Hello Christy,
That was some match yesterday, hammer and tongs all the way, they threw the kitchen sink at it (as we say round here…).
Back in the nest after the smoothest journey. Here’s my recording of your performance of Dalesman’s Litany. A thing of beauty, and it’s got the venerable new tak on it. Sorry the visual is a bit wanting, we were told about 50 times not to video things. https://youtu.be/NWV2sHuzcbU?si=n5YAOF9B_8Ykz6yu
Did some more ferreting about the 2012 Beeb folk awards..
Unusually,a tie for first place…
Bella Hardy -:The Herring Girl
Steve Tilston – The Reckoning
Great work by Mr Harding,finding the right singer for Kevin’s wonderful song…I played it recently after spotting Morecambe Bay through the window of a fast train…such a massive,wide expanse of sand and deadly currents.The exploited workers never stood a chance…fair play to all involved with your evocative music memorial.
Dave
Christy's reply
Mike’s programme on BBC was very popular over here….lost touch with it since he was dropped..is it still running ?
For the ages Christy,
Maybe the day will come when the AI lads get their
All Ireland with no wides, no fouls and
no dodgy reffing decisions.
Maybe they can feckin keep it.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
.
Christy's reply
I know we are biased but is there a better game than Hurling ?….I’ve had the good fortune to attend a few finals..All-Ireland and Munster…..back in 1963-64 I followed that great Tipp team when I worked in the Vale of Honey…Babs Keating, Theo English, Larry Kiely, that was an exciting time…ballads and large bottles on the way home, John Doyle, Michael Maher, Jimmy Doyle, I took a notion to try my hand and turned up in Marlfield for a few pucks….Theo suggested that I stick to the ballads…Tony Wall,Donie Nealon…..we’d stop in New Inn on the way home from Semple Stadium
“I’ll bid farewell to Old Clonmel in the Vale of the Honey bee
the safe homes of Tipperary that oft times sheltered me
to that Flying Column that kept the flag flying high
may their cause be ne’er forgotten said The Galtee Mountain Boy”
Your finger picking was so lovely on Friday. I’m still buzzing from the gig. Music feeds our spirits!
Take care, Kevin
Christy's reply
when I first sang Michael Hayes with Planxty circa ’76 there were rumblings about the man…but the song itself has lived on….invasion and cruel eviction brings out extreme responses betimes….the same with Fidel & Che aka
MacColl’s great “Good Ship Granma”, that too brought on responses sometimes less than favourable…but what a song !…. currently there has been kickback about the song “Palestine” from a few quarters, some claim it to be anti semitic….when Moving Hearts performed “Irish Ways & Irish Laws some said it was fascist….way way back there was talk of Lakes of Pontchartrain being racist …the simple mention of a Creole Girl being the ammunition…..
I hope you will keep singing Michael Hayes… Up Down
Hi.BBC Folk Awards 2012, Adam found last minute tickets and convinced me to travel, a quick overnight trip !! Dubliners were there, and countless other Folk heroes. A great ballad. Now we have our own RTE Folk Awards !! Beir bua agus beannacht.H
Christy's reply
I recall Barney McKenna’s acceptance speech as gaeilge…Bill Leader being honoured, Ian Cambell too….anyone recall the Folk Song of the year ? Morecambe Bay was nominated…who had the best seat in The Lowry that night..12 years gone in an inst
Hello Christy,
Well, we’re setting off back to the land of the heathen in an hour. With a fair wind we’ll be home before 9pm this evening. I have a new guitar to settle in, a dark mellow seagull from the Sound shop by the TLT. They sud know how to put a shop in the right place here. It’s got an on board tuner so I think it will be living upstairs.
Good luck to all in the momentous clash this afternoon. I’m hoping it will be shown on the boat, it’s on BBC2, but we’ll be nowhere near home by then. It’s kind of nice to be neither one side nor the other. I’ll be watching it for the amazing spectacle that it is.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
watch out for pirates passing The Kesh…they boarded a cruise liner last week and robbed all the gargle
Hey Christy,
Quick thought.
Young Keenan had a streamed show on vier on thursday.
He asked us gig-goers to send lyrics for his new song ‘meet me at eternity’s gates’.
What song are you needing freshened up by 4711ers, do you need some new celebs for a further verse in Lisdoonvarna, or novel locations for Welcome to the Cabaret?
Anyway the blackbird awaits the crusts and a gull has sat and shat on my car bonnet.
Rory
Christy's reply
they can shite all they like but no Blackbird or Gull is getting my crusts….best part of any slice
Hi Christy
I woke early enough, maybe the sound of her snoring.
However it was the cocklepickers of On Morecambe Bay that i thought of, those poor people. Dunno why it came to mind but it is such a moving song.
The Folk Tale album is a gem. I shall head through the house and stick it on, nice cup of Barry’s ( no milk, splash of cold water) , slices of brown toast with homemade marmalade,and watch the feathered friends on the bird table amidst the sun’s rays of a new day.
My wife picked winkles in Uig for a winter 35 years ago, the ill fated cocklepickers of Morecambe were an altogether different, tragic, tale.
Rory
Christy's reply
No Milk Rory!
and the milk lorry trundling up the hill
and cold water into the brew !
whats the world coming to…
wide awake in the dark of night is unsettling but betimes can lead to creative bursts
twas Manchester Mike Harding that sent me Kevin Littlewood’s song about the Morecambe Bay tragedy….the song is so evocative….I played it at UK Folk awards one year when it was nominated as one of the Songs of the year, cant remember what was voted in ….that same trip I was invited to sing a song on Andrew Marr’s Sunday Morning Show on BBC TV…after the rehearsal the producer informed me that they could not transmit Morecambe Bay…could I do a different song….to this day I am embarrassed to say that I did a different song…dont know why but I fucking well did not make a stand…years later that decision still sticks in my craw…had similar situations in Australia with Biko Drum and Back Home in Derry on ,I think, ABC TV but I stood ground…did not get to do Biko but Back Home got transmitted….
Been too long away….lot of catching up to do. Sounds like the gigs have been mighty… Perhaps a few notes will drift across the big water…
Christy's reply
Johnny dont go to the big black water
Johnny dont go to the hole in the wall
Johnny dont go to the big television
Hey Johnny ! dont go at all…………..(John Spillane)
Thanks for the info about Highlanes Gallery…a great website..I’ll drop by,virtually,from time to time.
What an ace TLT setlist! If you get chance,please share the story of the battered Aussie guitar- and it’s new lease of life…
Enjoy your break.
Dave
Christy's reply
Many many years ago, circa 1972 I recieved my first letter from a listener…it was following a Planxty gig in Kilkenny…it came from a young lad from Jerpoint in Co.Kilkenny…that lad subsequently became involved in music himself….I remember playing a gig with him in Thomastown in the 1980s….next time we met he was playing over in London…eventually he took his songs to Australia where he has been living for the past 30 years..he has always maintained contact….last year I got word from his family that he was sending me his 40year old Takamine guitar..it arrived from Qld Oz and straightway I liked the feel of it… well gigged,battered and worn (like myself) I brought it to Derek Nelson at Danvel who set it up similar my own 40 year old Taks…last night I gigged it in Drogheda for the first time….it resounded beautifully on “The Dalesman’s Litany”… Thanks to my old pal Ger Fennelly..
The Highlanes Gallery is worth a visit…we first went there to view the work of Nano Reid…I’ve always liked Drogheda…first visited there as a lad when we went to Mornington for a week’s family holiday in 1958…back in the old world
Thanks for a super night in the TLT last night. Thanks also for playing Beeswing for my son (Harry). I made sure he didnt miss it this year. He loves your music and you made his night.
Your voice and songs have a unique way of bringing me back to my child hood making the 5 hour road trip to Baltimore and then on to Cape Clear to spend summers with my cousins.
Thanks again.
Phil
Christy's reply
tell Harry I’ll have “Johnny Jump Up” lined up for his next visit…happy travels to “Cape” we had some good family times there 30 years ago….must try and get back for a visit
Thanks for a lovely gig at the TLT. It’s been a privilege to be at your gigs over the years and that was a really special set. The time just flies in and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
I loved the rich sound from the larger Takamine. I don’t believe I’d ever heard Dalesman’s Litany live before and it was beautiful. Black and Amber was new to me as well. Definitely paints a different picture of all those nights people spent in bars.
It was nice to finish with Joxer. I was showing your Joxer performance on RTE during the 1990 World Cup to my son and he really liked that you finished it with Que Sera, Sera. He said he didn’t know people could blend songs together and he thought it was fantastic.
I hope you and the team all have a well deserved break. As ever the lights, sound and guitar tunings were perfect.
Thank you, Kevin
Christy's reply
Great to see you back Kevin….welcome back to the gaggle…..I enjoyed last night very much…these gigs are precious to me…I realise that,in my 80th year, its a great privilige to gig, to have songs,listeners, good vibrations, great companeros and the health to do it all….I did my first “fully fledged” folksinger gig in the Summer of 1966….back then my dream was to get a second gig, to live a life singing, to be able to “knock it out” and sing full time….thousands of gigs later I still love the space created when we all get together to sing, to play, and to listen….keep in touch Kevin
Hi C well another season draws to a close but not for very long. Thanks for all the great gigs and the special moments, the magic of connection and communication whether it’s a concert hall or a garden, a tent or a posh hotel with crystal chandeliers !! You manage to hold us in the palm of your hand and entertain us, challenge us and make us laugh !!! I salute your on going commitment to calling out injustice here in Ireland or around the world, whether individual or systemic. It is a total honour and privilege to sit and listen to you. Thanks also to your great, hardworking team who are always welcoming and fun !! Have a great break everyone, I hope the weather will be good. Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Christy's reply
reading this Hilary I realise that we are all in the palm of the same hand….wish you well in your travels….we’ll keep the home fires burning until the caravan rolls into Wexford
“Paddy’s gone to the Boston Fleadh
Johnny’s at the Hay in Rossknowlagh
Geoff’s at the lights in Sandymount Green
Mick’s dreamin of the Dubs on Hill 16
Davy’s at the mixer mixin Songs
Dickon’s at the Black& Decker hammer and tongs
I’ve an album here ,cookin nice and slow
a Baker’s Dozen nearly ready to go “
Hello Christy,
Thankyou for the tip about the coffee shop at Highlanes Gallery. A fine and kind steer there, they do a very lovely veggie breakfast. Just thinking about the brown bread this morning. Mccloskeys, it’s local and gorgeous. I don’t think we can get it over the water. I’ll be trying.
On to the main event.
Christy’s gigs continue to be big and beautiful and comfortably intimate all at the same time.
It was a set list for that night only and it fitted like a glove.
A masterful performance of On the Mainland transfixed.
Lovely Rosalita and her Jack, thankyou for Dalesmans Litany, gorgeously sung with a venerable battered takamine that I’d like to know better. Particularly grateful for all those many chords you left hand flew through in that song. I’m trying to conquer it. Black is the colour for love. Mcillhattan was chasing the hounds, the bodhran reached parts the others don’t reach.
Palestine was honoured and the Black and amber mulled. The whole room sang Fairytale of Newyork and held Shane in its embrace.
So many moments, I mighy have caught a few on video ok.
Please may we have setlist. I think it was unique? So glad you had the space to feel your way through it and shine.
The room is good but strange? It’s kind of pointing sideways , broad rather than deep. Is that what you meant about being the opposite of newgrange?
Rebecca
Christy's reply
1.Chicago
2.Quinte Brigada
3.Johnny Boy
4.Ride On
5.Welcome to The Cabaret
6.Beeswing
7.Farmer Michael Hayes
8.Weekend Amsterdam
9.Black and Amber
10.In Palestine
11.Lingo politico
12.Fidel and Che
13 Rosalita & Jack Cambell
14.McIlhatton
15 Time Has Come
16 Honda 50
17.They Never came Home
18.Well Below Valley
19.Lisdoonvarna
20.Black is The Colour
21.Ordinary Man
22.Dalesman’s Litany
23.Irish Pagan Rirtual
24.Ruby Walsh
25.On The mainland
26 Back Home Derry
27.Fairytale of New York
28. Joxer goes to Stuttgart
1 hour 48 minutes
Methinks the TLT was aligned with Newgrange last night….I had cousins and nieces in the room, listeners from New York, Austria, Stackallen,Ardcath, and Yorkshire….alongside listeners young and old from Laytown, Bettystown, Derry, Tralee, a battered guitar that arrived in from Brisbane recently and had its first outing last night
that set will never be repeated …..last time I sang Dalesman’s 3 or 4 from last night did not exist..
now its time to focus on tomorrow’s All Ireland Senior Hurling Final…an almighty clash of the Ash as Cork and Clare seek to gain victory and the McCarthy Cup…I have a ticket for Hill 16 and my colours ironed and prepared
Hello Christy,
That was some match yesterday, hammer and tongs all the way, they threw the kitchen sink at it (as we say round here…).
Back in the nest after the smoothest journey. Here’s my recording of your performance of Dalesman’s Litany. A thing of beauty, and it’s got the venerable new tak on it. Sorry the visual is a bit wanting, we were told about 50 times not to video things.
https://youtu.be/NWV2sHuzcbU?si=n5YAOF9B_8Ykz6yu
Rebecca
Thanks for posting….
Morning Christy
Did some more ferreting about the 2012 Beeb folk awards..
Unusually,a tie for first place…
Bella Hardy -:The Herring Girl
Steve Tilston – The Reckoning
Great work by Mr Harding,finding the right singer for Kevin’s wonderful song…I played it recently after spotting Morecambe Bay through the window of a fast train…such a massive,wide expanse of sand and deadly currents.The exploited workers never stood a chance…fair play to all involved with your evocative music memorial.
Dave
Mike’s programme on BBC was very popular over here….lost touch with it since he was dropped..is it still running ?
For the ages Christy,
Maybe the day will come when the AI lads get their
All Ireland with no wides, no fouls and
no dodgy reffing decisions.
Maybe they can feckin keep it.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
.
I know we are biased but is there a better game than Hurling ?….I’ve had the good fortune to attend a few finals..All-Ireland and Munster…..back in 1963-64 I followed that great Tipp team when I worked in the Vale of Honey…Babs Keating, Theo English, Larry Kiely, that was an exciting time…ballads and large bottles on the way home, John Doyle, Michael Maher, Jimmy Doyle, I took a notion to try my hand and turned up in Marlfield for a few pucks….Theo suggested that I stick to the ballads…Tony Wall,Donie Nealon…..we’d stop in New Inn on the way home from Semple Stadium
“I’ll bid farewell to Old Clonmel in the Vale of the Honey bee
the safe homes of Tipperary that oft times sheltered me
to that Flying Column that kept the flag flying high
may their cause be ne’er forgotten said The Galtee Mountain Boy”
Oooopsy Thought you had a ticket in the hill like
no sweat..could not go …have it taped ..gonna watch it when the dust settles later… sounds like it was a great day for the Banner
ps..magnificent game….
Hello Christy
Quare entertainment on the big television today with the hurling and the golf!
I’ve been singing Farmer Michael Hayes to myself since Friday night. I was having a dig for more info on him and this page says he might have been a harsh agent himself but still became a hero. Another interesting edge to a wonderful song. https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/songs/cmc/farmer_michael_hayes_tlenihan.htm
Your finger picking was so lovely on Friday. I’m still buzzing from the gig. Music feeds our spirits!
Take care, Kevin
when I first sang Michael Hayes with Planxty circa ’76 there were rumblings about the man…but the song itself has lived on….invasion and cruel eviction brings out extreme responses betimes….the same with Fidel & Che aka
MacColl’s great “Good Ship Granma”, that too brought on responses sometimes less than favourable…but what a song !…. currently there has been kickback about the song “Palestine” from a few quarters, some claim it to be anti semitic….when Moving Hearts performed “Irish Ways & Irish Laws some said it was fascist….way way back there was talk of Lakes of Pontchartrain being racist …the simple mention of a Creole Girl being the ammunition…..
I hope you will keep singing Michael Hayes… Up Down
The Herring Girl by Bella Hardy
2012 winning song …info via Beeb site,so presumably right?!
Interesting breaking info from DC…Woody’s spirit will have some fight now…
Enjoy the break,Christy D
was that the same year that Morecambe Bay was in the running ?
Up The Banner – Hard luck The Rebels
67 scores in all – Unbelievable
thats a spoiler…but I’ll still watch it !
I’m very confused by the “big television”…?
Me2
Hi.BBC Folk Awards 2012, Adam found last minute tickets and convinced me to travel, a quick overnight trip !! Dubliners were there, and countless other Folk heroes. A great ballad. Now we have our own RTE Folk Awards !! Beir bua agus beannacht.H
I recall Barney McKenna’s acceptance speech as gaeilge…Bill Leader being honoured, Ian Cambell too….anyone recall the Folk Song of the year ? Morecambe Bay was nominated…who had the best seat in The Lowry that night..12 years gone in an inst
Hello Christy,
Well, we’re setting off back to the land of the heathen in an hour. With a fair wind we’ll be home before 9pm this evening. I have a new guitar to settle in, a dark mellow seagull from the Sound shop by the TLT. They sud know how to put a shop in the right place here. It’s got an on board tuner so I think it will be living upstairs.
Good luck to all in the momentous clash this afternoon. I’m hoping it will be shown on the boat, it’s on BBC2, but we’ll be nowhere near home by then. It’s kind of nice to be neither one side nor the other. I’ll be watching it for the amazing spectacle that it is.
Rebecca
watch out for pirates passing The Kesh…they boarded a cruise liner last week and robbed all the gargle
Hey Christy,
Quick thought.
Young Keenan had a streamed show on vier on thursday.
He asked us gig-goers to send lyrics for his new song ‘meet me at eternity’s gates’.
What song are you needing freshened up by 4711ers, do you need some new celebs for a further verse in Lisdoonvarna, or novel locations for Welcome to the Cabaret?
Anyway the blackbird awaits the crusts and a gull has sat and shat on my car bonnet.
Rory
they can shite all they like but no Blackbird or Gull is getting my crusts….best part of any slice
Hi Christy
I woke early enough, maybe the sound of her snoring.
However it was the cocklepickers of On Morecambe Bay that i thought of, those poor people. Dunno why it came to mind but it is such a moving song.
The Folk Tale album is a gem. I shall head through the house and stick it on, nice cup of Barry’s ( no milk, splash of cold water) , slices of brown toast with homemade marmalade,and watch the feathered friends on the bird table amidst the sun’s rays of a new day.
My wife picked winkles in Uig for a winter 35 years ago, the ill fated cocklepickers of Morecambe were an altogether different, tragic, tale.
Rory
No Milk Rory!
and the milk lorry trundling up the hill
and cold water into the brew !
whats the world coming to…
wide awake in the dark of night is unsettling but betimes can lead to creative bursts
twas Manchester Mike Harding that sent me Kevin Littlewood’s song about the Morecambe Bay tragedy….the song is so evocative….I played it at UK Folk awards one year when it was nominated as one of the Songs of the year, cant remember what was voted in ….that same trip I was invited to sing a song on Andrew Marr’s Sunday Morning Show on BBC TV…after the rehearsal the producer informed me that they could not transmit Morecambe Bay…could I do a different song….to this day I am embarrassed to say that I did a different song…dont know why but I fucking well did not make a stand…years later that decision still sticks in my craw…had similar situations in Australia with Biko Drum and Back Home in Derry on ,I think, ABC TV but I stood ground…did not get to do Biko but Back Home got transmitted….
Been too long away….lot of catching up to do. Sounds like the gigs have been mighty… Perhaps a few notes will drift across the big water…
Johnny dont go to the big black water
Johnny dont go to the hole in the wall
Johnny dont go to the big television
Hey Johnny ! dont go at all…………..(John Spillane)
Many thanks Christy…what a brilliant Tak story…it’s gone to a fine home.
I first visited Drogheda in 1973…my debut visit to Ireland. Had many a great wander and heard fab music there over the decades.
All the very best
Dave
Hi Christy
Thanks for the info about Highlanes Gallery…a great website..I’ll drop by,virtually,from time to time.
What an ace TLT setlist! If you get chance,please share the story of the battered Aussie guitar- and it’s new lease of life…
Enjoy your break.
Dave
Many many years ago, circa 1972 I recieved my first letter from a listener…it was following a Planxty gig in Kilkenny…it came from a young lad from Jerpoint in Co.Kilkenny…that lad subsequently became involved in music himself….I remember playing a gig with him in Thomastown in the 1980s….next time we met he was playing over in London…eventually he took his songs to Australia where he has been living for the past 30 years..he has always maintained contact….last year I got word from his family that he was sending me his 40year old Takamine guitar..it arrived from Qld Oz and straightway I liked the feel of it… well gigged,battered and worn (like myself) I brought it to Derek Nelson at Danvel who set it up similar my own 40 year old Taks…last night I gigged it in Drogheda for the first time….it resounded beautifully on “The Dalesman’s Litany”… Thanks to my old pal Ger Fennelly..
The Highlanes Gallery is worth a visit…we first went there to view the work of Nano Reid…I’ve always liked Drogheda…first visited there as a lad when we went to Mornington for a week’s family holiday in 1958…back in the old world
Christy,
Thanks for a super night in the TLT last night. Thanks also for playing Beeswing for my son (Harry). I made sure he didnt miss it this year. He loves your music and you made his night.
Your voice and songs have a unique way of bringing me back to my child hood making the 5 hour road trip to Baltimore and then on to Cape Clear to spend summers with my cousins.
Thanks again.
Phil
tell Harry I’ll have “Johnny Jump Up” lined up for his next visit…happy travels to “Cape” we had some good family times there 30 years ago….must try and get back for a visit
Hello Christy,
Thanks for a lovely gig at the TLT. It’s been a privilege to be at your gigs over the years and that was a really special set. The time just flies in and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
I loved the rich sound from the larger Takamine. I don’t believe I’d ever heard Dalesman’s Litany live before and it was beautiful. Black and Amber was new to me as well. Definitely paints a different picture of all those nights people spent in bars.
It was nice to finish with Joxer. I was showing your Joxer performance on RTE during the 1990 World Cup to my son and he really liked that you finished it with Que Sera, Sera. He said he didn’t know people could blend songs together and he thought it was fantastic.
I hope you and the team all have a well deserved break. As ever the lights, sound and guitar tunings were perfect.
Thank you, Kevin
Great to see you back Kevin….welcome back to the gaggle…..I enjoyed last night very much…these gigs are precious to me…I realise that,in my 80th year, its a great privilige to gig, to have songs,listeners, good vibrations, great companeros and the health to do it all….I did my first “fully fledged” folksinger gig in the Summer of 1966….back then my dream was to get a second gig, to live a life singing, to be able to “knock it out” and sing full time….thousands of gigs later I still love the space created when we all get together to sing, to play, and to listen….keep in touch Kevin
Hi C well another season draws to a close but not for very long. Thanks for all the great gigs and the special moments, the magic of connection and communication whether it’s a concert hall or a garden, a tent or a posh hotel with crystal chandeliers !! You manage to hold us in the palm of your hand and entertain us, challenge us and make us laugh !!! I salute your on going commitment to calling out injustice here in Ireland or around the world, whether individual or systemic. It is a total honour and privilege to sit and listen to you. Thanks also to your great, hardworking team who are always welcoming and fun !! Have a great break everyone, I hope the weather will be good. Beir bua agus beannacht. H
reading this Hilary I realise that we are all in the palm of the same hand….wish you well in your travels….we’ll keep the home fires burning until the caravan rolls into Wexford
“Paddy’s gone to the Boston Fleadh
Johnny’s at the Hay in Rossknowlagh
Geoff’s at the lights in Sandymount Green
Mick’s dreamin of the Dubs on Hill 16
Davy’s at the mixer mixin Songs
Dickon’s at the Black& Decker hammer and tongs
I’ve an album here ,cookin nice and slow
a Baker’s Dozen nearly ready to go “
Hello Christy,
Thankyou for the tip about the coffee shop at Highlanes Gallery. A fine and kind steer there, they do a very lovely veggie breakfast. Just thinking about the brown bread this morning. Mccloskeys, it’s local and gorgeous. I don’t think we can get it over the water. I’ll be trying.
On to the main event.
Christy’s gigs continue to be big and beautiful and comfortably intimate all at the same time.
It was a set list for that night only and it fitted like a glove.
A masterful performance of On the Mainland transfixed.
Lovely Rosalita and her Jack, thankyou for Dalesmans Litany, gorgeously sung with a venerable battered takamine that I’d like to know better. Particularly grateful for all those many chords you left hand flew through in that song. I’m trying to conquer it. Black is the colour for love. Mcillhattan was chasing the hounds, the bodhran reached parts the others don’t reach.
Palestine was honoured and the Black and amber mulled. The whole room sang Fairytale of Newyork and held Shane in its embrace.
So many moments, I mighy have caught a few on video ok.
Please may we have setlist. I think it was unique? So glad you had the space to feel your way through it and shine.
The room is good but strange? It’s kind of pointing sideways , broad rather than deep. Is that what you meant about being the opposite of newgrange?
Rebecca
1.Chicago
2.Quinte Brigada
3.Johnny Boy
4.Ride On
5.Welcome to The Cabaret
6.Beeswing
7.Farmer Michael Hayes
8.Weekend Amsterdam
9.Black and Amber
10.In Palestine
11.Lingo politico
12.Fidel and Che
13 Rosalita & Jack Cambell
14.McIlhatton
15 Time Has Come
16 Honda 50
17.They Never came Home
18.Well Below Valley
19.Lisdoonvarna
20.Black is The Colour
21.Ordinary Man
22.Dalesman’s Litany
23.Irish Pagan Rirtual
24.Ruby Walsh
25.On The mainland
26 Back Home Derry
27.Fairytale of New York
28. Joxer goes to Stuttgart
1 hour 48 minutes
Methinks the TLT was aligned with Newgrange last night….I had cousins and nieces in the room, listeners from New York, Austria, Stackallen,Ardcath, and Yorkshire….alongside listeners young and old from Laytown, Bettystown, Derry, Tralee, a battered guitar that arrived in from Brisbane recently and had its first outing last night
that set will never be repeated …..last time I sang Dalesman’s 3 or 4 from last night did not exist..
now its time to focus on tomorrow’s All Ireland Senior Hurling Final…an almighty clash of the Ash as Cork and Clare seek to gain victory and the McCarthy Cup…I have a ticket for Hill 16 and my colours ironed and prepared
Thanks to Rory for the reminder about Mary Manning’s courage…at 21!
I remember being in Dublin and showing support for picketing workers…how time flies,but bad things persist.
Christy…your music and Woody starting my day…D