Rebeccah’s mention of The Gardener brings the late Traudel to mind as it seemed to be a favourite of hers. She is sadly missed in the 4711 community. Still on a buzz from last week’s gigs – 2 great nights and loving the mix of new and old songs. Thinking of the 48 tonight and hoping that this is the beginning of the last steps to justice for them. It seems such a long time ago – far too long to have to wait. Let us remember.
Christy's reply
Traudel always waved a quiet flag for Paula Meehan’s “Folk Tale”
Anzac Day…time to reflect and play Liam Clancy singing Eric Bogle s epic song,- and the band played Waltzing Matilda .I was fortunate to hear Liam sing this a few times…always a hushed concert hall as the maestro led us through the horrors.
It’s a truly stunning song with added poignancy as time goes on…I hope many here can find the time to give it a listen.
Dave
Christy's reply
Many years ago Eric invited me to his home near Brisbane. We drank tea and shared a few songs.
Liam Clancy set me off on this journey when I first heard him over 60 years ago
Ed
Another reason the story seemed interesting in my head was the thought of look on that security man’s face when realizing the 6 ‘4″ pilot may have been reared on an East Galway farm, been to war, and was not bluffing.
As I was sending, I asked myself why.
btw: trouble on board had nothing to do with the singer, and context of American rock idolatry and Dad’s notorious overreactions wasn’t there (but his livelihood was being jeapordized). Soon after we got a new president and there was different commerce to be conducted. We had a good laugh together when I played your ‘Ronnie Reagan’ for Mom and Dad, bigger than his when we listened to WH press briefings of that time. You wrapped the whole business up in a few succinct lines.
Christy's reply
Morra Brendan….”Hey Ronnie Reagan” was written by John Maguire & Collective. I think it may have come out on a single with a song called “Cowboy Reagan” on the B.Side. ( Written by ??? could be a spot prize here !!)
Zep’s excesses, excursions and exertions were legendary back then. Anyone who stood in their way was met with extreme violence, sometimes with fistfuls of cash as if money could clear the guilt and conscience. Plant was always a great singer. I find his gigs on You Tube frequently and tune in.
Christy's reply
Band, crew, promoters, agents, managers, security, police, messers,drunks, yobs,burger vans, illicit merch touts, ticket touts, ..whatever kicks off at a gig the act gets blemt….
Jimmy Page a giant ar an bosca, Robert Plant some singer, (the lucky lad has held on to his flowing locks), Bonham a hum dinger,and John Paul still rattles the woofers
Hi Christy … We were at Ur concert in the millennium forum on Friday past we had our 5 year old son Tiernan with us he was singing and clapping all night he absolutely loved it .. tiernan was born with down syndrome in 2018 ever since he’s had Ur music on every day since ..just want to say thank you for the giving him Ur guitar pic from Friday gig we are going to frame it along with his ticket from the gig something he will always remember.. thank you from his parents Eoin & Aoife
Christy's reply
Thank you Eoin & Aoife…..I was charmed to hear about Tiernan singing along with the songs..I wish the three of you the very best for the future…please give my love and best wishes to your young man
Hello Christy,
Tim Dennehy’s song about this time of year made me think about this beauty
He knows when to dig in deep
When to sow and when to reap
That everything begins in spring
He makes his bed with care
And sows his seed with love
My garden is teeming with flowers and birds. I sit and watch as I work quietly.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
“The Gardener” by Paul Doran is such a beautiful song…
I often wonder why it gained little or attention,you are one of the very few to mention it or quote its lines…
Paul has shared some beautiful songs with me…”Natives”, “The Gardener”, “Greenland”..he continues to write and to sing his songs
Zeppelin’s behavior, antics, depredation, call-it-what-you-like, in those US tours in the late seventies left a lot to be desired. A few stories have leaked out over the years. Not long ago, only a few weeks ago, there was an announcement that an interconnector electric cable is to be laid connecting us with France. We are already connected to Britain.
Christy's reply
there were a few mad hoors down around Athlone too Ed….given the shekkels ,God Only knows what carnage they might have wreaked upon The Shamrock Lodge
Hi Christy, for all us musos still yet need to know about nuclear power perhaps take in one of the greatest songs of our time, bob marley’s ‘redemption song’.
Rory
Ps the alternative is the Nu-Clear Sounds album by fab North of Ireland band Ash.
Hello Christy et al
On Hilary’s fission power question: there is a planned cable, for somewhere in the order of 750 mw, to run from France to Wexford, I believe. 750 is about half of what the latest generation of reactors produce. I’m not political, but maybe a reasonable price can be worked out for electricity, being as France harvests your ocean fish and Irish can’t make a living at it. The Sea Around Us was the first song I learned to sing, by spinning a 45 repeatedly 55 years ago, when I was four. The family and visitors loved it, mumbled Irish and all.
A story involving Dad and Led Zeppelin came up recently, which Christy and Ed in particular might like. Rock music was not tolerated, but heaven help you if Dad heard Led Zeppelin, one the bands he brought into regional U.S. airports under his ’77 – ’78 contract. He recognized the singer’s voice of he heard it through speakers The big man had hollered at them in cabin of an Electra one evening – picture Bob Mitchum going ballistic. Not sure if security thought better or was otherwise convinced to sit back down. Management offered Dad a grand, but he said just keep that one the hell away from him. I guess there was band behavior modification after. Around this time Sean and I had a song of theirs on the radio and Dad unexpectedly shows up. He’s seated and reading us the riot act when my brother interrupts to mention the talents of band’s lead guitar player. A 20 oz Beleek tea mug is inches wide of Sean’s head on its way through window of kitchen door he’s standing against. Sean runs past with Himself in pursuit and I’m out the rear door, where I hear and feel the redhead hitting ground after vaulting the iron rail atop the front landing – a jump you wouldn’t make unless you had to. We meet later and laugh over some ale, get stoned, then home.
Christy's reply
Happy to report that the Led Zepp chanter has settled in to more sedate lifestyle (but remains a great singer)…. a nephew of mine spent some days in his company a few years back….he describes a kind hearted, laid back but serious artist whose work-practice-antics are far removed from those days of legendary excess…
but the Zepps sure made glorious noise back then….I recall great nights in Hull… barrels of Cameron’s Strongarm ale, the blackest of hashish and Led Zepp turned up to 11…
some of us have calmed down a bit 50 years on…many others did not make it thru …..
Hi C. I made contact with Tim but in the meantime I had a look around. Is this is it I wonder ?
” The salmon spawned on his gravel bed returns there to breed,
The eel to the Sargasso Sea goes back to spread his seed,
The swallow and the sweet cuckoo make journey now to sing,
The crocus and wild daffodil give birth to a new spring. ”
We never see their faces, these multi-national czars.
Our lands they rape from cape to cape, our seas they fill with tars.
The multi-national oil tycoons, they all turned out in style,
Ten years later fifty French lay slaughtered in the oil.
(Hanley, Moynihan, Moore)!
Christy's reply
an alternative verse to this one emerged during the Anti-Nuclear Roadshow in 1979
“it was in 1968 Jack Lynch went back to Cork
to open Whiddy Island where a handfull of men got work
the multi-national oil tycoons all turned out in style
10 years later 50 men lay slaughtered in the oil”
when this verse was performed on the late late show, the Taoiseach’s wife, Mrs Maureen Lynch, took grave exception and vented ….this somehow made it to the Monday Morning papers where the”Scoop Glennon” (oIrish Indo formerly of The Leinster Leader) worked it up into an exciting ( for me)headline story…….(Thanks Frankie)
Hello Christy,
Hope your recording is going well. I’ve been having a wander through Colm O’Lochlainn’s Irish Street Ballads and, More Irish Street Ballads, they’re always nearby as I practice. Came across Brian O’Linn. A funny, sweet song. It’s got a good tune and I found the phrasing interesting. Kind of like a simpler version of Jahnny Jump Up?
Rebecca
Christy's reply
I love those two collections….Colm O’Lochlainn’s books have been with me from the very beginning of this journey
Hi All. Time to share Tim Dennehy’s song from 1986 for the week that is in it https://youtu.be/H1_IpbBjGpQ With the planet heating up as the Clock Winds Down I wonder is it time to re evaluate the potential for nuclear power ?? Is it a total oxymoron to ask if nuclear power can be safe and maybe even green & clean ? ? Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Christy's reply
Tim has written some fine songs and has sung them beautifully…..in one of my favourites, he describes Salmon returning to spawn..I’ve not heard it for years ..maybe some nimble fingered songster might retrieve and post..that would be something
“the shirts sheets and hankerchiefs crack in the wind
on the window ledge withering plants”
Hello Christy. I allow myself to interfere from Germany. Thanks for sharing the wonderful and professional Derry-photographs. And thanks for your long and personal reply two days ago, Christy. Your gigs in Germany have always been phantastic. Amongst many I never forget the Smoke and Strong Whiskey-performance in “E-Werk Cologne”, hard to see you in the foggy-smoked location…Günter, Rheinberg
Christy's reply
we loves the bit of interference her Guenter…please keep coming back…. when our beautiful Traudel died we lost our precious German correspondant..we think of Traudel often and send our best wishes to Horst
Young Adam from Wicklow has been honing his photography skills since joining the 4711ers 10-15 (?) years ago..he shares his pics generously here in between showing all the latest movies in his local cinema
I recall that E-Werk gig in Cologne..it was a strange venue..difficult at times but, in the end… the audience settled and we had a good night
Rebeccah’s mention of The Gardener brings the late Traudel to mind as it seemed to be a favourite of hers. She is sadly missed in the 4711 community. Still on a buzz from last week’s gigs – 2 great nights and loving the mix of new and old songs. Thinking of the 48 tonight and hoping that this is the beginning of the last steps to justice for them. It seems such a long time ago – far too long to have to wait. Let us remember.
Traudel always waved a quiet flag for Paula Meehan’s “Folk Tale”
I loved my time in Derry…
Thanks John
Hi Christy/all
Anzac Day…time to reflect and play Liam Clancy singing Eric Bogle s epic song,- and the band played Waltzing Matilda .I was fortunate to hear Liam sing this a few times…always a hushed concert hall as the maestro led us through the horrors.
It’s a truly stunning song with added poignancy as time goes on…I hope many here can find the time to give it a listen.
Dave
Many years ago Eric invited me to his home near Brisbane. We drank tea and shared a few songs.
Liam Clancy set me off on this journey when I first heard him over 60 years ago
Ed
Another reason the story seemed interesting in my head was the thought of look on that security man’s face when realizing the 6 ‘4″ pilot may have been reared on an East Galway farm, been to war, and was not bluffing.
As I was sending, I asked myself why.
btw: trouble on board had nothing to do with the singer, and context of American rock idolatry and Dad’s notorious overreactions wasn’t there (but his livelihood was being jeapordized). Soon after we got a new president and there was different commerce to be conducted. We had a good laugh together when I played your ‘Ronnie Reagan’ for Mom and Dad, bigger than his when we listened to WH press briefings of that time. You wrapped the whole business up in a few succinct lines.
Morra Brendan….”Hey Ronnie Reagan” was written by John Maguire & Collective. I think it may have come out on a single with a song called “Cowboy Reagan” on the B.Side. ( Written by ??? could be a spot prize here !!)
“Ireland’s greatest living musician” looks back on 50 years in the business. https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/christy-moore-podcast-sobriety?fbclid=IwAR1khNeLTRtrw4X3D8FOUzQC6DTmaFSTGoSawX1areo0VVX99QC0daVz2is
Hi Christy,
“THEY NEVER CAME HOME”.
As the inquests start today, we think of the Families that have to re-live all of the suffering and pain through these past years. Hopefully they will get some solace this time, and maybe, just maybe some justice……we live in hope.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=christy+moore+they+never+came+home&view=detail&mid=8795DA610535162D05D08795DA610535162D05D0&FORM=VIRE
Zep’s excesses, excursions and exertions were legendary back then. Anyone who stood in their way was met with extreme violence, sometimes with fistfuls of cash as if money could clear the guilt and conscience. Plant was always a great singer. I find his gigs on You Tube frequently and tune in.
Band, crew, promoters, agents, managers, security, police, messers,drunks, yobs,burger vans, illicit merch touts, ticket touts, ..whatever kicks off at a gig the act gets blemt….
Jimmy Page a giant ar an bosca, Robert Plant some singer, (the lucky lad has held on to his flowing locks), Bonham a hum dinger,and John Paul still rattles the woofers
Hi Christy … We were at Ur concert in the millennium forum on Friday past we had our 5 year old son Tiernan with us he was singing and clapping all night he absolutely loved it .. tiernan was born with down syndrome in 2018 ever since he’s had Ur music on every day since ..just want to say thank you for the giving him Ur guitar pic from Friday gig we are going to frame it along with his ticket from the gig something he will always remember.. thank you from his parents Eoin & Aoife
Thank you Eoin & Aoife…..I was charmed to hear about Tiernan singing along with the songs..I wish the three of you the very best for the future…please give my love and best wishes to your young man
Hello Christy,
Tim Dennehy’s song about this time of year made me think about this beauty
He knows when to dig in deep
When to sow and when to reap
That everything begins in spring
He makes his bed with care
And sows his seed with love
My garden is teeming with flowers and birds. I sit and watch as I work quietly.
Rebecca
“The Gardener” by Paul Doran is such a beautiful song…
I often wonder why it gained little or attention,you are one of the very few to mention it or quote its lines…
Paul has shared some beautiful songs with me…”Natives”, “The Gardener”, “Greenland”..he continues to write and to sing his songs
Zeppelin’s behavior, antics, depredation, call-it-what-you-like, in those US tours in the late seventies left a lot to be desired. A few stories have leaked out over the years. Not long ago, only a few weeks ago, there was an announcement that an interconnector electric cable is to be laid connecting us with France. We are already connected to Britain.
there were a few mad hoors down around Athlone too Ed….given the shekkels ,God Only knows what carnage they might have wreaked upon The Shamrock Lodge
Hi Christy, for all us musos still yet need to know about nuclear power perhaps take in one of the greatest songs of our time, bob marley’s ‘redemption song’.
Rory
Ps the alternative is the Nu-Clear Sounds album by fab North of Ireland band Ash.
must refill the juke box here..thanks Rory
Just catching up ,thanks for sharing the Ann Lovett film Hilary
Hello Christy et al
On Hilary’s fission power question: there is a planned cable, for somewhere in the order of 750 mw, to run from France to Wexford, I believe. 750 is about half of what the latest generation of reactors produce. I’m not political, but maybe a reasonable price can be worked out for electricity, being as France harvests your ocean fish and Irish can’t make a living at it. The Sea Around Us was the first song I learned to sing, by spinning a 45 repeatedly 55 years ago, when I was four. The family and visitors loved it, mumbled Irish and all.
A story involving Dad and Led Zeppelin came up recently, which Christy and Ed in particular might like. Rock music was not tolerated, but heaven help you if Dad heard Led Zeppelin, one the bands he brought into regional U.S. airports under his ’77 – ’78 contract. He recognized the singer’s voice of he heard it through speakers The big man had hollered at them in cabin of an Electra one evening – picture Bob Mitchum going ballistic. Not sure if security thought better or was otherwise convinced to sit back down. Management offered Dad a grand, but he said just keep that one the hell away from him. I guess there was band behavior modification after. Around this time Sean and I had a song of theirs on the radio and Dad unexpectedly shows up. He’s seated and reading us the riot act when my brother interrupts to mention the talents of band’s lead guitar player. A 20 oz Beleek tea mug is inches wide of Sean’s head on its way through window of kitchen door he’s standing against. Sean runs past with Himself in pursuit and I’m out the rear door, where I hear and feel the redhead hitting ground after vaulting the iron rail atop the front landing – a jump you wouldn’t make unless you had to. We meet later and laugh over some ale, get stoned, then home.
Happy to report that the Led Zepp chanter has settled in to more sedate lifestyle (but remains a great singer)…. a nephew of mine spent some days in his company a few years back….he describes a kind hearted, laid back but serious artist whose work-practice-antics are far removed from those days of legendary excess…
but the Zepps sure made glorious noise back then….I recall great nights in Hull… barrels of Cameron’s Strongarm ale, the blackest of hashish and Led Zepp turned up to 11…
some of us have calmed down a bit 50 years on…many others did not make it thru …..
Hi C. I made contact with Tim but in the meantime I had a look around. Is this is it I wonder ?
” The salmon spawned on his gravel bed returns there to breed,
The eel to the Sargasso Sea goes back to spread his seed,
The swallow and the sweet cuckoo make journey now to sing,
The crocus and wild daffodil give birth to a new spring. ”
you can listen here… https://timdennehy.bandcamp.com/track/keep-in-touch
Beir bua. H
Morra H
The very one..thank you..great to hear Tim sing his beautiful song again…last heard him sing it live in Sráid na Cathrac…
You got a good seat at the Gradam….
I’m looking forward to getting back again to Chuck Feeney’s
We never see their faces, these multi-national czars.
Our lands they rape from cape to cape, our seas they fill with tars.
The multi-national oil tycoons, they all turned out in style,
Ten years later fifty French lay slaughtered in the oil.
(Hanley, Moynihan, Moore)!
an alternative verse to this one emerged during the Anti-Nuclear Roadshow in 1979
“it was in 1968 Jack Lynch went back to Cork
to open Whiddy Island where a handfull of men got work
the multi-national oil tycoons all turned out in style
10 years later 50 men lay slaughtered in the oil”
when this verse was performed on the late late show, the Taoiseach’s wife, Mrs Maureen Lynch, took grave exception and vented ….this somehow made it to the Monday Morning papers where the”Scoop Glennon” (oIrish Indo formerly of The Leinster Leader) worked it up into an exciting ( for me)headline story…….(Thanks Frankie)
Hello Christy,
Hope your recording is going well. I’ve been having a wander through Colm O’Lochlainn’s Irish Street Ballads and, More Irish Street Ballads, they’re always nearby as I practice. Came across Brian O’Linn. A funny, sweet song. It’s got a good tune and I found the phrasing interesting. Kind of like a simpler version of Jahnny Jump Up?
Rebecca
I love those two collections….Colm O’Lochlainn’s books have been with me from the very beginning of this journey
Hilary.
Nuclear power here, Ireland: NO.
we’ll all be walkin down the plank
when the grid goes down
From Alaska down to Panama,
from Hawaii to New York
Ten people out of Nine agree
its better in the dark…
Hi All. Time to share Tim Dennehy’s song from 1986 for the week that is in it https://youtu.be/H1_IpbBjGpQ With the planet heating up as the Clock Winds Down I wonder is it time to re evaluate the potential for nuclear power ?? Is it a total oxymoron to ask if nuclear power can be safe and maybe even green & clean ? ? Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Tim has written some fine songs and has sung them beautifully…..in one of my favourites, he describes Salmon returning to spawn..I’ve not heard it for years ..maybe some nimble fingered songster might retrieve and post..that would be something
“the shirts sheets and hankerchiefs crack in the wind
on the window ledge withering plants”
Hello Christy. I allow myself to interfere from Germany. Thanks for sharing the wonderful and professional Derry-photographs. And thanks for your long and personal reply two days ago, Christy. Your gigs in Germany have always been phantastic. Amongst many I never forget the Smoke and Strong Whiskey-performance in “E-Werk Cologne”, hard to see you in the foggy-smoked location…Günter, Rheinberg
we loves the bit of interference her Guenter…please keep coming back…. when our beautiful Traudel died we lost our precious German correspondant..we think of Traudel often and send our best wishes to Horst
Young Adam from Wicklow has been honing his photography skills since joining the 4711ers 10-15 (?) years ago..he shares his pics generously here in between showing all the latest movies in his local cinema
I recall that E-Werk gig in Cologne..it was a strange venue..difficult at times but, in the end… the audience settled and we had a good night
Hi All. A new film simply called ” Ann ” could prove a powerful telling of the tragic story of Ann Lovett and her baby boy, it opens on Irish cinemas on 28th April. This article gives a great overview of the sad tale in the context of the times https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/2023/04/22/recreating-ann-lovetts-last-day-this-is-one-story-that-hasnt-been-faced-up-to/?fbclid=IwAR0pLUr14JWH6JfB_lZHZ5VAI9qVzrUo13OJ3eEIjyPl4FhH0UCYmAFgcJc I hope it’s not behind a paywall. Beir bua agus beannacht. H
ar an líathróid arís….míle maith agat..beimíd ag féacaint ar an scannán seo