Andy Irvine: Live at the Embankment (TG4 Ar Stáitse) Part 1

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Uploaded by on Jun 8, 2010

With Dónal Lunny and Paul Brady.

http://ventolin.org/2010/06/andy-irvine-live-at-the-embankment/

Translation of tickers:
- This show was first shown on RTÉ in 1976.
- Andy was born in London in 1942.
- He learned classical guitar under Julian Bream but when he was 15 years old, he heard Lonnie Donnegan and set up a skiffle band himself!
- He went regularly to O'Donoghues pub in Dublin in the 60s, where he met Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly and Johnny Moynihan, amongst others.

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  • @neohip Good point.

  • @Thrawn6211

    Again, I agree, but you are looking at it from a "romantic" perspective.

    Luke died at 44, (the age I am to become myself tomorrow!) but had been plagued by bad health for many years. We like to think that people like Luke, John Lennon, even Jimi Hendrix, had their best work ahead of them, but sadly this is almost never the case.

    I would love Luke to be alive today, but I fear we would still be more interested in what he was doing in the 60's and 70's, than today.

  • @neohip Good point, but Luke had a charismatic air about him, an emotion in his song that no one else can come near to achieving. Luke had a perspective in his music that was totally unique to him. Andy doesn't have the same charisma. Of course, this is like arguing over which type of Guinness is better, both artists are great.

  • @Thrawn6211

    I love all those artists that you mention, and "nobody can hold a candle to Luke" is a given, but Andy, in my mind stands beside them.

    Much of his recent work is among his best, and at 69 years old, he has a perspective that sadly even Luke Kelly never achieved.

  • @neohip I don't think he holds a candle to Luke Kelly and the Dubs or the Clancy Brothers, but he's still a very good musician.

  • It would be very hard to argue on this evidence, that Andy Irvine was not the greatest folk musician of the age.

    But I will.

    He is still the best today.

  • this is so beautiful........

  • Fucking awesome!

  • Blind Harper - The Plains of Kildare

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