Hello Christy, all the best for you and the ones around you for a wonderful and most of all,healthy new year. I ll light the candles for this.
Misty below found the words deep out of my heart so I can only go with his words except the stations of the gigs which are naturally different becaucse I German. So all the best and I feel really unhappy that I can t join you tonight. Definitely there must be another time and I m very much looking forward to this.
Love
Ursula
Good morning christy we are just boarding the train here in Kent station in cork ,for our annual visit to vicar street , we are really looking forward to this evening gig …so we wish you a happy new year to you and all the crew .. Tony and Fiona …
Christy, I hope 2024 will be good for you and all your family and team.
A couple of years ago I gave an engagement present to my nephew Andreu D’Arcy and his lovely fiancee Nathalie, two tickets to a Christy gig in Vicar St. They loved it, their first Christy concert.
They married in October last, and as a wedding present I gave them two tickets to tonight’s gig. Sure it’s better than an electric kettle or a toaster!
They are so looking forward to it…..if there is room in your hat for Andreu and Nathalie D’Arcy that would be grand altogether!
See you 19th!
Hello Christy, a happy new year to you and your loved ones. I’m just setting out to join you tonight at Vicar St. It’s a privilege not underestimated to come and hear you sing and to share the room with so many fellow travellers. My gratitude to you is immense. I first saw you play, not even knowing the first thing about you, in Geelong in 1991, and it was one of the most special nights of my life. I’ve since followed you to Melbourne & Munich, to the Barbican, the Southbank & and a pub in Camden, to the National Concert Hall & Vicar Street. I love that your slowly constricting circle of activity asks more of us, your vast international audience, if we want to be in the room with you. I love that now to see you requires connecting with the physical earth of the island of Ireland which gave us this fabulous music in the first place. As I say, it is an enormous privilege. I hope you continue to circle the island for as long as it gives you pleasure as it will bring pleasure to many, many thousands while you do. And I send you every good wish for a cracking night in Vicar St tonight. Thank you Christy.
A Happy, Safe and Peaceful New Year to you and yours, Christy.
I know you have a plethora of requests for a call out tomorrow night but hoping this photo might at least, get us Dungiven wans into the raffle. The baby Robyn is now 23 and she’ll be in Vicar Street again tomorrow night, with her mammy, nana and boyfriend, Caolan. Her brothers Mikey and Shea will be with us too, for their first Christy Live Experience.
Tóg go bog é
Nana Mary (aka 4711er Valentine) https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aj_JYc6lZoesga0wuyR6wU0oFGAJ1A?e=iJaaIh
Hello Christy,
I hope this works, links don’t seem to be playing this morning.
Here’s a different version to the one I usually hear. Lovely!
Thankyou Guenter, you are very kind.
Good evening Christy,
John Pilger wrote , just before he died, the following and it is a lesson for us all.
‘The Palestinians are Spartacus. People who fill the streets with flags and principle and solidarity are Spartacus. We are all Spartacus if we want to be”
It reminds me so much of the song that starts off my favourite, the Box Set.
Yellow Triangle, that enmeshing of you and Bishop Niemoller, such a beacon of truth….Eventually they came for me and there was no one left to speak .
I adore that song in every way, i love its passion , i know its sense, i hate its needed, i relish the truth, i admire its harshness.
This year it remains my favourite song from my favourite ‘album’. Next year it will still be my favourite, in 6 hours time ….
Here’s to the bells.
Rory
Wishing all the best to yourself and the crew for the new year Christy; I’m looking forward to hearing the fruits of your labour from the work shop and hopefully catching you on the road somewhere in 2024. Also good luck & happiness to all the Guestbook contributors and readers, long may you Log on and not ‘Sign off”. 2DC
I wish you a better year of 2024, Rebecca. I’m sure it will. For everyone around here good health, joy, hopefully peace AND MUSIC.
Günter (listening to L.McKennitt’s A Midwinter Night’s Dream while cooking)
Hello Christy,
I’ve been reading this morning lots of people’s thoughts, emails, news articles, Facebook friends. They’re all trying to work out how to put 2023 to bed and get started with 2024.
So many different approaches.
It’s helping me because I have no idea what my thoughts about the times are right now.
I suppose my overriding feeling is gratitude for still being alive and kicking.
I’ve had some health problems this year, all down to age and gender, but knowing the cause doesn’t make it easier. A month or so ago it got so bad that I couldn’t play or sing anymore. I wasn’t sure I wanted to carry on. Thankfully Steve carted me straight off to the doctor. I can truthfully say that HRT has been a life saver for me. If anyone is reading this who is struggling in a similar way, please take this as a message of hope.
And I am hopeful. I’m back at it and I hope to do many more gigs in the future.
So all I can says is
Let the music keep our spirits high, and Buck the Fegrudgers!!!
Hi C. Well that was a cracker of a setlist and gig and the best audience !! Some real gems BT, Galtee Mountain Boy, How Long really resonates, Bogman and Ring the Bells were so well received and Shane was certainly well respected. A great finish to 2023 and a great omen for a very promising 2024, le cunamh De. As I was driving home my mind wandered back to a journey in freezing fog to Noel C’s Emporium at the end of Dec maybe 25 or 26 years ago ? Sad to say I remember the journey more than the gig, I was driving a Polo !! You were not solo but who played with you ? I wonder was it Liam Og ?? Maybe your diary, if not your massive memory bank will yield better results ? Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go leir, Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Christy's reply
Liam Óg O’Flynn, Arty McGlynn and Rod McVeigh…
that venue never felt quite right…..perhaps the preponderance of that special growth enhancer favoured by many of our leading mushroom farmers…
Hi Christy,
Buck the Fergrudgers.
That should be it he name’s hat for the new album.
Has The Big Marque a chance of making the final cut ?
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Great show last night. Really enjoyed ‘Zozimus and Zimmerman’. Brought me back to the time when I enjoyed your company for a short while. It was along with Sam Shepard (Brownsville Girl) and Stephen Rea in the green room of the Millenium Forum, maybe 2014? Sam was particularly impressed with your version of Phil Chevron’s Faithful Departed that night, a song which you sang again in Sam’s memory upon your return to Derry the next year. Bringing a six virgin souls from Letterkenny down on Tuesday night to Vicar Street so can’t wait. You might even fit in a wee shout out to us, or at least include us in the old hat 😉 ‘close your eyes and we’ll pretend, it could somehow be the same again…🎼🎶… Time goes too quick.
Thank you for unforgettable experience last night in Vicar Street. What a great atmosphere on display and it looked like you were enjoying yourself. Thank you for the shoutout for helen, we had a great night.
Great show last night and a great mix, you couldn’t hear a pin drop when you belted out well below the valley, hard to pick a favourite last night, great night. Thanks for giving a shout out to my mother Mardie (Martha) McBride. She. Is over the moon. Can’t wait to see you again in the Ivy Gardens 👌
Johnny Boyle has retired from the Hotel business…. The Highlands Hotel goes on though under new management…. Still a great spot for a steak sandwich or a bowl of Chowder.
Johnny is still following his art and his paintings are well sought after.
The lyrics may have changed but the sentiments remain…. long may the songs you sing continue to remind us and educate the younger folk. Many now head off further afield and the times are better for most of them.
The never ending tour continues anabated.
The morning after the night before…. and a mighty night it was. Vicar St never disappoints. A good singing audience with no messers… apart from all those cute hours making out they were all from Donegal !!!
Great range of songs…. Good to hear Missing You again.
Black and Amber is a hard hitting song but a very important one.
Happy New Year…. hope to be back at Table 6 again on the 19th Jan.
Christy's reply
“Missing You” has been off the list for a long spell….I was a bit taken aback last night by the response to Jimmy Mack’s classic…. its very much of a time yet retains significence….most of those singing it last night were not even born when Jimmy first shared it with me….a few slight alterations have taken place to the lyric but no harm done…..two of Jimmy’s shone last night
“I’ll never go home now because of the pain
of a misfit’s reflection in a shop window pane”,
those lines get me every time, there but for the grace go any of us….had a few close calls myself way back…..in London, Great Yarmouth and a few other Boroughs
Hows tricks anyway ? Hope all is good among the Hills….I always think of it as Johnny Boyle country…Johnny brought Moving Hearts to Glenties for two Memorable gigs back in 1981….not many were bookin the Band back then but Johnny brought us up and treated us royally…. I think of it as Brian Friel country too.I think of Brian’s “Translations” and his “Dancing at Lúnasa”…..last time I was in Johnny’s, he put me up in the Meryl Streep Suite…..Jasus Marty I could hardly sleep a wink….dancin around the table with Michael Gambon…god be good to him…
Hard at it here these days in the work shop….I think I might have another album in me…Its scattered all over the bench here at the moment….some nights I think its nearly there but then the next morning I realise that was an illusion in the midnight oil….then Jim Page sends me a song from Seattle, Mick Blake a few verses from Leitrim…
2024 kickin off tomorrow night….the poor auld lousy auld earth in a state of chassis…our species hangin on by the skin of its teeth….some of us tryin to keep the best side out as terrible people emerge from hell to take up powerful positions
…all we can do is do the best we can…try and shine a light upon them…try to keep the boat afloat…but we gotta face them in whatever way we can….even a whisper is louder than silence and apathy
Shine On Marty & Ger….to you and all our 4711er Companeros,
Happy New Year…….(and buck the fegrudgers)
Hello Christy, all the best for you and the ones around you for a wonderful and most of all,healthy new year. I ll light the candles for this.
Misty below found the words deep out of my heart so I can only go with his words except the stations of the gigs which are naturally different becaucse I German. So all the best and I feel really unhappy that I can t join you tonight. Definitely there must be another time and I m very much looking forward to this.
Love
Ursula
Good morning christy we are just boarding the train here in Kent station in cork ,for our annual visit to vicar street , we are really looking forward to this evening gig …so we wish you a happy new year to you and all the crew .. Tony and Fiona …
Christy, I hope 2024 will be good for you and all your family and team.
A couple of years ago I gave an engagement present to my nephew Andreu D’Arcy and his lovely fiancee Nathalie, two tickets to a Christy gig in Vicar St. They loved it, their first Christy concert.
They married in October last, and as a wedding present I gave them two tickets to tonight’s gig. Sure it’s better than an electric kettle or a toaster!
They are so looking forward to it…..if there is room in your hat for Andreu and Nathalie D’Arcy that would be grand altogether!
See you 19th!
Hello Christy, a happy new year to you and your loved ones. I’m just setting out to join you tonight at Vicar St. It’s a privilege not underestimated to come and hear you sing and to share the room with so many fellow travellers. My gratitude to you is immense. I first saw you play, not even knowing the first thing about you, in Geelong in 1991, and it was one of the most special nights of my life. I’ve since followed you to Melbourne & Munich, to the Barbican, the Southbank & and a pub in Camden, to the National Concert Hall & Vicar Street. I love that your slowly constricting circle of activity asks more of us, your vast international audience, if we want to be in the room with you. I love that now to see you requires connecting with the physical earth of the island of Ireland which gave us this fabulous music in the first place. As I say, it is an enormous privilege. I hope you continue to circle the island for as long as it gives you pleasure as it will bring pleasure to many, many thousands while you do. And I send you every good wish for a cracking night in Vicar St tonight. Thank you Christy.
A Happy, Safe and Peaceful New Year to you and yours, Christy.
I know you have a plethora of requests for a call out tomorrow night but hoping this photo might at least, get us Dungiven wans into the raffle. The baby Robyn is now 23 and she’ll be in Vicar Street again tomorrow night, with her mammy, nana and boyfriend, Caolan. Her brothers Mikey and Shea will be with us too, for their first Christy Live Experience.
Tóg go bog é
Nana Mary (aka 4711er Valentine)
https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aj_JYc6lZoesga0wuyR6wU0oFGAJ1A?e=iJaaIh
https://youtu.be/g_MHLX1FGow?si=y7NQWsZFZYUL8mGH
Hello Christy,
I hope this works, links don’t seem to be playing this morning.
Here’s a different version to the one I usually hear. Lovely!
Thankyou Guenter, you are very kind.
Rebecca
Happy New Year to all.
Good evening Christy,
John Pilger wrote , just before he died, the following and it is a lesson for us all.
‘The Palestinians are Spartacus. People who fill the streets with flags and principle and solidarity are Spartacus. We are all Spartacus if we want to be”
It reminds me so much of the song that starts off my favourite, the Box Set.
Yellow Triangle, that enmeshing of you and Bishop Niemoller, such a beacon of truth….Eventually they came for me and there was no one left to speak .
I adore that song in every way, i love its passion , i know its sense, i hate its needed, i relish the truth, i admire its harshness.
This year it remains my favourite song from my favourite ‘album’. Next year it will still be my favourite, in 6 hours time ….
Here’s to the bells.
Rory
Wishing all the best to yourself and the crew for the new year Christy; I’m looking forward to hearing the fruits of your labour from the work shop and hopefully catching you on the road somewhere in 2024. Also good luck & happiness to all the Guestbook contributors and readers, long may you Log on and not ‘Sign off”. 2DC
I wish you a better year of 2024, Rebecca. I’m sure it will. For everyone around here good health, joy, hopefully peace AND MUSIC.
Günter (listening to L.McKennitt’s A Midwinter Night’s Dream while cooking)
Hello Christy,
I’ve been reading this morning lots of people’s thoughts, emails, news articles, Facebook friends. They’re all trying to work out how to put 2023 to bed and get started with 2024.
So many different approaches.
It’s helping me because I have no idea what my thoughts about the times are right now.
I suppose my overriding feeling is gratitude for still being alive and kicking.
I’ve had some health problems this year, all down to age and gender, but knowing the cause doesn’t make it easier. A month or so ago it got so bad that I couldn’t play or sing anymore. I wasn’t sure I wanted to carry on. Thankfully Steve carted me straight off to the doctor. I can truthfully say that HRT has been a life saver for me. If anyone is reading this who is struggling in a similar way, please take this as a message of hope.
And I am hopeful. I’m back at it and I hope to do many more gigs in the future.
So all I can says is
Let the music keep our spirits high, and Buck the Fegrudgers!!!
https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/12/23/if-only-for-a-day-the-christmas-truce-of-1914/
Love
Rebecca
gratitude itself is a wonderful gift
Three in a row, I won’t go for the 5 !! A Documentary you mentioned at Vicar St On Tom Munnelly Song Collector, available globally https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/home/?pid=6343092111112&title=Tom%20Munnelly%20-%20Fear%20na%20n-Amhr%C3%A1n&series=Tom%20Munnelly%20-%20Fear%20na%20n-Amhr%C3%A1n&genre=Faisneis&pcode=656689
fair play…hope some readers here will click in
Some memory !! embarrassing, that I did n’t recall those great musicians, but at least I got 50% correct ! GRMMA. H
all along time ago
Hi C. Well that was a cracker of a setlist and gig and the best audience !! Some real gems BT, Galtee Mountain Boy, How Long really resonates, Bogman and Ring the Bells were so well received and Shane was certainly well respected. A great finish to 2023 and a great omen for a very promising 2024, le cunamh De. As I was driving home my mind wandered back to a journey in freezing fog to Noel C’s Emporium at the end of Dec maybe 25 or 26 years ago ? Sad to say I remember the journey more than the gig, I was driving a Polo !! You were not solo but who played with you ? I wonder was it Liam Og ?? Maybe your diary, if not your massive memory bank will yield better results ? Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go leir, Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Liam Óg O’Flynn, Arty McGlynn and Rod McVeigh…
that venue never felt quite right…..perhaps the preponderance of that special growth enhancer favoured by many of our leading mushroom farmers…
Hi Christy,
Buck the Fergrudgers.
That should be it he name’s hat for the new album.
Has The Big Marque a chance of making the final cut ?
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Great show last night. Really enjoyed ‘Zozimus and Zimmerman’. Brought me back to the time when I enjoyed your company for a short while. It was along with Sam Shepard (Brownsville Girl) and Stephen Rea in the green room of the Millenium Forum, maybe 2014? Sam was particularly impressed with your version of Phil Chevron’s Faithful Departed that night, a song which you sang again in Sam’s memory upon your return to Derry the next year. Bringing a six virgin souls from Letterkenny down on Tuesday night to Vicar Street so can’t wait. You might even fit in a wee shout out to us, or at least include us in the old hat 😉 ‘close your eyes and we’ll pretend, it could somehow be the same again…🎼🎶… Time goes too quick.
Evening Christy,
Thank you for unforgettable experience last night in Vicar Street. What a great atmosphere on display and it looked like you were enjoying yourself. Thank you for the shoutout for helen, we had a great night.
Wishing you all the best in the new year.
Michael
Hi Christy,
Great show last night and a great mix, you couldn’t hear a pin drop when you belted out well below the valley, hard to pick a favourite last night, great night. Thanks for giving a shout out to my mother Mardie (Martha) McBride. She. Is over the moon. Can’t wait to see you again in the Ivy Gardens 👌
Johnny Boyle has retired from the Hotel business…. The Highlands Hotel goes on though under new management…. Still a great spot for a steak sandwich or a bowl of Chowder.
Johnny is still following his art and his paintings are well sought after.
The lyrics may have changed but the sentiments remain…. long may the songs you sing continue to remind us and educate the younger folk. Many now head off further afield and the times are better for most of them.
The never ending tour continues anabated.
The morning after the night before…. and a mighty night it was. Vicar St never disappoints. A good singing audience with no messers… apart from all those cute hours making out they were all from Donegal !!!
Great range of songs…. Good to hear Missing You again.
Black and Amber is a hard hitting song but a very important one.
Happy New Year…. hope to be back at Table 6 again on the 19th Jan.
“Missing You” has been off the list for a long spell….I was a bit taken aback last night by the response to Jimmy Mack’s classic…. its very much of a time yet retains significence….most of those singing it last night were not even born when Jimmy first shared it with me….a few slight alterations have taken place to the lyric but no harm done…..two of Jimmy’s shone last night
“I’ll never go home now because of the pain
of a misfit’s reflection in a shop window pane”,
those lines get me every time, there but for the grace go any of us….had a few close calls myself way back…..in London, Great Yarmouth and a few other Boroughs
Hows tricks anyway ? Hope all is good among the Hills….I always think of it as Johnny Boyle country…Johnny brought Moving Hearts to Glenties for two Memorable gigs back in 1981….not many were bookin the Band back then but Johnny brought us up and treated us royally…. I think of it as Brian Friel country too.I think of Brian’s “Translations” and his “Dancing at Lúnasa”…..last time I was in Johnny’s, he put me up in the Meryl Streep Suite…..Jasus Marty I could hardly sleep a wink….dancin around the table with Michael Gambon…god be good to him…
Hard at it here these days in the work shop….I think I might have another album in me…Its scattered all over the bench here at the moment….some nights I think its nearly there but then the next morning I realise that was an illusion in the midnight oil….then Jim Page sends me a song from Seattle, Mick Blake a few verses from Leitrim…
2024 kickin off tomorrow night….the poor auld lousy auld earth in a state of chassis…our species hangin on by the skin of its teeth….some of us tryin to keep the best side out as terrible people emerge from hell to take up powerful positions
…all we can do is do the best we can…try and shine a light upon them…try to keep the boat afloat…but we gotta face them in whatever way we can….even a whisper is louder than silence and apathy
Shine On Marty & Ger….to you and all our 4711er Companeros,
Happy New Year…….(and buck the fegrudgers)