Planxty - CD/SD

Andy Irvine's voice was great, but Christy Moore's was arguably even better.

Their self-titled first, The Well Below The Valley, and Cold Blow And The Rainy Night were all classics.

Some great songs (search):

Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Follow Me Up To Carlow
Arthur McBride
The West Coast of Clare
The Kid On The Mountain
As I Roved Out
Hewlett
The Well Below The Valley (completely grim, disquieting, as you say)
Johnny Cope
Mominsko Horo
Cold Blow And The Rainy Night
The Little Drummer

And also Farmer Michael Hayes from a later album (not sure which).

I don't wanna Destroy as they get little exposure, and they were the punkest Irish trad folk band evah.

search: everything! david a. is OTM about Farmer Michael Hayes (which i think is on After The Break). however, anyone with any sense knows that andy irvine is Da Man.

search also: the andy irvine/paul brady album, featuring not-shit performance by paul brady (i.e. before he started thinking he was an Important Singer-Songwriter)

destroy: timedance. jaysus.

david g: i also saw the No Disco thing. disappointing lack of footage of ver planx and too much david kitt, i thought. but still nice to see.

anyone got any thoughts on the role of donal lunny in planxty? it's a contentious one back where i'm from. dyed-in-the-wool tradders tend to think he was a no-talent passenger, however there's another school of thought that holds that he contributed much in the area of arrangement and, er, possibly the derek smalls factor (the lukewarm water to christy's fire and irvine's ice, or something). i'm undecided, really.

They sounded great on No Disco. The opening pipes solo had the jaws dropping on everyone I saw it with. Also search Christy Moore's Prosperous, aka Planxty record #0.

I have been listening to the first album all week and it just gets better. The Blacksmith is taking first place at the moment. The last 2 minutes is just about some of the best music I've ever heard.

Check it out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3A5Tgy47M

andy irvine/paul brady record is the best planxty related release for me, but most of them are pretty great

Ned Trifle OTM.

Also, this is worth a look (Part 1 of 3).

i've been meaning to check this lot out ever since a drunken taxi ride in perth about six months ago, soundtracked by their truly exquisite music. go on, someone tell me an album to start with. the note i wrote in my "stuff to get" list says: "awesome dark folk with exquisite moments of harmony".

go on, someone tell me where to start.

First album!

consider it done!

Then work chronologically!

easy!

Andy Irvine playing a few gigs in London over the weekend, be there or be square

@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.

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.

he andy irvine/paul brady record is the pinnacle of that era of irish folk music

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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.

Wrong link sorry *red face*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtUhxhYAxSg&feature=youtu.be

Fuck.... sorry.

Look it up its the Blacksmith by Planxty on the Late Late....

hot hurdy gurdy action!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN9Y3ChP1go&feature=related

he andy irvine/paul brady record is the pinnacle of that era of irish folk music

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If ever there was a case of "ILM told me to do it"...

i hate paul brady tho

1) first 3 planxty albums are the shit
2) andy irvine/paul brady LP is even better. damn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9MJVqsOFY

those are some deeply satisfying chord changes btw

andy irvine/paul brady LP is even better. damn.

yup

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiysyMvHX3Q

no embed?

didn't know johnny played the fiddle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAYW5dwZJRA&feature=related

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyP407UnUWw

quality of christy's voice at points here just killin me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4w2_sal2bA

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.

The No Disco/documentary thing is up on YouTube btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvoA959GYIA

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

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

Liam O'Flynn RIP

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0314/947337-liam-oflynn/

Learned this on guitar once, DADGAD of course...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Gi6U4MQ0

https://youtu.be/YMvBnEvuBuA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvBnEvuBuA

Second attempt. Amazing performance from the 2004 gig

What a fuckin band tbh

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!

Planxty!!!!!