Mornin Christy
Strange how music choices work…There are numerous bands/singers I know about,but for no specific reasons,haven’t heard much of their music…
Until yesterday,’Capercaillie’ were in this category…thanks to a charity shop visit and grabbing a 1998 CD -‘Dusk till Dawn’/ The Best Of…I’m really enjoying the quality mix they produced…there’s a great line up photo from that year…Mike McGoldrick looks c 15!
So,better late than never to find good music…any similar experiences for you or readers here?
Have good day all
Dave
Christy's reply
I’ve been listening to Michael McDonald, The Doobie’s and Steely Dan… all via Rick Beato’s podcasts on you tube
Hi Christy. I’m back in Belgium now but wanted to thank you for the amazing concert in Mullingar just over a week ago. You made my night very special and I will always remember my first concert. Thank you for making my night so memorable. Hope to see you in concert again soon. Fionn
Hi Christy,
reading about the gig in Cavan reminds me of the great privilege I had to be at your gig there last summer 🙂 – not such a long walk down memory lane but a great one. The concert was grand, I got really unique “souvenirs” and afterwards there was a beautiful singalong in the hotel with some very nice people from Donegal!
Now I’m really glad and thankful that I have the opportunity to join the second leg of your “home matches” in Naas end of March. Meanwhile there are even here some more folk gigs due to St. Patrick’s Day that shorten the waiting time.
Now the best of luck for the rugby match! Take care, Birgit
P.S. Miss the Taytos here as well 😉
A crisp day for hunting down some mosaics…a Very dapper JFK was worth a diversion.
Stocked up family supplies in the Irish festival market…Taytos and Bolands biscuits are rare treats in these parts…I bought extra when told that proceeds are going to Irish Community Care in the city…a good excuse for more Taytos,I figured!
Hello Christy,
The new names are good!
Sorry, can’t find any recordings from the 1988 Dublin gig. There’s one from Wembley, Eurythmics, but not the Dublin one. Not sure if someone else will have more luck, or maybe something bootleggy squirreled away.
Don’t know about curry in Kildare but there’s a great curry house in Ennis. Just booked tickets for Castlebar. We’ll have plenty of time to search for the curry there too.
Yesterday my memory took me back to the fantastic show I attended for Nelson Mandela at the Olympia Theater in Dublin in 1988. It was a rather unique gathering of Irish artists. In fact, I still have the promotional poster. What a special show, particularly you and Sineád singing Irish Ways and Irish Laws. At one time there was a recording of the show but not sure that still exists. Is that show available on any music platforms? ☮️❤️🎼
Christy's reply
how are things in Chicago Terence ?…my final USA gig was in that Town…
every time I think Chicago I think of Denis Cahill….a unique musician and a beautiful man…. a great loss to all who listened and loved him..
re your enquiry… I have no idea… I remember singing with Sinéad clearly….perhaps some 4711er might be able to help…Anyone ???
The Sliabh Russell gig was top notch… a great audience , lovely mix of songs old and new…. Fairytale and Galtee Mountain Boy a highlight amongst them. I thought the sound in that big room was especially brilliant last night. How does he do it …??
A night that will stay with us for a long time. We had a rough auld week but your songs , music and craic lifted our spirits again.
Fair play to you and the whole team.
P.s.
The Camera loves you….
Christy's reply
That Sean Quinn could build a right good ballad lounge…plenty of cheap gravel
we were cookin last night…
the screens bring the listeners at the back right into the engine room
I could feel them listening
the silence last night for “Lyra”, “Palestine”, “Time has Come”, was tingling
then the rauceous roars when auld favourites emerged….
I felt like an auld dog with two mickys
Hi Christy, I hope your gig in the Sliabh Russell went well, I saw you there a few years ago and it was a lovely gig altogether.
Barry says thanks a lot for the kind words about Ned, he says Ned held you in very high regard.
Barry wonders if you remember Joe Ward who was a great friend of Ned’s. Joe played five string banjo and a wonderful little 8 string jobbie called a “banjo mandolin”. he could really bring a tune to life….
I dream of getting yourself and Barry together in the same room, and getting the lowdown on that fantastic music place, time, people.
Thanks again for all the care and attention you lavish upon us as we reach out to catch a wee grip on the holy Grail….
Christy's reply
I remember Joe Ward like it was last week….the way he sat over his banjo-mandolin, head bent forward, I can hear his sound, see his quiet smile…
that room is long gone, no sense of that time lingers, but the atmosphere created by Pat Dowling still permeates the memories of those who experienced and cherished the times….in all honesty, it should no longer be called Dowlings…
that man was laid to rest, let his name rest with him
Hey Christy,
Tonight our Live Music Hawick committee kept up the music awareness in the town by putting on the film Stop Making Sense, we got a 3quarters sell out of the auditorium.
There can never have been a better gig film out there and David Byrne remains the coolest man on the planet.
Magnificent.
Roll on the 2024 festival.
Rory
Christy's reply
I seldom disagree with you Rory..
I know very little of this man…I certainly remember the Talking Heads sound and vibe….unique and memorable…
but anything I’ve heard or seen about the man would have him well outside my top 100 cool persons ..never mind the planet…even in County Kildare…. I could name 27 Byrnes cooler then that artist…not as successful or band talented but cool as shortgrass cucumbers…
Of course we all have different ideas of what constitutes coolness….decades back I tried to be cool…but I had it all arseways….thankfully I failed utterly in all my attempts to be , what I thought then was , cool….
I learned to accept, and be comfortable in the mould that shaped me..
Thanks Be
Getting geared up to face the Sassenachs here…looking forward to seeing Finn & Co next week…
May we all enjoy the sport and fun of it all…Ride On Rory
Hi Christy,
When i get lost in your past stuff, maybe slightly obscure items, it feels like being transported to a day before every gig would sell out in minutes.
No more authentic than you are now but a bit more raw . With that in mind ‘ smoke and strong whiskey’ from the red disc is a great example of mixing up the words, battling on through, banter with the audience.. ..a gem that is entirely unpolished.
20 years on from that box set, is there anyone delving into your boxes of out-takes and demos to give us ‘box set 2, the return of the jedi’ ?
Rory
Christy's reply
its all changed Rory…no one delving…. its all scattered around on devices now…all out there somewhere in the ever shrinking universes…..thank you for keeping the Box Set alive and kicking…I’m gonna go and listen to that track myself now
PS
I’ve just listened to that track….if memory serves twas The London Palladium one Sunday night about 30 years ago…Myself and the one and only (late) Jimmy Faulkner…. what a great one the road companero was Jimmy…
then Rory I listened on to Tyrone Boys…an early long forgotten version ..then a silence ensued broken by an intro to “Chicago” …it could well lead to another song …gonna stick at this for a day or two ( after todays game )
Hello Christy,
Theres a TV programme on at lunchtime here called The Repair Shop.
People bring along their family treasures that have seen better days and a crack team of crafts men and women work their magic and get things together and working again.
Today a man brought in a reel to reel tape recorder. His family had used it in the 60s to record singing and playing at family parties. The man had 4 tapes, and wanted to hear his father sing again.
So it was all mended and got working again.
Amazing to hear the recording, it was like time travel. The man said it was like he was back there.
Hi Christy
There have been occasional mentions of the ace magazine,’Rock’n’Reel'(RnR),masterminded by Sean McGhee…He plays a blinder to produce several copies a year,even including occasional gig reviews by yours truly…
Sean is based in Cleator Moor,Cumbria.In recent years,I’ve visited the area several times and there are fascinating links to Ireland,mainly linked to the history of industrial employment.Its a fascinating topic as,to many people,’Cumbria’ is synonymous with magnificent scenery,The Lake District etc…for anyone interested in the Cleator Moor story,there’s good reading and photos…
hey Christy
You are bang on.
I used the title “The Genocide Will be Televised” in reference to “The Revolution will be televised” which is song/phrase used a lot. To link it with that.
And meant to make it “is being” the last time I sang it but didnt
But yea..of course it “is being” and maybe I should use that more than once.
Thanks for listening and replying
Hello Christy,
Loved the article about Dowlings and the man Pat himself. And sending you good wishes for your album work. I hope it goes exactly as you want.
Hi Christy,
Thanks for the new album update.
Nice and easy, no need to go faster.
And also for the trip down memory lane
Smokey Robinson – Who knew ?
Unfortunately a chara you backed the wrong horse.
For the big chunky cartridges have gone the way
of the trupenny bit, the red bus and the dodo.
Not many vinyl collections would have survived
the seventies in tact. Between house moves, trips over the pond, and babbies on the rug. Anyways the first earlies are
chitting away on the windowsill. And I’m told spring is just
around the corner.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Dear christy,
Though i contact my mp every day to plead for a ceasefire to spare the slaughter of innocents and for the saving of gaza and the palestinians, on the recommendation of a jewish friend last week, i bought a 2nd hand book ‘out of the depths’ and in 4 days am finishing it tonight.
It tells the true life story of a little 4 year old boy in poland who amazingly survived buchenwald concentration camp and became chief rabbi of israel , namely meir lau.
The reason i post this is because i have come onto page 311 , in a coincidence of some magnitude from the most recent set of guestbook posts.
In it he talks of ‘examples from our biblical and rabbinic texts regarding the legal status of one who witnesses a crime but does nothing to stop it….your hands were not bound and your feet were not placed in chains. As one who falls before villains you have fallen’.
Yellow Triangle shall forever remain my favourite, and most dear , song.
Rory
Thanks a mill Gippmeister for the heads up about Dowling’s on TG4, some grand music, but sure it could have been anywhere, no mention if the history of Dowling’s keeping the tradition alive, as Christy says the presenter may never have heard of Pat.
But your link Gippmeister to Prosperous and the YouTube video was magical. I have heard so much about Dowling’s and Ned from his son Barry Farrell over here, it was beautiful to read about and see the great group of ‘pioneer’ musicians.
Christy's reply
Morra Pat,
twas great to hear Ned Farrell talk on that Prosperous video…. what a lovely Bodhrán player…Ned was way ahead of the possee of Bodhrán players that ensued…please extend my regards to his Son Barry..
I always recall returning to Pat’s in 1967…after a few years across the water I was so happy to be back amidst that wonderful gathering…Ned gave me such a welcome back..the words he used are still imprinted on my mind …
Mornin Christy
Strange how music choices work…There are numerous bands/singers I know about,but for no specific reasons,haven’t heard much of their music…
Until yesterday,’Capercaillie’ were in this category…thanks to a charity shop visit and grabbing a 1998 CD -‘Dusk till Dawn’/ The Best Of…I’m really enjoying the quality mix they produced…there’s a great line up photo from that year…Mike McGoldrick looks c 15!
So,better late than never to find good music…any similar experiences for you or readers here?
Have good day all
Dave
I’ve been listening to Michael McDonald, The Doobie’s and Steely Dan… all via Rick Beato’s podcasts on you tube
Hi Christy. I’m back in Belgium now but wanted to thank you for the amazing concert in Mullingar just over a week ago. You made my night very special and I will always remember my first concert. Thank you for making my night so memorable. Hope to see you in concert again soon. Fionn
Hi Christy,
reading about the gig in Cavan reminds me of the great privilege I had to be at your gig there last summer 🙂 – not such a long walk down memory lane but a great one. The concert was grand, I got really unique “souvenirs” and afterwards there was a beautiful singalong in the hotel with some very nice people from Donegal!
Now I’m really glad and thankful that I have the opportunity to join the second leg of your “home matches” in Naas end of March. Meanwhile there are even here some more folk gigs due to St. Patrick’s Day that shorten the waiting time.
Now the best of luck for the rugby match! Take care, Birgit
P.S. Miss the Taytos here as well 😉
Hi Christy
A crisp day for hunting down some mosaics…a Very dapper JFK was worth a diversion.
Stocked up family supplies in the Irish festival market…Taytos and Bolands biscuits are rare treats in these parts…I bought extra when told that proceeds are going to Irish Community Care in the city…a good excuse for more Taytos,I figured!
Dave
Hello Christy,
The new names are good!
Sorry, can’t find any recordings from the 1988 Dublin gig. There’s one from Wembley, Eurythmics, but not the Dublin one. Not sure if someone else will have more luck, or maybe something bootleggy squirreled away.
Don’t know about curry in Kildare but there’s a great curry house in Ennis. Just booked tickets for Castlebar. We’ll have plenty of time to search for the curry there too.
See you later at Twickenham!
Rebecca
Yesterday my memory took me back to the fantastic show I attended for Nelson Mandela at the Olympia Theater in Dublin in 1988. It was a rather unique gathering of Irish artists. In fact, I still have the promotional poster. What a special show, particularly you and Sineád singing Irish Ways and Irish Laws. At one time there was a recording of the show but not sure that still exists. Is that show available on any music platforms? ☮️❤️🎼
how are things in Chicago Terence ?…my final USA gig was in that Town…
every time I think Chicago I think of Denis Cahill….a unique musician and a beautiful man…. a great loss to all who listened and loved him..
re your enquiry… I have no idea… I remember singing with Sinéad clearly….perhaps some 4711er might be able to help…Anyone ???
The Sliabh Russell gig was top notch… a great audience , lovely mix of songs old and new…. Fairytale and Galtee Mountain Boy a highlight amongst them. I thought the sound in that big room was especially brilliant last night. How does he do it …??
A night that will stay with us for a long time. We had a rough auld week but your songs , music and craic lifted our spirits again.
Fair play to you and the whole team.
P.s.
The Camera loves you….
That Sean Quinn could build a right good ballad lounge…plenty of cheap gravel
we were cookin last night…
the screens bring the listeners at the back right into the engine room
I could feel them listening
the silence last night for “Lyra”, “Palestine”, “Time has Come”, was tingling
then the rauceous roars when auld favourites emerged….
I felt like an auld dog with two mickys
Hi Christy, I hope your gig in the Sliabh Russell went well, I saw you there a few years ago and it was a lovely gig altogether.
Barry says thanks a lot for the kind words about Ned, he says Ned held you in very high regard.
Barry wonders if you remember Joe Ward who was a great friend of Ned’s. Joe played five string banjo and a wonderful little 8 string jobbie called a “banjo mandolin”. he could really bring a tune to life….
I dream of getting yourself and Barry together in the same room, and getting the lowdown on that fantastic music place, time, people.
Thanks again for all the care and attention you lavish upon us as we reach out to catch a wee grip on the holy Grail….
I remember Joe Ward like it was last week….the way he sat over his banjo-mandolin, head bent forward, I can hear his sound, see his quiet smile…
that room is long gone, no sense of that time lingers, but the atmosphere created by Pat Dowling still permeates the memories of those who experienced and cherished the times….in all honesty, it should no longer be called Dowlings…
that man was laid to rest, let his name rest with him
I love the auld chats we have here
Hey Christy,
Tonight our Live Music Hawick committee kept up the music awareness in the town by putting on the film Stop Making Sense, we got a 3quarters sell out of the auditorium.
There can never have been a better gig film out there and David Byrne remains the coolest man on the planet.
Magnificent.
Roll on the 2024 festival.
Rory
I seldom disagree with you Rory..
I know very little of this man…I certainly remember the Talking Heads sound and vibe….unique and memorable…
but anything I’ve heard or seen about the man would have him well outside my top 100 cool persons ..never mind the planet…even in County Kildare…. I could name 27 Byrnes cooler then that artist…not as successful or band talented but cool as shortgrass cucumbers…
Of course we all have different ideas of what constitutes coolness….decades back I tried to be cool…but I had it all arseways….thankfully I failed utterly in all my attempts to be , what I thought then was , cool….
I learned to accept, and be comfortable in the mould that shaped me..
Thanks Be
Getting geared up to face the Sassenachs here…looking forward to seeing Finn & Co next week…
May we all enjoy the sport and fun of it all…Ride On Rory
Hoping that the radio silence bodes well for the ripening album.
No need to reply. Just sending you my good wishes, well the best really…
sounds good
Hi Christy,
When i get lost in your past stuff, maybe slightly obscure items, it feels like being transported to a day before every gig would sell out in minutes.
No more authentic than you are now but a bit more raw . With that in mind ‘ smoke and strong whiskey’ from the red disc is a great example of mixing up the words, battling on through, banter with the audience.. ..a gem that is entirely unpolished.
20 years on from that box set, is there anyone delving into your boxes of out-takes and demos to give us ‘box set 2, the return of the jedi’ ?
Rory
its all changed Rory…no one delving…. its all scattered around on devices now…all out there somewhere in the ever shrinking universes…..thank you for keeping the Box Set alive and kicking…I’m gonna go and listen to that track myself now
PS
I’ve just listened to that track….if memory serves twas The London Palladium one Sunday night about 30 years ago…Myself and the one and only (late) Jimmy Faulkner…. what a great one the road companero was Jimmy…
then Rory I listened on to Tyrone Boys…an early long forgotten version ..then a silence ensued broken by an intro to “Chicago” …it could well lead to another song …gonna stick at this for a day or two ( after todays game )
Hello Christy,
Theres a TV programme on at lunchtime here called The Repair Shop.
People bring along their family treasures that have seen better days and a crack team of crafts men and women work their magic and get things together and working again.
Today a man brought in a reel to reel tape recorder. His family had used it in the 60s to record singing and playing at family parties. The man had 4 tapes, and wanted to hear his father sing again.
So it was all mended and got working again.
Amazing to hear the recording, it was like time travel. The man said it was like he was back there.
Rebecca
straight I will repair, to the Curry of Kildare
Hi Christy
There have been occasional mentions of the ace magazine,’Rock’n’Reel'(RnR),masterminded by Sean McGhee…He plays a blinder to produce several copies a year,even including occasional gig reviews by yours truly…
Sean is based in Cleator Moor,Cumbria.In recent years,I’ve visited the area several times and there are fascinating links to Ireland,mainly linked to the history of industrial employment.Its a fascinating topic as,to many people,’Cumbria’ is synonymous with magnificent scenery,The Lake District etc…for anyone interested in the Cleator Moor story,there’s good reading and photos…
http://www.littleireland.co.uk
All the best
Dave
I stayed in Cleator Moore back in the 60s..cant rem which club I was playing but I ended up in Cleator Moor… cm made a big impression
hey Christy
You are bang on.
I used the title “The Genocide Will be Televised” in reference to “The Revolution will be televised” which is song/phrase used a lot. To link it with that.
And meant to make it “is being” the last time I sang it but didnt
But yea..of course it “is being” and maybe I should use that more than once.
Thanks for listening and replying
keep comin back
Hi Christy
This is a rough run through of a new song of mine
“the genocide will be televised”
https://youtu.be/-4nXhoa6nR4
well done
might you consider “is being” instead of “will be”
thanks for sharing
Hello Christy,
Loved the article about Dowlings and the man Pat himself. And sending you good wishes for your album work. I hope it goes exactly as you want.
Here’s Martin Leahy’s latest song. If you listen very carefully you might find me in there.
📸 Watch this video on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/TsqQk525SmSMQtLR/
Rebecca
Hi Christy,
Thanks for the new album update.
Nice and easy, no need to go faster.
And also for the trip down memory lane
Smokey Robinson – Who knew ?
Unfortunately a chara you backed the wrong horse.
For the big chunky cartridges have gone the way
of the trupenny bit, the red bus and the dodo.
Not many vinyl collections would have survived
the seventies in tact. Between house moves, trips over the pond, and babbies on the rug. Anyways the first earlies are
chitting away on the windowsill. And I’m told spring is just
around the corner.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Dear christy,
Though i contact my mp every day to plead for a ceasefire to spare the slaughter of innocents and for the saving of gaza and the palestinians, on the recommendation of a jewish friend last week, i bought a 2nd hand book ‘out of the depths’ and in 4 days am finishing it tonight.
It tells the true life story of a little 4 year old boy in poland who amazingly survived buchenwald concentration camp and became chief rabbi of israel , namely meir lau.
The reason i post this is because i have come onto page 311 , in a coincidence of some magnitude from the most recent set of guestbook posts.
In it he talks of ‘examples from our biblical and rabbinic texts regarding the legal status of one who witnesses a crime but does nothing to stop it….your hands were not bound and your feet were not placed in chains. As one who falls before villains you have fallen’.
Yellow Triangle shall forever remain my favourite, and most dear , song.
Rory
Thanks a mill Gippmeister for the heads up about Dowling’s on TG4, some grand music, but sure it could have been anywhere, no mention if the history of Dowling’s keeping the tradition alive, as Christy says the presenter may never have heard of Pat.
But your link Gippmeister to Prosperous and the YouTube video was magical. I have heard so much about Dowling’s and Ned from his son Barry Farrell over here, it was beautiful to read about and see the great group of ‘pioneer’ musicians.
Morra Pat,
twas great to hear Ned Farrell talk on that Prosperous video…. what a lovely Bodhrán player…Ned was way ahead of the possee of Bodhrán players that ensued…please extend my regards to his Son Barry..
I always recall returning to Pat’s in 1967…after a few years across the water I was so happy to be back amidst that wonderful gathering…Ned gave me such a welcome back..the words he used are still imprinted on my mind …
Then they came for me, there was no one left to speak.
I have that tattoo
Rory