I wonder who you consider to blame for the night Joe Heaney was booed off the stage by an audience when he appeared at a Clancy Brothers concert; the concert organiser, the audience or Joe for agreeing to sing in the first place!

Hi Jim,

Just a slight correction, it was a Dubliner's concert and of course Joe was very friendly with them through O'Donohues. Maybe they were giving him some work (about 1963/4 at a guess), though I am not blaming them and I must emphasise I certainly don't know. At the risk of thread drift the same night gave me one of the still most magical experiences in folk I have known - when the curtains opened at the start of the second-half the stage was empty and after a few seconds Luke Kelly appeared at the back of the audience singing "Blackwaterside" and walked through the audience and onto the stage singing without a mike!!

Part of the time Joe was great - and then he did a couple of long ballads and the audience went. I can still hear the bloke who shouted "Jazz it up Joe".