I think I wrote this before but... I knew Paul in NYC and I actually drove him to the airport the night he returned to Ireland to start with Planxty. I worked at that time for British Caledonian Airways and I had arranged the ticket for him.

Planxty were 5 for a few months while Christy was leaving and Paul was feeling his way into the line-up. They played the incidental music for a play called "Finn MacCool," which was an Edinburgh Festival event, and they did a few late-night concerts following the play in the theatre (the Haymarket icerink actually). While I was in Edinburgh visiting him, the first copies of the "blue album" arrived and the Planxty soundman played it over the PA system. Paul, who was not on that album, had gotten the words from Christy already, knew the song and, very clearly, was going to be singing it in future.

A real highpoint of the visit was O'Flynn and Brady jamming back at the apartment one night. Everybody (the other Planxty members and a couple of other people) just stayed in the next room, drank and listened. It was something.

All the best,
Dan Milner