Andy Irvine

Subject: Andy Irvine
From: GUEST,Terry Blankenship
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 03:06 AM

   Andy Irvine has a great web site with a 9 chapter auto biography that is very good.

http://www.andyirvine.com/about.html

He and Donal Lunny are apparently getting ready to tour together again.

Terry

Subject: RE: Andy Irvine
From: John J
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 03:28 AM

Try listening to him on Radio Scotland 810khz, Saturday nights, 9pm (may be 10pm) until midnight. Excellent programme.

JJ

Subject: RE: Andy Irvine
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 04:16 AM

Thanks for the heads-up on his website!

Subject: RE: Andy Irvine
From: GUEST,Scabby Doug AT work
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 07:38 AM

Radio Scotland is also online at www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

Subject: RE: Andy Irvine
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 12:16 PM

An Earlier Thread ANNOUNCE: Andy Irvine web site
Unfortunately their tour don't visit here this time.

Subject: RE: Andy Irvine
From: Big Tim
Date: 19 Jun 01 - 04:18 AM

I read somewher that AI the great "Irish" folksinger was in fact born in London (nothing wrong with that, so was Shane MacGowan, well in Kent) but didn't set foot in Ireland until he was 21. True? and does it matter?

Subject: RE: Andy Irvine
From: Wolfgang
Date: 19 Jun 01 - 04:49 AM

from his autobiography on his new website:

My mother was from Lisburn in County Antrim and my father had been born in Glasgow. .... I was born in London in 1942. He later tells he came to Dublin when he was 21 (though he doesn't explicitely say it was the first time).

So it's true, but it hardly matters.

I remember listening to him with an Englishman beside me and he said: Now that's the typical Irish tinker.

I've seen him play about four times and I'd go for at least four more if opportunity comes.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Andy Irvine
From: GeorgeH
Date: 19 Jun 01 - 06:49 AM

I thought we accepted that Irish music was international? What's the ratio by which Irish emigrants outnumber the population of the island??

Also I've heard it said that, when the interest in Irish music first 'revivied' (in the '50s) the US Irish musicians were an important source; also that the current "general" image of Irish music owes more to the London Irish community than to anything native to the island.

Certainaly neither of those assertions is the whole truth, but I don't believe either of them is without truth, either.

However at the end of the day Wolfgang is right "it hardly matters" . .

A great person and an innovative musician.

G.