Planxty on late late show

[knabzco]

Love Planxty, hate Gay Bryne.

[Arabeskhorse]

Cool! Best irish folk band ever ever ever!!!

[cabbage807]

Wow, these may not be popular instruments to most people, but these guys can play. That was beautiful!

[joeygsmom]

'the Blacksmith"...definately not "the Blackbird."

lol private joke

[CasperTvrnello]

Dónal Lunny looked much better...

[bergvidsson]

Left to right:

Irish bouzouki, mandolin, uilleann pipes. Christy Moore on the far right plays a bodhran at the end.

[belovedsmiile]

what are the instruments they play called?

[MrCajunmojo]

Best Irish folk band ever and that includes the Chieftains and the Dubliners. Absolutely phenomenal talent.

[TheKelseyKinns]

This song blowsssss mwahahahaha

[Imal00ter20]

@TheKelseyKinns And never again was there a more obvious troll.

[KITCHENOFDISTINCTION]

Bought their debut & then had to buy all their stuff even though I'm skint. Brilliant band.

[asburystan]

Does music get any better than this?

[HaveapottofTea]

classic

[EZEEKEEL]

Planxty was an will always be an amazing composition of talent and imagination. The composition of the obtruse instruments is amazing. It is a sound that resonates and vibrates the soul more than the ear. It penetrates the heart and spirit. I love planxty's work and will be forever indebted to their genious.

[boosh90]

Saw andy play this solo at a gig few months ago.

Fuckin amazing musician altogether.

[billymagfhloinn]

One of the finer moments in Irish music.

How the Late Late engineer did not manage to bollix up the sound is a mystery though.

[mrshiggs1]

Been a Planxty fan since early 80s. LOVE this. So happy to have seen Paul Brady in concert at a small venue back in the 90s. Saw Christy Moore solo in Kansas City in a church about the same time. Both concerts were phenomenal. Thank you for reminding me of these terrific musicians. :-)

[tailendcharlie]

the outro is so sad and powerful

[drummist1000]

the time signature on this one does my head in...

[l2enegadesofFunk]

4:05 Shit just got real.

[herzogsbuick]

my god

[diesundas]

Strange it´s the first time I realize that Donal is left-handed, him sitting next to Andy here.

[diesundas]

Strange it´s the first time I realize that Donal is left-handed, him sitting next to Andy here.

[Vox91]

The best Irish band of all time. End of story.

[wolfmega321]

holy shit 4:05

[MrJohnered]

Liam oh Liam tis the way ta do it

[SAINTARGENTUM777]

I Love this music. I Love the way they look. I Love the way that the sense of occasion is deep and serious. It's so very inspiring to witness this that I feel almost angry. So much of what we see and hear today on television is a mockery compared to this. May God Bless all true Artists !

[DCDUO]

@SAINTARGENTUM777 Exactly what I was thinking! I never knew Planxty untill only recently when my driving instructor recommended me them, and honestly, I can't think of a single group, band or artist in the world that can really surpass them. They are like miniture king Davids!

[ssdvn]

Amazing!

[Iverbraidhead]

the piper is high for sure ;)

just kiddin, one of the best of the best!

[FlyingPigFishy123456]

my hero, bouzouki hero, Donal Lunny :) What an awesome performance.

[Beechpark]

A fine piece of work indeed.

[MrBruceBarham]

that rocked

[shatchett0]

Goddamn hippies!

[stonedpimpdaddy]

@shatchett0 Hippies Rock! Hell Yeah!

[Farfromhere001]

OMG Terence Mckenna was in an Irish folk band!!!

:)

[hydfawr]

@Farfromhere001 Saw McKenna in London maybe 15 16 years back. Couldnt play a note on the Mandolin but kept wittering on about dropping Love Bombs across the world? Mmm yes, if I remember rightly, he was, and probably still is, a complete and

utter Mong.

[Farfromhere001]

@hydfawr He's dead now, has been for some time. That man is a genius, read his book "Food of the Gods" and he looks like the guy singing a little bit.

[hydfawr]

@Farfromhere001 Woops! Sorry to hear of McKs demise. Sort of lost touch with him

a while back. Attempted Food of the Gods,but put it aside along with Learys Polotics

of Ecstacy?? Just couldnt cope with it! Exchanged a bag of Welsh shrooms a few years back for a book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by JM Allegro. Know anything about it? Havent even picked the thing up in 8 years!

[hydfawr]

so trippy, so dreamy, just marvellous. Please check out all Planxty material. this band fused trad Irish folk with psychedelics in a very important way

[joshualayne1]

cant talk

[tintosangre]

This is indeed one of the classics - though I never knew it could rock. :)

[jrose2247]

anyone know what in the world this song is called...would love to find the lyrics and do a rendition

[TheLincoln37]

@jrose2247 The Blacksmith

[lockstock26791]

@jrose2247 the blacksmith..he introduces it at the beginning

[lockstock26791]

wow i want to learn the bouzouki..absolute gem of a tune

[lockstock26791]

wow i want to learn the bouzouki..beutiful playing

[Drastam]

it just doesn't get better than that

[zandeman5]

I know the words well Neil. I understand what you mean. Depressing but not surprising for the time.

[glenabo]

i love love love this song! Thumbs up!

[zandeman5]

I think Andy forgot the words.

[neilhosey]

@zandeman5 no its the words.. he wasnt allowed sing them.. look up the lyrics and youll ee what i mean. Sensorships a bitch!

[celicniopanak]

love the part 4:03

[celestemoon]

Isn't it extraordinary that they had to censor some of the words. Seems there were some thing you couldn't even imply on the Late Late Show.

"don't you remember when you lay beside me

You said you'd marry me, and not deny me.

If i said I'd marry you, it was only to try you

So bring your witness love, and I'll not deny you."

[eli76ful]

Awesome just awesome

[evostik1]

they were the best group in ireland ever ever ever

[mylegesse]

Beards, Bazoukis, Bodhrans -

[dropdeadandfly]

GROOVY!

[artec0]

These guys must have sold their souls to the Devil..!

[TheMrseringobragh]

One of the best songs with Planxty :)

[spectrum99122]

Absolute brilliance. A band at the top of their game.

[sequoia1968]

Absolutely brilliant!

[ConallMullan]

Amazing bastards.

[32GaugeSlug]

@ConallMullan haha yep.

[minoune86]

The best celtic voice of all time. For me at least.

[MusicMadGuy2010]

Jesus man! when Christy Moore lifts that bhodran at the end it's the essence of perfection, a stunning allround performance from the one and only Planxty.

Patrick (Ireland).

[prunch72]

Compelling, belt it out! good auld Andy forgot the lyrics... who cares.

[Wobei]

great support from Donal at 2:52 for the lost words from Andy, cool!

[locomotive1804]

Dónal Lunny, he plays left-handed!

[GeALTach]

ireland has gone to shit and i dont just mean economically, culture aint what it used to be..........tiocfaidh ar la

[Cran11]

@GeALTach

Yeah...Bottle always half empty for you, right? Accept Changes and adapt. Otherwise you are really in deep shite!

[prunch72]

@Cran11... cad la ata tu ag caint faoi? cad ta cearr l'Eireann? mas fada e an la tagainn an oiche freisin.... speak for yourself fellow, nothing wrong with my cultural outlook

[prunch72]

@Cran11 sorry friend that last remark was meant for the 'GeaLTach'... another celtic jersey 'tiocfaidh ar la' freak

[32GaugeSlug]

@GeALTach It's all part of the marxist doctrine. And now the Irish have said 'yes' to the EU, it's only going to get worse. It's all about standardising human kind and abolishing culture.

[2ndclass]

i think at that time in ireland the largest concentration of sideburn's in the entire country

[oneleggedostrich]

one of those tunes you wish would never end

[fx02zbn]

Gosh, what a good way of putting it. I play this song over and over again.

[teddyjkbear]

one of my fav songs of alltime, gives me goosebumps.

[frankysandwich]

Oh... back when the Late Late used to be culturally significant. There's hope yet!

[Brouzk]

I love Christy on the Bouldran

[H1gh11]

This transcends time and space, I am totally floored by how incredible it is. Talent and creativity nested in tradition with all parties given proper attention.

[melkor6666666]

This is just friggin' awesome

[violundomiel]

The mandolin arrangment is awesome with the two. I sometimes try to sing this at trad session but I always forget words. It's beautiful, especially the ending.

[nevrkenesr]

@violundomiel its a bouzouki and a mandolin not too mandolins

[BrianG831]

@violundomiel ones a bazouki and the other is a mandolin..Donal lunny is one of very few people who play the bazouki the right way

[wallyabb]

andy you as misztaken... still i love you son of a bitch... ypou are my hero!!!

[maddannafizz]

i love this and im 12xx

[walshy2103]

Pure class hey.

[Bronzecaster67]

Bloody Brilliant !!

[happyasafool]

Brilliant!!

[glenabo]

unreal choon!

[wallyabb]

my gosh.... killer tune, awesome band!!!!

[katsandroses]

*wonderful*

[nebrulla]

Just so! ^_^

[locomotive1804]

Andy Irvine misses half a verse - but recovers and it still works - live performance isn't the same as on record..

[Bazzerpool1]

It was an incredible performance on a Late Late special dedicated to Irish music. The whole show was reviewed on 'Come West Along The Road' a few years back. There's a guy smoking a pipe in the audience and it was preceeded by two young women playing the spoons. It's an old English folk tune given a powerful, hypnotic revision by Lunny and Irvine counterpointing on mandolin and bouzouki with Moore on Organ with o'flynn weighing in on pipes for the chaos of the ending, this was Planxty.

[sneakyam]

Janey Mac - where'd you find this? I remember seeing it on RTE before switching over for MoD!

[mickeyzat]

seen andy and paul brady do this at last years celtic connections, and still every bit as good.

[GenyoSevdaliya]

Irish folk music is immortal!!!

[steelyman08]

Classic find! What a spectacle to behold. I finer voice for the tradition could not be found.

Thanks!

[Frakfayt]

Hi everybody. I have seen Planxty once in my life. It was in Reims (France) in 1976, the band was reduced to two original members, Liam and Andy, and Paul Brady. This very evening, Liam had flu, and he was nearly crimson under the spots, but they gave a very good show anyway. I just missed Christie and Donald, despite Brady real talent

!

[matheusiury]

Muitooo foda \o

[anthonynewsome]

Christy with hair, this is such fantastic music the hear and soul of tradition

[seonidh]

so andys a scot then? That would explain why Plaxnty did a lot of cover versions of Scottish English ballads including the wraggle taggle gypsies.

[seonidh]

Thanks for your comment Neohip aalthough someone marked your comment as spam.

I guess they couldnt handle the fact that andy was born in England to A Scottish father and an Irish mother?

[neohip]

I can't tell.

It could have been a mistake,or someone just couldn't take the fact that the Irish, Scots and English could have something rare and wonderful in common.

[seonidh]

Yes I agree if people cant handle the fact that Andy had a scottish father and born in England, Then they really wont like it that the Union pipes were invented in London and improved by makers in all three countries. Also the Irish flute was invented by an English instrument maker and the Irish trad only started using it when English Nicholson flute became obsolite with the advanced bohem system.

Yes I agree we have all enriched the music of all nations. It is something wonderful.

[neohip]

Aye,it is not about where the instruments came from though,but what what the Irish did with them!.

You left out the Banjo,originally African/American, and the Bouzouki from Greece,and the Bodhran possibly has roots in the middle east from the crusades!.

[michaeldore]

Boy, have you got a chip on your shoulder!

[seonidh]

Not really but with people who know nothing about the influences on Ireland. No tradition is pure and that includes the Irish one.

[jesuschristopher]

you are a retard

[seonidh]

you are a spaz

[GravityBoy72]

Magnificent!

I love this.

They look great too.

[harassed09]

I've noticed that in many Irish type of songs, women sing men's lyrics and men sing women's lyrics. Not that I don't like it, but I noticed.

[edelahaye]

Good notice. Being a rookie singer too, I believe that some songs are so beautiful, so attractive, that you want to sing them whatever the context. That simple. The question of man or woman song comes after...

As a man, I like to sing "I'm eighteen years old" (Dolores Keane in de Dannan), for example, despite it's clearly a women's song...

[patkav101]

hairy and sweet!

[kathleentherose]

Planxty were innovative with Irish music - the secondary instrument dances around the main instrument - that combined with Andy Irvine's etheral voice .... it puts you in another world

[kerrygold19l6]

Fantastic footage...

[kathleentherose]

REAL BARDS!!!

[paulcozzz]

even the pre recorded versions of this song are not as good as this live one it amazing !

[maxpin63]

Unbelievable Genius.

Never heard it better.

THANKS A LOT FOR POSTING!

my life is richer now!

[trish3rs]

Great song and pipework! I can't help but recognize how awesome Christy's hair was back in the day!

[BuckFush425]

Christy had hair?

[beziersdude]

andy has not changed since then 35 years? donal and christy hair gone liam a bit older looking . I s christy pretending to play the piano , he s a great singer too but never seen him ever play instrument (apart from the goat skin , and strum guitar)

[kathleentherose]

A great song of passion, woman scorned and you can feel it in the baazooki and mandolin and beautiful Irish traditional music with a kick!! I love ye lads- brill.

[powerduo321]

I like exotic guitars

sounds great!

[thomasb90]

what guitar?

[mrpottitto]

lol

[edelahaye]

I see an mandolin and an Irish bouzouki

[astrolog7000]

marvelous, that Andy Irvine

from the USA

[beziersdude]

I think youll find that Andy is from northern Ireland

[silvi01977]

Paul Brady is from Northern Ireland (Strabane to be precise), Andy Irvine was actually born in London and then moved back to Ireland to be a musician.

[meltogue]

oh really I always thought Paul Brady was from Donegal, ty

[Seamus616]

the head of hair on Lunny was something serious.

fecking gaels. great song

[SeanLarkinStreet]

Be Jaysus! You'll not beat that no matter where you go...

Hey! what about that drop-goal from Ronan O'Gara, the best rugby kicker in the northern hemisphere! no question about it...Ireland, what a country - Beautiful.

[padraig308]

couldn't agree more...great music

The Rugby was a heart stopper...thought they were gone ...the last penalty!

[wickmay]

These guys are pure talent...i miss the old Late Late show too with Gaybo

[Raymantico]

a real planxty...

[Tremblindado1932]

Very rich culture!!!

[roksancastle]

Now, can anyone please tell me why this culture isn't worth preserving? Check out the United Nations declarations on the identities of peoples. BNP June 4th!

[nickspear]

Amazing. 3 bars of 4/4, then one of 3/4 except every 3rd time through. Brilliant song.

[slanymckeon]

Spellbinding

[patkav101]

was there someone doing fractions during the song?

[larrycake1981]

arounds 4:06 - perfection. bliss

[thomasb90]

I emailed Andy and he emailed me back! lol I was surprised! Down to earth guys and a great band! Cheers-

[joeygsmom]

@thomasb90 yes, he is a lovely man, saw him once in person. He sent me several messges, once on my birthday (not that he knew this but it was still nice :-) lol

[SeanLarkinStreet]

Ok folks we get the message, it is an english song, name a group that play it better than Planxty and I'll eat my Sheleighli for breakfast:) This group is fantastic, their timing is awsome...

[wrigley666]

yes. this is it. does not get better from here.

[shayanthony]

The Blacksmith is an English folk song the best version is by Planxty however Jah Wobble does a great version

[robofthelands]

great song

[larrycake1981]

we should all campaign for a national station dedicated to Irish songs and music. Its a disgrace that our beautiful songs arent heard on the airwaves. The mainstream media are a joke or some would say have an agenda; anyway great tune.

[alinamugur]

you have my support !!!! and i'm not even irish :D

[Irishsheking]

On Sirius XM Satelite radio there is a station named Spectrum and on Sunday morning from 6a.m. there airs Celtic Crush, its Host Larry Kirwan plays in the Irish band, Black 47. It is a wonderful program. That is 6 a.m. in Southern California.

[dominickearney]

I agree. Though this (The Blacksmith) is an English song.

[ingridelisabet]

I am so deeply in love with Andy's rendition of this wonderful song---and with him by extension!

[thickerthanblood01]

if anyone could find the illusive well below the valley song by planxty live it would be awesome i have all theyre stuff but not one live performance of that song!

[PamBeatabet]

Thanks for all your comments guys- I love the musings on whether Andy fluffed the verses or was it censored:-). Classic stuff, a good friend of mine had taped this off the telly and digitalised it, don't know if it's on DVD somewhere

[christymoorefan]

See Liam at 2.50,looks completely bored by it all!!!!

[diesundas]

He is pissed off by Andy having forgotten his text. Apart from that "Liam Og O´Flynn" has always been quite arrogant.

[christymoorefan]

Andy hasn't forgotten the text. The next bit is;

And you said you'd marry me and not deny me

If I said I'd marry you, it was only for to try you

But bring your witness love, and I'll not deny you

They weren't allowed to use this line,as it was deemed offensive in 70's Ireland. I wouldnt call Liam arrogant,hes just a lot more refined than the others

[diesundas]

I cannot believe that. In the third verse he repeats the 3rd and 4th line of the second, so instead of "I wish them both much joy, though they can´t hear me / And may God reward him well for the slighting of me" we hear again "I´m afraid the scorching sun...", which shows that Andy is clearly out of words, forgetting them entirely in the fourth verse. Moreover, in the 1970s much more explicit songs were in the Irish media.

[l2enegadesofFunk]

This song is amazing. My favourite song that Planxty did. What a performance.

[Thermotom]

A Late Late show before my time.

Mighty stuff. Far better than all than the Toy Shows that I was allowed stay up for "Combined".

[cornjuggler]

are planxty vids disappearing? I can't find a few I know I watched recently...

any one know of this?

[thomasb90]

I noticed the same thing...Arthur McBride, Jolly Beggar just to name a few.

[Robbie59]

wonderful !

[fenian08]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kingofkards91]

Dear God, their older than I thought!

[sunnyvale123]

fucking amazing. They play spot on. Sounds exactly like on their album. Jesus.

[pontyfaxjr]

lol, gay byrne at the start.

[PatCorp]

I saw Andy play this song by himself in Sydney a few years back and it was still so powerful, even solo, class stuff.

[bpc1960]

look at christy  he had hair!! by christ!!

[larrycake1981]

if your nipples arent hard by 4:05 mins in then il eat my hat. remember the black hole they were on about there a while ago in the news, i reckon at around 4:05 some kind of musical black hole opens up for a while, shakes ya around and then spits ya back out

[bpc1960]

WTF are ye talking about?

[jambo08831]

Great tune.I hope tyrone win the sam tomorrow.