Christy Chats on Songs, Divas and Sport

We didn’t have to wait for too long for the next Christy Moore Chat. It has Christy explaining why he sings what songs he chooses to sing - including the songs of Bob Dylan and Morrissey. In short, no explanation is necessary.

I always find it funny that some people don’t like newer songs to be sung by traditional singers - as if traditional songs were never new themselves, just timeless pieces of pure music floating in a limited holy canon. Songwriting is the tradition. It’s alive, not something that existed for an arbitrary hundred years, and then stopped forever.

Christy has also been watching the box, being disappointed with a Sid Barrett documentary but enthralled with one on divas, Piaf, Holliday, Callas, Garland and Joplin.

And it’s heartening to see that Christy agrees with me on the Ryder Cup - though I suspect he feels stronger as it’s taking place in his County Kildare. Oh, and he says it so much better than I:

As for all this Riders Cup shite, fair play to you if it turns you on but the brouhaha is galling. A billion viewers my hole. Jasus we’d swallow any auld shite those ad agencies would dream up. The road from Dublin to Straffan will be finished on time. Dr.Smurfit must be well in with the Kildare Co.Council. “I did it my way”-you sure did Doctor. High Definition Bullshite. I was hoping for a while that the greenkeepers were going to go on strike. That would have brought me to The K Klub. I stayed there once. I was booked in for 6 nights but baled out the first morning. A right hoity toity Kip. They were probably glad to see the back of me. Moved to the Ambassador in Kill, friendlier gaff altogether. I was gigging in Goffs. I was booked to play 6 nights and ended up doing 16 and that was before the Celtic Tiger escaped from Charlie’s Circus

Go have a read of the full chat

Got an eMail this morning from a friend in London, with a chance to see Christy Moore, wondering who Declan Sinott is? I sent a one word response: Go.

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