Old Hag You Have Killed Me - The Bothy Band

The Bothy Band from 1977
Set of jigs

[@Duibhlinneach]

In 1978 I was in primary school in Dublin and our teacher came in on a Monday and said "sorry lads, I had a few too many last night. I was in the Rathmines Inn watching The Bothy Band and I'd love to tell you how good it was !". I always remembered that. I only understood in adulthood !

[@gerardbreen8534]

they were the Rolling Stones of traditional music wow !!

[@tylerschmid2864]

and I was just getting super bored with the grunge era in the mid 90's when I first heard Irish music for the first time...youth is wasted on the young.

[@dublinpiper]

I had a teacher like that in the 80s, he'd be hung over, and when he had a head on him like that, he used to put on a record player, of bothy band, and planxty, and make us learn the songs as part of our Irish lesson! or take us out on a nature walk, showing us the different plants and trees, in english and Irish. I remember more from his class, than I do from any other.

[@knickertwistcopperby6066]

@Duibhlinneach That teacher sounds brilliant. He got his priorities right!

[@knickertwistcopperby6066]

@@dublinpiper I am not surprised. What an excellent way to teach.

[@Otispuss2]

They disbanded years ago. Mícheál Ó Domhnaill formed the band Nightnoise and died, tragically, from a fall in Dublin in 2006. Other members went on to join bands like Planxty. The shortness of this band's life makes these videos all the more special.

[@jansrensen7582]

Wonderfull. Never heard like it. Total irish formidable bless you all. Thanks❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@troylund2837]

I was a young U.S. Army medic traveling when I first heard these folks. It was a life changing moment at 0300 hours in Virginia. I stopped my car and was forever changed. God bless the musician.

[@DeanAdventure]

Army Medic here as well.

[@oliveroneill1388]

@@DeanAdventure who cares

[@justinmercer3147]

@@oliveroneill1388 well aren't you a ray of sunshine lad

[@joymattson8549]

@@oliveroneill1388 I do!

[@daddypadman4723]

You see there is a God .... he gave us Ireland

[@beirbuadh]

Every time it gets to the bit with just the drones and fiddle, I have to jump up out of me seat, and I lep about the place like a divil !

[@frankG335]

Me, too! This music has fire in it.

[@dublinpiper]

@@frankG335 yeah, it maks me want tae lep aboot the place like a Divil wi' a hatchet! Ha!

[@murph_mustela]

I have to play it myself on whistle!

[@JS-sm9qq]

I saw them live in 1976. The fire, the bite, the power of the music. I knew at that moment that Irish traditional music would never be the same.

[@chamekke]

In my experience, the best compliment to an Irish group's musical craftmanship is to listen carefully to their performance and - at most - maybe tap your toe during it. This audience seems to be listening both intently and appreciatively. I don't think they're indifferent... quite the opposite. And rightly so, because this is BRILLIANT stuff!

[@aarphi1984]

That's it. It's a reverence. Nothing worse than when an audience starts clapping along to the wrong beat lol

[@harbourdogNL]

@@aarphi1984 Like Americans visiting Ireland do, on "journeys" to "find my roots".

[@michaellyons5208]

@@harbourdogNL As an American with strong Celtic roots, I can state emphatically that it irritates the crap out of me when my fellow Americans do it. lol.

[@liamg353]

The Bothy Band- the beginning the end and the be all of Irish traditional music, truly brilliant. I was in my early twenty's when they started and I have yet to hear a group to come near them, (and there have been some good ones, i.e. Clannad, A ltan, de dannan, etc.) what more can I say.

[@daddypadman4723]

Eh how about the chieftains?

[@justyhawk1]

Dervish too!

[@liamg353]

@@justyhawk1 Yep they are up there with the best. Cathy Jordan Is great. Seen them in Concert

[@Pagra50]

Outfreakinstanding!! I came to Irish music largely because of Michael O`Domhnaill. I can`t say how much he is missed. Up the Bothy! Han Maith!

[@susie360]

He was a decent man and so talented, made such a huge contribution to Irish Music and such a gentle soul.

[@occlusalgroove]

The Bothy Band is one of the most underrated bands of all time! I wish I could have heard them LIVE!

[@gerrygallagher865]

The only band who are equal and even surpass Planxty on occasion.

[@robst247]

@@gerrygallagher865 and both featured Lunnyman & zouk

[@inlandonline]

Underrated??? Omg we thought they were the hottest of the hot when there first two records were out!! Planxty played old folk's home music in comparison. Of course, looking at this live performance, they may have wanted to step up their stage game just a mite. I could swear I caught Paddy snoozing.

[@dianefarrell2343]

Me TOO!!

[@dianefarrell2343]

I wonfer ifcany of thrse guys are still alive. And I wonder if thrre are any cutrent bands (2022) that have close to the passion and authentincity

[@splortz]

Director took a nap from 1:48 to 2:10--stays on Keenan who is simply pumping the drones while Kevin Burke is burning up the rosin off camera. LOL.

[@paulcaswell2813]

In concerts throughout we've cameramen who know nothing about music. Surely there are cameramen who know both about their trade and music. I bet Paddy was as cheesed off as anyone when he saw the tape played back.

[@Svatopluk]

Probably the best Celtic folk band of the modern era.

[@tomgarrett6303]

No doubt

[@godfather755]

I love Irish/Celtic Music so much. Greetings from a Greek!

[@nuao88]

Greetings from an Irish man in Greece 😎🤘

[@liamg1995]

Thanks for inventing the bouzouki. Greetings from an Irish music lover Colorado USA

[@murph_mustela]

Yes we love you greeks for your bouzouki! From an Irish girl in Oz! :)

[@davinasaxton3817]

Incredible musicianship

[@michaelslocum9537]

Saw them live at Cambridge 1974. Like a musical locomotive on stage!

[@malcolmboyce8197]

Listen to this and conclude that it was four of the best minutes of your life!!!

[@trevorbarre5616]

Dead right there, that man. Unsurpassable.

[@liamryan5968]

Brilliant ❤

[@michaeligoe3935]

Absolutely brilliant.

[@DThor2]

Love the Bothy Band...even if you listen to the original recording of this the intensity and drive is there. Did some beautiful music!

[@TheSpikehere]

A fantastic blast from the past.

[@katrinahall506]

Gorgeous!

[@tk33wave]

My all time favourite band. ´have seen them four times in 1977! in Ireland and Germany. Even after all that time all the good memories come up again like it was yesterday and I feel home again.

[@redwoods7370]

Very pure and authentic Irish music. Stunning.

[@bonenfant96]

My first Irish music album. Such beautiful memories.

[@wendyballi2176]

Aye sitting back relaxing a pint of Guinness and enjoying the music

[@ezrhino100]

planxty and bothy band did what they were suppose to do. they simply expanded on a traditional format, making it new without destroying the old. it's a lesson in how music grows and develops over time, naturally.

[@MarisaDwyer]

And HOW they expanded it! I grew up on Planxty and Bothy and Boys of the Lough.I wasn't exposed to older Irish trad,though I've been since. My experience with American old-time was more opposite; I heard the earlier stuff before the newer. Regardless, the beauty of traditional music everywhere is that there are already so many versions of each tune, and when newer artists expand and put their own spin on the music, the tradition is that much richer.

[@pattiern]

Back in 1975 I borrowed Old Hag l.p. and it woke me up to my Irish roots .This music is timeless.Never been the same since.

[@liamg353]

Great Music from the Greatest Traditional Band of all time.

[@mickigoe]

Love the drone of the pipes at the first change.

[@suurnarr]

This tune - as well as many others and especially "1975" release - make them for me the best Irish group I've heard. Thank You for posting! Wonderful to see them after hearing their tunes numerous times.

[@paddy2411]

This is one the best Irish traditionnal music group I know, with so brilliant musician as Paddy Keenan (Uileann pipe), Matt Molloy (Flute), Donal Lunny (Bouzouki) ... Bothy Band comes from Scottland (XIX century) when in the farms, men who were working in the fields during the day, had the habit to play music together in the evening = the bothy bands.

[@dasmeer1]

And the fiddler is who? Thanks!

[@The16121993]

Trop bons musiciens, merveilleuse musique, gaie et entrainante top des tops, bravos à vous mille fois, continuaient à nous émerveiller...

[@munsterfloyd]

One of the greatest irish bands of all time. Cameraman hadn't a clue. When Kevin Burke launches into Dinny Delaney's he focuses on Paddy Keenan and then on Donal Lunny.

[@susie360]

Simply wonderful, I love the Bothy band. I think audiences were more like that back then, restrained and courteous, showing the musicians that they are concentrating and taking it all in. I went to see Genesis, Sparks, Groundhogs and many others in the 70's and everyone in the audience would be sitting down and at most clapping and whistling at the end of each tune/song, it was just how it was back then (in the olden days!). Thank you for posting this, it's so lovely to see that fantastic group playing to perfection, Kevin's fiddle is as always brilliant and Triona's amazing keyboard playing is captivating, Michael is lovely.

[@ColinH1973]

Absolutely loved the Bothy Band. I have some of their albums on vinyl, and I never get sick of listening to them.

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

Saw them in the Stadium Dublin many many many years ago. Loved this album ... it was a pioneering Irish album at the time. All great musicians

[@dublinpiper]

I had a great teacher like that in the 80s, he'd sometimes be hung over, and when he had a head on him like that, he used to put on a record player, of bothy band, clancy brothers, fureys, and planxty, and make us learn the songs as part of our Irish lesson! or take us out on a nature walk, showing us the different plants and trees, in english and Irish. I remember more from his class, than I do from any other. Thats real education.

[@susie360]

I can't imagine anything more perfect! what a great teacher, I'm envious!

[@dublinpiper]

@@susie360 I know Susie! Hung-over education through plants and trees and music, in the Irish language! A+ (sorry my reply is 2 years late)

[@johnnoonan4775]

@@dublinpiper hahaha Brilliant, cheers.

[@bassbonebobf]

Absolutely awesome. I didn't know live clips of this band existed (I've listened to their recordings for years, thinking "how in the world do they do that???"). Bless you @bilko1234 for posting.

[@MDHS1974]

This band was unbelievably good!

[@andy7666]

Just excellent.. I love this music so much.

[@Missouramule]

You display a level of class that the rest of us can only yearn for.

[@kingofcelts]

The Bothy Band. They were and are in many repects still the standard.. Even though I'm sure those times were as hard to live in as today. If you had the privilage of seeing such a band live, you would be a happy man or woman indeed..

[@space9888]

awsome, ive heard the tape of this record all growing up, its amazing to me to see them actually play it!!, i saw Paddy Keenan live in 2004, it was amazing very cool to see him when he was young as well.

[@davedrolett6890]

Bravo!

[@joeynelson4176]

Definitely brings back memories of better times.❤

[@Orourkebanjo]

This is really well done. Delightful.

[@Mychie3]

love this wanna dance wildly what joy

[@smokabababylon]

I think Morrisson Jig ( 2:58 ) is my favorite music ever. Thanks for sharing this

[@Kitiwake]

More or less me too. I liked Michael Clarkson's version on flute particularly well. Still makes the hair stand up on the back of the neck for lots of people.

[@ryebread93]

i cant believe those people can sit there and not move, i'd be dancing all over that place. . .. honestly, i dont even see head bobbing

Muy buena canción y grupo... un gran descubrimiento para mi

[@cianwalker1829]

The bang of Charles Haughey offn this!

[@NotAFanAnymore]

it's amazing to watch this and listen in, all together brilliant

[@Tmikn]

wow I haven't heard this since I was really young. Thanks so much for posting it.

[@t4texas]

Great music by a great band. Thanks for posting this!

[@gerryjohnson2252]

I discovered the Both Band AFTER I had heard NightNoise around 1982 in a concert at the Macy's department store in downtown San Francisco, CA of all places. NightNoise had been hired to play at the grand opening of the new Music department inside that Macy's so it was very intimate - and very cramped: there was no actual stage, so we mostly stood around while they played from a temporary raised platform. I was totally captivated by their sound. It was clear that this was the 'child' of traditional Irish music but with - for lack of a better description - fusion-jazz influences. Still love to listen to their recordings, as well as the Irish music that preceded this.

[@classicguitarfan8]

Damn you KZbin; now you've made me discover the Bothy Band...

[@Meatybenji116]

love this kinda stuff, awsome music, been looking for a while for this style of music love it !! 5/5

[@billygaughan1670]

Pure class throughout the band.

[@beirbuadh]

Love the bit with the fiddle and drones.

[@jaddiah44]

OMG that piano!! i want that piano!! BOTHY BAND is amazing

[@edgleason8918]

Legends!

[@nancyhamer949]

Wonderful!!

[@joegiotta7580]

With skinny John Bonham on pipes! I've always wished I could have played bodhran with them.

[@kildare97]

This is class

[@beirbuadhanpiobaire5384]

The jumper is deadly.

[@michaeligoe3935]

Shipped in from Israel.

[@knickertwistcopperby6066]

@beribuadh anpiobaire A bit Starsky and Hutch?

[@bernadette607]

Yeahhh! that’s mighty music.

[@carrietide]

WOW!!!!!Fantastic.

[@bwanna23]

Happy St. Paddy's from the high desert!

[@richgouette]

looking at these fellows playing(Paddy in particular) makes me wonder what's going on in his head...

[@space9888]

Sorry for being so ignorant. I have just had very different experiences, and have been to a great many Irish concerts and gigs with "only listeners welcome". Even listeners sometimes even stir a little. very true, this was actually being recorded hence the footage and was actually being made into an album, that is why everyone is being so respectful. 1976 Old Hag You Have Killed Me Polydor 2383417 Green Linnet 3005

[@coolmum47]

They must al be in their 70's now .... hopefully.

[@diesundas]

Well, congratulations!

[@Korane0]

The second part swing like crazy!

[@syzygyne]

So I'm searching for my favorite slip jig by my favorite fiddler - Tommy Peoples' The Old Hag In the Kiln - and stumble upon it done by my favorite Irish traditional band. 2nd tune in the set.

[@Lismelder]

thank you!!!

[@Missouramule]

I do have to admit that I'm "of the old school" - where the musicians "musicate", and the audience "audiates" (or listens) - as a listener, I'm never quite comfortable being part of the performance, but as a quiet listener, I'm appreciating the music every bit as much as the guy that's "whooping" so loud that he can't hear it.

[@celticdeamon567]

Nah that's new school. The real old school was the tribe not seeing seperation between performance and audience and being one with the druid

[@carrietide]

AWESOME

[@patrickbarreau6542]

J"adore. Toute ma jeunesse.

[@kevinforde2555]

The great band

[@Otispuss2]

PS - They did do a reunion gig - I think it was in '07 - in Michael's honor.

[@savedeluca]

I love this band since I was 14. It's incredible how emotions can rise out of a laptop screen after 27 years and show you the band you listened to but had never seen before. Thaks youtube! Thanks bilko1234

[@jwhelan709]

The tune names are wrong. They are called 1.Jigs on Clavichord are awesome. 2. Kevin says hold my Pint. 3. Donal Lunny's Jumper.

[@TheNorsewarrior]

@Quinn Cooney The last tune is called Morrison's jig.

[@balddonaldcerrone7930]

Quinn Cooney your understanding of sarcasm is just all over the kitchen floor

[@knickertwistcopperby6066]

@jwhelan709 LOL! Brilliant. Not sure others in this comment section get your sense of humour.

[@Yetanotherstringband]

This is thrilling.

[@gruyerolivier1842]

The best group ever...

[@ayanuhito]

absolutely cool! i'd never seen harp scichord played together with the folk insts before. looks like an old film though, very much stimulative and creative, aren't they?!!

[@SeverMetal]

thanks!

[@LPanimal6]

2020... Anyone???

[@dublinpiper]

The way the audience are so motionless, unfazed and miserable looking, makes this even better. It's the contrast. Cos I'm blaring this through me speakers, leppin' about the hallway like the divil with a hammer

[@jaybee7078]

Well said, sir!

[@WhenNYWasIrish]

The final tune has been taught to me as Morrison's Jig #2.

[@phddddd]

I saw them live in Camden with Andy Hepworth ... he was a friend of Kevin's.

[@PhalainaBelgium]

Top performers !! Phalaïna

[@billwalderman3943]

I love the mixolydian mode.

[@mrblifil]

Wow Trina really keeps up with that right hand. Impressive.

[@lescot2000]

best band ever ... r.ip MichAEL

[@Conormcglade]

I agree with fiddle4u below, the Bothies were were 'the Irish band of bands.'

[@Thaumazo83]

1:47 and legendary fiddler Kevin Burke shows everybody what he can do...

[@alanscott6836]

Nothing else sounds like this

[@smokabababylon]

Just Wow

[@frankG335]

On 🔥

[@UISTMAN59]

Smile yes!, laugh no!

[@PhalainaBelgium]

Fantastic band ! Phalaïna