I lived in Dublin from 71 to 78. I can’t count the number of times I saw Planxty. The 70’s were a golden time for Irish music, Planxty, the Chieftains, Clannad, the Bothy Band, DeDanan. There were concerts every weekend. I was supposed to be studying but I spent a lot of time listening to music.

@tomsampson8084

4 ай бұрын

I was in Detroit back then and saw many of those groups (and more) as well. It was a great time for Irish music in Detroit.

@nbenefiel

4 ай бұрын

@@tomsampson8084 I grew up in Detroit. Remember Tipperary’s pub, the Dublin Inn, and the Gaelic League. The Gaelic League brought in a new group from Ireland every month.

Saw this line up in the Pavilion DunLaoghaire in 1974. Best gig I was ever at. Hard to imagine it's the most of 50 years ago. Legends all.

I had the huge pleasure of seeing the original line up plus Paul Brady and Christys brother as extras, in the Pavilion in Dun Laoire sometime about late 73 or 74.. Paul sang this version of Arthur Mc Bride also.. Planxty were a huge influence to thousands of young Irish musicians.. They have to this day never been bettered and there are no bands I know who did as much for Traditional music..

@renderizer01

Жыл бұрын

Before Barry Moore became Luka Bloom. Before he got afflicted with tendonitis and had to switch his technique from fingerstyle to flatpicking. A bit sad, actually, I liked his style back then. All that said, Christy's hairdo in this video here is something to behold, really...

@MarisaDwyer

Жыл бұрын

If I was born a decade or two earlier, I might have devoted my entire life to being a Planxty groupie. Tragically,I had the opportunity to see them in the early 80's and, due to being an idiot 12 yr old, I didn’t go because I was pouting because my dad wouldn't let me see AC/DC while in Dublin. THE MOST REGRETTED MUSICAL DECISION EVER.

@berniecourtney1

Жыл бұрын

Saw them once or twice in the early and mid seventies, magic, complete magic.

I am Australian, heard Planxty when I lived in Alice Springs, from Perth originally. Absolutely been hooked for 40 yrs!

@lisamcgeeney8972

Жыл бұрын

I heard Planxty first in Sydney in 1970s as a child of Irish parents! Family sent us compilation tapes of Trad and Folk music (A Feast of Irish Folk was one) and I loved all the songs - particularly Planxty. When we returned to Ireland in the 1980s I got to know the work of the individual members of the band

Best performance ever done by Paul Brady.........Arthur McBride. He was definitely at his best.

Thanks for uploading. My late father, a uilieann piper, loved Planxty and Bothy Band. Great to see this again. Brings back wonderful memories.

@AndyIrvineFanblog

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Christy Moore looking like Lord Farquaad in this clip with his hair.

Best irish folk band of all times.

Paul Brady has an incredible voice

What a treat ,to hear this after 50 years.

It's mad to see so much talent on display only for Paul Brady to win.

So gorgeous music and song ever here adore all I am a great fan ever thank you Andy and Planxty

Gee!... what a line up Planxty ...apart from all great musicians 4 of the best Irish ☘️ singers .

Brilliant

Props to the old wordsmith who crafted this wonderful tune.

Great version of Planxty...pity they didn't get a chance to record.....what an album it would have been......with 4 vocalists it would have had to been a double one !!! Thanks a million Andy Irvine Fanblog for sharing ...

@chriscorr9124

6 жыл бұрын

They did record

all of these guys shows seem like so much fun. Happy and comical and they are genuinely having a good time. Been watching this daily for the past couple weeks now and finding all their other music. I was aware of some bits and pieces but not all of it and I am hooked!

@innalitvak6654

4 жыл бұрын

Lew-e being a Planxty fan for more than 20 years I still come back here to watch their videos and it’s so great to know that more and more people are discovering them now!

@patwaine8946

Жыл бұрын

Magic

They had great songs

A gem.

This is really a piece of music history. Thanks for shareing.

@bernardschmit5504

6 жыл бұрын

Folkfreak1 i

Never knew Paul and Christy were in at the same time! This is amazing.

@antoineturuban3914

Жыл бұрын

Altogether they were 5 : Liam O'Flinn - Andy irvine - Christy Moore - Paul Brady - Donal Lunny.

Daoiri Farrell brought me here tonight after his online gig...(he did a great version of the drummer boy) jeezus I’m half a bottle of whisky in and already and listening to this isn’t quenching my thirst... fantastic and much needed during these rough times. 😷 Slainté 🥃

@MarisaDwyer

Жыл бұрын

Planxty and Daoiri is a great Saturday night. Tipping er up to those boys! I can't imagine how much trouble I've stayed out of just choosing to stay home and listen to the best. Slainte!

I actually saw this lineup. They were providing the music for a play about Finn McCool at the 1974 Edinburgh Festival. Very late in the evening they played a concert in the same venue- the old Ice Rink next to Haymarket station. Had to walk ten miles home afterwards!

@AndyIrvineFanblog

7 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@sebdetyra651

4 жыл бұрын

Fionn not FInn :P

@michaelmclaughlin7325

4 жыл бұрын

Jesus grahame hood, the memories. Walkin ten miles home was always part of crac and the concert

@torcullkennedy4540

3 жыл бұрын

Me too..

@martifingers

3 жыл бұрын

The walk was so worth it...

Great remember hearing Andy and Paul back in the 60s in UCD.

@AndyIrvineFanblog

Жыл бұрын

Cool!

Another Classic performance from the lads, I take the Black Album, vinyl out every so often, brilliant.

Great song, great band, love it

Brilliant--saw them live a few times at Leeds /Manchester and the Guildhall in Newcastle with Hamish Imlach and Hedgehog Pie---Fantastic group !!!

@jeromeaery3405

6 жыл бұрын

Like a remembrance...

@josefinagarza241

Жыл бұрын

I want to get up and dance....lovely,lovely

Simply Superb!!.Thanks for posting.Cheers Jim

Johnny Moynihan is amazing, great to see him here, what I wouldn’t give to meet him now such a talented beautiful man

@jamesbradshaw3389

Жыл бұрын

You are only saying this because you paid to say those very kind words, only joking

Pure brilliance.Jim.Liverpool.

Pure class

the greatnesss all on one stage here is obscene. It's just not fair on everyone else

This is a tune that I first heard played by Great Big Sea, and this is a lovely version as well. Great old Canadian tune!

Christy with lovely hair!

Outstanding...Thanks.

Johnny is incredible

I saw Planxty in Wards of Ballyfa Galway. 1973. Amps were bad but what a sound! Great vid.

@AndyIrvineFanblog

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow!

incredible how he fixed the string that had got out of tune within a few bars from when I noticed, without interruption! (17:45)

brilliant, the whole thing.... just watching this live version of Paul's Arthur McBride and noticed a couple of great things.... at 16:25 when he sings "when a trusty shillelagh" he knocks the soundboard of his guitar... and at 17:44 "and bid them look sharp" as he adjusts his A-string [here tuned to G for open G tuning] and sharpens it slightly!

@oliveroneill1388

Жыл бұрын

Listen to the singing. Stop looking for faults . Ok

@oliveroneill1388

Жыл бұрын

Looking at your gay following. Youra dick

@diamondmidnightgardener

Жыл бұрын

@@oliveroneill1388 I think you completely missed the point. I have listened numerous times to his performance and it's brilliant. If you read my comment above and think just a little you might consider how clever Paul is to incorporate the above mentioned into his performance

@berniecourtney1

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!! Clever stuff, brilliant in fact

Brilliant video. I seen Andy play in new york in 2011 a great entertainer

yay and thanky...saw our Paul in Canton MA at the wee Irish Festival

Absolutely amazing footage, Irvine is a genius as we all know, people are only recognising this now. In England there's BIMM students who know about this guy. As an Irishman living in the UK this years it blows my mind.

@padraichorgan

3 жыл бұрын

Yes ,I agree ,Andy is a musical genius ,with the most unique voice .Makes me laugh when people discriminate about nationality in music ....it knows no borders ,just enjoy and admire.....

Great energy

Saw them a couple of times in the Carlton..!! Kris K, John D and a few others. Let's remember the National Stadium was also a 'venue' then, Donovan among others there. Happy days.

Thankyou for this

Thanks Andy

@AndyIrvineFanblog

4 ай бұрын

I'm not Andy, just a fan. Enjoy

@Brian-zp1df

4 ай бұрын

@@AndyIrvineFanblog Fandy

Fantastic - thanks for posting

@AndyIrvineFanblog

Жыл бұрын

No worries!

First time I saw and heard this!! Great stuff!! 🎉🎉🎉

@AndyIrvineFanblog

4 ай бұрын

Glad you like it!

Magnífico, tipicamente irlandés.

@Nautilus1972

4 жыл бұрын

Seguro.

finger plucking and picking combo is unreal, i wanted to try to figure out how he's playing this but once i saw that no way,

@ConsairtinFergus

4 жыл бұрын

Irvine has a very peculiar way of plucking / fingerpicking; and also fingering and holding the mast... But It works, and It's what counts in the end :) Now I'm watching Brady, I suppose It makes sense... He alvays tuned his guitar in an open D chord, and his playing is as personal as his singing.

@Neilweemuck

3 жыл бұрын

@@ConsairtinFergus Open G

.. merci ... depuis la france .. ;) Yiiii Ahhhhh .. ♫

Fantastic band

@AndyIrvineFanblog

2 жыл бұрын

The best

I saw this lot in the Shannon doo main Street Limavady . The late Colm Mc kenna,s pub year's ago

great to see this transitional version of planxty....christy moore and paul brady on the one stage....johnny moynihan was a talented guy, flitting from whistle fiddle to bouzouki and singing as well...christy`s bodhran was a bit loud....the various planxty`s were all good....not just the original 4..i`m thinking of bill whelan matt molloy nollaig ni cathasaigh and others.

@johnmc3862

2 жыл бұрын

And James Kelly!

Good memories of a great band - I also have to agree with Rupertbear about Hedgehog Pie.

I had the opportunity to see that old Harmonium that Paul is playing up in west Wicklow at Ronan Browne, the pipers house

When I hear Paul Brady sing this song I think no one could possibly sing this better. But when I first heard it sung by Andy Irvine, before that, I thought the same thing. I still think the same two things. But it's clear that Irvine deferred to Brady on this, seeing it as his song first, so who am I to question? "And the little wee drummer, we flattened his bow And we made a football of his rowdy-dow-dow Threw it in the tide for to rock and to roll And bade it a tedious returning And we havin' no money, paid them off in cracks We paid no respect to their two bloody backs And we lathered them there like a pair of wet sacks And left them for dead in the morning And so, to conclude and to finish disputes We obligingly asked if they wanted recruits For we were the lads who would give them hard clouts And bid them look sharp in the mornin' Oh, me and my cousin, one Arthur McBride As we went a-walkin' down by the seaside Now mark what followed and what did betide For it bein' on Christmas mornin'"

@porterhall27

3 жыл бұрын

the later version recorded in 1977 is better than this one..

Classic material :-)

Rare performance indeed, v. unusual to see Johnny Moynihan playing fiddle. Andy Irvine claims to have been in De Dannan, I must have blinked and missed that!

@AndyIrvineFanblog

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, he sure was. There are a handful of li e tracks Records, he was only there for a few months.

I don't understand how I never heard about this group? I listened to the Chieftains, but these guys are much better.

@sdrtcacgnrjrc

3 ай бұрын

Agreed. Funny enough for me it was the other way round, Planxty were big in our house growing up in the seventies, I only heard of the Chieftains later

@HolgerWerner-so2ki

3 ай бұрын

❤​@@sdrtcacgnrjrc

I got to see Andy in new york, he was brilliant

IT'S A VERY ALLUSIVE NARRATIVE, YARMOUTH, EDINBURGH, BUT THEY MADE GREAT MUSIC. THEY PLAYED WELL, 4-COURSE MANDOLIN, UILLEAN PIPES, PENNY-WHISTLE, AND WHAT LOOKS LIKE AND EGYPTIAN OUD, LIKE A LUTE. WELL WORTH SEEING, FOR THE FIRST TIME, FOR ME.

@AndyIrvineFanblog

7 жыл бұрын

It is a greek bouzouki not an oud or lute. and the whistle would be known as a tin whistle in Ireland. thanks for commenting!

💚💚💚💚💚

super)))

I love irish music and im latino wish i could meet an irish guy

@GerryBolger

4 жыл бұрын

How u doin???

@michaelmclaughlin7325

4 жыл бұрын

Then, my deer, come to ireland....

@kirisame5939

4 жыл бұрын

Ive never traveled alone, whats a deer michael🦄

@niallmurray9725

3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure there’s a few out there who like to meet you too 😁👍

Omg Andy. How great a voice

Unsurpassed

Incredibly..all..

❤

hey johnny

Johnny Moynihan making a rare appearance with them.

3:30 Little Drummer. Happy ending for HIM. I would not want to marry a man who emotionally blackmailed me with the threat of suicide. Run miles away from such a psycho, lol

Good to hear a seafaring song of living life on the high seas or have got the story of this song completely wrong? Planxty The greatest rocking folk band of all times

A happy blending micks in usa

How long did Johnny Moynihan and Paul Brady play with Planxty? When did Donal Lunny come into the band?

@AndyIrvineFanblog

6 жыл бұрын

Lunny was there from the start but left for a time to be replaced by Moynihan, when Christy Moore left he was replaced by Brady. The Band then split, later to reform with the original line-up of Lunny & Moore. It is a shame that they Moynihan Brady lineup never recorded an album.

Whats the march played after frost is over?

ERIN AGUS ALBA GO BRAGH ! 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

😳

Thank you for sharing. So the lineup is: Brady, Moore, O'Flynn, Irvine and Moynihan. Am I correct?

@AndyIrvineFanblog

7 жыл бұрын

Yes. Brady joined as moore's replacement and stayed on for a short time while the transition happened. This is the only known footage of this lineup as far as I know

@GerryBolger

4 жыл бұрын

My god imagine losing Christy Moore only to gain Paul Brady! Talk about stumblin from greatness to greatness....

@chriscboland

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndyIrvineFanblog There's also some BBC footage from the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1974. I put in on my facebook page a couple of years ago. It may still be there.

@AndyIrvineFanblog

3 жыл бұрын

@@chriscboland wow. If you could find this It would be amazing

@johnmc3862

2 жыл бұрын

@@chriscboland I saw that, it’s a very short snippet.

By jaysus that's some yarn by Andy in the description.

Andy Christy liam lunny Best ever.

mgaic!!!!!!!

I wonder how Donal missed this one or maybe he wasn’t in the band then?

@AndyIrvineFanblog

2 жыл бұрын

He was not in the band at this stage.

Hey micks

chisty with hair, kinda paralell n kinda like it... In seperate ways.

Where is Donal Lunny?

@AndyIrvineFanblog

4 ай бұрын

He was not in the band at this time.

Bodhran sounds terrible not christy's fault good playing but bodhrans have come a long way in nearly 50 years they sound a lot softer now and more tunefull very hard and noisy back then even when played softly .Great band and went on to b big stars in their own right..

@celticdeamon567

Жыл бұрын

I prefer the old sound. More tribal, pagan primitive war drum.

Brilliant video from 1974. History in the making. Andy Irvine, Paul Brady, what more do you want. Christy? His ego was much bigger than his talent. He never wrote a memorable ballad. He made his fame from singing others' ballads. And he was good at that. But he couldn't sing or play like Irvine or Brady or any of Sweeney's Men, or you name it. Christy made his name by being a power on stage, helped by liquor. Andy Irvine and Paul Brady didn't push their luck that far. They could've, they shoud've. They both have ten times more talent than "Lisdoonvarna" Moore.

Ye this was awesome , till Christy started singing, Andy Irvine , and Paul Brady sang the songs, Christy murdered them, 😔

@user-yh3xm3zo9l

3 ай бұрын

The bold driving Andy Irvine master on the songs, bless u, loved everything u did over the decades, 😂♥️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏