Hi Christy,
this is Katja from Stuttgart writing. My husband Perry and me came to your gig last week on April the 4th to Wexford, to see you the first time ever. It took us many years to get tickets, a flight and time off from work to see you live. The National Opera House in Wexford is amazing and I still can´t find words for how beautiful your gig was. I cried for most of the time and I guess my neighbours from the audience wondered what´s wrong with me :-). Thank you so much for all of your songs. We had a lot of laughts listen to “Joxer goes to Stuttgart”. It was really funny to hear a song about our hometown far away from there in Wexford….especially as Stuttgart usually isn´t worth singing about, excect you are a Porsche or Mercedes Benz lover.
The travel home was hair-raising. Storm Kathleen kept us on ground (we´d love to stay anytime…but…), our luggage got lost on the way home and we wheren´t sure if we can make it back to work in time, but in the end…all was good. Home one day later. We´d do it again!
So again thank you, we hope to see you a second time!
Yours
Katja and Perry from Stuttgart
P.S.: I´m sorry for my bad English, I should speak and write more…so another good reason to be back in Ireland a.s.a.p. :).
Christy's reply
Katja.
your english is perfect
far superior to my German
all I have is
Ausfahrt
Toten Hosen
Appelkorn
Eintopf
Sviebel
Lederhosen
Munchengladbach
Thank you for your feedback from Wexford…
I played Stuttgart twice a long long time ago..perhaps the Laboratoreum ??? ring any bells ?
Hi Christy, my son, Daniel , is going to see you once again in UL tonight…I was supposed to go with him but unfortunately, I’m a tad sick , so I don’t want to spread the germs around you all there!! His friend, Oisín, is going instead….I brought them both to their first ever Christy Moore concert, in UL ,back in 2015/2916, when they were only 15 at the time….they were hooked well before that, but have been your ardent fans since!! You have reached a whole new generation….you’re an incredible man! Well done to you, for sure!! As I said before , we might see you, once again, at Willie Wk I’m Miltown Malbay, before we all kick the bucket!! Your music (& Brucie’s!!) have been the soundtrack to my life!! I’m soooooo glad you’re there for my son’s, and all his friends life’s too!!! You might give them a shout out (Daniel and Oisín), if you get to read this before your gig!! Love you loads Christy, Tina from Mt Scott, Mullagh, Co. Clare!! ❤️❤️
Hi Christy thanks for coming back to me. I had heard the grey lake of loughrea but had kinda forgotten it, just had another listen and it is a great tune, nice and soft with some great great lyrics. Cant wait for tonight, see ya Christy! From Harry
Christy's reply
its a classic…I learnt it from Tony Small..he sang it to me in Berlin… when we were both feeling home sick
Hi Christy, Harry here. I am twelve and I am coming to see you in Limerick tonight. I have seen you in Leisureland Galway for years. The summer before last you gave me a letter at a concert and it meant a lot me, as I am writing this that letter is framed on then wall beside me. On that letter you said that you wanted to hear me sing for you along the Road I just want to let you know that if you want to hear me I’ll sing for you any time. I have released 2 songs on Spotify, I think in sent you a link for one of them? Anyway it is Harry Greaney on Spotify. I am coming tonight with my parents and grandparents I think we will be 2 or 3 rows from the front. My Grandad has Parkinsons and over the last 2 christmases I have raised nearly €5000 for Galway Parkinsons Association by busking. Yesterday I took part in the Today FM Big Busk for Focus Ireland, I raised around €1500, I busk in Galway city in my free time. I play piano and guitar and last week I learnt City of Chicago on guitar. Next week I am playing the part if Dodger in Galway Musical Society’s production of Oliver. Today they are putting up the set so I have a day off, I don’t think I could spend it in a better way. Now for the song requests, my favourite song of yours always has been and always will be Joxer and I also love Back home in derry, City of Chicago, Ordinary man and St Brendans voyage, I know that is a lot and you mightn’t be able to play them all. You are a legend Christy and I love going to your gigs. As you said to me in that letter Ride On! From Harry
Christy's reply
Good man Harry…you are playing a stormer..busking for Focus Ireland and Galway Parkinsons..brilliant that you are sharing your talents with such worthy organisations..well done..
I see you are also singing in “Oliver”….thats a great buzz…I did some operettas in my teens and loved the genre..and I learned from it too..also sang in a church choir..there was four part harmonies involved..loved the sound of that.
Lovely too to know that 3 generations of your family are coming to hear the songs tonight…thats a heart warmer for me….I’ll surely be doing one,if not all , of the songs you mention..
on the road now… just passing The Curragh Of Kildare heading for Limerick..
did you ever hear “The Grey Lake of Loughrea” ? its a beautiful song
I got my F chord sorted out yesterday. My fingers are now scrunchable enough to do 3 finger chords. I think I’ve got 5 chords now…
C, F, G, D and Dmin.
Off to look for the Palestine sunbird song. It’ll be on Facebook in a jiffy.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
you’re suckin diesel there Rebecca
that Mandolin seems to have done the trick
ps at first glance, I thought this was Bob Dylan & Mike Harding
Hi Christy
On Saturday night my son Lars and I will be in that beautiful venue in Limerick to attend your gig. As you remember, we met the first time in Dranouter in the early nineties, Lars was born at the end of that decade. I’m afraid I exposed him very much to your music, which he, almost at the age of 25 and now an independent young man, still very much loves. In November he couldn’t join us to your gig in Dundalk, so I had to promise him to come back early in 2024. We are both very much looking forward to our visit to Limerick, we were in that concert hall with our whole family and the end of 2021, we still had to wear masks, but enjoyed the gig anyway.
See you and the crew on Saturday !
Lars & Piet
Christy's reply
Welcome back Lars & Piet..
we’ll rattle the chandeliers in Chuck Feeney’s
come Saturday night
During the recent viewings of of mosaics,I found a few new venues. One gem (hosting Samuel Beckett) is a cafe bar,with a theatre in an adjacent space…53TWO in central Manchester.
I’ll be elsewhere ,but wish I could be there this Sunday afternoon…I hope some fellow readers might go to see ‘ Amid the Mirk over the Irk’…an imagined meeting of Jewish and Irish worlds during the Industrial Revolution.. via live music,visuals and spoken word.
Details from the venue and a really good website at. www kletzmerirish.com. Starting at 3pm for a very different Sunday afternoon!
Hello Christy,
I hope you are ok. Talking of the abbyss, speeding up and departure lounges got me thinking and remembering.
Late 90s (I think)
Opera North’s production of Gloriana.
The last scene.
A massively splendid costume of Elizabeth 1st stands in a great wooden case as courtiers bow and fawn. The old queen quietly comes out of the back of the case dressed in a white shift. She leaves the stage and no-one notices.
Same period
It was ok to wash our faces using “facial scrub”. It contained tiny grains of plastic that got washed down the sink every time you used it. It was meant to make your skin smoother.
I tried to find a good video of the Gloriana scene. But they all look pointless and self indulgent to me now.
I’ve learnt lots, and I’m grateful for that.
I hope this isn’t a departure lounge. They are not easy places to be. I guess that’s the point though.
great to hear The Marys covering Hamish…
Hamish Imlach inspired, helped, taught, shared, encouraged, recommended, aided and abetted so many of us ….numeorus aspiring folkies got a serious leg-up from this legendary giant of a man….many remembered, some chose to forget (fuck ’em)….Hamish & Wilma gave shelter & sustenance , generously shared their home in Motherwell …..I’ll never forget the times we had at 152…still meet up occasionally with the Family …..
The Mary Wallopers do a good version of Hamish’s “Cod Liver Oil”..fair play to The Wee….Fiona Imlach, (Hamish & Wilma’s Daughter) runs a venue called Hamish’s ….She told me that she had a visit from The Louth Lads….fair play to them….
I’d like to make an ADT call to 62459
We are scheduled to see you again in the National Concert Hall in Dublin this May. This will be our third time going to see you in the last 12 months and we’ve really enjoyed each gig.
My boyfriend, Shane Ward is a huge fan and he would really love to have your autograph. Is there any way to go about getting it? Could we send a CD to get signed or what is the best approach?
Many thanks and looking forward to seeing you in concert again in May.
Heather
Christy's reply
Hi Heather, Lets see what happens on the night….maybe one of the stage crew could bring it to me…I can’t come out front these days…it takes me hours to get into corset and make-up…afterwards its straight into the oxygen tent for a blast of the reviver…hope you enjoy the NCH…its a grand room
Hi C.I can never let the date pass without remembering the Lisdoon Gaggle 14 years ago ! It was so memorable, thinking of several absent 4711ers and their contributions. Long may the never ending tour proceed.Beir bua agus beannacht.H
Christy's reply
lets go at it agin
what a gathering
I gets lonesome sometimes
remembering old buddies
no longer with us
…………………and the list gets longer
until the day comes
when we’re all on it !!
Today,some family had to be at an event near New Brighton. Not having visited there for years,I blagged a ride…
Arrivung in such a howling gale,it blew Grandson and me along the sea front,into a great cafe/ ice cream parlour! As we settled in,a Belfast bound ferry glided past the windows…that set me off rambling about many an Irish Sea crossing in the 80s and 90s,mainly..the ice cream was so good,the lad didn’t even raise an eye roll at my prattling…so many great times recalled by the sight of a car ferry!
By the time we left,the sky was bright and we enjoyed the Liverpool skyline across the Mersey…I’m now mulling over a fab day,playing Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Sean-Nos Nua’…the epic Lord Franklin is poignant,the duet with you on Lord Baker…magnificent
Well done with the people carrier, and I look forward to the McIlhatton back story sometime!
Keep the music coming, and good luck with the final stages of the new album!
Christy's reply
its all a long long time ago..
back when the world was changing
at an ever increasing speed
look where we are now
staring into an abyss
trying to make a go of it
for whatever time remains
long may we linger in this departure lounge
trying as best we can
to make our presence felt
Hi Christy , another wee word about The Spirit of Freedom album. I hope WEA didn’t confiscate too many of the cassettes, and you were able to raise some money to ‘acquire’ the van..
Good to see Bik gets a mention as co-composer of McIlhatton…Sands/Bik is what my album says. Not the only time those two were linked together!
They say Bik was the best musician in the blocks..
Have you come across a wee group called Tuan? If not, next time you’re in Belfast throw the name out to the crowd….sure maybe the man himself will he at the gig!
Christy's reply
They did not confiscate any cassettes…
by the time they heard about it the original cassette was sold out…
The people carrier was purchased….
There is a back story about the music of McIlhatton…
It’s for another time….
Hi Christy,
this is Katja from Stuttgart writing. My husband Perry and me came to your gig last week on April the 4th to Wexford, to see you the first time ever. It took us many years to get tickets, a flight and time off from work to see you live. The National Opera House in Wexford is amazing and I still can´t find words for how beautiful your gig was. I cried for most of the time and I guess my neighbours from the audience wondered what´s wrong with me :-). Thank you so much for all of your songs. We had a lot of laughts listen to “Joxer goes to Stuttgart”. It was really funny to hear a song about our hometown far away from there in Wexford….especially as Stuttgart usually isn´t worth singing about, excect you are a Porsche or Mercedes Benz lover.
The travel home was hair-raising. Storm Kathleen kept us on ground (we´d love to stay anytime…but…), our luggage got lost on the way home and we wheren´t sure if we can make it back to work in time, but in the end…all was good. Home one day later. We´d do it again!
So again thank you, we hope to see you a second time!
Yours
Katja and Perry from Stuttgart
P.S.: I´m sorry for my bad English, I should speak and write more…so another good reason to be back in Ireland a.s.a.p. :).
Katja.
your english is perfect
far superior to my German
all I have is
Ausfahrt
Toten Hosen
Appelkorn
Eintopf
Sviebel
Lederhosen
Munchengladbach
Thank you for your feedback from Wexford…
I played Stuttgart twice a long long time ago..perhaps the Laboratoreum ??? ring any bells ?
Hi Christy, my son, Daniel , is going to see you once again in UL tonight…I was supposed to go with him but unfortunately, I’m a tad sick , so I don’t want to spread the germs around you all there!! His friend, Oisín, is going instead….I brought them both to their first ever Christy Moore concert, in UL ,back in 2015/2916, when they were only 15 at the time….they were hooked well before that, but have been your ardent fans since!! You have reached a whole new generation….you’re an incredible man! Well done to you, for sure!! As I said before , we might see you, once again, at Willie Wk I’m Miltown Malbay, before we all kick the bucket!! Your music (& Brucie’s!!) have been the soundtrack to my life!! I’m soooooo glad you’re there for my son’s, and all his friends life’s too!!! You might give them a shout out (Daniel and Oisín), if you get to read this before your gig!! Love you loads Christy, Tina from Mt Scott, Mullagh, Co. Clare!! ❤️❤️
we’ll dance a Mullagh Set
Hi Christy thanks for coming back to me. I had heard the grey lake of loughrea but had kinda forgotten it, just had another listen and it is a great tune, nice and soft with some great great lyrics. Cant wait for tonight, see ya Christy! From Harry
its a classic…I learnt it from Tony Small..he sang it to me in Berlin… when we were both feeling home sick
Hi Christy, Harry here. I am twelve and I am coming to see you in Limerick tonight. I have seen you in Leisureland Galway for years. The summer before last you gave me a letter at a concert and it meant a lot me, as I am writing this that letter is framed on then wall beside me. On that letter you said that you wanted to hear me sing for you along the Road I just want to let you know that if you want to hear me I’ll sing for you any time. I have released 2 songs on Spotify, I think in sent you a link for one of them? Anyway it is Harry Greaney on Spotify. I am coming tonight with my parents and grandparents I think we will be 2 or 3 rows from the front. My Grandad has Parkinsons and over the last 2 christmases I have raised nearly €5000 for Galway Parkinsons Association by busking. Yesterday I took part in the Today FM Big Busk for Focus Ireland, I raised around €1500, I busk in Galway city in my free time. I play piano and guitar and last week I learnt City of Chicago on guitar. Next week I am playing the part if Dodger in Galway Musical Society’s production of Oliver. Today they are putting up the set so I have a day off, I don’t think I could spend it in a better way. Now for the song requests, my favourite song of yours always has been and always will be Joxer and I also love Back home in derry, City of Chicago, Ordinary man and St Brendans voyage, I know that is a lot and you mightn’t be able to play them all. You are a legend Christy and I love going to your gigs. As you said to me in that letter Ride On! From Harry
Good man Harry…you are playing a stormer..busking for Focus Ireland and Galway Parkinsons..brilliant that you are sharing your talents with such worthy organisations..well done..
I see you are also singing in “Oliver”….thats a great buzz…I did some operettas in my teens and loved the genre..and I learned from it too..also sang in a church choir..there was four part harmonies involved..loved the sound of that.
Lovely too to know that 3 generations of your family are coming to hear the songs tonight…thats a heart warmer for me….I’ll surely be doing one,if not all , of the songs you mention..
on the road now… just passing The Curragh Of Kildare heading for Limerick..
did you ever hear “The Grey Lake of Loughrea” ? its a beautiful song
Wow I think you might be right Christy!
Aren’t they brilliant!
That mandolin is doing wonders. I’m feeling so much better. Guitar is the next job!
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
easy does it….one day (instrument) at a time…
Begob Rebecca, that’s a rare duo out on the road. You could pop out and supply musical company strumming your mandolin.
Can anyone explain the origins or derivation of “Begob”
by Jasus! Bejasus ! Holy Fuck! Sweet Divine Mother of God! Be The Honey!
or, as Joyce declared in Ulysses
“By Jesus I’ll brain that bloody Jewman for using the Holy Name
By Jesus I’ll crucify him so I will” (Cyclops/ Citizen)
O Begob and your askin the right scholar ( fella no longer appropriate)
Here we go, this should save people some time.
https://youtu.be/i_B9nxYgwrM?si=kXiil-Smhyvnq14F
It’s plastered onto Facebook now. 😃
Thank You
Hello Christy,
Here’s something sweet for a good old Frday morning.
https://www.facebook.com/share/PUUcqbs1r2T7iXY6/
I got my F chord sorted out yesterday. My fingers are now scrunchable enough to do 3 finger chords. I think I’ve got 5 chords now…
C, F, G, D and Dmin.
Off to look for the Palestine sunbird song. It’ll be on Facebook in a jiffy.
Rebecca
you’re suckin diesel there Rebecca
that Mandolin seems to have done the trick
ps at first glance, I thought this was Bob Dylan & Mike Harding
Hi Christy
Prompted by Rory’s post,I rooted out Palestine Sunbird on YouTube…
Classic John Spillane…the passion in his voice sums up the pain…. Music has so much power in the right hands.
Thanks
Dave
John Spillane’s Palestine Sunbird is simply beautiful
“Fly over Bethlehem, Fly over Jerusalem
One bird fairer, than all of us”…
Hear it ,share it spread it around the world , send it to Israel, to the USA, to Leinster House,
remember Pastor Niemoeller’s words
“eventually they came for me
but there was no one left to speak”
Hi Christy
On Saturday night my son Lars and I will be in that beautiful venue in Limerick to attend your gig. As you remember, we met the first time in Dranouter in the early nineties, Lars was born at the end of that decade. I’m afraid I exposed him very much to your music, which he, almost at the age of 25 and now an independent young man, still very much loves. In November he couldn’t join us to your gig in Dundalk, so I had to promise him to come back early in 2024. We are both very much looking forward to our visit to Limerick, we were in that concert hall with our whole family and the end of 2021, we still had to wear masks, but enjoyed the gig anyway.
See you and the crew on Saturday !
Lars & Piet
Welcome back Lars & Piet..
we’ll rattle the chandeliers in Chuck Feeney’s
come Saturday night
Hi Folks
John Spillane ‘palestine sunbird’ out today on Bandcamp.
We need more JSs in the world.
Rb
Johnny dont go to the big Blackwater
Johnny dont go to the hole in the wall
Johnny dont go to the Crystal Palace
Hey Johnny ,don’t go at all……
Magic Nights in Gortatagort waitin for Orca
http://www.klezmerirish.com for the Sunday gig. D
Hi Christy
During the recent viewings of of mosaics,I found a few new venues. One gem (hosting Samuel Beckett) is a cafe bar,with a theatre in an adjacent space…53TWO in central Manchester.
I’ll be elsewhere ,but wish I could be there this Sunday afternoon…I hope some fellow readers might go to see ‘ Amid the Mirk over the Irk’…an imagined meeting of Jewish and Irish worlds during the Industrial Revolution.. via live music,visuals and spoken word.
Details from the venue and a really good website at. www kletzmerirish.com. Starting at 3pm for a very different Sunday afternoon!
Dave
I’m dreaming of the Ferry
Hello Christy,
I hope you are ok. Talking of the abbyss, speeding up and departure lounges got me thinking and remembering.
Late 90s (I think)
Opera North’s production of Gloriana.
The last scene.
A massively splendid costume of Elizabeth 1st stands in a great wooden case as courtiers bow and fawn. The old queen quietly comes out of the back of the case dressed in a white shift. She leaves the stage and no-one notices.
Same period
It was ok to wash our faces using “facial scrub”. It contained tiny grains of plastic that got washed down the sink every time you used it. It was meant to make your skin smoother.
I tried to find a good video of the Gloriana scene. But they all look pointless and self indulgent to me now.
I’ve learnt lots, and I’m grateful for that.
I hope this isn’t a departure lounge. They are not easy places to be. I guess that’s the point though.
Heard this yesterday
https://youtu.be/ERFfHLS4z_k?si=AGbesvHpkLoNxLf5
Rebecca
great to hear The Marys covering Hamish…
Hamish Imlach inspired, helped, taught, shared, encouraged, recommended, aided and abetted so many of us ….numeorus aspiring folkies got a serious leg-up from this legendary giant of a man….many remembered, some chose to forget (fuck ’em)….Hamish & Wilma gave shelter & sustenance , generously shared their home in Motherwell …..I’ll never forget the times we had at 152…still meet up occasionally with the Family …..
The Mary Wallopers do a good version of Hamish’s “Cod Liver Oil”..fair play to The Wee….Fiona Imlach, (Hamish & Wilma’s Daughter) runs a venue called Hamish’s ….She told me that she had a visit from The Louth Lads….fair play to them….
I’d like to make an ADT call to 62459
Hi Christy,
Great feature on part 2 of ” Nationwide” this evening. All about a Honda 50 club in Wexford, with “My little Honda 50 ” playing in the background. We have indeed come a long way…..but have we moved forward ?
Ride Onn
Patsy
https://www.rte.ie/player/series/nationwide/SI0000001172?epguid=IH10002393-23-0040
Rapid & Nifty
Hi Christy,
We are scheduled to see you again in the National Concert Hall in Dublin this May. This will be our third time going to see you in the last 12 months and we’ve really enjoyed each gig.
My boyfriend, Shane Ward is a huge fan and he would really love to have your autograph. Is there any way to go about getting it? Could we send a CD to get signed or what is the best approach?
Many thanks and looking forward to seeing you in concert again in May.
Heather
Hi Heather, Lets see what happens on the night….maybe one of the stage crew could bring it to me…I can’t come out front these days…it takes me hours to get into corset and make-up…afterwards its straight into the oxygen tent for a blast of the reviver…hope you enjoy the NCH…its a grand room
Hi C.I can never let the date pass without remembering the Lisdoon Gaggle 14 years ago ! It was so memorable, thinking of several absent 4711ers and their contributions. Long may the never ending tour proceed.Beir bua agus beannacht.H
lets go at it agin
what a gathering
I gets lonesome sometimes
remembering old buddies
no longer with us
…………………and the list gets longer
until the day comes
when we’re all on it !!
atin apple tart in Knocknagoshel
Hi Christy
Today,some family had to be at an event near New Brighton. Not having visited there for years,I blagged a ride…
Arrivung in such a howling gale,it blew Grandson and me along the sea front,into a great cafe/ ice cream parlour! As we settled in,a Belfast bound ferry glided past the windows…that set me off rambling about many an Irish Sea crossing in the 80s and 90s,mainly..the ice cream was so good,the lad didn’t even raise an eye roll at my prattling…so many great times recalled by the sight of a car ferry!
By the time we left,the sky was bright and we enjoyed the Liverpool skyline across the Mersey…I’m now mulling over a fab day,playing Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Sean-Nos Nua’…the epic Lord Franklin is poignant,the duet with you on Lord Baker…magnificent
Dave.
Well done with the people carrier, and I look forward to the McIlhatton back story sometime!
Keep the music coming, and good luck with the final stages of the new album!
its all a long long time ago..
back when the world was changing
at an ever increasing speed
look where we are now
staring into an abyss
trying to make a go of it
for whatever time remains
long may we linger in this departure lounge
trying as best we can
to make our presence felt
Hi Christy , another wee word about The Spirit of Freedom album. I hope WEA didn’t confiscate too many of the cassettes, and you were able to raise some money to ‘acquire’ the van..
Good to see Bik gets a mention as co-composer of McIlhatton…Sands/Bik is what my album says. Not the only time those two were linked together!
They say Bik was the best musician in the blocks..
Have you come across a wee group called Tuan? If not, next time you’re in Belfast throw the name out to the crowd….sure maybe the man himself will he at the gig!
They did not confiscate any cassettes…
by the time they heard about it the original cassette was sold out…
The people carrier was purchased….
There is a back story about the music of McIlhatton…
It’s for another time….