Planxty: Their Story In Three Minutes
A capsule history of the genius-drenched, barber shop-hating quartet.
Unnaturally sweaty.
By Dan O’Neill
Top pic: Michael Putland
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Planxty: Their Story In Three Minutes
A capsule history of the genius-drenched, barber shop-hating quartet.
Unnaturally sweaty.
By Dan O’Neill
Top pic: Michael Putland
I love these guys, one of my favorite bands ever.
I agree.
Planxty were thr frontrunners.
We wouldn’t have The Pogues without them.
(The Chieftans played to the Late Late Show and the USA audience. Planxty made Trad cool for the everyman.)
+1
When I was much, much younger I thought I was cool because my younger brother was going out with a girl who worked in a shop in Clondalkin belonging to Donal Lunny’s sister.
She married my older brother in the end.
(The shop assostant, not the sister.(
We don’t speak, but it’s unrelated.
Oh I will so look at this, Raggle Taggle gypsy going into tabhair dom do lamh is one of my favourite music things
We need to understand more what that trad music revival was like, the Bothy Band coming to town were like Zeppelin coming to town.
I was told.
Yusss
Here’s the recording of the blacksmith featured in the above video.
https://youtu.be/3Z3A5Tgy47M
Also that No Disco / Planxty documentary originally broadcast in 2003:
https://youtu.be/TueQ-5doZuU
Hard to believe they’re all gone now.
great, great band.
treaclesome little video.
The only thing that has ever gotten my youngest to sleep is ‘as I roved out’. She’s out by the time the gobshite is making his dumbass excuses.
I know it’s not Planxty but this post made me dig out me copy of ‘Hidden Ground’ by Paddy Glackin and Joloyn Jackson.
Now if only I could find me cassette of Spud’s ‘Smokin’ On The Bog’…
Sorry Jolyon, I won’t misspell your name ever again.
It was 37yrs ago. Give a man a break….
I got your surname right, didn’t I?
just oscillates into an evening of trad.
great post
Legends.