This one for rebecca, fast becoming a font of all recipes (?!), cats ( ?!) as well as harps, live performances and video links.
Perhaps try studying the talking in the box set on ‘three drunken maidens’ a bit after the song, we hear a list of some of Christy’s then favoured singers. Maybe you would be the very lady to do the trawling of those names on t’internet to produce a treasure trove.
Rory
Ps Christy what names would you add to the list now?
Christy's reply
I’ll have to take a listen myself Rory before answering that query
when will you play and sing for us in Cologne Germany? We still love your beautiful songs,
Love and all the best for 23
Christy's reply
Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss/Master Rikule
I cherish the thought of a return to Germany….but ,truth be told, its unlikely…..but I still find it impossible to say “never”
when I think of Heidelberg, Gutersloh, Kaiserslautern,Ogonolloe and Ulm I’m tempted to look for me passport
A great range of song titles being listed. ‘Dunnes Stores’, I thought someone was doing a commercial. Then Pat Quinn on a one-night stand at the annual bowran festival on the Aran Islands. I love it. Happy New Year to everyone.
Morning Christy, all the best for 2023, may it be a happy and healthy one.
Owls and Blackbirds greeted my first walk of the January man.
A bowl of steaming Porridge and a mug of good black tea have set me up and i will head off to First Foot my parents soon.
Meanwhile i am reading another book by my favourite author the great Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to put in the time til i think they will have risen.
This is all topped off by vowing to enjoy the whole box set today, which i started before the missus kicked me out of bed for putting music on ‘ that early’.
It is such a gem of a set of songs to accompany my first day of the year, so far highlights include ‘Dunnes Stores’ ( i wish it got more shout outs), with ‘Mullaghmore’ and ‘In Zurich’ with so many more favourite off-cuts, monologues and live recordings to look forward to and wend my way through the day….currently ‘Quiet Desperation’.
Thanks for being , and continuing to be, part of the soundtrack of my life Christy
Rory
Christy's reply
Thanks for your song reflections..keeps them alive..
I like a splash of milk with the morning brew..or to be truthful Rory, the morning stew…weak tea withers the will to live…
final preparations are ongoing for tomorrow night’s opening 2023 gig in Vicar St…I have two new songs prepped… “Lemon Sevens” from Brian Brannigan ( A Lazarus Soul ) and “Lyra”, a new song from James Cramer who has allowed me develop a new arrangement of his memorial to the beautiful,courageous young Journalist Lyra McKey…..so cruelly murdered in Derry almost 4 years ago…
“The Big Marquee” is also well rehearsed as is “Zozimus & Zimmerman”…. “Motherland” has re-emerged for a possible solo return….I’ve been running “Clock Winds Down” into “After The Deluge”………Jackson’s “How Long” is also back in the frame as are “Matty “and “Hard Cases” from Johnny Mulhearn….I keep returming to Webb Pierce’s “There Stands The Glass” and I’ve been imagining it side by side with Rory Dall Ó’Catháin’s “Yellow Bittern”….there is a new Mick Blake song that reflect’s upon Putin and a new Pat Quinn song about a one night stand he had with Angelina Jolie during the annual Bowrawn Festival on Inis Iarr….its been a busy Christmas
Sending you best wishes upon your pending trevails
So, New Years Eve 2022.
Sitting at home with my beloved and listening to the amazing Natalie Merchant ( on half speed master, no less)
Looking back over this crazy year, but more importantly looking forward.
We will be back in Dublin in a couple of weeks to finally get to Vicar Street to hear Christy once more.
A great start to 2023.
Wishing all a happy and healthy 2023 xxx
Christy's reply
such a deep and resonant voice…Natalie draws the listener right in ….this is a good start to a fresh year
, I’m listening to star man, David bowie
Thanks Bourkey
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final bow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to and put out all your strength
Of arm and and heart and brain
And like The Mary Ellen Carter rise again
Rise again rise again
Though your heart it be broken
Or you life about to end
No matter what you’ve lost
Be it a home, a love, a friend
Like The Mary Ellen Carter rise again
Sums it up for me
Hapoy new year Christy and All who frequent these halls
May the, harp sound once more
May the earth and harp give you strength…
I’ll sign off before…
Rebecca
Christy's reply
Here we go…out the door and down the road to God knows where
Appropriate time of the year to remember Stan Rogers and his song The Mary Ellen Carter.
Liam Clancy always sang it when he played the town hall in Galway. He always give the last bit socks
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final bow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to and put out all your strength
Of arm and and heart and brain
And like The Mary Ellen Carter rise again
Rise again rise again
Though your heart it be broken
Or you life about to end
No matter what you’ve lost
Be it a home, a love, a friend
Like The Mary Ellen Carter rise again
Bob Cusick chief mate of the Marine Electric believes the song saved his life when his ship went down in 83.
He tells the tale in One Warm Line a documentary about Stan.
I would like to wish our captain and all who sail on his good ship a happy and healthy new year.
Christy's reply
Its good to remember Stan Rogers….and Liam Clancy….Thanks Bourkey
You also remind me of The Embankment in Tallaght….when I played there in the late 60s I’d catch the Bus from Burgh Quay
While having a cup of coffee and listening to Early Years I wish you a Happy New Year, Christy. Good luck for your seems-to-be-never-ending-tour.
And a happy 2023 for all musicians and listeners in the fantastic guestbook.
Günter
Christy's reply
With this wee note, the first Post of 2023, I wish you all a happy,healthy,safe and productive 2023….that our paths may cross and voices resound in harmony…
Hi Christy.
Hope you Boiled up the Bones of Turkey…makes a great Stock.
As the “January man” peeps around the Corner, we look forward to the Finale of an amazing run in HQ…..or as it is becoming known “Little Barrowlands”.
Wishing you, and all of the Family a very happy, healthy, and peaceful new year. Thanks for all of the years of music and entertainment.
See you next week.
Best Regards.
Christy's reply
Happy new Year Patsy….
just getting the bag packed here
trousers ironed..shirt pressed..guitars tuned..set list scattered…bodhrán shaved
Hello Christy,
The Floating Dublin Blues Band.
They’re an elusive bunch. I heard a rumour that you played with them…?
Rebecca
Christy's reply
used to go and hear them on Sunday afternoons in The Meeting Place..fronted by Red Peters, this legendary Band were a powerful collective… among others, featured Jimmy Faulkner and Pat Farrell on Guitars, Declan McNelis on bass ..the line up fluctuated betimes but always fronted by Red
one great line I recall…”had my breakfast in Mississippi,my dinner in Tipperary Town”
I’ve got avery fine 2cd album called
“Red Peters- rare recordings 1968-1989” (Blue Navigator label BN 080)
beautifully compiled by his sister Margaret Delaney
14 september 1847 Christy, on a single day.
Thanks for this in the box set.
Rory
Christy's reply
if memory serves, recorded in a Country & Western studio it the back of The Hazel Hotel in Monasterevan County Kildare….with Peader Ó Ríada and Paddy Glackin engineering/producing/overseeing the project..for some reason my recall is hazy on this…it was great to be involved
Going out on a whim here!! Would love to get tickets to see Christy for my dad! We’re here in Ireland for the next week until we have to go back to the states and Christy is his favorite artist, I would love to get him a ticket to see him live once if anyone is selling any tickets!!
Evening Christy. I’ve just read the lyrics to Van Dieman’s Land and imagine my surprise. For 48 years I thought the song started “Me an’ Ant’ny Moore” rather than “Me and three more”. I take full resposibility for this mondegreen. I remember you singing it with Jimmy Faulkner RIP in a pub in Altrincham around 1975 and subsequently bought the album with a cover pic of you sat underneath a dartboard (mind your head!). Good luck with the start of your 2023 gigs
Christy's reply
Lovely to see Jimmy Faulkner remembered here, Thank You….
also for introducing me to a new word……..Mondegreen
What a great word it is
Billy Connolly and Peter Kay have both given us memorable examples
That album sleeve you mentioned !
I met the photographer Tom Collins at Dawn on a Summer Morning in 1974/5
I had this idea of a photo on an empty O’Connell Street, just myself and the seagulls outside the GPO
Unfortunately we decided to meet in an early morning house, Slattery’s of Capel Street
Thats where the trouble started, where sweet pints of Black Porter began to flow…
The photo you mention was taken about 12 hours later in the public bar of The Meeting Place in Dorset Street..
Both Tom and I were well nourished by this time…
I love that sleeve
Hi, it‘s me again – Hilary, the good soul, already found someone who’s interested in the tickets I offered. So now: house full, no empty seats 😊 on Jan 4. You all have a great time! We‘ll join the chorus from afar…
Christy's reply
Dietmar….. Glad to read that you got sorted….Hilary performs miracles from her Kingdom Throne…fair play to her…greetings to all our German 4711ers
Trip fast approaching so need to work on.finances. Degenerate Horse player, me da took me to track after my Communion, I asked me ma why we had to open all the gift envelopes. Found an all Ireland connection at Turfway Park in the States, 7th race 7-11. It will pay a lot more than 18-1 on New Years Eve. Shout out to Shane get well.
Christy's reply
back in troubled times I spent manys the afternoon walking around bookmakers on the racecourses of County Kildare
in 1958 ,aged 13, I put a shilling on Vic Rose in the last race at The Curragh….it came in at 33/1….Isaac O’Reilly (the Turf Accountant) paid me out it pennys,tanners and thrupenny bits…..that night myself and Meg McGowan celebrated royally on Patsi-Pops, Double-Centres and Taytos as we watched Audie Murphy in The Odeon
Hi all, I’m offering two tickets for Vicar St, Wed Jan 4 – table seats second row. We‘be been so much looking forward to the show but the flu caught us… Anyone interested please call me at +49 151 50605270 as soon as possible. These paper tickets would have to be sent by Monday in order to arrive in Ireland in time.
All you good listeners, have a good start into the new year! See you further down the road… and may Christy keep on keeping our spirits high with bis music.
Hello Christy,
The new session in Brighouse was heaving yesterday. About 20 guitars, singers all over the place. Just two folk musicians, me plus Barry with his flute. It’s certainly very popular. Apart from me and Barry, all the music was 60s pop. Bebop aloola, that kind of thing.
I had a look for Seamie O’dowd singing Hard Cases. No luck, I’m very sorry. But I did tind this red hot reel https://youtu.be/OL3W3lAENyE
Deep fried Mars bars. Wow!
I found a recipe for Mars bar cake. Looks great.
Grease and line a 20x20cm square tin with baking paper.
Chop the Mars Bars into chunks approx. 1cm thick.
Add the chopped Mars Bars and the butter to a large saucepan and heat on the low-medium temperate, stirring frequently until mostly melted. The nougat section of the Mars Bars will not melt completely but that’s ok!
Pour the Rice Krispies into the saucepan and stir well until completely coated in the Mars Bar mixture.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth it out into an even, compacted layer with the back of a spoon.
Melt the chocolate
Pour the melted chocolate on top of the Rice Krispie layer and smooth it out to the edges.
Place the tin in the fridge for at least 2 hours or overnight.
Let the traybake come to room temperature again before slicing to prevent the chocolate layer from cracking when you slice it.
Slice into 16 squares and eat
Yum!!!
—
I managed to get the Rte documentary working. Outside of Ireland you need a VPN on your phone or computer and then set it to Ireland. This fools the programme and makes it think you’re watching from Ireland. I’m sorry if this makes no sense.
YouTube is much easier. Thanks for posting the link Birgit.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
What a Gem of a clip..
two of my favourite musicians
and I had the good fortune to share manys the song with both Cathal and Seamie
Thank you for sharing these few minutes of glorious playing…
“…they had woodcock and pheasant/they had partridge and pear/every sort of dainty/no scarcity was there.”
Some of that song’s great lines. Great song.
“where are your fancy men” was at the behest of The Bishop
This one for rebecca, fast becoming a font of all recipes (?!), cats ( ?!) as well as harps, live performances and video links.
Perhaps try studying the talking in the box set on ‘three drunken maidens’ a bit after the song, we hear a list of some of Christy’s then favoured singers. Maybe you would be the very lady to do the trawling of those names on t’internet to produce a treasure trove.
Rory
Ps Christy what names would you add to the list now?
I’ll have to take a listen myself Rory before answering that query
Dear Mr Moore,
when will you play and sing for us in Cologne Germany? We still love your beautiful songs,
Love and all the best for 23
Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss/Master Rikule
I cherish the thought of a return to Germany….but ,truth be told, its unlikely…..but I still find it impossible to say “never”
when I think of Heidelberg, Gutersloh, Kaiserslautern,Ogonolloe and Ulm I’m tempted to look for me passport
A great range of song titles being listed. ‘Dunnes Stores’, I thought someone was doing a commercial. Then Pat Quinn on a one-night stand at the annual bowran festival on the Aran Islands. I love it. Happy New Year to everyone.
Dont cry for me Angelina
Morning Christy, all the best for 2023, may it be a happy and healthy one.
Owls and Blackbirds greeted my first walk of the January man.
A bowl of steaming Porridge and a mug of good black tea have set me up and i will head off to First Foot my parents soon.
Meanwhile i am reading another book by my favourite author the great Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to put in the time til i think they will have risen.
This is all topped off by vowing to enjoy the whole box set today, which i started before the missus kicked me out of bed for putting music on ‘ that early’.
It is such a gem of a set of songs to accompany my first day of the year, so far highlights include ‘Dunnes Stores’ ( i wish it got more shout outs), with ‘Mullaghmore’ and ‘In Zurich’ with so many more favourite off-cuts, monologues and live recordings to look forward to and wend my way through the day….currently ‘Quiet Desperation’.
Thanks for being , and continuing to be, part of the soundtrack of my life Christy
Rory
Thanks for your song reflections..keeps them alive..
I like a splash of milk with the morning brew..or to be truthful Rory, the morning stew…weak tea withers the will to live…
final preparations are ongoing for tomorrow night’s opening 2023 gig in Vicar St…I have two new songs prepped… “Lemon Sevens” from Brian Brannigan ( A Lazarus Soul ) and “Lyra”, a new song from James Cramer who has allowed me develop a new arrangement of his memorial to the beautiful,courageous young Journalist Lyra McKey…..so cruelly murdered in Derry almost 4 years ago…
“The Big Marquee” is also well rehearsed as is “Zozimus & Zimmerman”…. “Motherland” has re-emerged for a possible solo return….I’ve been running “Clock Winds Down” into “After The Deluge”………Jackson’s “How Long” is also back in the frame as are “Matty “and “Hard Cases” from Johnny Mulhearn….I keep returming to Webb Pierce’s “There Stands The Glass” and I’ve been imagining it side by side with Rory Dall Ó’Catháin’s “Yellow Bittern”….there is a new Mick Blake song that reflect’s upon Putin and a new Pat Quinn song about a one night stand he had with Angelina Jolie during the annual Bowrawn Festival on Inis Iarr….its been a busy Christmas
Sending you best wishes upon your pending trevails
So, New Years Eve 2022.
Sitting at home with my beloved and listening to the amazing Natalie Merchant ( on half speed master, no less)
Looking back over this crazy year, but more importantly looking forward.
We will be back in Dublin in a couple of weeks to finally get to Vicar Street to hear Christy once more.
A great start to 2023.
Wishing all a happy and healthy 2023 xxx
such a deep and resonant voice…Natalie draws the listener right in ….this is a good start to a fresh year
, I’m listening to star man, David bowie
Thanks Bourkey
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final bow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to and put out all your strength
Of arm and and heart and brain
And like The Mary Ellen Carter rise again
Rise again rise again
Though your heart it be broken
Or you life about to end
No matter what you’ve lost
Be it a home, a love, a friend
Like The Mary Ellen Carter rise again
Sums it up for me
Hapoy new year Christy and All who frequent these halls
May the, harp sound once more
May the earth and harp give you strength…
I’ll sign off before…
Rebecca
Here we go…out the door and down the road to God knows where
Appropriate time of the year to remember Stan Rogers and his song The Mary Ellen Carter.
Liam Clancy always sang it when he played the town hall in Galway. He always give the last bit socks
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final bow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to and put out all your strength
Of arm and and heart and brain
And like The Mary Ellen Carter rise again
Rise again rise again
Though your heart it be broken
Or you life about to end
No matter what you’ve lost
Be it a home, a love, a friend
Like The Mary Ellen Carter rise again
Bob Cusick chief mate of the Marine Electric believes the song saved his life when his ship went down in 83.
He tells the tale in One Warm Line a documentary about Stan.
I would like to wish our captain and all who sail on his good ship a happy and healthy new year.
Its good to remember Stan Rogers….and Liam Clancy….Thanks Bourkey
You also remind me of The Embankment in Tallaght….when I played there in the late 60s I’d catch the Bus from Burgh Quay
While having a cup of coffee and listening to Early Years I wish you a Happy New Year, Christy. Good luck for your seems-to-be-never-ending-tour.
And a happy 2023 for all musicians and listeners in the fantastic guestbook.
Günter
With this wee note, the first Post of 2023, I wish you all a happy,healthy,safe and productive 2023….that our paths may cross and voices resound in harmony…
Here We Go Again…Thanks Be…
Hi Christy.
Hope you Boiled up the Bones of Turkey…makes a great Stock.
As the “January man” peeps around the Corner, we look forward to the Finale of an amazing run in HQ…..or as it is becoming known “Little Barrowlands”.
Wishing you, and all of the Family a very happy, healthy, and peaceful new year. Thanks for all of the years of music and entertainment.
See you next week.
Best Regards.
Happy new Year Patsy….
just getting the bag packed here
trousers ironed..shirt pressed..guitars tuned..set list scattered…bodhrán shaved
Hello Christy,
The Floating Dublin Blues Band.
They’re an elusive bunch. I heard a rumour that you played with them…?
Rebecca
used to go and hear them on Sunday afternoons in The Meeting Place..fronted by Red Peters, this legendary Band were a powerful collective… among others, featured Jimmy Faulkner and Pat Farrell on Guitars, Declan McNelis on bass ..the line up fluctuated betimes but always fronted by Red
one great line I recall…”had my breakfast in Mississippi,my dinner in Tipperary Town”
I’ve got avery fine 2cd album called
“Red Peters- rare recordings 1968-1989” (Blue Navigator label BN 080)
beautifully compiled by his sister Margaret Delaney
14 september 1847 Christy, on a single day.
Thanks for this in the box set.
Rory
if memory serves, recorded in a Country & Western studio it the back of The Hazel Hotel in Monasterevan County Kildare….with Peader Ó Ríada and Paddy Glackin engineering/producing/overseeing the project..for some reason my recall is hazy on this…it was great to be involved
Going out on a whim here!! Would love to get tickets to see Christy for my dad! We’re here in Ireland for the next week until we have to go back to the states and Christy is his favorite artist, I would love to get him a ticket to see him live once if anyone is selling any tickets!!
we love the whims here
Evening Christy. I’ve just read the lyrics to Van Dieman’s Land and imagine my surprise. For 48 years I thought the song started “Me an’ Ant’ny Moore” rather than “Me and three more”. I take full resposibility for this mondegreen. I remember you singing it with Jimmy Faulkner RIP in a pub in Altrincham around 1975 and subsequently bought the album with a cover pic of you sat underneath a dartboard (mind your head!). Good luck with the start of your 2023 gigs
Lovely to see Jimmy Faulkner remembered here, Thank You….
also for introducing me to a new word……..Mondegreen
What a great word it is
Billy Connolly and Peter Kay have both given us memorable examples
That album sleeve you mentioned !
I met the photographer Tom Collins at Dawn on a Summer Morning in 1974/5
I had this idea of a photo on an empty O’Connell Street, just myself and the seagulls outside the GPO
Unfortunately we decided to meet in an early morning house, Slattery’s of Capel Street
Thats where the trouble started, where sweet pints of Black Porter began to flow…
The photo you mention was taken about 12 hours later in the public bar of The Meeting Place in Dorset Street..
Both Tom and I were well nourished by this time…
I love that sleeve
Thank you again for your kindness today Christy. Very much appreciated.
Wishing your Dear Brother a Happy Birthday
Hi, it‘s me again – Hilary, the good soul, already found someone who’s interested in the tickets I offered. So now: house full, no empty seats 😊 on Jan 4. You all have a great time! We‘ll join the chorus from afar…
Dietmar….. Glad to read that you got sorted….Hilary performs miracles from her Kingdom Throne…fair play to her…greetings to all our German 4711ers
Trip fast approaching so need to work on.finances. Degenerate Horse player, me da took me to track after my Communion, I asked me ma why we had to open all the gift envelopes. Found an all Ireland connection at Turfway Park in the States, 7th race 7-11. It will pay a lot more than 18-1 on New Years Eve. Shout out to Shane get well.
back in troubled times I spent manys the afternoon walking around bookmakers on the racecourses of County Kildare
in 1958 ,aged 13, I put a shilling on Vic Rose in the last race at The Curragh….it came in at 33/1….Isaac O’Reilly (the Turf Accountant) paid me out it pennys,tanners and thrupenny bits…..that night myself and Meg McGowan celebrated royally on Patsi-Pops, Double-Centres and Taytos as we watched Audie Murphy in The Odeon
I hope Shane is recovering…his light shines on
Hi all, I’m offering two tickets for Vicar St, Wed Jan 4 – table seats second row. We‘be been so much looking forward to the show but the flu caught us… Anyone interested please call me at +49 151 50605270 as soon as possible. These paper tickets would have to be sent by Monday in order to arrive in Ireland in time.
All you good listeners, have a good start into the new year! See you further down the road… and may Christy keep on keeping our spirits high with bis music.
Danke Dietmar
Marty,
a bit of useless/interesting information but Ian Prowse wrote ‘Does this train stop at Merseyside’ and his first band were called PELE.
“McKenzies Soul lies above The Ground..
in the Pyramid near Maryland”
must give Prowsie’s song a birl in the New Year..
its a cracker
so too is Himself….. a sound man is our Ian
Hello Christy,
The new session in Brighouse was heaving yesterday. About 20 guitars, singers all over the place. Just two folk musicians, me plus Barry with his flute. It’s certainly very popular. Apart from me and Barry, all the music was 60s pop. Bebop aloola, that kind of thing.
I had a look for Seamie O’dowd singing Hard Cases. No luck, I’m very sorry. But I did tind this red hot reel
https://youtu.be/OL3W3lAENyE
Deep fried Mars bars. Wow!
I found a recipe for Mars bar cake. Looks great.
5 full-size Mars Bars (51g each)
90g unsalted butter
120g Rice Krispies
300g milk chocolate
Grease and line a 20x20cm square tin with baking paper.
Chop the Mars Bars into chunks approx. 1cm thick.
Add the chopped Mars Bars and the butter to a large saucepan and heat on the low-medium temperate, stirring frequently until mostly melted. The nougat section of the Mars Bars will not melt completely but that’s ok!
Pour the Rice Krispies into the saucepan and stir well until completely coated in the Mars Bar mixture.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth it out into an even, compacted layer with the back of a spoon.
Melt the chocolate
Pour the melted chocolate on top of the Rice Krispie layer and smooth it out to the edges.
Place the tin in the fridge for at least 2 hours or overnight.
Let the traybake come to room temperature again before slicing to prevent the chocolate layer from cracking when you slice it.
Slice into 16 squares and eat
Yum!!!
—
I managed to get the Rte documentary working. Outside of Ireland you need a VPN on your phone or computer and then set it to Ireland. This fools the programme and makes it think you’re watching from Ireland. I’m sorry if this makes no sense.
YouTube is much easier. Thanks for posting the link Birgit.
Rebecca
What a Gem of a clip..
two of my favourite musicians
and I had the good fortune to share manys the song with both Cathal and Seamie
Thank you for sharing these few minutes of glorious playing…