RTÉ's Other Voices have announced more acts for next year's show, including Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott. Plus, your last chance to get tickets for the recordings....
Christy Moore plays a special show in Dublin’s National Concert Hall on June 23 in aid of Console, the Irish charity that helps people affected by suicide.
This week sees the unleashing this week of The Spirit Of Freedom, Christy Moore’s legendary “lost” album, which received only a limited vinyl release in 1985.
Christy Moore follows in Duke Special and Damien Rice’s footsteps by performing on the new series of Later With Jools Holland, which airs every Friday at 11.35pm on BBC 2.
It takes a rare talent indeed to reduce a venue as cavernous as The Point to the intimacy of a sitting room, but Christy does it for 35 songs, over two magnificent hours.
The very charitable Christy Moore is headlining a special benefit in aid of the Pakistan Disaster Appeal, only two months after his show for New Orleans victims.
Given that he’s this issue’s cover star, it’s only fitting that the many Christy Moore goodies in our possession are dug up and given a new lease of life. So, if you’re sitting comfortably, let’s begin…
Back in the saddle witha politically charged new album, Burning TimesChristy Moore and co-collaborator Declan Sinnott are putting the agit-prop back into folk. In a rare interview, Moore speaks frankly abot Hattie Carroll and Rachel Corrie, Richard Thompson anoraks, interpreting Morrissey and recently being detained by British authorities under anti-terrorism laws.
Burning Times – sonically fashioned in his usual magisterial style by Declan Sinnott – addresses concrete sprawling issues in songs like Natalie Merchant’s ‘Motherland’ and Rennie and Brett Sparks ‘Peace In The Valley Once Again’.
Christy Moore headlines a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. At short notice, Moore recruited artists such as Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan, Mary Coughlan and Declan Sinnott. Together they served up a feast of folk and blues.
By the banks of the Lee, Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott paid homage to Cork-born songwriters by interspersing a set of Christy classics like 'Lisdoonvarna' and 'Nancy Spain' with great covers including 'Magic Nights At The Lobby Bar' by John Spillane and 'The Contender' by Jimmy McCarthy.
For a man who generally guards his privacy with considerable zeal, this six CD box set is a generous entree into the private realm and thoughts of a man who has chronicled Ireland’s place in the modern world with all the passion, courage and clarity of a homegrown Woody Guthrie.
Further artists have been announced for the London Fleadh bill, while elsewhere, headliner Bob Dylan has been revealed as the unlikely new face of Victoria's Secret underwear
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.
Christy Moore, who headlines this year’s rejuvenated Lisdoonvarna Festival, recalls the first flowering of music festivals in Ireland – and looks forward to this year’s event, when once again the challenge will be to weave that spell
The break, brief as it was, seems to have done him a power of good. His voice on this recording is lighter, stronger, and more flexible than it's been in years
The social conscience of his generation teams up with his old muckers Messrs. Lunny and Synnott to deliver the kind of tune he was quite probably put on this earth to perform. Never has a tale of binge-drinking and husband-beating sounded so stirring.
CHRISTY HITS the chill-out zone? It’s enough to put the heart across club culturalists and hardcore troubadours alike. Moore’s often bedecked his songs with gaudy tapestries, but on Traveller, in partnership with Leo Pearson, he’s cross-pollinating folk forms with deep space beats, head music and ambient swashes, sticking his neck out further than ever before.
THE QUEUES down Wexford Street for this rare club appearance from the mighty Christy were reminiscent of the crowds that stormed The Baggot Inn for those
legendary Moving Hearts shows, all of fifteen years ago. Since then, Christy has become a megastar of ludicrous proportions and not surprisingly, the "Sold Out"
signs were in place by around 8:00pm.
Sharing the spotlight with only his trusty guitar, Ireland's foremost troubadour Christy Moore prepares to take on audiences at The Point later this month. Here he tells Bill Graham of his growing sense of worth and self-confidence, defends Siniad O'Connor's right to free speech and explains just why good hecklers are worth their weight in gold.
