1974 - Planxty - Rare TV Performance

[@nbenefiel]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@melindalemmon2149]

You must have seen Gaughan.

[@cernernut]

I lived in Ireland for several months in early 70's...I spent lots of time at concerts, competitions, festivals, pub sessions...it was GOLDEN ...so many great singers, musicians..

[@nancyhamer949]

No one plays and sings like Planxty. A superb group from days gone by, still loved so.

[@owenmccarthy6935]

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.

[@lmtt123]

I actually saw them all perform in a nativity play

[@aliceharding1]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@lmtt123]

I actually slept with all of the band and had their babies

[@doodeen]

Simply Superb!!.Thanks for posting.Cheers Jim

[@sophiaherschel567]

Best irish folk band of all times.

[@GerryBolger]

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

[@donwilsmore3945]

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

[@ShirleyOToole]

Paul Brady has an incredible voice

[@jennypond5479]

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

[@lisamcgeeney8972]

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

[@TopOfTheMorning-jp1iy]

Brilliant

[@MrLezpye]

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

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

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

[@jameshenrymurphy]

What a treat ,to hear this after 50 years.

[@ritamack5731]

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

[@MarisaDwyer]

I agree! I love the older Planxty version but it's like comparing apples and oranges. Paul is absolutely sublime, hauntingly so.

[@MarisaDwyer]

He was so brilliant with Irish trad. I wish he'd stuck with it, who knows what other treasures we might have.

[@munsterfloyd]

A gem.

[@MegaPaddy68]

They had great songs

[@douglaskaiser7360]

Props to the old wordsmith who crafted this wonderful tune.

[@irishfield1]

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

[@jeremycline9542]

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

[@antoineturuban3914]

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

[@grahamehood8248]

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]

Amazing!

[@sebdetyra651]

Fionn not FInn :P

[@michaelmclaughlin7325]

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

[@torcullkennedy4540]

Me too..

[@martifingers]

The walk was so worth it...

[@mrpotato442]

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

[@juankitote]

O como Benny Hill 😂

[@Folkfreak1]

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

[@bernardschmit5504]

Folkfreak1 i

[@frannieo1707]

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

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@tomgreene1843]

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

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

Cool!

[@Apodimi1]

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]

They did record

[@lew-e]

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]

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]

Magic

[@machree01]

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

[@HolgerWerner-so2ki]

❤❤❤Thank you for all, you are absolutely great ❤️😊👍👍👍♥️

[@patrickcoyne1046]

Pure class

Great song, great band, love it

[@TheIkaraCult]

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

[@curleyteeth]

Pure brilliance.Jim.Liverpool.

[@niallmurray9725]

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]

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!

[@lmtt123]

I'm actually giving birth to Daoiri's child right now whilst snorting white and blowing brady

[@evelinekettle1150]

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

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

Glad you like it!

[@Rupertbear27]

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

[@jeromeaery3405]

Like a remembrance...

[@josefinagarza241]

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

[@lmtt123]

I played with them in Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Bradford, Birmingham, Liverpool, Dublin, London, Detroit, Sydney, Tokyo, Germany, Mali, Johannesburg and Llandudno

[@johnhogthrob1167]

Outstanding...Thanks.

[@waltertross3581]

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

[@WhiteCavendish]

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!

[@TheKavanaughs]

Thank you so much! Wonderful video. Great memories!

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@diamondmidnightgardener]

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]

Listen to the singing. Stop looking for faults . Ok

[@diamondmidnightgardener]

@@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]

Exactly!! Clever stuff, brilliant in fact

[@dczzzz55]

Yes he spots it at 17:29 and tries to carry on with the high strings until he gets a chance to sort it

[@AlanLow-wf8op]

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.

[@lmtt123]

I saw them 3 times so there

[@sebdetyra651]

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]

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.....

[@bernardbarry4258]

Best ever!!!

[@JohninRosc]

Fantastic - thanks for posting

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

No worries!

[@lsdmadman]

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

[@MrLezpye]

Johnny is incredible

[@davidbrennan3613]

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

[@lmtt123]

I slept with Andy in Boston

[@davidtucker1644]

Fantastic band

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

The best

[@jennysharpe3168]

Great energy

[@oliveroneill1388]

Incredibly..all..

[@billhunter2300]

Planxty and the Bothy Band are best ever 😊

[@fphelan535]

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

[@Kampfwageneer]

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]

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]

@@ConsairtinFergus Open G

[@Brian-zp1df]

Thanks Andy

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

I'm not Andy, just a fan. Enjoy

[@Brian-zp1df]

@@AndyIrvineFanblog Fandy

[@manuelcastro8113]

Magnífico, tipicamente irlandés.

[@Nautilus1972]

Seguro.

[@davidbrennan3613]

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

[@pcset12]

Christy with lovely hair!

[@jeanlucbuzonie1242]

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

[@davidcunniffe1373]

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

[@BobBob-tr9bc]

Thankyou for this

[@samuelmcintyre3780]

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

[@adrianmcgrath574]

Classic material :-)

[@williefinn4932]

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]

And James Kelly!

[@frankh4026]

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

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

Oh wow!

[@lmtt123]

I'm blind so i didn't see them that night but I did fall off the stage

[@HamiltonRowan-r6z]

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

[@sdrtcacgnrjrc]

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]

❤​@@sdrtcacgnrjrc

[@christaylor2070]

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]

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

[@patrickclerkin-kz1cm]

Johnny Moynihan making a rare appearance with them.

[@kieranharford8755]

Unsurpassed

[@TheMannyMan05]

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]

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!

[@solncevskiya9850]

super)))

[@BillOrme]

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]

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

[@melindalemmon2149]

Christy is wonderful.

[@Kampfwageneer]

hey johnny

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

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

[@adoraleonard5122]

💚💚💚💚💚

[@dianebridges9257]

Omg Andy. How great a voice

[@kirisame5939]

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

[@GerryBolger]

How u doin???

[@michaelmclaughlin7325]

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

[@kirisame5939]

Ive never traveled alone, whats a deer michael🦄

[@niallmurray9725]

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

[@foggydew5021]

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

[@cesbass]

❤

[@Brian-zp1df]

Hey micks

[@Brian-zp1df]

A happy blending micks in usa

[@jeffharper9703]

ERIN AGUS ALBA GO BRAGH ! 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@gordypattison3543]

Andy Christy liam lunny Best ever.

[@iseethem1]

😳

[@GerryBolger]

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

[@peteranderson6173]

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

[@craiggilmour6062]

mgaic!!!!!!!

[@RedKatieAnne]

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

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

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.

[@Kampfwageneer]

Whats the march played after frost is over?

[@lombroso1969]

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

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

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]

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

[@chriscboland]

@@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]

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

[@johnmc3862]

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

[@johnmc3862]

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

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

He was not in the band at this stage.

[@eye347]

Where is Donal Lunny?

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

He was not in the band at this time.

[@greatspottedwoodpeck]

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.

[@gerrykeenan2585]

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]

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

[@JohnKiernan-f8s]

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

[@JohnKiernan-f8s]

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