Christy Moore / After Peel DJ

steve saipanda@...
Sat Sep 10 12:37:19 CEST 2011


On the Christy Moore front, seems like he's just covered Amsterdam's "Does This Train Stop On Merseyside":

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/music/music-news/2011/09/09/ian-prowse-plays-the-red-door-100252-29389560/



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Ben Harrison <abcdetc@...> wrote:
>
> Charles,
> 
> Thank you. That's ringing a bell. I'm afraid it sounds like a parody
> too me. And at the very start I could believe it's Ivor Cutler!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT_ua50nJ1k
> 
> I would have heard all this hours after touching down in England after
> a while away. There was a lightning storm too.
> 
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> On 9/8/11, Charles Bottomley <squallyshowers@...> wrote:
> > The Van Morrison track is "The Days Before Rock 'n' Roll." Lots of muttering
> > about "wireless" and "knobs". You and I must have been listening to
> > Peelie/Campbell at around the same time!
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> > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Ben Harrison <abcdetc@...> wrote:
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> >> **
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> >> Thanks to this I found the tune I was remembering on my first try!
> >> Simply typed 'Nicky Campbell' and 'Christy Moore' into Google and took
> >> a chance. It's 'Welcome To The Cabaret'
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQk99UMUyU
> >> Not quite Babes in Toyland or Happy Mondays, but at least now I know.
> >> Thanks for the clue DM.
> >>
> >> The other tune from that show I recall: I don't remember really except
> >> it had Van Morrison namechecking 'John Dunne' possibly a little too
> >> often.
> >>
> >> 'Kinky Afro' from the Peel show before that still remains a favourite,
> >> mind.
> >>
> >> On 9/8/11, Dr Mango <dr_mango2004@...> wrote:
> >> > Nicky Campbell followed Peel in the 10 - midnight weekday slot from
> >> around
> >> > 1988 - 90, until late September 1990 when Peel moved to the weekends.
> >> >
> >> > DM
> >> >
> >> > --- On Thu, 8/9/11, Ben Harrison <abcdetc@...> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > From: Ben Harrison <abcdetc@...>
> >> > Subject: [peel] Christy Moore / After Peel DJ
> >> > To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> >> > Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 5:19
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> >> > What was/is the name of the DJ who -on a weeknight in September 1990-
> >> >
> >> > is likely to have come on air, on Radio 1, after John Peel's show?
> >> >
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> >> >
> >> > The first time I got to hear Peel in stereo was one such night. The
> >> >
> >> > show included a brand new Happy Mondays single (how hi-fi it sounded)
> >> >
> >> > 'Kinky Afro'; and a charming interview with Babes in Toyland -- which
> >> >
> >> > was the first attempt or first in what was planned to be a series of
> >> >
> >> > such stuff.
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> >> > And after that was the first time I heard Christy Moore. I think. On
> >> >
> >> > whoever's show was after Peel's. I may have been asleep -- but somehow
> >> >
> >> > I recall a wry, stream-of-consciousness song that I thought I'd be
> >> >
> >> > hearing again and/or might be easy to find since I thought other DJs
> >> >
> >> > played what they're plugged. But I've tried all sorts of googles --
> >> >
> >> > and probably will again now -- but on the offchance someone might know
> >> >
> >> > what the song it might be: I'm making mention of it here.
> >> >
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> >> > As I recall, it made a virtue of its Irishness with a load of
> >> >
> >> > "faddli-dah" as a chorus or coda.
> >> >
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> >> > On 9/7/11, haze_harrison <haze.harrison@...> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> About 25 minutes of Christy Moore at Glastonbury 1993 with a little
> >> banter
> >> >
> >> >> between JP and Johnny Walker at the end. Sadly the recording fades out
> >> in
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> >> >> mid conversation. How was I to know that nearly 20 years later we would
> >> be
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> >> >> more interested in recordings of John than of the musicians.......
> >> >
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> >> >> https://rapidshare.com/files/2848502144/CM_Glasto_93.mp3
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> >> >> Enjoy, Haze
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