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The war on war

Richard Boyd Barrett on the background to the upcoming anti-war gig in The Point – and why music can help amplify the voice of the people


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(60 articles in total in Hotpress.com archive)

INTERVIEW: 10 Mar 2010
Selected as the Best Irish Male singer at the Meteor Awards 2010, CHRISTY MOORE first emerged as a performer towards the end of the 1960s. Since then, he has...



NEWS: 24 Feb 2010
In one of his most candid and revealing interviews ever, folk legend Christy Moore tells Hot Press that we currently have a "flawed and corrupt system."



NEWS: 02 Feb 2010
It's taking place next month in Vicar St.



NEWS: 03 Dec 2009
He will perform at the SIPTU Centenary Celebration Concert in Liberty Hall on December 7.



NEWS: 21 Aug 2009
It's happening next month in County Cork.



NEWS: 20 Jul 2009
He's appearing as part of the star-studded Masters Of Tradition festival.



NEWS: 02 Mar 2009
You can get your first taster of Listen this week.



NEWS: 21 Nov 2008
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...



NEWS: 15 Sep 2008
Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott have lined-up a December/January run of dates in Dublin's Vicar Street.



NEWS: 08 Sep 2008
Another of the big Electric Picnic success stories, Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott, have announced a brace of Norn Iron shows.



NEWS: 19 Mar 2008
Christy Moore and Declan Sinnott play what by their standards is a highly intimate club show in Whelan’s, Dublin on April 7.



NEWS: 30 Oct 2007
Tickets seem to be selling faster than Christy can put on shows, but he’s doing his best, with another Irish date added for next April.



NEWS: 21 Sep 2007
Christy Moore has announced a series of live shows with Declan Sinnott over Christmas and New Year's.



NEWS: 28 May 2007
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.



NEWS: 30 Mar 2007
This week sees the unleashing this week of The Spirit Of Freedom , Christy Moore’s legendary “lost” album, which received only a limited vinyl...



NEWS: 21 Mar 2007
Following on from last year's inaugural festival, the bill for the country/roots-centric Midlands Music Festival has been revealed.



NEWS: 03 Nov 2006
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...



INTERVIEW: 07 Jun 2006
Recent months have seen Christy Moore return to the fray with renewed vigour and an appetite for live performance



REVIEW: 19 Apr 2006
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...



NEWS: 25 Nov 2005
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...



INTERVIEW: 14 Nov 2005
Back in the saddle witha politically charged new album, Burning Times Christy Moore and co-collaborator Declan Sinnott are putting the...



NEWS: 26 Oct 2005
Dublin gets a holiday bonus as Christy Moore adds tour dates.



INTERVIEW: 17 Oct 2005
National treasure Christy Moore returns to the fray with a new studio album.



REVIEW: 10 Oct 2005
Christy Moore headlines a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. At short notice, Moore recruited artists such as Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan,...



REVIEW: 10 Oct 2005
Burning Times – sonically fashioned in his usual magisterial style by Declan Sinnott – addresses concrete sprawling issues in songs like Natalie...



NEWS: 20 Sep 2005
Fresh from his concert in aid of the New Orleans victims, Christy Moore has announced two more high profile dates at The Point, Dublin.



NEWS: 06 Sep 2005
Since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, musicians around the globe have been rallying to support the relief cause.



REVIEW: 28 Jul 2005
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'...



NEWS: 10 Jun 2005
Two of the country's leading musicians have added their names to the Hot Press petition opposing proposed changes to the Criminal Justice Bill



NEWS: 04 Nov 2004
Christy Moore is the latest performer to fall foul of anti-terrorist paranoia. Plus the usual round-up of news from the trad and folk scene.




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