Unquiet Grave. Indeed the wording rather morbid, true. But Luke’s singing is powerful.
‘Live in Dublin’ has great music and singing on it. Perhaps you’re setting those standards ‘too high’.
Christy's reply
I might listen to it again sometime and change my mind about it…..
I still sing Unquiet Grave betimes here in the workroom….
I think I learned it from Frank Lunny Junior .. we played together with his brother Donal in “The Rakes of Kildare”
We gigged twice…..in Hugh Neesons Lounge ,Easter Monday 1966 at an Easter Rising 50th Commemoration….that same year we did a guest spot in Newbridge Town Hall at a Fianna Fáil Annual Dinner Dance….Dancing 9-2..Music by Jimmy Dunny’s Orchestra plus Ballad Group (Us !)…..our fee was £3 and crate of stout…sadly by the time we finished our set the Committee had polished off our crate of stout
Hello Christy,
Thank you so much for your songs and the gig, it was just wonderful ! I loved the gig in Kilkenny. Im a bit late but back in Germany Covid took me down.
I was sitting in the second row behind the people from Newfoundland. You played Sunny for them as the encore. It was so great… as ever. I missed beeswing..it s a very , very special song. I adore it. I hope you ll offer a gig in Bundoran again and I ll definitely be there if ever possible. It s just magic to sit there and listen to you. So please, please keep on rollin…..
All the best for you and keep healthy. Have a nice and glittery Christmas time and I hope we ll meet again next year…Ursula from the wild southwest of Germany
Christy's reply
A pity about Beeswing..it features frequently….always a pleasure to sing Richard Thompson’s song….next time
Ah Christy! “Live in Dublin” is one of my favourite albums, in fact that recording of “One Last Cold Kiss”, the playing and singing is sublime, as is “Barr na Sráide” Donals Blarge playing on it is also top-drawer! He must be playing it open as I think he hits the low C on it in the intro and you can feel it going through you! To me that album sounds like what it is, 3 lads enjoying themselves playing intimate venues and the crowd in their hand. If it’s ramshackle well then I’m all for it, I think there should be more of it. It just makes music sound more real to me. Sometimes I think albums today are over produced and can actually sound too polished. I like a bit of rawness meself! Sure aren’t we all different and that’s what makes it interesting!
I’ve also just listened to Mountains version and have to disagree with you as to which is better!
Christy's reply
I must give it a listen again Gipp
I still recall the arrival of Donal’s Blarge
thanks for such positive deedback
it was a wild year..recorded two albums..that one and “Iron Behind Velvet”
Hello Christy.Thanks for a wonderful night’s music and 🎵 song last night at Vicar St.From the minute you set foot on the stage the place lit up.Great to hear Ruby and Hatti Carroll again.Great to hear Saturday night at the big marquee in Ath Cliath.Long may nights like last night in Vicar St.with you continue. Jack o Rourke another great man from Leeside. Thanks again for last night
I hope you and yours a very happy Christmas. See you on January 29th. Let the music 🎶 keep our spirits high
Christy's reply
ceart go leor Daithí…. bhimíd go léir ag obair go hiontach aréir….
many happy returns to Timoleague and environs…
safe travels
Hi C. Well only night 2 and you have already hit the groove, with a bang ! You put so much into the gigs, the energy, the evolving setlist all for the benefit of the listeners, no wonder we are enthralled !! How can it get any better ?? but I think it just might. Take good care, beir bua agus beannacht. H
Christy's reply
all we gotta do is keep breathing and hope for the best..
the gaggle was mighty last night
Invoking a song title, Unquiet Grave, from a Leeds set list had me going to You Tube. There’s a Luke Kelly rendition of that song online; just great. By coincidence a line in the song lyrics has in it a ‘cold clay kiss’ (a tad ‘morbid’ but it is a love song to a dear departed) and someone here mentioned that Mountain song, Papalardi, that song is “One Last Cold Kiss”. Is it on the “Live in Dublin” album?
Christy's reply
” a tad morbid” ! jasus Ed but you do come up with some rare insights…”Unquiet Grave” is perhaps one of the most upsetting, depressing,heart rending, off-the- wall,verging on necrophylic songs ever written BUT its a great one to sing… I’ve not sung it for over 50 years
fair play to you ED.”One Last Cold Kiss” is on “Live in Dublin” from 1979..I’d forgotten that…but the real version is on the “Mountain” album “Flowers of Evil” I’d recommend that more then my own cover versions..
that 1979 album was a rush job… done in the heat of the moment.. ramshackle and scattered…my only retained memory is Jimmy Faulkner’s lovely playing on “Barr na Sráide”
Who dares wins!
Whoever
came up
with that
pearl of shite,
kindly go
and
f yourself.
Twice.
Hope it went well tonight
Set list would be appreciated
Bourkey
Christy's reply
Bourkey…in the leaba now…working the set from memory
not in precise order
Chicago
Quinte
How Long
Welcome to Cabaret
Johnny Boy
Ride on
Ruby Walsh
The Big Marquee
The Night We went To Hear Bob Dylan
Over on The Mainland
Back Home in Derry
Black & Amber
Cliffs Of Dooneen
Lisdoonvarna
No Time For Love
Joxer
Time Has Come
Well Below Valley
Lightning Bird Wind River Man
Rosalita & Jack Cambell
Snowflakes
Lingo Politico
Shovel
Beeswing
I think thats it….1 hour 45 minutes
really good audience
(next morning)
It was a standout night for me…. got a number of songs across the line last night…also found fresh settings for a few others….there was a discernible hush for “The Big Marquee”, “The Night we went to hear Bob Dylan”, a fresh take on “Ruby Walsh”, “Rosalita & Jack Cambell” stilled the night just as “Joxer”,”Lisdoon” and “Quinte” lit it up..
Theres an album in the offing..been laying bits a pieces down along the way…at the moment there are 14 or 15 contenders jostling for position …8 definite starters….dont know when it will be done but sooner the better as I have another idea percolating that I want to develop…
the whole recording process and releasing of same has changed out of recognition…like the world itself its all in a state of chassis… gigs themselves are still real,basic,honest almost unchanged…57 years ago we showed up with guitar and sleeping bag…into rooms that held 40-80 listeners, now we got all the magic, hundreds betimes thousands of listeners, 5 guitars, top road crew, but ,at the heart of it all,we got the songs
heres a set list from Leeds in 1967
The Calton Weaver,
The Limerick Rake
Where O is Our James Connolly
The Piper of Crossbarry
The Galtee Mountain Boy
Mary From Dungloe
Enniskillen Dragoon
Curragh of Kildare
Lanigans Ball
Seth Davy
Spainish Lady
Little Beggarman
Unquiet Grave
Yellow Bittern
2 x 25 minute sets at Club Memphis run by Johnny & Rita Wall in the old RAOB club….Leeds was great for me back then…a great variety of clubs…Grove,Adelphi,RAOB,Bob & Carol Pegg’s,John Peel, some reet good nights we had, we supped some stuff
That was electrifying at Vicar St. tonight. I now have to plan another Ireland trip around one of your gigs next year. What an awesome show you put on! Thank you CM.
Christy's reply
you guys ‘n gal out there in front of me were superb…I could not have hoped for a better roomful of listeners….safe travels …catch you when you return…gracias
You’ll be about to begin. I listened to Coffee Song by Jack O’Rourke. If anyone finds a words and music session featuring Jackie, please link. I will do same, thinking that a good way to begin to more appreciate music of this true artist. And any Cork dialect is always a pleasure to hear.
Christy's reply
Corkman after a day in Dublin
“the carrots were very hard in The Gresham”
Hope it goes well tonight and for the rest of the Vicar St. run.
Came across this from Pat Ingoldsby…
FLASH
I was sitting in Bewleys
in Westmoreland Street
concentrating so hard
on looking cool
that I flicked the ash
off my cigarette
into my cup of coffee.
That’s what you get.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Christy's reply
Dublin was a friendlier City when Pat was located by the side of The Cental Bank on College Green…spreading peace and good will to all…
The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby Youtube breakout pictures
Hello Christy.
My wife Vishva and I are traveling over to Dublin on 11th December to see you play at Vicar Street. We last saw you at Bundoran before lockdown. Vishva was celebrating her 65th Birthday and you sang Black is the Colour for her. This time we are celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary. The celebrations began in Venice and end in with you. We are sitting in the front tables, whatever that means, as I don’t know the venue. I understand you are celebrating your 50th too. We did an interview recently on our lives together. Here is a short clip from it https://share.icloud.com/photos/0abPl1e_PwJLo52aPXp9C7hCw. I hope it works. Any we are looking forward to seeing you again. I’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve attended your concerts. Each one has been memorable. I hope all well. Take care. Tom & Vishva.
Christy's reply
Hi Tom & Vishva…hope you have a safe journey from Avon side to Liffeyside…..such Golden events should be celebrated and I am feel honoured that you will include our gig as part of your celebrations…
Great to report a welcome find in Altrincham market(on the Cheshire side of Gr Manchester)…an indie record stall…mainly vinyl plus CDs,cassettes and eight tracks!
The owner,Chris is set up on all market trading days…on a wander through just now,I narrowly resisted temptation,but could have bought alot!
I’m sure there’ll be lots of interest here and Chris was happy when I said I’d give him a mention …variety is the spice etc…and there sure is variety in Alty market!
No website but Chris/Needledrop Records is on Instagram… @needledropmcr
I’m watching a video of starling murmurations. Looks like music made visible.
When I lived in Manchester you could watch a huge murmuration above Piccadilly Square at dusk. Vivid memories…
Did your share receive the usual amount of attention? I haven’t been able to find it. Looks like it’s invisible from here.
Christy – did I read here Felix Pappalardi’s name among those whose songs you favor? Having only realized – since regularly reading your guestbook – that I grew up enjoying music of both the U.S. and Ireland’s folk and traditional revivals, before a phase of heavy stuff like Cream, Mountain et al blew speakers and neighboring tempers. Did the late Mr Pappalardi compose and produce sounds closer to roots, music I’m unfamiliar with?
Christy's reply
I still remember the first time I heard Mountain….Nicky Ryan’s flat Terenure 1972 after a Planxty rehearsal, Moroccan Hashish, Marmite on butttered toast and “One Last Cold Kiss”….covered it later on an album circa 74-75…Whatever Tickles Your Fancy…..
We heard Jack O’Rourke last night in Ernesto’s, Rathmines…..beautiful gig from a great singer…his fingers skimming the ivories he enthralled the room for 2 hours..check him out and catch him if you can
Sadly,I wasn’t at the Prestwich club until I played there in the 90s.
I saw you and Ralph share a festival bill in Platt Fields Park in 1971. We’ve lost a few companeros since then,but it’s great that you and Ralph are still flying flags for the troubadours…long may you run
Dave
Christy's reply
’66,’67 was like Folk Club Heaven over there in Suffragette City…you’d need 12 nights in the week to get around half the clubs….we listened,we sang,we played, we shared, it was apprenticeship time with Tom & Smiley, Tony & Arthur, Jack & Mavis, Oldham Tinkers, Valley Folk,Beggarmen, Rosie Hardman,Marie Little, Pete Smith & Pete Ryder,Droney & Jack Taylor, Tony Downes & Des English, Frank Duffy & Mike Harding,Mary Asquith & Mike Canavan, Harry Bradshaw & Harry Ogden, Trad Clubs, Contemp Clubs, Funny Clubs, Sad Clubs….they were all there on page 2 of the Madchester Evening News….it looms large in this old head upon this Sunday Morning
I’d pursue those rascals who polished off the stout.
they are all long since gone to the final árd fheis
Unquiet Grave. Indeed the wording rather morbid, true. But Luke’s singing is powerful.
‘Live in Dublin’ has great music and singing on it. Perhaps you’re setting those standards ‘too high’.
I might listen to it again sometime and change my mind about it…..
I still sing Unquiet Grave betimes here in the workroom….
I think I learned it from Frank Lunny Junior .. we played together with his brother Donal in “The Rakes of Kildare”
We gigged twice…..in Hugh Neesons Lounge ,Easter Monday 1966 at an Easter Rising 50th Commemoration….that same year we did a guest spot in Newbridge Town Hall at a Fianna Fáil Annual Dinner Dance….Dancing 9-2..Music by Jimmy Dunny’s Orchestra plus Ballad Group (Us !)…..our fee was £3 and crate of stout…sadly by the time we finished our set the Committee had polished off our crate of stout
Hello Christy,
Thank you so much for your songs and the gig, it was just wonderful ! I loved the gig in Kilkenny. Im a bit late but back in Germany Covid took me down.
I was sitting in the second row behind the people from Newfoundland. You played Sunny for them as the encore. It was so great… as ever. I missed beeswing..it s a very , very special song. I adore it. I hope you ll offer a gig in Bundoran again and I ll definitely be there if ever possible. It s just magic to sit there and listen to you. So please, please keep on rollin…..
All the best for you and keep healthy. Have a nice and glittery Christmas time and I hope we ll meet again next year…Ursula from the wild southwest of Germany
A pity about Beeswing..it features frequently….always a pleasure to sing Richard Thompson’s song….next time
Ah Christy! “Live in Dublin” is one of my favourite albums, in fact that recording of “One Last Cold Kiss”, the playing and singing is sublime, as is “Barr na Sráide” Donals Blarge playing on it is also top-drawer! He must be playing it open as I think he hits the low C on it in the intro and you can feel it going through you! To me that album sounds like what it is, 3 lads enjoying themselves playing intimate venues and the crowd in their hand. If it’s ramshackle well then I’m all for it, I think there should be more of it. It just makes music sound more real to me. Sometimes I think albums today are over produced and can actually sound too polished. I like a bit of rawness meself! Sure aren’t we all different and that’s what makes it interesting!
I’ve also just listened to Mountains version and have to disagree with you as to which is better!
I must give it a listen again Gipp
I still recall the arrival of Donal’s Blarge
thanks for such positive deedback
it was a wild year..recorded two albums..that one and “Iron Behind Velvet”
Hello Christy.Thanks for a wonderful night’s music and 🎵 song last night at Vicar St.From the minute you set foot on the stage the place lit up.Great to hear Ruby and Hatti Carroll again.Great to hear Saturday night at the big marquee in Ath Cliath.Long may nights like last night in Vicar St.with you continue. Jack o Rourke another great man from Leeside. Thanks again for last night
I hope you and yours a very happy Christmas. See you on January 29th. Let the music 🎶 keep our spirits high
ceart go leor Daithí…. bhimíd go léir ag obair go hiontach aréir….
many happy returns to Timoleague and environs…
safe travels
Hi C. Well only night 2 and you have already hit the groove, with a bang ! You put so much into the gigs, the energy, the evolving setlist all for the benefit of the listeners, no wonder we are enthralled !! How can it get any better ?? but I think it just might. Take good care, beir bua agus beannacht. H
all we gotta do is keep breathing and hope for the best..
the gaggle was mighty last night
Invoking a song title, Unquiet Grave, from a Leeds set list had me going to You Tube. There’s a Luke Kelly rendition of that song online; just great. By coincidence a line in the song lyrics has in it a ‘cold clay kiss’ (a tad ‘morbid’ but it is a love song to a dear departed) and someone here mentioned that Mountain song, Papalardi, that song is “One Last Cold Kiss”. Is it on the “Live in Dublin” album?
” a tad morbid” ! jasus Ed but you do come up with some rare insights…”Unquiet Grave” is perhaps one of the most upsetting, depressing,heart rending, off-the- wall,verging on necrophylic songs ever written BUT its a great one to sing… I’ve not sung it for over 50 years
fair play to you ED.”One Last Cold Kiss” is on “Live in Dublin” from 1979..I’d forgotten that…but the real version is on the “Mountain” album “Flowers of Evil” I’d recommend that more then my own cover versions..
that 1979 album was a rush job… done in the heat of the moment.. ramshackle and scattered…my only retained memory is Jimmy Faulkner’s lovely playing on “Barr na Sráide”
Hello Christy,
Ruby Walsh got a run out. Lovely.
I’ve had Lightening Bird in my folder since the beginning.
Time to crack it, I’m thinking.
Rebecca
crack on
True Christy
Pat had another bit that went …
Who dares wins!
Whoever
came up
with that
pearl of shite,
kindly go
and
f yourself.
Twice.
Hope it went well tonight
Set list would be appreciated
Bourkey
Bourkey…in the leaba now…working the set from memory
not in precise order
Chicago
Quinte
How Long
Welcome to Cabaret
Johnny Boy
Ride on
Ruby Walsh
The Big Marquee
The Night We went To Hear Bob Dylan
Over on The Mainland
Back Home in Derry
Black & Amber
Cliffs Of Dooneen
Lisdoonvarna
No Time For Love
Joxer
Time Has Come
Well Below Valley
Lightning Bird Wind River Man
Rosalita & Jack Cambell
Snowflakes
Lingo Politico
Shovel
Beeswing
I think thats it….1 hour 45 minutes
really good audience
(next morning)
It was a standout night for me…. got a number of songs across the line last night…also found fresh settings for a few others….there was a discernible hush for “The Big Marquee”, “The Night we went to hear Bob Dylan”, a fresh take on “Ruby Walsh”, “Rosalita & Jack Cambell” stilled the night just as “Joxer”,”Lisdoon” and “Quinte” lit it up..
Theres an album in the offing..been laying bits a pieces down along the way…at the moment there are 14 or 15 contenders jostling for position …8 definite starters….dont know when it will be done but sooner the better as I have another idea percolating that I want to develop…
the whole recording process and releasing of same has changed out of recognition…like the world itself its all in a state of chassis… gigs themselves are still real,basic,honest almost unchanged…57 years ago we showed up with guitar and sleeping bag…into rooms that held 40-80 listeners, now we got all the magic, hundreds betimes thousands of listeners, 5 guitars, top road crew, but ,at the heart of it all,we got the songs
heres a set list from Leeds in 1967
The Calton Weaver,
The Limerick Rake
Where O is Our James Connolly
The Piper of Crossbarry
The Galtee Mountain Boy
Mary From Dungloe
Enniskillen Dragoon
Curragh of Kildare
Lanigans Ball
Seth Davy
Spainish Lady
Little Beggarman
Unquiet Grave
Yellow Bittern
2 x 25 minute sets at Club Memphis run by Johnny & Rita Wall in the old RAOB club….Leeds was great for me back then…a great variety of clubs…Grove,Adelphi,RAOB,Bob & Carol Pegg’s,John Peel, some reet good nights we had, we supped some stuff
That was electrifying at Vicar St. tonight. I now have to plan another Ireland trip around one of your gigs next year. What an awesome show you put on! Thank you CM.
you guys ‘n gal out there in front of me were superb…I could not have hoped for a better roomful of listeners….safe travels …catch you when you return…gracias
You’ll be about to begin. I listened to Coffee Song by Jack O’Rourke. If anyone finds a words and music session featuring Jackie, please link. I will do same, thinking that a good way to begin to more appreciate music of this true artist. And any Cork dialect is always a pleasure to hear.
Corkman after a day in Dublin
“the carrots were very hard in The Gresham”
Hi Christy,
Hope it goes well tonight and for the rest of the Vicar St. run.
Came across this from Pat Ingoldsby…
FLASH
I was sitting in Bewleys
in Westmoreland Street
concentrating so hard
on looking cool
that I flicked the ash
off my cigarette
into my cup of coffee.
That’s what you get.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Dublin was a friendlier City when Pat was located by the side of The Cental Bank on College Green…spreading peace and good will to all…
The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby Youtube breakout pictures
Hello Christy.
My wife Vishva and I are traveling over to Dublin on 11th December to see you play at Vicar Street. We last saw you at Bundoran before lockdown. Vishva was celebrating her 65th Birthday and you sang Black is the Colour for her. This time we are celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary. The celebrations began in Venice and end in with you. We are sitting in the front tables, whatever that means, as I don’t know the venue. I understand you are celebrating your 50th too. We did an interview recently on our lives together. Here is a short clip from it https://share.icloud.com/photos/0abPl1e_PwJLo52aPXp9C7hCw. I hope it works. Any we are looking forward to seeing you again. I’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve attended your concerts. Each one has been memorable. I hope all well. Take care. Tom & Vishva.
Hi Tom & Vishva…hope you have a safe journey from Avon side to Liffeyside…..such Golden events should be celebrated and I am feel honoured that you will include our gig as part of your celebrations…
Hi Christy
Enjoy the gigs…
Great to report a welcome find in Altrincham market(on the Cheshire side of Gr Manchester)…an indie record stall…mainly vinyl plus CDs,cassettes and eight tracks!
The owner,Chris is set up on all market trading days…on a wander through just now,I narrowly resisted temptation,but could have bought alot!
I’m sure there’ll be lots of interest here and Chris was happy when I said I’d give him a mention …variety is the spice etc…and there sure is variety in Alty market!
No website but Chris/Needledrop Records is on Instagram… @needledropmcr
Happy hunting…viva vinyl !
As ever,all good wishes to songsters here.
Dave
Hello Christy,
Thanks for the tip about Jack O’Rourke. Not heard him before. I’m going to look for more of his stuff. Beautiful noise.
https://youtu.be/bQV4VufLkgI?si=k4ACI4cIkLXfd5Z5
I’m watching a video of starling murmurations. Looks like music made visible.
When I lived in Manchester you could watch a huge murmuration above Piccadilly Square at dusk. Vivid memories…
Did your share receive the usual amount of attention? I haven’t been able to find it. Looks like it’s invisible from here.
Hope all you songsters have a great gig tonight!
Rebecca
Only just picked up on busy CM calendar. Please disregard question.
I will not Brendan, I gotta have my bit of fun……
Christy – did I read here Felix Pappalardi’s name among those whose songs you favor? Having only realized – since regularly reading your guestbook – that I grew up enjoying music of both the U.S. and Ireland’s folk and traditional revivals, before a phase of heavy stuff like Cream, Mountain et al blew speakers and neighboring tempers. Did the late Mr Pappalardi compose and produce sounds closer to roots, music I’m unfamiliar with?
I still remember the first time I heard Mountain….Nicky Ryan’s flat Terenure 1972 after a Planxty rehearsal, Moroccan Hashish, Marmite on butttered toast and “One Last Cold Kiss”….covered it later on an album circa 74-75…Whatever Tickles Your Fancy…..
We heard Jack O’Rourke last night in Ernesto’s, Rathmines…..beautiful gig from a great singer…his fingers skimming the ivories he enthralled the room for 2 hours..check him out and catch him if you can
Hi Christy
Sadly,I wasn’t at the Prestwich club until I played there in the 90s.
I saw you and Ralph share a festival bill in Platt Fields Park in 1971. We’ve lost a few companeros since then,but it’s great that you and Ralph are still flying flags for the troubadours…long may you run
Dave
’66,’67 was like Folk Club Heaven over there in Suffragette City…you’d need 12 nights in the week to get around half the clubs….we listened,we sang,we played, we shared, it was apprenticeship time with Tom & Smiley, Tony & Arthur, Jack & Mavis, Oldham Tinkers, Valley Folk,Beggarmen, Rosie Hardman,Marie Little, Pete Smith & Pete Ryder,Droney & Jack Taylor, Tony Downes & Des English, Frank Duffy & Mike Harding,Mary Asquith & Mike Canavan, Harry Bradshaw & Harry Ogden, Trad Clubs, Contemp Clubs, Funny Clubs, Sad Clubs….they were all there on page 2 of the Madchester Evening News….it looms large in this old head upon this Sunday Morning
Thank you.! x
Hello Christy,
It looks like Martin’s song is being shadow banned.
Here’s the link to the video
https://youtu.be/6UKEWtpVK6I?si=TTGsMwUWA6gS_GB6
Rebecca
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