Hello Christy,
I my 30s I took a solo trip to Australia. It was January and I was full of croaks, clags and frogs. I stayed in New South Wales. All the frogs, disappeared in a jiffy. It must have been the dry warm air. Not a chest infection though. Hope you are doing ok today and, as a trip to Australia is a tad inconvenient for gigging in Ireland, these days I use Vocalzone pastilles. They’re little black things, full of myrrh, peppermint and menthol. Designed for singers and they don’t numb your throat. Those and not talking…
Heres something I’ve posted a few times, but I love it. It’s got to be good for throats, chests and souls. https://youtu.be/5LumLZb0V8c?si=a2IMLCNRDRDPtSFX
Rebecca
Christy's reply
go hálainn ar fad Rebecca..Míle maith agat…
I’m feeling better already
Hi Christy, Glad you’re feeling better! You have been my very favorite singer since I first hear the song Ride On being performed by a local band on St Patty’s Day 1992 at the Four Provinces in Washington DC. I soon bought all your albums and now have all your songs on Spotify and YouTube. I loved the COVID lockdown series – thanks for doing them! I wonder if you might consider coming to the USA anytime soon? If not, I guess I will have to come to Ireland as I would dearly love to see you sing in person. What’s a good venue for a more intimate, less crowded scene? If there is such a thing anymore… it looks like your concerts sell out very quickly so I will keep an eye on your site. I’d love to bring my family in summer 2024. Unless you’d like to come to Maryland? Or anywhere USA 😉
Christy's reply
Good to hear from you in far off Maryland…… long haul gigs no longer possible… got away from air travel over 20 years ago…could not handle it any more and, from what I hear, its gotten a lot worse since then…but that does not seem to bother a lot of travellers…
I’ve confined my work to Ireland since the plague…its busy here with lots of new listeners coming to hear the songs…
should you ever plan on coming to Ireland I suggest that you sign up for the newsletter which would give you good notice of dates before they are advertised….
dont know how much longer this trip is gonna last but I hope to keep singing for as long as the voice holds up… and I got the legs to carry it
Ride On Susan
ps these days I find that all the gigs are both crowded and intimate !!!
What a performance Friday night Christy. You’re getting better every year.
Do you have any plans to bring your buddy Declan back on the road with you anytime soon?
Christy's reply
No Plans at the moment…….the solo work is where I’m at for the time being..who knows what the future holds for any of us..
last Friday was a big relief… I’d been in rag order for a few days with a chest infection…Thursday, I thought I’d have to cancel but I took a chance ( and loads of cures)…. was very chesty, croaky and sweaty Fri Morning…. but the Salthill Air and the roar of the crowd soon blew the croaks and frogs out of the larynx and we ended up having a great night in The Hanger
Great job in the hanger on Friday! Is there a record of the set list?
Christy's reply
Chicago
Quinte Brigada
Johnny Boy
Ride On
Delerium Tremens
Michael Hayes
Lingo Politico
Shovel
Black & Amber
Stitch in Time
Sweet Thames
Anne Lovett
Clock Winds Down
After The Deluge
Voyage
On The Mainland
Back in Derry
Well Below Valley
Ringin The Bell
Amsterdam
Two Conneeleys
Fairytale New York……………for Boston Fin
Spancilhill …………………..for Ramone
Lisdoonvarna
Ordinary Man ………………for Harry G
Joxer
Hello Christy,
Well we had a fine time with my Dad and the pizzas yesterday. My brother asked him how it felt to be 80. He said he didn’t feel a day older than 79. Then he ate half a huge pizza and took the rest of it home for later. It was a good day.
I love your description of your feelings about what happens during a gig. A magic hand! I feel privelidgred that I can be part of it sometimes. Song, singer, listener, all one. I’m hoping I will get a gig at the Brighouse festival later in the year. There’s a room in the art gallery that’s part of Brighouse Library that has the most beautiful warm acoustics. It’s a cocooning space where the sound rolls around you. I’ve sung there twice. I hope I will again.
We sang about the Nicky Tams in the back room of the Scotia
We drank sweet wines and called for neon pints of Fidel Castro
Till it was time to fly to dreamland
Out of Bairds, up the stairs to hell or to heaven we’d go
Rebecca
Christy's reply
he’s just about the same vintage as myself….and I always finish a pizza..down to the last crumb
Howya Christy,
No more than most towns a river runs through it.
Our side hangar. Their side hanger.
The city fathers in their wisdom split the log and decided on Leisureland. Who gives a shiny one with the list of gigs coming up. Decisions…
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Christy's reply
but unlike most..that wild ,brown, rapid river always stops me in my tracks, and it racing between Lough Corrib and the Atlantic Ocean
Great to hear the Galway gig went so well- always a favourite town with great people. Never cease to be amazed at how you can fill a hall with such a variety of people of all ages and backgrounds and have them in the palm of your hand from the start. It is a special gift that you have, and we are so lucky to experience it.
Christy's reply
reading your post gave me a flash…that audience last night was like a huge big warm welcoming hand..I stepped onto it and it carried me along for 100 minutes…caressing, massaging, encouraging, uplifting, inspiring…..I simply cant do this without that helping hand…I can practice here,I can learn,arrange, write, yodel til the cows come home..but the good stuff only happens when I’m in the palm of that magic hand..hope all is well above on thon Wall
Hello Christy,
It’s a week with a gig at the end of it. Yippee eye aye!!!
We’ll be getting the wagon rolling and crossing the sea to beautiful Galway.
Today we’re celebrating my Dad’s 80th birthday. All the family in an Italian restaurant at Ainley Top. They have a huge woodfired pizza oven. Steve has a pipes lesson this morning and I’ll be tuning the harp and putting the air through a few songs. Better get up and feed the cat.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
have a good day with your Dad, your Harp and your Piper
Morning Christy just want to say thanks for another mighty gig last night you were in flying form.I really liked Black and Amber and I think it was the first time I heard Sweet Thames live and the tail end of the Deluge blew off any remaining cobwebs from the place fair play long may it continue. Face the puck out
Christy's reply
I nearly fell off the chair when I saw you perched up there in the front row beside Hilary…I thought that you were giggin last night….”Deluge” drifted back into the set at the suggestion of Michael Devine….he recalled how I used to finish with it 25 years ago….it seems to book-end “Clock Winds Down ” and brings together Jim Page and Jackson Brown…two great songwriters from the far off ,colonized west
Hi Christy. I’m glad you liked my song. Can’t wait for the gig tonight. I’m leaving in about an hour and a half. If you can I’d love you to do Nancy Spain, Joxer of Back home In Derry. See you Later,
Harry
Hey Christy,
Moving between the box set and looking forward to a live show in a couple of months, i was struck ,yet again, by Seamus Heaney’s ‘saint kevin and the blackbird’ as i listen to it often and playedby Joshua and Matt the Poet and the Piper cd as we travelled back and forward to the ferry boat.
Anyway i had beenmulling over the different joys brought to us by the box set, and the live gigs that sell out in a trice.
Do i began to scribble some words, and after a lot of angst, self doubt, pondering and changing i came up with this.
Now it is no Saint Kevin, it does not even scan properly, but it is done, on an effort to explain the joy of comparing and enjoying the box set with the live shows .
Rory
Saint Kevin’s blackbird sang harmony for you in a peaceful garden shed,
Whilst back in Kilkenny’s gig the blackbird took on a different form, sang on by ladies fair or red.
Thatcher’s work immortalised in your format, spoken true in a list of her disasters,
In the Milennium Forum your songs are interspersed with stories that bring us greatest laughter.
Scores of songs from 40 years captured on 6 circular plastic discs,
A single score in a livewire set from a Glasgow ballroom, be the heckler at your own risk.
Red disc fires us up sung with passion poured out by skin and bone,
I hear you’re 78, so once the spotlight fades you are now quickly whisked off home.
In a box we can find the germinating ones, the first Joxer and a broken John O’ Dreams,
But in Tullamore an audience waits in hushed expectation or so it seems.
The six are sorted according to their type,to help the listener choose their individual likes,
Those far travelled to gig ,soak up what you select, arriving by pony, car or honda 50 bike.
You take us to far off towns, Zurich, Ypres or to California’s nation,
Changing companeros they join the stage, to charm with fiddle, drums and good vibration.
The ageing voice of a man so rare, tilts from young buck to a much older fella’s tone,
In Clonmel its Ballydine or Dinny Lacy, Jacko arrives by song in Roscommon and Athlone.
Some listeners prefer the auld box set, to play in bed or car,
Or else you’d followed Christy singing live from Clare, Kerry, Cork or more afar.
There is no doubt, the man’s a gem, and we’re lucky to have received his recorded choices,
Or when we watch him sweat, some clap hands, but we all cheer with gladdened voices.
Christy's reply
Gotta hand it to you Rory
you covered some ground there
no whip required
no stewarts enquiry
zurich Ypres Ballydine
your satnav is workin fine
last night in Salthill went off well…the room thronged with the very best of listeners…they were in from far & near…Fin from Boston, Sands from Fermanagh, Tony from the Northside, Jimmy & Tess,Ramone at 8 lookin fos Spancilhill,Harry at 10 lookin for Joxer, Sweet Thames got a look in and new one from Briany Brannigan called “The Black & Amber”
Home under a bright and beautiful moon, fog crossing the Shannon,
back to sleep now
Christy,
I am going to your gig in Galway tomorrow. The clock in winding down to zero……..
I cant wait. I’m listening to the gig from last year over and over. Right now I’m trying to learn the chords to the beautiful song you did with the late Sinead O’Connor, Sweet Thames flow softly. I love wise and holy women, I know that’s about your mother Nancy, I often sing it to my own mother now. Id love to hear you singing it live. Slan, Agus Beannacht de leath, Jason
I have been listening to Christy Moore for the last 20 yrs
love his music,
I would love to come to one of his giggs next year 2024.
I will need some time to book air fares, can you please let me know when his giggs come up next year i can book in advance for me and my partner.
Thank you kindly
Alright Christy how’s things? Just giving you and everyone else here the head’s up about a new album from Derry’s Declan McLaughin. I discovered Dec’s music through this portal. His latest album, My Northern Soul, is his best work to date.
Highlights for me are Written in Stone, Go Ask The Women and the Young and Kelly’s Men.
Hi Christy..Seemed a lovely reception on Bantry Bay.. saw some clips of various masters over the week..Lifted the guitar this morning and played ‘Butterfly’..had never heard the original version by The Handsome Family until today…Wishing ye well on Galway soil..
Christy's reply
great song to sing…first heard them in Connollys of Leap,County Cork
Hello Christy,
I my 30s I took a solo trip to Australia. It was January and I was full of croaks, clags and frogs. I stayed in New South Wales. All the frogs, disappeared in a jiffy. It must have been the dry warm air. Not a chest infection though. Hope you are doing ok today and, as a trip to Australia is a tad inconvenient for gigging in Ireland, these days I use Vocalzone pastilles. They’re little black things, full of myrrh, peppermint and menthol. Designed for singers and they don’t numb your throat. Those and not talking…
Heres something I’ve posted a few times, but I love it. It’s got to be good for throats, chests and souls.
https://youtu.be/5LumLZb0V8c?si=a2IMLCNRDRDPtSFX
Rebecca
go hálainn ar fad Rebecca..Míle maith agat…
I’m feeling better already
Hi Christy, Glad you’re feeling better! You have been my very favorite singer since I first hear the song Ride On being performed by a local band on St Patty’s Day 1992 at the Four Provinces in Washington DC. I soon bought all your albums and now have all your songs on Spotify and YouTube. I loved the COVID lockdown series – thanks for doing them! I wonder if you might consider coming to the USA anytime soon? If not, I guess I will have to come to Ireland as I would dearly love to see you sing in person. What’s a good venue for a more intimate, less crowded scene? If there is such a thing anymore… it looks like your concerts sell out very quickly so I will keep an eye on your site. I’d love to bring my family in summer 2024. Unless you’d like to come to Maryland? Or anywhere USA 😉
Good to hear from you in far off Maryland…… long haul gigs no longer possible… got away from air travel over 20 years ago…could not handle it any more and, from what I hear, its gotten a lot worse since then…but that does not seem to bother a lot of travellers…
I’ve confined my work to Ireland since the plague…its busy here with lots of new listeners coming to hear the songs…
should you ever plan on coming to Ireland I suggest that you sign up for the newsletter which would give you good notice of dates before they are advertised….
dont know how much longer this trip is gonna last but I hope to keep singing for as long as the voice holds up… and I got the legs to carry it
Ride On Susan
ps these days I find that all the gigs are both crowded and intimate !!!
What a performance Friday night Christy. You’re getting better every year.
Do you have any plans to bring your buddy Declan back on the road with you anytime soon?
No Plans at the moment…….the solo work is where I’m at for the time being..who knows what the future holds for any of us..
last Friday was a big relief… I’d been in rag order for a few days with a chest infection…Thursday, I thought I’d have to cancel but I took a chance ( and loads of cures)…. was very chesty, croaky and sweaty Fri Morning…. but the Salthill Air and the roar of the crowd soon blew the croaks and frogs out of the larynx and we ended up having a great night in The Hanger
Great job in the hanger on Friday! Is there a record of the set list?
Chicago
Quinte Brigada
Johnny Boy
Ride On
Delerium Tremens
Michael Hayes
Lingo Politico
Shovel
Black & Amber
Stitch in Time
Sweet Thames
Anne Lovett
Clock Winds Down
After The Deluge
Voyage
On The Mainland
Back in Derry
Well Below Valley
Ringin The Bell
Amsterdam
Two Conneeleys
Fairytale New York……………for Boston Fin
Spancilhill …………………..for Ramone
Lisdoonvarna
Ordinary Man ………………for Harry G
Joxer
…………………………1 hour 27 minutes
privelidgred
I like that
Hello Christy,
Well we had a fine time with my Dad and the pizzas yesterday. My brother asked him how it felt to be 80. He said he didn’t feel a day older than 79. Then he ate half a huge pizza and took the rest of it home for later. It was a good day.
I love your description of your feelings about what happens during a gig. A magic hand! I feel privelidgred that I can be part of it sometimes. Song, singer, listener, all one. I’m hoping I will get a gig at the Brighouse festival later in the year. There’s a room in the art gallery that’s part of Brighouse Library that has the most beautiful warm acoustics. It’s a cocooning space where the sound rolls around you. I’ve sung there twice. I hope I will again.
We sang about the Nicky Tams in the back room of the Scotia
We drank sweet wines and called for neon pints of Fidel Castro
Till it was time to fly to dreamland
Out of Bairds, up the stairs to hell or to heaven we’d go
Rebecca
he’s just about the same vintage as myself….and I always finish a pizza..down to the last crumb
Howya Christy,
No more than most towns a river runs through it.
Our side hangar. Their side hanger.
The city fathers in their wisdom split the log and decided on Leisureland. Who gives a shiny one with the list of gigs coming up. Decisions…
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
but unlike most..that wild ,brown, rapid river always stops me in my tracks, and it racing between Lough Corrib and the Atlantic Ocean
Hi Christy
Hard to beat The Hangar is right.
Just checked who’s playing there after
The Waterboys
Damien Dempsey
The Mary Wallopers
Lankum
Sharon, Frances and Mary
Moving Hearts
Paul Brady
Decisions,Decisions,Decisions
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
thats some list of gigs pending..is it Hangar or Hanger ?
Great to hear the Galway gig went so well- always a favourite town with great people. Never cease to be amazed at how you can fill a hall with such a variety of people of all ages and backgrounds and have them in the palm of your hand from the start. It is a special gift that you have, and we are so lucky to experience it.
reading your post gave me a flash…that audience last night was like a huge big warm welcoming hand..I stepped onto it and it carried me along for 100 minutes…caressing, massaging, encouraging, uplifting, inspiring…..I simply cant do this without that helping hand…I can practice here,I can learn,arrange, write, yodel til the cows come home..but the good stuff only happens when I’m in the palm of that magic hand..hope all is well above on thon Wall
Hello Christy,
It’s a week with a gig at the end of it. Yippee eye aye!!!
We’ll be getting the wagon rolling and crossing the sea to beautiful Galway.
Today we’re celebrating my Dad’s 80th birthday. All the family in an Italian restaurant at Ainley Top. They have a huge woodfired pizza oven. Steve has a pipes lesson this morning and I’ll be tuning the harp and putting the air through a few songs. Better get up and feed the cat.
Rebecca
have a good day with your Dad, your Harp and your Piper
Morning Christy just want to say thanks for another mighty gig last night you were in flying form.I really liked Black and Amber and I think it was the first time I heard Sweet Thames live and the tail end of the Deluge blew off any remaining cobwebs from the place fair play long may it continue. Face the puck out
I nearly fell off the chair when I saw you perched up there in the front row beside Hilary…I thought that you were giggin last night….”Deluge” drifted back into the set at the suggestion of Michael Devine….he recalled how I used to finish with it 25 years ago….it seems to book-end “Clock Winds Down ” and brings together Jim Page and Jackson Brown…two great songwriters from the far off ,colonized west
Well said Matt, Declan McLaughlin is a fine musical son of Derry, Cool Discs introduced me to his excellent sound.
I’m gonna go shoppin soon as I find my glasses
Howya Christy
Fair play.
You brought the weather West with you.
Enjoy this evenings cabaret.
Looking forward to next Saturday.
Tabhair aire
Bourkey
hard to bate the hanger
Hi Christy. I’m glad you liked my song. Can’t wait for the gig tonight. I’m leaving in about an hour and a half. If you can I’d love you to do Nancy Spain, Joxer of Back home In Derry. See you Later,
Harry
2 out of 3 Harry
Hey Christy,
Moving between the box set and looking forward to a live show in a couple of months, i was struck ,yet again, by Seamus Heaney’s ‘saint kevin and the blackbird’ as i listen to it often and playedby Joshua and Matt the Poet and the Piper cd as we travelled back and forward to the ferry boat.
Anyway i had beenmulling over the different joys brought to us by the box set, and the live gigs that sell out in a trice.
Do i began to scribble some words, and after a lot of angst, self doubt, pondering and changing i came up with this.
Now it is no Saint Kevin, it does not even scan properly, but it is done, on an effort to explain the joy of comparing and enjoying the box set with the live shows .
Rory
Saint Kevin’s blackbird sang harmony for you in a peaceful garden shed,
Whilst back in Kilkenny’s gig the blackbird took on a different form, sang on by ladies fair or red.
Thatcher’s work immortalised in your format, spoken true in a list of her disasters,
In the Milennium Forum your songs are interspersed with stories that bring us greatest laughter.
Scores of songs from 40 years captured on 6 circular plastic discs,
A single score in a livewire set from a Glasgow ballroom, be the heckler at your own risk.
Red disc fires us up sung with passion poured out by skin and bone,
I hear you’re 78, so once the spotlight fades you are now quickly whisked off home.
In a box we can find the germinating ones, the first Joxer and a broken John O’ Dreams,
But in Tullamore an audience waits in hushed expectation or so it seems.
The six are sorted according to their type,to help the listener choose their individual likes,
Those far travelled to gig ,soak up what you select, arriving by pony, car or honda 50 bike.
You take us to far off towns, Zurich, Ypres or to California’s nation,
Changing companeros they join the stage, to charm with fiddle, drums and good vibration.
The ageing voice of a man so rare, tilts from young buck to a much older fella’s tone,
In Clonmel its Ballydine or Dinny Lacy, Jacko arrives by song in Roscommon and Athlone.
Some listeners prefer the auld box set, to play in bed or car,
Or else you’d followed Christy singing live from Clare, Kerry, Cork or more afar.
There is no doubt, the man’s a gem, and we’re lucky to have received his recorded choices,
Or when we watch him sweat, some clap hands, but we all cheer with gladdened voices.
Gotta hand it to you Rory
you covered some ground there
no whip required
no stewarts enquiry
zurich Ypres Ballydine
your satnav is workin fine
last night in Salthill went off well…the room thronged with the very best of listeners…they were in from far & near…Fin from Boston, Sands from Fermanagh, Tony from the Northside, Jimmy & Tess,Ramone at 8 lookin fos Spancilhill,Harry at 10 lookin for Joxer, Sweet Thames got a look in and new one from Briany Brannigan called “The Black & Amber”
Home under a bright and beautiful moon, fog crossing the Shannon,
back to sleep now
Hello Christy,
I heard this on an album called The Lark in the Morning.
Here’s a newer version.
https://youtu.be/rh7bAPi2ty4?si=bJVawFA1t47WvqKV
Rebecca
ingtwing of an ingtwing of an iDay
Christy,
I am going to your gig in Galway tomorrow. The clock in winding down to zero……..
I cant wait. I’m listening to the gig from last year over and over. Right now I’m trying to learn the chords to the beautiful song you did with the late Sinead O’Connor, Sweet Thames flow softly. I love wise and holy women, I know that’s about your mother Nancy, I often sing it to my own mother now. Id love to hear you singing it live. Slan, Agus Beannacht de leath, Jason
what key you tryin it in ?
I have been listening to Christy Moore for the last 20 yrs
love his music,
I would love to come to one of his giggs next year 2024.
I will need some time to book air fares, can you please let me know when his giggs come up next year i can book in advance for me and my partner.
Thank you kindly
Sully
from Oamaru
New Zealand
what month you thinkin of Sully
Alright Christy how’s things? Just giving you and everyone else here the head’s up about a new album from Derry’s Declan McLaughin. I discovered Dec’s music through this portal. His latest album, My Northern Soul, is his best work to date.
Highlights for me are Written in Stone, Go Ask The Women and the Young and Kelly’s Men.
Happy to get you a copy if you like. Everyone else can check it out here:
https://declanmclaughlin.bandcamp.com/album/my-northern-soul
I’ll get my hands on that and give it a birl….
DECLAN McLOUGHLIN always worth a good listen
Ride on Decky
Hi Christy..Seemed a lovely reception on Bantry Bay.. saw some clips of various masters over the week..Lifted the guitar this morning and played ‘Butterfly’..had never heard the original version by The Handsome Family until today…Wishing ye well on Galway soil..
great song to sing…first heard them in Connollys of Leap,County Cork