Christy Moore

Subject: RE: Christy Moore
From: Cath
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 08:12 AM

But isn't the point that, as Marje said, Christy chose the tracks because they had particular significance to him? I suspect he had very good reason for choosing those he did and it may not necessarily have been for their artistic merit.

Subject: RE: Christy Moore
From: Roughyed
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 11:56 AM

Exactly the point I tried to make above. If I was picking for instance I would choose Blondie's 'Atomic'. Not the best record in the world or even the best record Blondie did but when it plays it takes me back to the night my lovely daughter was born and the first record on the radio as I left the hospital was Atomic. That's the sort of thing I'd want on a desert island and whatever anyone else thinks of the record is irrelevant for those purposes.

Subject: RE: Christy Moore
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 12:19 PM

WTF is the point of playing a track which is far from a performer's best on network radio just because you have a personal soft spot for it for extremely obscure reasons?

What anyone else thinks of it is far from irrelevant if it's being transmitted to millions who might base their opinion of the artist concerned on it, if, as is likely with the DID audience, they've heard nothing else.

In the case of Luke Kelly, this did scant service to his memory.

Whatever. Let's have less of the sentimental claptrap. I'd be considerably more interested in discussion of the joint heritage of song between the two countries as opposed to stupidly false Celticky/Oirish separatism.

Subject: RE: Christy Moore
From: Marje
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 02:38 PM

Let's remember that DID is supposed to shed light on the tastes and background of the "castaway", not the artists whose music they choose. Most of the music output on radio is focussed on the quality/importance etc of the tracks played. DID is not about this, it's about the person doing the choosing. I suppose that's why it's on Radio 4.

In the unlikely event of my ever being invited on to DID, I'll choose music that's important to me personally. That's what the programme is for.

And if Christy Moore chose tracks that are not recognised as the performer's "best", maybe the listeners should be asking themselves what this choice tells us about him.

Actually, I find DID less interesting and revealing than it used to be - they seem to have almost forgotten about the desert island. They used to ask the castaway how they'd cope with loneliness, and whether they could cook or hunt or had other survival skills, etc. There's hardly any mention of all this now, just a quick request for one book and one luxury, and to my mind it leaves us knowing less about the person than the older format did.

Marje

Subject: RE: Christy Moore
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 03:04 PM

Christy building a boat from bits of twig, and hunting for raw meat...or any other musician, I think I can hazard a guess to what the answer might have been.

Its an interesting picture, you evoke however.... well done!

Subject: RE: Christy Moore
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 24 Jun 07 - 03:20 PM

"and hunting for raw meat...or any other musician"

Yes - hunt as he might, he wouldn't be likely to find any other musician on a desert island!

Subject: RE: Christy Moore
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Oct 07 - 12:27 PM

Not sure if it's okay to post here, but for the interested persons who have not heard the DID program with Christy, it's here :
http://rapidshare.com/files/45848163/ChristyMoore_-_DesertIslandDiscs_2007June17th__128_.mp3

Please tell me if it's not okay, i will delete the post.

Subject: RE: Christy Moore
From: Betsy
Date: 05 Oct 07 - 06:26 AM

I never heard the programme - I think CM is great, he has lived too full a life to compress into 1/2 hour, I knew him well until Planxty took off, but the thread yet again gives the moaners a chance to air their views. If you or I were on DID's we might look back a week or two later after broadcast and think ,I wish I had chose something else instead of that particular song. Not Christy, I believe he'd just say it was his choice and that's-that. What do you want him to do - play records that you want to hear ? That's not the point of the programme.