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Christy

Thank you Brad. There really is no one like Christy Moore. I have so many memories associated with Christy Moore songs. Everything from broken relationships to drunken-sing-a-longs with comrades. He rarely tours this way. I only saw him once. It was in 1990 and he played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I was in Western Mass at the time and, among other things, doing work on the Joe Doherty campaign. Joe, like Pol Brennan, was an escape from the H-Blocks who was fighting extradition in a New York jail. There were demos every day, committees, appeals, etc. Pol Brennan is, at this moment, sitting in a jail in Texas. http://www.polbrennan.com How much and how little as changed. A friend and I got tickets and spent the weekend down there. My guess is that the crowd was 3-4000 at the hall. Almost entirely Irish immigrants. It's one thing to here Christy's songs about Irish immigrants alone, another to be a part of a mass of Irish immigrants singing along. Christy's and the crowd were in a charged bond. Hearing City of Chicago or Quiet Desperation in that context was something. A well lubricated crowd singing along to Lisdoonvarna and getting every single topical reference. Christy spoke out forcefully on lots of issues. For Joe Doherty he sang No Time for Love and from the twenty or so rows back where I stood I could see the veins on his neck bulge as he strummed and sang "they say you can get used to a war, that doesn't mean that the war isn't on" with every part of his being. It floored me. What a great show. I still get a chill thinking about it.

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