How’s it going Christy!
Hope you are keeping well. We played an hour tribute to your good self on Saturday 29th supporting The BeerMats from Dublin at a local Sports & Social Club. Had a good craic and the BeerMats were awesome!!
‘More Christy’ https://www.facebook.com/share/1Y8yad9wQH/
I love your singing have all your albums and always come to see you in Glasgow Barrowland. My late parents are Irish both from Derry but da brought up in Howth. My pal is a singer songwriter and has completed 2 albums but just for herself. She has written a song about the Refugees on the move. She wrote during Syria war and it applies to all refugees who have to move from their homes to escape war. It very apt today when you think of Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and Myanmar. I think it’s beautiful and we would love to send it to you as I can imagine you singing it. Can I send it to you and how do you go about that? Look forward to seeing your next gig in Glasgow. Love Derdriu btw can’t believe your nearly 80 your looking fab!!
Hello Christy,
I watched the Barrowland gig yesterday, come all you dreamers.
It’s a great one for hearing the crowd singing, isn’t it. They sounded really good.
Hi Christy,
Pitching another song to you. I waited a few months since last time – I don’t want to bug you…
It’s a completely different style of song this time.
it’s called “Bottom of the bottle”.
It sounds like it’s about boozing but if you listen, there’s something else going on.
I thought you might like the lyrics.
It’s from my last album “DUSK” – The album was album of the week in Rolling Stone magazine and album of the month on FIP radio here in France.
I do it live with just guitar on my solo gigs.
You can hear it here: https://paddysherlock.bandcamp.com/track/bottom-of-the-bottle
Bottom Of The Bottle.
(Words and music by Paddy Sherlock).
Pour another shot.
Is that the best you’ve got?
You’d better keep on talking
‘Cause I sure as hell ain’t walking.
Look me in the eye,
Now’s the time to try.
Some things that are left unsaid
Will haunt you ‘til the day you’re dead.
Chorus:
Let’s get down, let’s get down,
to the bottom of the bottle.
I ain’t running, I ain’t running,
You just keep it coming.
Let’s get down, let’s get down,
To the bottom of the bottle
And that ruthless, crimson morning
Comes a-creeping ‘cross the room.
Hold my hand.
Try to make me understand.
Don’t say that you ain’t got the words,
We both know that, that’s for the birds.
Ask me up to dance,
Let’s not miss this chance.
The blows you take when swinging close
Are the ones that hurt the most.
Chorus:
Let’s get down, let’s get down… etc.
Careful with that kiss.
I wouldn’t want to miss,
A single point you make.
We know there’s far too much at stake.
For every hand, we play
We never give the game away.
Giving isn’t in our gift.
To tell the truth, we prefer thrift.
Hi Christy,
Me ould pals from the record fair were in town on Saturday.
Getting bigger and busier every visit. One young buck was
offering three LPs for twenty euros. And he had treasure on offer.
Picked up The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem’s
Come Fill Your Glass With Us. Sounded great tonight.
How it sounded back in 1959 I’ll never know. That’s what I call
The Dubliners LP. Otherwise known as the one with Jim McCann.
And a Tom McBride. Used to be snobbish about The Big Man
until Mrs B put me right. She’s also opened my ears to
The Queens of Country Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and
Emmylou Harris. Hank, Marty Robbins and The Hag too.
Great to hear the gigs going so well. Thanks for posting the set lists.
The powers that be are been a bit arsey but I have a hunch you’ll
be west along the road August or September. Niecey Mc Niece is
looking forward to her first Christy gig. She got us tickets for
A Lazarus Soul in Vicar Street. And was buzzing at Buzzcocks in
The Rosin. Great to see Ian Dury and John Cooper Clarke mentioned
in despatches. The Guestbook is a nice place to be. Long may it run.
Keep her live and keep her lit.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Hi Christy i will be attending your show on Thursday at the Waterfront. The last time at the waterfront you gave my partner big Dee a shoutout and played one of his favourite songs(Lisdoonvarna). This time round can i ask you to play Bright Blue Rose as i want to choose this for one of our wedding songs.. still requested for Big Dee.. thank you
Just wanted to acknowledge the passing of Jack Fitzgerald! Didn’t know the man personally but didn’t he do a huge amount for music in this country! He worked under the radar but yet was directly involved in bringing the best of stuff to the fore!
Christy's reply
Sorry to read of Jack Fitzgerald’s passing…your post carried the news….I lost contact with Jack over 40 years ago. Reading of his death here brings many memories flooding back from 1972. What happened back then and in subsequent years is worth recalling. I must sit down, reflect and write my own memories of Tara Records and all the music that followed the release of the Prosperous album.
Sunny city centre ramble…pulled up for an art gallery cuppa…chatting to a lady from Dublin having lunch with a friend before her flight home….her t shirt showed ,’Jonn Cooper Clark’ who gigged in town last night…as did the t shirt wearer…Jan Brierton who supported the good doctor…to my ignorance,I didn’t recognise Jan…no problem about that and great chat ensued…funny old world at times….all the better for it…
Hi Christy, we were at your concert in the concert hall in UL, thank you so so so much for wishing Lorcan Happy Birthday last night 28/03/2025 it absolutely made his birthday weekend. Hopefully you’re still going this time next year because he wants to go back and he said to tell you that he’s playing the button accordion in the Kerry Fleadh Ceoil in May. Happy Days. A big thank you from Lorcan
Christy's reply
always a pleasure Lorcan…enjoy the Kerry Fleadh ..give it a good lash
Hi Christy,
Been a minute since i have been on the website.
I’ve since picked up the bodhran and got going on it. Not sure where to go from here with it, might start joining the odd trad band.
Hope all is well and the gigs are flying.
I have my eye on a few tickets for one of the gigs, a day trip to the big marquee might be on the cards.
-Matty
Christy's reply
batin out the rhythm on the auld bowrawn….go for it Matty
I have followed you for many years around Scotland and now Ireland since you made the wise decision to stop touring outside of Ireland.
I am coming over to your gig in Belfast and bringing my young daughter. Her favourite song is ‘sail on jimmy’ and it was be amazing if you had time in your set to sing it.
Christy's reply
hope you have a good visit….if you share a name I’ll try and oblige…..she deserves more than “Shugster’s Daughter”
Thanks for the reply Christy
Glad to hear that Palestine and Yellow Triangle are being heard.
al jazeera reports that
idf Bombing kills a child in Gaza every 45 minutes.
That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 535 days.
Since October 7, 2023, Idf has killed at least 17,400 children, including 15,600 who have been identified. Many more remain buried under the rubble, most presumed dead.
Many of the surviving children have endured the trauma of multiple wars, and all of them have spent their lives under the unbearable shadow of a blockade, affecting every aspect of their existence from birth.
What is left of Gaza’s children?
About half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are children.
Over the past 17 months, Idf attacks have left their homes in ruins, destroyed their schools, and overwhelmed their healthcare facilities.
To put this in perspective, if you had a room of 100 children:
2 have been killed
2 are missing, presumed dead
3 have been wounded, many critically
5 have been orphaned or separated from their parents
5 require treatment for acute malnutrition
The rest of the children bear the invisible scars of war, trauma that affects their mental health, safety and future.
We never underplay the horrors of 7/10 but what is going on with our world that this is not shouted from the rooftops to be stopped ? these are children, innocent children for goodness sake.
so glad that your music is heard and sung, along with ‘only our rivers’.
rory
Christy's reply
some among us will read what you have written
shrug their shoulders
and claim both writer and reader to be anti-semitic
A moving encore,last night…I should have mentioned as I remember you knew Roy Bailey…Martin Simpsons father in law….when Roy was very ill and fading,Martin learned a song that Roy often played ,so they could sing together in hospital…pretty much Roys last act was being involved in Robb Johnson’s ‘Always the money’…a fine song…
As Martin said about Roy Bailey…’always a protest singer’…D
Christy's reply
did not know of their connection…I met Roy but once when I played in Nottingham way back….
That is a really good song…not heard it before…Martin does a great version…never met martin but heard and read a lot about him… spent a while this morning listening to his work…what a brilliant and unique Guitar player…thanks for the pointer
Palestine followed by Yellow Triangle was just beautiful. It was only as you started the second song I copped that the colours referenced are the same as on the Box Set…. booted up track 1 Yellow for the drive south
Fair play to you, some gig
Oscar
Christy's reply
Chicago
Quinte Brigada
Johnny Boy
Ride On
Cumann na Mná
Boy in The Wild
Smoke & Strong Whiskey
Black & Amber
Matty
Gortatagort
Lingo politico
Shovel
Magdalen Laundry
Ordinary Man
They Never Came Home
North & South of The River
Ringing The Bell
Lisdoonvarna
Voyage
Well Below The Valley
Beeswing
Palestine
Yellow Triangle
Only Our Rivers
Joxer
Cliffs of Dooneen
Concert Hall @ UCLI Limerick March 28th 2025…26 songs.. 1hour 45 minutes
Talking of the Grand National Christy, do you think you’ll make the weight this year? If you need a leg up on the day give me a shout. P.S. interesting fact (for some) Nancy Spain died in a plane crash on her way to the Grand National in 1964. RIDE ON John
Christy's reply
I believe that Nancy was a sporty sporting journalist highly regarded by her Telegraph readers….
Barney Rush (RIP),who wrote the song, liked the sound of her name , how right was our Barney….
How’s it going Christy!
Hope you are keeping well. We played an hour tribute to your good self on Saturday 29th supporting The BeerMats from Dublin at a local Sports & Social Club. Had a good craic and the BeerMats were awesome!!
‘More Christy’
https://www.facebook.com/share/1Y8yad9wQH/
Hi Christy
I love your singing have all your albums and always come to see you in Glasgow Barrowland. My late parents are Irish both from Derry but da brought up in Howth. My pal is a singer songwriter and has completed 2 albums but just for herself. She has written a song about the Refugees on the move. She wrote during Syria war and it applies to all refugees who have to move from their homes to escape war. It very apt today when you think of Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and Myanmar. I think it’s beautiful and we would love to send it to you as I can imagine you singing it. Can I send it to you and how do you go about that? Look forward to seeing your next gig in Glasgow. Love Derdriu btw can’t believe your nearly 80 your looking fab!!
Hello Christy,
I watched the Barrowland gig yesterday, come all you dreamers.
It’s a great one for hearing the crowd singing, isn’t it. They sounded really good.
It’s got Allende on it. Perfect song.
Rebecca
Hi Christy,
I’m sure it will be a smashing visit. My daughter’s name is Olivia.
Thank you!
Hi Christy,
Pitching another song to you. I waited a few months since last time – I don’t want to bug you…
It’s a completely different style of song this time.
it’s called “Bottom of the bottle”.
It sounds like it’s about boozing but if you listen, there’s something else going on.
I thought you might like the lyrics.
It’s from my last album “DUSK” – The album was album of the week in Rolling Stone magazine and album of the month on FIP radio here in France.
I do it live with just guitar on my solo gigs.
You can hear it here:
https://paddysherlock.bandcamp.com/track/bottom-of-the-bottle
Bottom Of The Bottle.
(Words and music by Paddy Sherlock).
Pour another shot.
Is that the best you’ve got?
You’d better keep on talking
‘Cause I sure as hell ain’t walking.
Look me in the eye,
Now’s the time to try.
Some things that are left unsaid
Will haunt you ‘til the day you’re dead.
Chorus:
Let’s get down, let’s get down,
to the bottom of the bottle.
I ain’t running, I ain’t running,
You just keep it coming.
Let’s get down, let’s get down,
To the bottom of the bottle
And that ruthless, crimson morning
Comes a-creeping ‘cross the room.
Hold my hand.
Try to make me understand.
Don’t say that you ain’t got the words,
We both know that, that’s for the birds.
Ask me up to dance,
Let’s not miss this chance.
The blows you take when swinging close
Are the ones that hurt the most.
Chorus:
Let’s get down, let’s get down… etc.
Careful with that kiss.
I wouldn’t want to miss,
A single point you make.
We know there’s far too much at stake.
For every hand, we play
We never give the game away.
Giving isn’t in our gift.
To tell the truth, we prefer thrift.
Chorus:
Let’s get down, let’s get down… etc.
Hi Christy,
Me ould pals from the record fair were in town on Saturday.
Getting bigger and busier every visit. One young buck was
offering three LPs for twenty euros. And he had treasure on offer.
Picked up The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem’s
Come Fill Your Glass With Us. Sounded great tonight.
How it sounded back in 1959 I’ll never know. That’s what I call
The Dubliners LP. Otherwise known as the one with Jim McCann.
And a Tom McBride. Used to be snobbish about The Big Man
until Mrs B put me right. She’s also opened my ears to
The Queens of Country Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and
Emmylou Harris. Hank, Marty Robbins and The Hag too.
Great to hear the gigs going so well. Thanks for posting the set lists.
The powers that be are been a bit arsey but I have a hunch you’ll
be west along the road August or September. Niecey Mc Niece is
looking forward to her first Christy gig. She got us tickets for
A Lazarus Soul in Vicar Street. And was buzzing at Buzzcocks in
The Rosin. Great to see Ian Dury and John Cooper Clarke mentioned
in despatches. The Guestbook is a nice place to be. Long may it run.
Keep her live and keep her lit.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Hi Christy i will be attending your show on Thursday at the Waterfront. The last time at the waterfront you gave my partner big Dee a shoutout and played one of his favourite songs(Lisdoonvarna). This time round can i ask you to play Bright Blue Rose as i want to choose this for one of our wedding songs.. still requested for Big Dee.. thank you
Howdy Christy!
Just wanted to acknowledge the passing of Jack Fitzgerald! Didn’t know the man personally but didn’t he do a huge amount for music in this country! He worked under the radar but yet was directly involved in bringing the best of stuff to the fore!
Sorry to read of Jack Fitzgerald’s passing…your post carried the news….I lost contact with Jack over 40 years ago. Reading of his death here brings many memories flooding back from 1972. What happened back then and in subsequent years is worth recalling. I must sit down, reflect and write my own memories of Tara Records and all the music that followed the release of the Prosperous album.
John Cooper Clarke…
a rubbish t shirt if the name had been wrong!!
Hi Christy
Sunny city centre ramble…pulled up for an art gallery cuppa…chatting to a lady from Dublin having lunch with a friend before her flight home….her t shirt showed ,’Jonn Cooper Clark’ who gigged in town last night…as did the t shirt wearer…Jan Brierton who supported the good doctor…to my ignorance,I didn’t recognise Jan…no problem about that and great chat ensued…funny old world at times….all the better for it…
Dave
Hi Christy, we were at your concert in the concert hall in UL, thank you so so so much for wishing Lorcan Happy Birthday last night 28/03/2025 it absolutely made his birthday weekend. Hopefully you’re still going this time next year because he wants to go back and he said to tell you that he’s playing the button accordion in the Kerry Fleadh Ceoil in May. Happy Days
. A big thank you from Lorcan
always a pleasure Lorcan…enjoy the Kerry Fleadh ..give it a good lash
Hi Christy,
Been a minute since i have been on the website.
I’ve since picked up the bodhran and got going on it. Not sure where to go from here with it, might start joining the odd trad band.
Hope all is well and the gigs are flying.
I have my eye on a few tickets for one of the gigs, a day trip to the big marquee might be on the cards.
-Matty
batin out the rhythm on the auld bowrawn….go for it Matty
Hi Christy,
I have followed you for many years around Scotland and now Ireland since you made the wise decision to stop touring outside of Ireland.
I am coming over to your gig in Belfast and bringing my young daughter. Her favourite song is ‘sail on jimmy’ and it was be amazing if you had time in your set to sing it.
hope you have a good visit….if you share a name I’ll try and oblige…..she deserves more than “Shugster’s Daughter”
Thanks for the reply Christy
Glad to hear that Palestine and Yellow Triangle are being heard.
al jazeera reports that
idf Bombing kills a child in Gaza every 45 minutes.
That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 535 days.
Since October 7, 2023, Idf has killed at least 17,400 children, including 15,600 who have been identified. Many more remain buried under the rubble, most presumed dead.
Many of the surviving children have endured the trauma of multiple wars, and all of them have spent their lives under the unbearable shadow of a blockade, affecting every aspect of their existence from birth.
What is left of Gaza’s children?
About half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are children.
Over the past 17 months, Idf attacks have left their homes in ruins, destroyed their schools, and overwhelmed their healthcare facilities.
To put this in perspective, if you had a room of 100 children:
2 have been killed
2 are missing, presumed dead
3 have been wounded, many critically
5 have been orphaned or separated from their parents
5 require treatment for acute malnutrition
The rest of the children bear the invisible scars of war, trauma that affects their mental health, safety and future.
We never underplay the horrors of 7/10 but what is going on with our world that this is not shouted from the rooftops to be stopped ? these are children, innocent children for goodness sake.
so glad that your music is heard and sung, along with ‘only our rivers’.
rory
some among us will read what you have written
shrug their shoulders
and claim both writer and reader to be anti-semitic
Song is properly titled ‘More than enough’…D
beaucoup
Sorry,Christy
Got carried away with Simpson,Woody and Dylan…
A moving encore,last night…I should have mentioned as I remember you knew Roy Bailey…Martin Simpsons father in law….when Roy was very ill and fading,Martin learned a song that Roy often played ,so they could sing together in hospital…pretty much Roys last act was being involved in Robb Johnson’s ‘Always the money’…a fine song…
As Martin said about Roy Bailey…’always a protest singer’…D
did not know of their connection…I met Roy but once when I played in Nottingham way back….
That is a really good song…not heard it before…Martin does a great version…never met martin but heard and read a lot about him… spent a while this morning listening to his work…what a brilliant and unique Guitar player…thanks for the pointer
Christy,
Palestine followed by Yellow Triangle was just beautiful. It was only as you started the second song I copped that the colours referenced are the same as on the Box Set…. booted up track 1 Yellow for the drive south
Fair play to you, some gig
Oscar
Chicago
Quinte Brigada
Johnny Boy
Ride On
Cumann na Mná
Boy in The Wild
Smoke & Strong Whiskey
Black & Amber
Matty
Gortatagort
Lingo politico
Shovel
Magdalen Laundry
Ordinary Man
They Never Came Home
North & South of The River
Ringing The Bell
Lisdoonvarna
Voyage
Well Below The Valley
Beeswing
Palestine
Yellow Triangle
Only Our Rivers
Joxer
Cliffs of Dooneen
Concert Hall @ UCLI Limerick March 28th 2025…26 songs.. 1hour 45 minutes
Talking of the Grand National Christy, do you think you’ll make the weight this year? If you need a leg up on the day give me a shout. P.S. interesting fact (for some) Nancy Spain died in a plane crash on her way to the Grand National in 1964. RIDE ON John
I believe that Nancy was a sporty sporting journalist highly regarded by her Telegraph readers….
Barney Rush (RIP),who wrote the song, liked the sound of her name , how right was our Barney….
I’d love to hear you tackling Leon’s classic..now, almost 60 years since it was written.Still packs punches. D
if memory serves,Leon’s song has many angles and tricky passages to navigate…..not a song to conquer in a few passes