Creative Accounting #399

Sing Street = School of Rock + The Commitments + Me Earl & The Dying Girl (or Son of Rambo)

Creative Accounting #398

Lisa O'Neill = PJ Harvey + Kate Bush

Imagining Ireland - Friday 29 April 2016 Festival Hall

Imagining Ireland is a musical conversation between Ireland and England, through the songs of the last hundred years.

marked the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Michael D. Higgins, the Irish president, sat in the royal box

The artists were:

• Paul Brady “Nothing But The Same Old Story” 
• Martin Carthy Nothing Rhymed; “Row In The Town”
• Cathal Coughlan “All Things Bright and Beautiful”, “Pack of Lies”
• Barry Douglas
• Martin Hayes (fiddle) and Dennis Cahill (guitar)
• Andy Irvine “James Connolly”
• James Vincent McMorrow
• Lisa O’Neill - England Has My Man; Foggy Dew
• Cait O’Riordan Pogues numbers -  Dark Streets of London
• Kevin Rowland and Sean Read of Dexys Curragh of Kildare; My National Pride; “Carrickfergus”
• Camille O’Sullivan
• instrumental passages from classical pianist Barry Douglas

The evening ended with Dominic Behan’s stomping story of Irish construction workers, McAlpine’s Fusiliers & Foggy Dew

They were joined by a house band directed by 

• Kate St John
• featuring Roger Eno (piano)
• Calum MacColl and Neill MacColl - Tunnel Tigers
• Van drummer

The evening was hosted by writer and broadcaster John Kelly.

Christy Moore 5/3/16 RFH

• Viva la Quinta Brigada **

• liberty hall song, Easter Rising commemorations 3/16 - What Will It Take to Make Us Angry *
• Bees Wing
• The Tuam Beat
• Ride On *
• The Voyage

• Missing You
• North & South of the River
• Delirium Tremens
• Yellow Triangle
• Lisdoonvarna

Creative Accounting #570

The Hostage / Behan = outcasts of the world unite

Blackberry-Picking - for Dylan

Blackberry-Picking

Late August, given heavy rain and sun
For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it
Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for
Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger
Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots
Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.
Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills
We trekked and picked until the cans were full
Until the tinkling bottom had been covered
With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned
Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered
With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard's.
We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.
But when the bath was filled we found a fur,
A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.
The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush
The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair
That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.
Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. 

Seamus Heaney

Sinead O'Connor at St. John's at Hackney church 27/11/11

1 Come Closer to Me (?)
2 Baby
3 Emperor's New Clothes
4 (North African)
5 Wolf
6 Someone Like Me (?) *
7 Stretched on grave
8 Ball/Animal
9 (Pink Dress)
10 Out of Africa(?) reggae
11 Nothing Compares to You
12 The Last Day
+++
13 VIP
14 Old Lady
15 monk's prayer

with Adie Dunbar
Early outing for Feb2012 album

Lisa Hannigan - Bush Hall 19/7/11

A Sail
Paper House
Flowers
Ocean and a Rock **
Venn Diagram
O Sleep (with John Smith)
Little Bird
Nowhere to go *** (hill, house - could be Home)
Home
Dunno *
Sea Song
Passenger
What I'll Do
Lille
***
Knots
Safe Travels Don't Die
Personal Jebus

[see original Set List in blue folder]

John Smith - supporting and accompanying
with Una

Creative Accounting #214

Hunger + Garage + In Bruges / Irish = Filmfour + WAITING

Track of the Day

She is So Beautiful - Mike Scott - from Bring 'Em All In

Track of the Day yesterday

Eskimo - Damien Rice from O

(D was particularly taken by this one on the way to play rugby at Wanstead RFC)

Winter Sun and Irish Moon - Yesterday's happiness experiment

Showing off London - taking my sister-in-law Elizabeth (from Dublin) on a walk from Charles Dickens' house on Doughty Street to Waterloo Bridge via the Inns of Court

A rare visit to the theatre (with Elizabeth, Bronagh, Joan and U) to see Frank McGuinness' new play 'There Came a Gypsy Riding' at the Almeida, Islington - featuring a cracking performance from Eileen Atkins.

Taking D to his guitar lesson - sneaking a look through the window at how comfortable he is with the instrument, then a sunny interlude in Avenue House park with my book (a WW2 yarn from Scott Turow)