I see “The Rolling Wave” on RTE Radio 1 tonight is about Robbie McMahon – the king of Spancil Hill. Your singing of his version of this has been the highlight of a couple of gigs over the last year. Loved the version in the Ardilaun with the Mairtin O’ Connor Band. Maybe it’ll get an airing in Derry in November. http://youtu.be/vb5DQ6I2yHQ
Christy's reply
great song..I learned this song in 1964..I was introduced to it by John Minogue in The Hotel at the bottom of “The Windy Hill” in Tulla Co Clare one Sunday evening.I was 19 years old and I had just listened to Paddy Canny play The Graf Spee. I thought I was in Heaven. Th porter was good too.
Cm 68
Sin e mo muinteoir banjo david howley, I see you tried out the banjo. Cen caoi a bhfuil tu?
Rs 13 cs 8
Christy's reply
I only held the Banjo for 30 seconds. As soon as I started to play they took it off me. We Banjo 3 are a wonderful band. Really enjoyed their gig last night. To top it off I heard the best Bodhrán solo I have ever heard….
Thanks to Billy Connolly, I just found Christy. Fattastic music and so oredered 3 CDs via amazon!
Christy's reply
Best wishes the “The Big Yin”…we knocked around a bit at the back end of the 60s..drank a few drams and had a few yarns..himself and Gerry and Danny and Hamish and big Mick B and us all in the back of The Scotia and on the Fidel Castros and Hamish dolin out the golden balls, we did’nt sleep for a week
Just passing through to catch up and listen for some songs on the breeze….. 15 fires in the mountains at the moment…and its early summer.. Send some rain when you can.
Oh, I ‘m missing you…I’d give all for the price of a flight!
Christy's reply
hopefully the rain is on the way…. we heard ” WE BANJO 3 ” and “I DRAW SLOW” last night. Great Gig from 2 great bands.
Christy…. Come to Perth!! massive fan base over here… We need a christy appearance
Christy's reply
I’m loading the van as we speak, planning to be there for the breakfast…love to all WA songsters,Perth, Freemantle and all places east, may the force be with you
Hope all is well with you and yours. Reading the guestbook entries frequently, viewing & listening the youtube clips as much as I can to keep up with the works. This week I realised that your music and the songs are with me for approx. 33 years now! It started with a record from Planxty where I heard you sing Follow me up to Carlow. About Glenmalure, Feach McHugh O’Byrne, the children of the Gael and more. A song that reads like a historic novel but then in 3 minutes. Listening to it at the age of 15 with my cousin in his house on the homeground. Great start for a continuing journey into the music and the songs. And hopefully one that will continue for many moore years. Might be over for the gig in Portlaoise in October with my good friend Gijs. Last time he saw you live was in Hamburg in the Leisz halle some years ago. Wishing you all the best with the upcoming gigs and beautiful summertime! Below a videoclip from a gig we recently did. Hope you enjoy it.
Hey Johnny Boy thats a rockin version of the old Raggle…keep up the good work and hopefully we’ll see you in Portlaoise…maybe get Wally down for the night
Please come play for us in Nashville or Memphis! We’d love to see you!
Christy's reply
who knows where we’re going to land..thanks for your invitation…we have heard so much great music from both Nashville and Memphis that I feel like I’ve been there ..but its all a dream
Thanks for your reply and that you are keeping us in mind! If you need Fan support – will do!! hope you’ll also see it as a mission to bring pure irish music culture into the radios of Autobahn Drivers! 🙂
Best Regards
Peter
ps: will keep an eye on your gigs list!!!!
Christy's reply
sign up for our newsletter and we will keep you posted
Not sure if you heard our President’s wonderful lecture on the 1913 Lockout. Amazing how similar the lowly paid’s conditions are to 100 years ago. Shocking to hear of 800+ people living in 15 tenement slum houses at the time. We should never forget how hard workers’ rights were gained and how important it is for us to stand up for them. My interest was raised by your version of 1913 Lockout and James Plunkett’s wonderful Strumpet City. I would heartily recommend a listen to this absorbing lecture http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A10156965%3A1793%3A19%2D06%2D2013%3A
Christy's reply
thanks for your original post informing us of The Presidents talk and again thanks for putting it up here. With Posts like yours I feel this site is fulfilling its purpose. You communicate rather then seek to exploit. Thanks John.
Hello Christy,
I am still checking your Gigs schedule from time to time, hoping to find you back in Germany again. Nothing in this area on your plan yet?
Best Regards
Peter
Christy's reply
At this time we have nothing definite to report. I hope to return and we are looking at certain possibilites. Lets get humming down ze autobahn Peter
Hi Christy, hope you’ve got the factor 50 on your pate. I’ve noticed on t’internet that folks are purchasing your songbook. I remember buying mine in Denmark Street. I used to get strings from Andy’s Guitar Workshop for free. He would give us the strings off the guitars coming in and he would replace them with Martins. The book was 8.95.
Anyway rambling aside, do you think about a new songbook? There are so many songs now. Or is it just a case of listening to the songs and working them out for ourselves. I know there are loads on here and on Martin Dardis website but a new songbook could be a ‘thing’. You know like on Antiques Roadshow where the man says to the old lady with the knitted toilet roll cover that it’s not worth money but it’s a beautiful ‘thing’. Just thinking while waiting for the loaves to come out of the oven. xx
Christy's reply
I think about a song book occasionally but then I pick up the guitar and sing a few songs, always an easier option…I used to like thon Antiques Roadshow until that awful new presenter showed up…jasus shes never off the box…would she not go home and eat a few dinners…Clare Balding is nearly as bad, but at least she goes home for the dinner….we have a few omni present TV presenters over here too…one mot is never off the box, feigning incredulity, oozing insincerity… ( dont know where all that came from, must give my shrink a call, its been far too long ) enjoy your Summer, Wimbledon, Strawberries, Cricket and jolly fine boating weather……I cant imagine Fiona waiting for loaves to come out of the oven
I am really looking forward to your Lough Rynn Gig later this month. I was wondering can you play the voyage for my fiancee Laura. Were getting married in Lough Rynn next April and were having this son in the church and I know this will make here year.
Hi Christy, really enjoyed the answer you gave to CathB… If its ok, I would love to find out a little more about your gigs from that time…
1 Did you always keep a diary of the set lists and the singers you met..Great book there.
2 I presume the song Take it down from the Mast is the one from the writing of Dominick Behan, just wondering how that song went down in English folk clubs before it all changed a year later….
3 I wonder if the song Calton Weaver is a version of a song I know called Nancy Whiskey which also mentions CW…Whiskey Whiskey Nancy Whiskey,,,
Anyway a great set list… RyanL
Christy's reply
I used to keep setlists in my early diaries 1966 and 7.I do have lists of gigs for most years with some notable gaps.My memory reminds e of all the singers I met along the way. I seldom experienced downright hostility to songs but it has happened on occasion. Perhaps I will write a bit about it in a future CHAT
Yes indeed Father’s Day! My child made her father a huge apple pie but because he is watching his cholesterol and his dicky ticker he only had a small bit. So the pie and I are staring at each other locked in a death grip. I hope you had a fab day. xx
Christy's reply
I got an apple pie too, no staring at it….I just got stuck into it…..
I see “The Rolling Wave” on RTE Radio 1 tonight is about Robbie McMahon – the king of Spancil Hill. Your singing of his version of this has been the highlight of a couple of gigs over the last year. Loved the version in the Ardilaun with the Mairtin O’ Connor Band. Maybe it’ll get an airing in Derry in November. http://youtu.be/vb5DQ6I2yHQ
great song..I learned this song in 1964..I was introduced to it by John Minogue in The Hotel at the bottom of “The Windy Hill” in Tulla Co Clare one Sunday evening.I was 19 years old and I had just listened to Paddy Canny play The Graf Spee. I thought I was in Heaven. Th porter was good too.
Cm 68
Sin e mo muinteoir banjo david howley, I see you tried out the banjo. Cen caoi a bhfuil tu?
Rs 13 cs 8
I only held the Banjo for 30 seconds. As soon as I started to play they took it off me. We Banjo 3 are a wonderful band. Really enjoyed their gig last night. To top it off I heard the best Bodhrán solo I have ever heard….
Thanks to Billy Connolly, I just found Christy. Fattastic music and so oredered 3 CDs via amazon!
Best wishes the “The Big Yin”…we knocked around a bit at the back end of the 60s..drank a few drams and had a few yarns..himself and Gerry and Danny and Hamish and big Mick B and us all in the back of The Scotia and on the Fidel Castros and Hamish dolin out the golden balls, we did’nt sleep for a week
Just passing through to catch up and listen for some songs on the breeze….. 15 fires in the mountains at the moment…and its early summer.. Send some rain when you can.
Oh, I ‘m missing you…I’d give all for the price of a flight!
hopefully the rain is on the way…. we heard ” WE BANJO 3 ” and “I DRAW SLOW” last night. Great Gig from 2 great bands.
Christy…. Come to Perth!! massive fan base over here… We need a christy appearance
I’m loading the van as we speak, planning to be there for the breakfast…love to all WA songsters,Perth, Freemantle and all places east, may the force be with you
Hello Christy,
Hope all is well with you and yours. Reading the guestbook entries frequently, viewing & listening the youtube clips as much as I can to keep up with the works. This week I realised that your music and the songs are with me for approx. 33 years now! It started with a record from Planxty where I heard you sing Follow me up to Carlow. About Glenmalure, Feach McHugh O’Byrne, the children of the Gael and more. A song that reads like a historic novel but then in 3 minutes. Listening to it at the age of 15 with my cousin in his house on the homeground. Great start for a continuing journey into the music and the songs. And hopefully one that will continue for many moore years. Might be over for the gig in Portlaoise in October with my good friend Gijs. Last time he saw you live was in Hamburg in the Leisz halle some years ago. Wishing you all the best with the upcoming gigs and beautiful summertime! Below a videoclip from a gig we recently did. Hope you enjoy it.
http://youtu.be/cJFloGMR8Ro
John
Hey Johnny Boy thats a rockin version of the old Raggle…keep up the good work and hopefully we’ll see you in Portlaoise…maybe get Wally down for the night
Please come play for us in Nashville or Memphis! We’d love to see you!
who knows where we’re going to land..thanks for your invitation…we have heard so much great music from both Nashville and Memphis that I feel like I’ve been there ..but its all a dream
Thanks for your reply and that you are keeping us in mind! If you need Fan support – will do!! hope you’ll also see it as a mission to bring pure irish music culture into the radios of Autobahn Drivers! 🙂
Best Regards
Peter
ps: will keep an eye on your gigs list!!!!
sign up for our newsletter and we will keep you posted
Not sure if you heard our President’s wonderful lecture on the 1913 Lockout. Amazing how similar the lowly paid’s conditions are to 100 years ago. Shocking to hear of 800+ people living in 15 tenement slum houses at the time. We should never forget how hard workers’ rights were gained and how important it is for us to stand up for them. My interest was raised by your version of 1913 Lockout and James Plunkett’s wonderful Strumpet City. I would heartily recommend a listen to this absorbing lecture http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A10156965%3A1793%3A19%2D06%2D2013%3A
thanks for your original post informing us of The Presidents talk and again thanks for putting it up here. With Posts like yours I feel this site is fulfilling its purpose. You communicate rather then seek to exploit. Thanks John.
Hello Christy,
I am still checking your Gigs schedule from time to time, hoping to find you back in Germany again. Nothing in this area on your plan yet?
Best Regards
Peter
At this time we have nothing definite to report. I hope to return and we are looking at certain possibilites. Lets get humming down ze autobahn Peter
Christy any dates for Glasgow mate missing you up here?
not as much as I’m missing you…April next year is the plan ..if all goes well
Hi Christy, hope you’ve got the factor 50 on your pate. I’ve noticed on t’internet that folks are purchasing your songbook. I remember buying mine in Denmark Street. I used to get strings from Andy’s Guitar Workshop for free. He would give us the strings off the guitars coming in and he would replace them with Martins. The book was 8.95.
Anyway rambling aside, do you think about a new songbook? There are so many songs now. Or is it just a case of listening to the songs and working them out for ourselves. I know there are loads on here and on Martin Dardis website but a new songbook could be a ‘thing’. You know like on Antiques Roadshow where the man says to the old lady with the knitted toilet roll cover that it’s not worth money but it’s a beautiful ‘thing’. Just thinking while waiting for the loaves to come out of the oven. xx
I think about a song book occasionally but then I pick up the guitar and sing a few songs, always an easier option…I used to like thon Antiques Roadshow until that awful new presenter showed up…jasus shes never off the box…would she not go home and eat a few dinners…Clare Balding is nearly as bad, but at least she goes home for the dinner….we have a few omni present TV presenters over here too…one mot is never off the box, feigning incredulity, oozing insincerity… ( dont know where all that came from, must give my shrink a call, its been far too long ) enjoy your Summer, Wimbledon, Strawberries, Cricket and jolly fine boating weather……I cant imagine Fiona waiting for loaves to come out of the oven
Interesting to see President Higgins delivering a lecture on remembering the 1913 Lockout on RTE Radio 1 tonight. Could be good. http://www.rte.ie/radio1/michael-littleton-lecture/
Does the 1913 lockout ever make the setlist this days? Interesting how many parallels still exist 100 years later.
Though the Fans would like this link.
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/mooresmelodies.html
very nice too Boss
PS. Looking forward to Westport June 29th.
me too Boss…gonna go for the long puck out
Your a real Poet Christy. Keep up the Good Work!!
Hi Christy,
I am really looking forward to your Lough Rynn Gig later this month. I was wondering can you play the voyage for my fiancee Laura. Were getting married in Lough Rynn next April and were having this son in the church and I know this will make here year.
Roll on the 26th. 🙂
lets see what way the wind will blow Cian…
Hi Christy, really enjoyed the answer you gave to CathB… If its ok, I would love to find out a little more about your gigs from that time…
1 Did you always keep a diary of the set lists and the singers you met..Great book there.
2 I presume the song Take it down from the Mast is the one from the writing of Dominick Behan, just wondering how that song went down in English folk clubs before it all changed a year later….
3 I wonder if the song Calton Weaver is a version of a song I know called Nancy Whiskey which also mentions CW…Whiskey Whiskey Nancy Whiskey,,,
Anyway a great set list… RyanL
I used to keep setlists in my early diaries 1966 and 7.I do have lists of gigs for most years with some notable gaps.My memory reminds e of all the singers I met along the way. I seldom experienced downright hostility to songs but it has happened on occasion. Perhaps I will write a bit about it in a future CHAT
Yes indeed Father’s Day! My child made her father a huge apple pie but because he is watching his cholesterol and his dicky ticker he only had a small bit. So the pie and I are staring at each other locked in a death grip. I hope you had a fab day. xx
I got an apple pie too, no staring at it….I just got stuck into it…..
Sound for the string and pick information Christy