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Christy Moore

lines on the record: 49
first: 2007-06-17
most recent: 2007-06-17
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Servillain pipes The say it takes twenty one years to master the illin pipes, and I would have the time to dedicate it, and my playing would not be infringing on anybody else.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I cannot describe it really as I listened there I realise I'd love to pay homage to Tom Munnelly, to Seamus Ennis and to Frank Hart. who dedicated their lives to going out, meeting the likes of John Riley and recording. 'Cause without their efforts all this would have been lost.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I heard John Riley first, I was seventeen or eighteen. and John was a man of the road, a knight of the road. He was a tinker man, but he had a store of the most beautiful songs. I never forget John Riley. He's with me all the way along the way, and I still sing some of his songs, but not so often these days. But when I do, I'm imbued with the spirit of his singing, and it's a beautiful thing.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, in my head I have it down to meeting up with Declan Sinnet again. One of my old colleagues from and we just started to play together for fun. Oh yeah, then Declan's fiftieth party and we get up and played together, and Donald Lunny was there and the three of us played. And it was okay. It all just drifted back again.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Partly it still is ebbing away. I realise now that when it starts to come up I can't deal with it alone and I ask my mother and father to give me a dig hour.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was terrifying. My father really came into play on that one. A particularly good friend, a man called Patrick Nugent. Not only was my GP, but he was a very, very spiritual and compassionate man. Patrick suggested that I talk to my father, and he created this image for me. He said what I want you to do is I want you to imagine that you're on a surfboard heading towards the shore, and you're holding your father's hand.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, when I say I could not have a conversation. In the early days of it I could communicate with Val, but Not very well”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, certainly what happened to me initially was much more than a panic attack. Everything was taken from me, and I could not communicate with anybody I could not go out the door, answer the phone, pick up the guitar, and I really believed I would never walk again.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But as I said, I first encountered Ywain in his club in King's Cross about nineteen sixty eight and right through I would keep hearing new McCall songs and then when I heard this song The Joy of Living, which I believe may have been his last song. I thought what a beautiful way to”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I drank too much. I got in two substances and It is quite uncomfortable, isn't it to talk about I just saw the company of others who had the same illness and disease that I suffered. And that's where it began”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Certainly when I was in the intense of care it was my intention to stop everything, but I recovered and I came back out and my intention wasn't sufficient. I went back to drink again. And that's when I realized that I can't handle this. I really am beaten here. And that's when my journey began when I reached out for help.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was at home when I began to feel very, very strange. I knew there was something going on, so I just went to the doctor, who told me I'd had a heart attack.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I first heard Luke Kelly sing I was very, very struck, not only by the power of his voice, but by the emotion he put into his singing. I worshipped Luke Kelly because of the way he sang. and I would love to hear Luke Kelly sing the ballad of Jo Hill.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've no idea how much It's very hard to define alcoholism. It's very hard to define where it comes from or what causes this. I think no two alcoholics have the same story. was certainly oblivion was what I sought for a long time.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I suppose it partly came from perceived injustice towards others on the I suppose some of it was buried deep inside I still suffer to this day from anger. It surges up into me sometimes and it's horrible.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At the time I saw it in black and white, but certain things happened along the way. I mean obviously in the lead up to the hunger state It was very black and white.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nor many years later I met some of the detectives who were on the raid and they admitted that they were amongst their most cherished belongings for those albums, you know. So a lot of ambivalence, a lot of contradiction, a lot of confusion, that's the way it was.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there was a launch in the brazen head in Dublin, and the launch was raided by the special branch, and they took everybody's name and address, and they confiscated all the albums, and of course you couldn't have better publicity for an album. Everybody in the country wanted it after that, so the special branch did a right bit of PR for us.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I certainly begun to sing them. At this time Bobby Sand's name didn't mean anything to me. He was just a young man, and he had a pen name he always signed his writings as Marcella. and I came across these two songs and began to sing them one I wish I was back home in Derry and the other is McLhaton and two very very fine songs”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, I moved back to Ireland. Things were changing in Ireland, the atmosphere was changing, and when I left Planckstey in nineteen seventy four, I suppose again it was like the message of Ewan McCall I felt perhaps I needed some relevance in my work. I then was invited into the H blocks, and I was asked what I consider writing a song about the situation that was emerging in the H block”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I first heard the in pipes when I was seventeen or eighteen, and it so happened that the first player I heard was also the player I perceived to be the best is Leo Flynn from Kildare, and he was a member of Planksty, along with myself and Irvin and Donal Lunny. This piece of music is very special to me for many different reasons, but probably mostly because of the way it sounds.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“After the first album with Dominic Behan, I wanted to work with Irish musicians who would have more feeling for the songs, and Bill Leader came to Ireland with me in nineteen seventy one or seventy two and we recorded an album which went so well that we decided to form a band, and that band was called Planksty, and that was a wonderful time.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Indeed it is, I mean she created the home and she reared our three beautiful children, our chadults, as I call them now. I'm blessed that she put up with me.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course I did the first copy I got I posted at home to mother and she was well pleased. She was very very proud of what I was doing because she loved singing so much herself and perhaps I was living out her dream.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I met Dominic Bean at there was a concert for Irish civil rights in Shepherd's Bush late nineteen sixty eight, and I befriended Dominic Behan, and he said to me late that night, would you like to make a record? He said I will make a record with you and he did. He was true to his word.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While the Clancy brothers changed my life, I heard the Clancy Brothers and I averted my gaze from Elvis and Buddy Holly and all those American rock and roll singers, and I heard this sound that was in my own dialect, I heard these songs that I seemed to know, and it was every bit as exciting, and I wanted some of it.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For the life so I was chaotic, but it was wonderful. I mean I loved it travelling around England and Scotland with all these pretty wild guys. Little partying, a lot of travelling good time.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“McCall only met him a few times he became a huge influence, but I certainly did not know him well, but I did meet himself and Peggy Seager occasionally, and McCall was singing old songs, but also new songs, and he was writing as he went along, and he sowed the seed that perhaps one day I might write a song.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I did quite a bit of that in the early days, but I met a man called Bruce May, who was then managing Ralph McTell, and he was very critical of my performance. And he said you've got to stop for a playing a stage paddy. He said you've got a good voice. He said you've got to be more serious about your repertoire. And I also went to Yul McCall's club, and that was an eye opener.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The way it revolved I used to play in the Irish pubs around London, and then I went to a folk club, I went to my first folk club, which was in the Scots house, and Annie Briggs was the guest, and Annie Briggs stood up in the corner of the room and sang, and the whole room listened, and this was hey, this is interesting. I learnt the craft of what I do here. I befriended so many wonderful singers, travelled to hundreds and hundreds of folk clubs. It had a huge effect upon me.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In my earlier days I used to play piano, but what I loved to do then was to try and play early rock and roll. And this is one of the songs I used to play on the piano and I used to sing. I'm just a lonely boy.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was thirty seven, and she spoke about him every day. You know, I didn't realise the consequence until my youngest son was eleven. and it dawned on me the effect it would have on him, and that was the first time I began to realise what effect it might have had on us, and I've developed a relationship with my father over the years and in the last twelve or fifteen years of a really good relationship with him now. I talked to both of It seems to”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While Barry was only four or five months old when Daddy died. It left my mother. without her beloved for all of her life, and she missed him every day.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“and she basically went out and became the earner. She had a small shop in New Bray, small grocery shop. She took over the shop and run it.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know, I really don't know what I was doing. I remember asking Mammy the following the day after the funeral. I remember going into Mammy and saying Are we going to be poor now? So obviously that was a concern of mine were we going to be poor.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was to do with the anaesthetic. My next memory of it was I was in fifth class in national school and the priest Father McNally came in, and Father McNally told me in nineteen fifty six that I think you should go home I think your mammy wants to see you. And when I got home I knew there was something all right. The house was in darkness and all the neighbors were there. I remember a man called Joe McGowan, a neighbour, saying to me You're the man of the house now.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it was the biggest thing in all our lives, and to this day we still were affected greatly by it. He went in to have a toenail removed, and something went wrong and he didn't survive the toenail being removed.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I took to it from early on as a boy soprano I took to it What really I think was a turning point for me was when I was sixteen I sang Titwillow in the Mikado, and the effect that had on the audience Something dawned on me, there's something there's something going on here, and it really turned me on.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the way the voice sounds in the early morning, particularly I've been singing for the last four nights, so there's a huskiness in my voice that takes quite a while to sing. Dis”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I befriended Mike Waterson in the late sixties when I played in his folk club or the family folk club in And this song I heard his brother in law Martin Carthy sing it, and I just thought it was very, very powerful, and it's one of those songs that people don't quite know how to react to it. I think it's a really good piece of writing Oh there was a woman and she lived on her own, slaved on her own Skivid two little boys and two little girls she lived all alone with her husband He was a hunk of a man, a chunk of a man and a punk of a man a hunk of the drunken spunk of a man such em bosy browsing bully of a husband”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I began to perform quite early on as a boy soprano I sang in the choir, and I also sang in what in those days were called variety concerts, and I would be wheeled out and I would sing Kevin Barry in the meeting of the waters. So I went on stage early on.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would you believe I've never even wondered why I've never thought of that I don't know what she was at? Imoash what were you doing there, mammi?”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, we weren't well to do, but we certainly had everything we needed. We were blessed in that way. There were six of us there was myself, Eilish, Anne, Terry, Andy, and Barry, and we were very happy family until nineteen fifty six, I suppose when Daddy left”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While Newbridge was a garrison town, it's also where all the race tracks are, a lot of racing trainers around. So when I was growing up it was Nuns, brothers, priests, jockey boys and soldiers”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very much so she gave me an appreciation of a good song. was very important to her, and right up until the time she died I would play my new songs to her.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While the first singer who caught my attention was my mother, my mother sang all the time. She sang at the sink, she sang in the kitchen, and she also sang in the Dominican church in Newbridge and County Kildare. And that was always very strange sensation to be at mass on Sunday morning and to hear my mother in the organ loft, singing sometimes Ave Maria.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wonderful after nineteen ninety nine I really thought I would never be able to go on stage again, and it just has grown back from that point. And it's been wonderful”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I suppose my love my almost obsession with singing songs and I get very involved passionately with the songs while performing and I think that is perhaps swash. people or helps people to listen. I simply get lost in performance. I feel like I'm in a place that I cannot be reached, and I believe in performance it's the three elements of the song, the singer and the listener that make for the magic that sometimes happens at concerts.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“have asked the question, perhaps I would regard myself in that way, but I think a carrier of news The old ballad singers used to carry the news. They would sing the songs on the streets and sell their broadsheets. And I think perhaps some of these songs carry my version of the news.”
2007-06-17 · Desert Island Discs · Christy Moore · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source