- Music
- 15 Mar 04
As exclusively revealed in Hot Press, Christy Moore gets the retrospective treatment with the massive 6-CD Christy Moore 1964-2004 which is released by Columbia on March 19.
"The working title for many years was Box Set Me Bollix but this was deemed unsuitable," Moore jokes. "The project started in 1993 when I attempted to make some sense out of the chaos in my work room. There were thousands of bits and pieces all over the place and at one stage I considered binning the lot!
"There are 101 tracks," he continues. "Most is material previously unheard. There are some old recordings of songs that subsequently became popular. There are live takes from different countries, there are outtakes from old albums, there are rehearsals, there's a bit of very old Planxty music and a couple of Moving Hearts songs. There are a few tracks from long since deleted records and a few oddities gleaned from recordings made on the ghetto blaster on sleepless nights."