Then work chronologically!
― Tom D., Monday, 10 September 2007 09:40 (sixteen years ago) link
easy!
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 10 September 2007 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Andy Irvine playing a few gigs in London over the weekend, be there or be square
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 24 September 2010 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link
@Tom A. (or anyone): Did you go see him? He's playing Cambridge on the 23rd but I really ought to be leaving town that day; I could rearrange if top form is guaranteed.
On the back of this thread I went and bought the first two albums last week; I'm spellbound. I grew up with a half-intentional disinterest in traditional music - it always seemed to be either over-reverential or just guys belting it out in the pub. I must have heard Planxty before but never paid attention...what's amazing is the great subtlety in their arrangements and delivery, but also the feeling that you're hearing the musicians creating a new expressive language for Irish folk music. It reminds me a bit of another favourite of mine, Folk Roots New Roots by Shirley Collins and Davy Graham.
― seandalai, Saturday, 2 October 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw andy irvine play in new york a couple of times about 20 years ago. very good performer. can't go wrong with any of the planxty records (i think there's one i never heard tho).the andy irvine/paul brady record is the pinnacle of that era of irish folk music imo. paul brady was such a great folk artist, shame he moved on although i suppose those bonnie raitt residuals are nice. did not know about this He performed Gaelic songs as a character in the 2002 Matthew Barney film Cremaster 3.
― -hot-dean ge-fever- (buzza), Saturday, 2 October 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
he andy irvine/paul brady record is the pinnacle of that era of irish folk music
^^^^
This
― sonofstan, Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Co-sign
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
This is Planxty in 72(I think)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtUhxhYAxSg&feature=youtu.be
Watch as they turn into the Gansey Underground at the end, with Christy as a Nico/ Mo combo on harmonium and bodhran, and Liam óg as the John Cale of the pipes.
― sonofstan, Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Wrong link sorry *red face*
― sonofstan, Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Fuck.... sorry.
Look it up its the Blacksmith by Planxty on the Late Late....
― sonofstan, Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
hot hurdy gurdy action!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN9Y3ChP1go&feature=related
― -hot-dean ge-fever- (buzza), Saturday, 2 October 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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If ever there was a case of "ILM told me to do it"...
― seandalai, Saturday, 2 October 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i hate paul brady tho
― plax (ico), Sunday, 3 October 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
1) first 3 planxty albums are the shit2) andy irvine/paul brady LP is even better. damn.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 06:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9MJVqsOFY
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
those are some deeply satisfying chord changes btw
andy irvine/paul brady LP is even better. damn.
yup
― buzza, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 08:20 (twelve years ago) link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiysyMvHX3Q
― buzza, Friday, 4 November 2011 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
no embed?
― buzza, Friday, 4 November 2011 06:57 (twelve years ago) link
didn't know johnny played the fiddle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAYW5dwZJRA&feature=related
― buzza, Friday, 4 November 2011 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
no YouTube at work.
I was at a music festival last weekend where local psych rock improv etc band United Bible Studies did a storming version of 'P Stands For Paddy, I Suppose', which I am guessing they knew from "Cold Blow...". I liked it, though trad purist Mrs The New Dirty Vicar was bit annoyed.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 4 November 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyP407UnUWw
― buzza, Monday, 24 September 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
quality of christy's voice at points here just killin me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4w2_sal2bA
― Dr Peter Who? (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 August 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
The book on them by Leagues O'toole was a very good read. Wish Shanachie would remaster the lps, I think the most recent reisue was just a straight non-remastered one. Think that was about 3 years ago. & since they did actually do a good job of the Culture 2 7s Clash cd remaster reisue at the time I don't know why they didn't with Planxty.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 10 August 2013 09:25 (ten years ago) link
The No Disco/documentary thing is up on YouTube btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvoA959GYIA
― Please review your choices carefully. (seandalai), Saturday, 10 August 2013 10:56 (ten years ago) link
This is a good a place as any to recommend Andy Irvine's prior group, Sweeney's Men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpAGKahR9sQ&feature=player_detailpage&t=135
― Duke, Saturday, 10 August 2013 12:53 (ten years ago) link
I've been on a big Planxty-related buzz over Christmas and I was thinking - reharmonising of old well known songs, adding virtuoso instrumental sections, bringing in instruments and tunes from other traditions and making it your own, a whole overlapping ecosystem of bands and members where you can start from one album and branch out as you see fit, all while being fully grounded in an oral tradition that goes way, way back - it's basically Irish jazz, isn't it?
Sweeney's Men were great, but Liam O'Flynn was Planxty's secret ingredient. Like for The Blacksmith they're playing an old English song they got from Steeleye Span, as a duet between mandolin and bouzouki, with an original Balkan-inspired coda at the end, but the pipes come in and suddenly you're in west Clare. The bit where everything but the pipes drop out and then they come back in with the bodhrán makes the whole song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_1YIJCrYHk
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
Liam O'Flynn RIP
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0314/947337-liam-oflynn/
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 12:06 (six years ago) link
Learned this on guitar once, DADGAD of course...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Gi6U4MQ0
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/YMvBnEvuBuA
― Duke, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvBnEvuBuA
― Duke, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
Second attempt. Amazing performance from the 2004 gig
What a fuckin band tbh
― ian, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
No love on this thread for the Andy Irvine/Dick Caughan record 'Parallel Lines'?I kinda get hung up on the Creggan White Hare and forget how stunning most of the rest of the record is - the main exception being the sax coda on "My Back Pages"... some stunning stunning material on here. "At Twenty One"? Damn!
― ian, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 00:36 (five months ago) link
Planxty!!!!!
― ian, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 13:45 (five months ago) link