Belfast Mill The Fureys Lyrics Chords and sheet music
The tin whistle sheet music is included . written by Khan/ Finbar Furey about the City of Belfast [ song lyrics ] and how it has changed over the years, recorded by The Furey Brothers And Davie Arthur. The tin whistle notes are included. The youtube video is of myself and friends. Originally this song was called Aragon when it was written by Si Kahn and is actually about the closure of Aragon Mill in Georgia. The tune is very easy to play with the chorus using the same notes as the verses.Belfast mill easy beginner piano notes now added.Aragon mill original full sheet music notes included.
Capo 2nd fret and you'll be in the key of D
At[C] the east end of town,at the[Am] foot of the hill,
There's a[G] chimney so tall,it[F] says Belfast[C] mill,
But there's no smoke at all coming[Am] out of the stack,
For the[G] mill has shut down,and its[F] never coming[C] back.
[Chorus]
And the only tune I hear is the sound of the wind,
As she blows through the town weave and spin,weave and spin.
[2]
There's no children playing in the dark narrow streets,
For the mill has shut down it's so quiet,I cant sleep.
[3]
The mill has shut down,'twas the only life I know,
Tell me where will I go,tell me where will I go.
[4]
I'm too old to work and Im too young to die,
Tell me where will I go my family and
At[C] the east end of town,at the[Am] foot of the hill,
There's a[G] chimney so tall,it[F] says Belfast[C] mill,
But there's no smoke at all coming[Am] out of the stack,
For the[G] mill has shut down,and its[F] never coming[C] back.
[Chorus]
And the only tune I hear is the sound of the wind,
As she blows through the town weave and spin,weave and spin.
[2]
There's no children playing in the dark narrow streets,
For the mill has shut down it's so quiet,I cant sleep.
[3]
The mill has shut down,'twas the only life I know,
Tell me where will I go,tell me where will I go.
[4]
I'm too old to work and Im too young to die,
Tell me where will I go my family and
The youtube video of Belfast Mill by The Fingal Brigade played in the key of D, I use a capo on the second fret and play C, F, G And Am. The strumming pattern is Down Down up down op down down.
Below is the original Aragon mill full sheet music notes
Below is the full piano sheet music score of Belfast Mill in the key of D Major .
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All of the sheet music tabs have been made as easy to play as was possible.
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All of the sheet music tabs have been made as easy to play as was possible.
The price of the ebooks is €7.50
Interview with Finbar Furey
Apivotal figure in your life as a musician both of them you know my mother and father okay I never really got heard my mother's music until I got to a vote maybe in my mid-twenties you know because my father with the tradition music with the pipes and of course my father traveled four years with the door Daan's with Felix and Johnny and he would have air they traveled Arden by Caravan and you know arson caravan you have to see the maps for the event you know if it does a book out called free spirits you should get your hands on and it just gives you the whole you know input of traveling musicians from the before and the famine you know and untrue it you know and there was a Lawrence a great history in here when we have you know those the farmers needed to travel and people in the tablet we need you to farmers and you know it was like that it was on between them they saved the culture you know Jordan fireman on his amazing stories but my founders people on my voters people came from the background you know and he kept it alive you know even when were kids growing up and bunny family we always got shy no songs or joking you would stop being you know because they were great friends with my father so we've added a big fluence that side of the the traditional side of your life harder you know pipes and the flutes and stuff like that and then my mother say it was singing you know my mother played the banjo she also played accordion her Malad usually called later just a single roll with the two vampers at the saw it and she you know I just dropped in to see you are and she never promised anything but musicals when we were kids me if I were to take us out to see you know 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or some laid out with James Mason or some sort of spoil movie you know but not me more show us not to talk showboat when Doris Day or anything I was up there you know me but I was into it and she loved all of those it was like a dream world for her you know she coated it to cinema and maybe see a choice she loves singing in the rain and stuff like yeah so was that I'm not talking music so one side of us you know so in a way yeah if we can just put the bandage over into effect Jordan the time I was learning to play the pipes and growing up with the pipes and planed over sterling you know learn the guitar because you're always
had there some sort of instruments string dismiss in the house mandolin stuff and my father's banjo knee had played the five string because the foisting was used for back and nourished music people think the Taliban the Taliban he was only in Saudi introduced in 1920 only 25 for the Jazz era so he came in as a loud banjo but before that it was four strings mostly that banked you know wipers if you look back this very old photographs Jordan farm and you see b-flat Piper's you know who brought the place to America being backed by facing banjo players so the first thing was a huge part of our rich music and singing especially with the Margo Perry record on you know Artemis impactor you know and he was a great friend of and the families and a cousin of my motors and it was really like the whole influence was the singing the music was almost there there was no sort of an in-between you know you're fed both so he's a depressed to be like you know that's insane okay but hurry yeah yeah Oprah had the biggest side sometimes you know but like you know she got away she came from kill for Norris he had a good she's a good snow Turner she fancy could nail him to the wall now on when wait was the retirement pipes when playing the pipes key you developed into something more than just a hobby or a pastime or indeed was it ever of the place the pipe she came to you know for me I went through competitions when I was a kid I hated competitions for Savoy you know one time once I got past the age of 12 I think competitions should be left to the into the kids you know but I had some great papers that out there that you know I took fourth place her out there and they have completely different styles of playing the place than I have you know so that on that night I happen to be probably a bit technically better you know and I won the competition for the noise they actually played as well as I did and it was like you've got to mention just a few died used to be ruined you flame over Flynn who still a beautiful to listen the name you know and he's completely different style to what I play I mean several name would be pitted against each other you know I'm like we were kids so we never really got to know each other we were sort of kept away him each other and things like that so there's that sort of stupid I suppose regimental size of the boat so he's a family's you know and damn so when we did get to know each other and talk to
each other it was wonderful because he's a great wine for music you know I'm sure I didn't follow music I live and eat it you know we breathe it yeah yeah there's not a day a cowboy what I think about something or put some together or talk editions on the phone or we're talking putting arms together and you know doing those competitions when you were very young did did give a did you feel that you're gonna have to do them well you've where you put it yeah when I got to about fifty sixteen I remember my father put me in for your office I think I was about fifteen fourteen and I shouldn't have been in for the Rochester was over 18 but they drew me in anyway in the middle beep of all these great old papers you know you had part McNulty in all these crazy you know competing against each other and Shaun series not to me no great Piper's from the Piper's Club and McDowell ring and all the lights you know and I was drawn into the middle time and of course I was disqualified and when I got home I had absolute war with my father over it I said you know don't do that me again you know this is wrongly or the wrong but duty taught her competition bring home a few copes and things like that you know it looked better so everyone every competition I think I got second didn't want to Felix Thornton and that was in clonise and like I wonder for province try to see other and and Leah rocked us into one year you know on the pipes I don't think he take the most foreign that in traditional music and Ireland you know what I was actually limited with the pipes were keys when Eddie came with me on the road my rota she was cuz Eddie was singing like you boys are very limited so I need three sets of pipes to cover all the keys of or even you know and at the very primitives like instruments when you get in there there's nothing like the tone of them to silent them and I make all my own reads so that's usually tune the pipes up from D to e just to get a different key for ready you know make different reads and put them up because you know if you tune them and eventually I got the Overtoun flute designed by design that flute and bernhard made it and that gave me a great range you know from the pipes i started to move on onto the flute so then we started really experimenting with music the pipes are always there if we need them you know for the price was a wonderful instrument once you cut them in there you know when you were sorry somebody just saying if he said the pipes on on a song or on a tune like me in that year I suppose were probably the force to ever put it into a
groove of you know what pipes you know any on Gerry Rafferty song sealed it you know or Farley didn't like them anyway I mean even back then in 1971 when touch recorded you no longer it was doing over like one mic set of pipes Eddie is there I'm here Jerry is there burn brothel horses there on basis and you man just says right you're on and I open up with the pipes and get higher and Eddie just goes you can't breathe and it's all over little cordoning was a live recording you know and it was great it was like we would look we couldn't wait to get our teeth into it you know it was fun too the more we live like sponges when we met Gerry Rafferty and Billy colony we broke with Billy and Jerry and of course was orders Tom Harvey great jazz musician Tom as well as been making great folk musicians we met over tear mark Poland t-rex 2101 was trying to run source Rex they found an ordinary Sunday hippie bands like The Incredible String Band play that Robbins Hitchcock Robin's wedding Robinson you're right yeah and he brought James Taylor would have met James Taylor over for the wedding at the time and remember I played the pipes at the weddin Amida great time but it was like the boys run around and it was very hippie now trust Jonas your wouldn't run around her pajamas you know and like the dude they put it on the papers never trust me they did it you know and this was here they were here and delight for the for the wedding feast I think they put a have a Bullock on a spit and you turned it for about four days till it was cold and I don't think it can outrun any way but he had the toes oh man that's cool you know peace and a flower and afterwards you know Africa won it around I just want to go back a wee bit before we come to there I'm sorry I just see the funny side and everything when you were when you were winning these and Piper these fashioner and your actors and those those kind of competitions do you were teenager then weren't you I think yeah what what was it like to be a teenager in Dublin back in those days fantastic and tersely don't just just pay maybe just some pictures of what you got up to okay what you didn't get up to what you did for social you know creativity expression pleasure etcetera
when we moved tota Ballyfermot for instance you know we moved out of engine alley that's where we were episode vicar street now just run a corner I'm gonna house out there and we went to school in St. Mary's and we traveled in the summer and ever in the winter we went to school patent only traveled like summer holidays and I found a motor one and they were both with the school you know so they chorus at the school so we have the same we waited for how same as everybody else in the Central Terminal is overcrowded the barracks out there the bucket there is all gone on a smaller you know and there was all sorts of oscillate those dealers too was traveling people live in the character was sort of differently if you had Jewish people living there here's our people all walks it wasn't amazing to like a big melting pot just this area you know and then all of a sudden they build polyframe who were moved out there but it was wild just like : it was like going on going into a forest it was just amazing you know when we went up on a family couldn't believe that it was like you know Toytown all the houses to stuck together we were we loved it you know because we're running around the house you know going echo echo echo when we get in there I just really remember as kids and I taught me motor was an absolute genius because he pulled open this drawer she pulled out you know like am i potent and sausages and a few eggs and Rattlers and the things you'd have like for a quick meal before bed like yes was when we moved into the house and she just pressed his button the gas went open him it changed to be motor it's magic you know on the sausages and I was looking in the door to see what else he I did there you know she wanted to go and I got a little slap at the back of the engineer she says I was here yesterday I put a shilling into the gas on effort of the tomorrow she was there today before I put an oil in there you know and did you ever did you ever travel into the city centre I presume you did when therapy here opens every box we made a few shapes in our mail as kids you know so we fancied ourselves from about 1200 forward to today we men are much lower you know but that was the end of it and we're back to music it was easier but I only fired a wanted of toughness hope you know we mixed more from the box and so we spent in the Phoenix Park playing music but if he would the boys at all driver but we the great I mean it was like my father gave us great freedom and great trust
yeah I still remember at 17 18 years of age you know on at least in the house and the front door will be left opens around her and if you weren't in he'd killed a lot of whistles in case you're around the place you know it let this whistle go and was it like a family whistling you knew it and I said I'd look at me watch say I better get in it's ten o'clock and the olives who wouldn't go in there I was at an even if teller was up over 18 19 I would look 12 o'clock was late for me what'd he say Killian before 12 you don't need to do it all right there was a lesson he learned it's you know we all respected him very much and what was the music like at that time again I mean was it was it all traditional music with the whole difference you had you had the people like used to drop into the house should really Clancy a top over you know on really it's a for a couple of nights ago my father and Felix will drop in from you know Manchester and they play the pipes all night and then you'd have a few of the answer drop in from you know tone and car you know how do young cos you're in someone was always in the house you were stupid like it was about dead bodies everywhere in the morning when you wake up to go to school to be fiddles and flutes and pipes you had to be very careful where he stepped you know Papa's again it's all over the place you know I'm able to say no the boys just went to bed an hour ago when we began ready to go so you put would to be playing music the beat sheets of music under on the table when to be scribbling out bits and scraps of music and they wouldn't come to bed like pista or our hands they would have gone to bed maybe a bottle of Guinness or to once again ISM and a good chat about west and east and how the music that was the way of you know there's no email and stuff like that was the way I was attracted our music and then I found what we can go down to Clara Galloway and take some tunes down and discuss the way it was passed around so I grew up on that you know and I know Joe he needs company above anybody that stayed in the hills chose very serious human being I'm very very passionate about Joe PBS I think Joe would get angry but Joe had to sound the same you know I was like that I don't know what it is one or expresses something he grind his teeth and he got now you'll have to sing this like you're gotta sing and stretch from your song hello leave heat eat shake will he be Kenya how important it was to your heritage you know and he used to teach me have already been at that point they flee no Joe Oh Joe he woulda came back from Glasgow
just Jenn I think he had a bit of a tough time and he came back with a score and he wanted to settle back another he's lived in Alaska for I don't really know he and Joe always look tall to me you know because I grew up Joe was like you know he always looked old you know and I never asked him his age he was there I think one of the greatest welcomes I got from him as when we arrived with the Clancy Brothers in New York in 1968 when Tommy make him laugh tell us and Paddy had approached me at Tom and Liam would I join up and they went brought that he would us you know they didn't want Eddie in the beginning they said they just need me because the banjo and the tin whistle so I wouldn't go at Eveready gonna split open he wrote her and I wouldn't do it anyway you know and so we made the deal and off we went so we landed in New York and I remembered of we walked into the Lions Head in Greenwich Village joenie was sitting there waiting not encounter and he put his arms around me and he gave me the biggest kiss I ever got off an ear on on my lips and he looked at mesister music has come to America at last Helene plus is a Europe just messin you know he was liking the boys all right come to America at last and it was lovely to see him and I spent the whole day talkin to me gotten jobs here in Teheran for what an absolute he should have in mind that he's them it was a treasure for this country should I be teaching in universities and teaching the kids and you know I said it chasing shadows around the world you know his place was here you know every time I used to see him in New York it was awful you know like to see buddy where he came from the beautiful background he came from where he had to do for a living in the enemies life you know and then of course you get a lot of food he got himself into a large debate you know where he was very good to handle it was a better than Brendan Boehner as he's known you'd watch him and he just make absolute show you to the fella that be interviewing him you know and he was gorgeous and he wouldn't do it and I named Alice your man wouldn't even know he was hit you know what he was magic it was just so beautiful you know just very Irish you know the period of time leading up to when you and then Eddie were asked to join the Clancy Brothers yeah what what was that time like in relation to your own music and what you and Eddie were doing
at the time we were sort of, we just finished it sure with the chorus there were the equivalent I suppose dr. Clancy Brewers in Scotland or muscle-bound you know the quarry folk trio they were called a buddy bell and we don't have British territory we don't hootenanny but did his program which was done by garden smitten garden had written combodia has the song comedy as well and very fancy is free and he's written for Eddie and Eddie was a forcement ever seen so Gordon Smith had written it for us and we sat it on the pipes and of course the Scots fell all over a straightaway because he worked for BBC Scotland at the time and he did a lot of folk programs and he was very interesting guy you know on on he taught us a lot about Scottish folklore that we didn't know then children with The Corries I became very friendly with Roy who wrote flora Scotland I'm a 7 him it came buddy buddies even probably I said one the best friends I've ever had in my life you know and we did a trade I wasn't really a great guitar player so I said I teach him to play the flute he taught me to play the guitar Soviet lessons for me children so we ended up in great booties and so much so on when we got married I met my boyfriend she Sheila in Edinburgh and when we got married he became best man at a wedding and and I was very proud you know do I have no no he's a beautiful man and I remember I have wanted air when he'd written flora Scotland we were in a place called Castle Terrace and Edinburgh it was owned by Diane Holly why she didn't only she rented it she was from Belfast and she was a Protestant there before Belfast and I never met her anything like that I was in love with Irish heritage like this lady was you know and she made room for everybody and our flat was a big sort of an old started George and flat you know it was you know that wonderful sort of red stone that they have over Scotland you know Sunstone hmm I know and this big flag at the top and you commune peggy seeger in Ewan McCall would stay there when they've come up or Billy Connolly would stay in jury we stayed there all the time it was heir apparent at residence me and Eddie we just dump everything in there you know we never paid a penny rent we took it as our own open the fridge and she said the food and not once for this lay and without her help trust me Billy
Connolly and Jerry myself and the boys we'd gone hungry alone at the time she was a great lady so it was like a big coming on where we all got a concession together our Florida Scotland was actually finished on the floor I've done flat you know over a bottle of Bella's whiskey one night you know and we said we're gonna finish this and we watched Troy finishing and he sang at the next day and was wonderful that's now with the national anthem of Scotland so those are like history with Roy and Ronnie Brown of course Ronnie Ronnie was like he still looks like Superman you know today you know Ronnie was running he was very scarce and very beautiful and what a great singer you know for them they were like touch they were totally different two completely different guys rivals like Madden did in the Indian music Pakistan music Arabian music it was mad until Janos he was absolutely just like myself he just lived and loved music like the two were so dangerous when we got together because would crack open a bottle of whiskey you know we just talked about music all night you know the one thing that possibly many people in the room know but maybe there won't be one or two who don't and that the how you can a marriage to kind of integrate the Uillean pipe into as you said earlier on yourself into some kind of a groove I mean it might be the wrong word to use but it's you used other instrumentation along with the alum pipes the guitar the banjo or the mandolin which kind of hadn't been done before I don't think no I have a photograph which is very funny my father in 1944 and he's got a bouzouki and he's singing with it a poke fair and 1934 he would have been 19 years old so you have to think about you know that I can then you go like Eddie used to play a thing called a Giffen which is an Irish instrument which is an earnest version of a bazooka here and Eddie played it on Sam you see it on your photographs but em it was luggage that all the instruments like the tenor banjo got knitted in you know true especially especially to Barney McKenna Barney we really made a tenor you know perlier among the public and then of course you had Johnny Keenan young John Keenan yeah who's a total master on the banjo but Johnny was opposite about a Barney completely opposite you know Johnny just love sitting in the corner and plan book man what a genius as a bunch of player and also I grew up at him he was a month
older than me and we were joined at the hips for our kids from traveling back down and little island I know you know Aykroyd Mary's over and when he passed away you know he died of cancer because of we were inseparable and you know until I went us to Scotland to already up to 1967 means seven John were never ever separated a where were kids who grew up together so broke me her to leave me he wouldn't come I asked him to come whereas he wouldn't come I remember saying no and he said I wouldn't be into it he didn't like the stage you know he's just going to play in his chosen but like you know I can to come back and you look at your house these festival now in love for this lovely you know and paddy is out there playing great pipes I was talking money in Mayo over there a short Jeff a couple of weeks ago yes and they did a lovely program for PBS television with Matt Molloy and was Louviere party in my plane to Canada played a few with your body bounced off and Rachel but you were involved also with with patty Keenan as well back in the day right yeah miss em how do you do up together yeah patty would have been paddy actually carried me pipes on our only raucous in 1964 and he he was 13 years old and there's a great photograph he has it with the two of us stand on O'Connor's bridge and his Felix toran unless his father Oh Johnny Keane does my father does my uncles Alan's just forget it if you said I'd live out the traveler people are colors bridge that they were gone over the top of the Australia to Livie and we were proud we're going to take this copy I hadn't been taken since Johnny torrential what you know so we always took it but it was fantastic it was just it was somehow wasn't mine to belong to that it was theirs you know so I can't describe it here it says just it was a pride you know that my father would all over say he would never give you a huge thing he said well don't give you a tone so that was good I like that he'd never say you know you're the bee's knees sure okay it was a simple just things like you know the task you know you mentioned earlier on but you were in New York that's when you met Joseph Heaney again and the Clancy Brothers yes maybe could you mind just going into our wee bit that's how you were asked to join ye and what that experience was like for serve autumn was say that the
Clancy Brewers to me and Eddie for the best teachers I've ever ever had in my life on stage these guys taught a stage stage craft we watched them every night we couldn't believe hello I mean we walked into in New York and they did carry gear on for a week and sold it out in 1968 that was our first cake when we went with them and we would had we were playing Stanford University it was a gig put together by a guy called Tony Savage and he was an opera singer one time used to call himself Tony salver eetzi and he actually studied under G Lee this guy right so he used to put the gigs together for us in Stanford University did all the sort of I was supposed to you know focus you know be on such a sharp house I suppose the Nazis the poke Nazis that I'll call the years ago oh geez II couldn't move II couldn't find I think Ronnie Drew is the description of the most person used to call him the folk police anyway what we huge falling outs with these guys at all and when there was a war you know misshapen Eddie especially and he recorded nap enjoy we just go straight in you know we said where did you get this from this information from I can highly rate we lock horns or tomorrow time but them we did the singers club and PEG easier tried to split doctor machine pizza good idea today Pete I met Pete as well 94 years of age Wow you know it did so much for folk they don't remember whether I beg you for Senor McCall when we did the singer slope you know before you ate don't say especially to be employer don't know you know you're the bee's knees and of course we made a little kudos wasn't it to be invited now a toast like you're in the top of that ladder now no sorry going into the universities after that and we saturated we put a great program together of some great aura sounds and stuff that we wanted to do and the minute we got there I couldn't the guide I was running to the club for Peggy and Ewan MacColl came over and he said there we don't want that he to sing while you're playing the pipes and we don't want him to play the guitar when you're playing the pipes and I said sorry no we had no money we just got there we had a few boppo we needed this money for this club and it was a lot of money and I said anyone ever going to do this was the ruler to globe they could do what they like I said they're gonna split us up we never made flicker we had never
been slit open our noses regrets ever nobody ever split us up but we need in the morning and this was a huge thing and then he says I'll sit downstairs you do the gig and I said no you come opera said and play the guitar me no you don't want to remember the argument me and Eddie and I was nearly walked out the door but we needed the money for fair play in came and entourage there was people like Raymond Roland the flipster Rogers Sherlock all the lads Kimmo from Camden Town although the trad musicians and of course they didn't who humor carnivals are big easy they wouldn't give a care anyway they just wanted to play reason jigs on each other and of course they found out I was in town playing the pipes and I'd won all these competitions so they wanted to hear me play such a doll reporting with various musicians anyway so he said whooping so I went to open it he said he'd stay for oil so he said just sorry to be an area and we played and he came over he sang his song with the pipes but he didn't play the guitar and then at the end I said get you get her unlike they couldn't stop no I mean that this roof was coming off under Irish people that were there wanted more and I'd finished with the Fox Chase on the place and they trust me he never heard her plate like this I took of the parrot onstage you know and I was angry with it too you know the passion took over I'm like I just wanted to a fifth gear Leslie got twenty fingers on his change you don't want to know it just goes into a wheel and they were just blown away with the whole thing you know Roger said so I dragged daddy up and I said dude the new one we practiced this was what they were I showed before more so I did anyone know how could you do if I sang Richard would you stand the woman walk around me and we did it we did a whole second song and we stood up and I stood up a deploy somebody sang and we never went back I said what the hell do we need to win therefore again so we administrate the Coventry and remember I promised to go back to Scotland cause me suck Nishida were going out together at the time so it made a promise that I'd come back and we've set up her confidence in Coventry who had met some great musicians give Todd and people that were really involved in music and didn't want to be you know waving a flag return being a conductor so we met real real people again English folk sings like Mark
Martin currently you know we bumped into Martin was great and the trance is you know Robin and Marian yes and Ralph McTell we met Ralph sir he was are totally hero because Ralph was just an English version of the Gerry Rafferty only the same sort amount and he had this we call it Enya they had this groove you know we wanted to get in on this groove and of course if you praise the place down in the cheeks there is you can actually groove them you know just like you groove and he's not a musical but it's so and of course I was playing all these reels and jigs and the boys what they get G's real rhythms off heady because that he was great at great very hung back injuries so they Dave Stewart rinses sat with me with his guitar and it be playing reels in Jake's with the pipes and he said just learned the bite because smooth on the cards and they were like they turned him into rock rhythms you know and it was great him so we were apparently given some Bank where it you know and your mind about the pipes or come back to the client super rush I remember looking okay thank you just again fifteen minutes but just giving you an in an in detail that's just like Billy commonly you never got back into in just Stanford University now and you ever see what we know we'd risen among tourism people never or actually in the university hitter and we didn't either degrade whose race and there we had this place sold out today which was a great night so I'm gonna mean so did have two hundred paper maybe which was great and there's no microphones like it was totally QC and we liked it no way and I saw that the tree Clancy Brothers at the door named paddy and Tom I understand her bless me said remember Center because we knew the lads you know I said Jesus it to somebody dead at home the most be something wrong Mike thought and I said ah and I got a free but really did a song chases office not me mortar of me cuz what in no more boys in them days you know so there were like three ghosts as well and your age we finished her gig and we met them and they brought this hotel and and I talked to us about joint enough so patty said as I told you and Tommy left and they just said to him again you know we wouldn't break up we wouldn't split up you know and we'd
never split up again you know and that was that was would never do that again that was the singer slip frost you okay now for us you know such as hair pills we played and says leash and privates we don't great concerts there you know I've seen The Dubliners doing terrific concerts there and supported me know sundown to see that eyes and voice of air sitting coma she knows you know and trust me they had about a ham bottle in my hands in the 70s and late 60s especially in Britain you know get nearly schmooze extruder you know any kind of true and when you think that look like a cherry roughly and the boys you know they broke down that great or you know pushed it forward and if it the transceivers the process back the caricature for rehearsal this is a funny one now like this unlike Detroit me singing of course I told 7 Newton look Tommy maker you know and the Dublin accent they said how are we going to do because like take though you know I tell me man when I get home the buddies wanted a empty gun I was alone oh the problem in hand it's doubly home so I was thinking it like I saw her Toby you know the elbows Floyd you know and they said no this won't do so it was a bit of a panic so Detroit Eddie borscht RJ's Karl all together no hope so Bobby who used to be with take in with pop and Peggy Clancy you're very good Bobby probably a great friend of mine years ago nobody man dr. Manson and then Bob you sitting in the corner I said to him did you try Bobby so the brother Bobby over Detroit him like a glove so instead of five I was heading off to America know those six was before class he brought us until Furies and did we have fun for three years with a lots they were priceless and they made sure we were all right force number one they took care of us you know and that's that's the truth they were great and great ambassadors for Jersey did you when you were in New York - Jimmy's for example Bob Dylan no or was that kind of I only met his parents reasonably in a place called a Marriott Hotel in Chicago and you were a big man torso remember link sausage tell me his name was our Grossman his
business manager and he had these blue glasses on me I said I was remember in a big cold and they came into the hotel and Lima course was great pals with Dylan and they went into the corner had a chat so we were just sitting here so I wanted him that was it you know yeah because we were just a blur in his own show at the time you know and there's nothing he wouldn't don't who we were in a burning kids you know I think I was 22 years old okay and but it's great to see him you know and that was only left an album for us I remember now and but I loved the blowin in the wind long before I'd met him you know I'd heard I mean what he'd been an influence I perceived he was an influence of you at a power trip Oh enjoy the heat he's a strange way of putting his music across and it was Lincoln he it was only when I worked at ramblin Jack Elliott I did an album with chocolate and Darryl Adams in Germany in 1978 and we tour the album with Danny Thompson and bass and Darryl and myself and Zach it was great literature and when I hear in Jack Elliot she said close my eyes you did swear you were listen to Dylan only it was it was perfect you know and then I talked to Jack about it in chunks again he says I didn't stay to my flat and I was so honored because he says he cuts his influence from Jack so it was great to work with her jack the end and anyway you know he loved it and you know he really loved them and that's good enough for me so did I you know don't write them quarry ponies you know I think he's done a lot for he was one of the no matter what people think of me now you know Jordan 260 was one meter tonight's in shining armor that legend you know but he actually changed my challenge you know yeah you know we all changed something I don't know we don't know that we don't know what goes on oh no to go his head you know no tremor not there the Georgian were just there to see where he's done you know on what he's done I think is important not what he's or he's feeling you know he's feeling belongs to himself you you have brought a banjo with you is it just gonna stay there are you getting bored possibly yeah possibly I'm gonna take it out for a few minutes yeah one is I just want to show you this they couldn't believe it when I got my hands on it because I'd heard of this instrument and it had been played by Darryl Adams long time ago and it was made in there just built from the bottom up you know
boy okay he was a looter astoria you know yeah look at this wow this is a phoenix rising from the ashes and this is a gibson master tom was a reason there's no Gibson written on it he works for Gibson and it this is all built for Gibson but like the whole thing is like a copy of Gibbs support if you look at this inlay it's unbelievable you can look at it later on and it's all here but every one of these pieces are put in by hand yes and it's an Appalachian banjo in other words the strings are very long you know so it's not it's not finger picks so let me show you [Music] so if you wanna save our foot beginning chains on the street can you spin Tommy those days ago days ago there were times in my life wish that never those days and come cuz I found the old for arrestor and I loved one once in California I got drunk songs and she wants to look [Music] she wants me to sing Oh [Music] Shoaib this is a breakdown as like very simply if you're learning to play a banjo you're what to sing with her just so easy I'm just way more alert here's the place she's saying it was like yeah sing you something I gotta do this way I was further for my we rejoin cliffs Oh Maharaj is it and New York it's a mighty please where does some peeves true sometimes
it's not graviton just to know we're still I suppose was the same as said about Dublin been fastness don't we on earth little tiny [Music] I was further than I thought I was till I found for beacon now I'm here to stay [Music] where me ben de Sol's soldiers home is just a job and they're very fun should he calls me Pat what my name is Mike but still I suppose the same fastenings don't we all have what kind of wonderful 70s now because the fury brothers are now a unit there's yourself Eddie there's your brothers Paul and George and you're becoming more more successful I think it's fair to say and was it was it champagne and roses or Guinness and sports those days for you and indeed the band with the band yeah into it I think it was one day we're going to Austria gone through all the way down through Germany on a fifty seven seater coach and like we had more people in there musicians were like put like a flashlight in the bus and somebody decided to get books face orange juice and champagne and I'd say about three hours later pulled up a desire or troll or heads off never again I'm just weren't used to it we pulled over the next phase of car pizzas and there were a few beers now we were named that way there was no none of the boys I never sort of always we did you for rent or Mary case I mean we posted and paid rent from her didn't you know this music was bigger than us you know it was always bigger than who we were you know and it was part of our heritage it wasn't just you know this thing
wasn't the fling we were taking on over the Lord because we got looking and had a look the album I mean we were doing this music we won competitions and things were kids and were groomed to play it you know my father policy to suits under the size of these nuts and who played on the streets for them you know and he'd leave is there but in the end we never saw anybody you know we just played you know it was great and it was very stage was any common join us and but it was now in Tim days nobody partager you know you did let kids loose and played it was saloon ever to pick up later on and the great friends around us you know but no it was just rent to me in the very first place we ever got as a professional gig if you like as kids we got tortilla Bob and that was playing O'Connor's Pavan re at the top of our Stevens hospital just used to be called the Brown Derby and then we got another place and call Joel Ryan's was Ryan's place he's beside the labor exchange Sarah Christ George I'm Craig Pope the groom somebody booked us for another gauge and I remember he paid as 10 Bob Moore at the time there was me and Eddie and Paul my father was only a baby shouldn't even 11 into a pope in them days you know and these are us we didn't drink much and then it was there I remember big McCarty dinkum fault when he built the embankment so Mick used to take us out in the embankment you know I except saline embankment from ik when I was 12 years of age I'm here 11 never made me a confirmation and he kidnapped me from the house with the pipes I'm if I had a family open the banquet about 12 o'clock at night confidence who had played the place and made shouting a little amends to me all days and please as it was it clear the place but I tell you something when I come into the house that night and I put the bike down with a few bobbin and me over I suggest that make pictures it tasted mine he was gonna kill it before I came here our Labor's like make was great and that would be makes for sort of you know there was Tony Tony Pope the embankment did then he built the bigger place remember determiners getting together you know Bobby Lynch was with the governor's force and Luke coming back and Luke China and open John she enjoining the governor's was you know was damage is not atonement to Clancy Brothers used to come home from America with our veto for tornadoes in
the course the boys for the Paisley is that true and drinking taller lies that we didn't have the money for it and the boys at the bank I hope you know to be fewer points for open lads and it's all great craic all right here was no jealousy and he was just all great great right as I said the music it in ten days was bigger you know it didn't belong to the class Ju you know and it didn't belong to us beyond change in the 70s when you became more success seventies the 70s changed big time I don't know what happened to the seventies would folk music was somebody's decided to put a badge on it and claim it and own it it became very military of just liked with everybody played to say no there was no freedom anymore like somebody had locked at open the boxes they'd hang on this is boy you know I put in new door for me when we came back toward him you couldn't believe there were so many different traditions when we left her and there was only one tradition Irish tradition you know we all have little different styles but Jesus was like you know somebody who joined the British Army didn't come back you know there was that much of a division you know you could feel it it was very very silly because the people that were sorted and put in the foot forward were the people getting in there and it was all a bit money or intent that in coming from different backgrounds they like that but we fought through it you know and so did all the boys you know to do ministry you know it's too deep street burns like Christie doing them and you know what the police how much do bodies got you know Roxy and you know Don Baker you know and onerous brush and all the boys and I'll go through it even fill in it you know my true the same thing but he broke through it you know you get you on and I saw him these guys are not going anywhere you know yeah you're too fun to go back to you know that they like music becomes important to them because it's popular at the time you know we did a for a living and we always will so we used to sit back and watch it happen because we knew it was going to fizzle out in a couple years you know just how we they keep it going yeah but yes there were a couple of having read up on your your kind of life over the last few days there are a couple of things that surprised me one of which you were presented with a single of the Year award by John P and I would never before I read that I would for some odd reason I would never have matched the fury brothers with John Peel yeah so this you know people see us as
their Clancy Brothers in sweet 16 they didn't know what like what we did you know you can read free spirits the book and then you'll understand it you know like I think the best one was a Steve Lillywhite said to me when he read me my god he says me Mike he says you were the most closely kept secret in orange and that's the Reiser to me you know I've never heard pipes played like I'm Elise an event oh well that's cool enough for me but it never part of me I mean I die this is a very small island Ireland you know I know but when emotion is my home and was lowly to go home to but it's really true the world I did five weeks in Australia you know and I gone to America now and I'm known allowed the worldliness number one harbors on Australia so time for we never went to South Africa Jordan we wouldn't go yeah we had three number-one albums founder we never went you know and we fought against at newspapers even our homes came sits all your stupid and so hang on a minute think folk music you know come on us and I remember read fart come on it's for for people for music is for people you know that's who we are you know for God's sake grow up you know Jesus you know this Bob Dylan says how many years cell phone one have you know before I can hear people cry you know for God's sake you know people have you just common sense you know when to universe of an old fella said we're watching a movie you don't know if you're gonna see your cobra snake you move around to be at home put your hand on a butcher or trying caramel it away you know make you know it's a I don't understand this music is music it's free you know it was belong to anybody and I think I love to hear new music and new music coming true new songs I cherry is just written a song Jerry Fleming never go back to Jerry to hit for his sister yes what's great you know for it would something that I would never do never I remember getting up from the table I'm walking away from Declan and Eve and unassisted I'm not interested I said because this is gotten to do with songwriters you know this is gonna be another x-factor stuff and I don't want to go in there and I said nothing to do of my world I said I just live in a different world you know and fair play is doing the kids great I'm making a few problem put the names out there but it's kind of odd to do me and I'm too old I love walked away and the funny mean he said no no we really want you to do this and we want your important over to pipes and stuff and I said okay so diamond a
her jury song I wanted something done because I hadn't I must say some of the jury sorry I hadn't played a place for a while you know and I hadn't put the pipes on a song for a long time actually on an album for a while and they gave me great incentive we can t use the pipes you know songs I got someone saying Jerry saw and hear the pipes is sit on it so coming back it was great for to put your songs out there for the songwriters and at least he got a show on our channel out our songs and as I said it was no Lou everybody wanted you know and everybody was a winner you know a husband it's a great show and I just enjoyed it I loved locking horns with the boys and seeing what they've got and what ideas they have and it was and I had no help you know I was like giving him a few Bob and said okay off you go there's your budget you got a produce arrange that would no help you've got an engineer and I said we need it in three weeks did it bring back memories of being on Top of the Pops that that can't process that that pop music process because you we're on top of the pops I'm not sure how nothing is it's just hard that's our the coachee light and I suppose your college in Austin it's a parent of that I suppose Las Vegas sort of feel you know that everybody likes to have around it's a prosperous I suppose P some people look at it as you know flashing lights and things like that yeah I enjoyed it you know it's hard top of the past is very funny because like when you see the size of us as you know it's when the band were getting you know get a few more Bob we were getting Richard Richard call up you know two groups will get the bigger umbrella for all the photographs are the album's of a massive and the last half of available I'm oka home chases were doing great you know yeah and you can always tell the parents are really struggling and you see them the deterioration of parents just look at the albums and I bet you're all laughing I obey you see them all young growing opening tomorrow by the other way you know I walk a stick but yeah it's great I love it you know when when you look back to when the furiousness were successful in in the 70s and 80s and the way you operate know your music as a as a business I presume what what what was the industry like back then to kind of be a part of I mean
what was was was was money a concern was getting a record deal a concern was selling records a concern yeah you have to start to go to festivals and I remember myself Anneli the force Cambridge Folk Festival we went to they would give us a gig if I played the voicing banjo because they aired or could play this banjo they didn't want the pipes for some reason I don't know and so Darren didn't wanted me to pay the banjo and I wouldn't so what we did for respect we went around the corner is a big Irish pub well fellas I had a pub is always felons who took the room upstairs so we took the tour and we packed it you know for the two nice journey cambridge hope Russell so he tied to Cambridge trust in the daytime and we did two nights in this poke which kept for starett and we met some great musicians who came out of the festival and they came to hear myself and Eddie I wanted him what's wrong with my child that's how we met Ralph force you know and they'd heard about these two worries kids over doing a an artist program so we always put it out there as were an Irish - oh you know who they never sort of were folk - you're nourish folk to it we put her up there all the time and the place of course was a big part bleahh he was Top of the Pops I think the best the one that the ones that got I think the most enjoyment er was was a per se Jim Hunt and McLaren and the boys that put it there you know because we were in America when we heard about it and they'd put a lot of work into it especially Jim Heeter and we were just amazed I know I think the big the big break was Terry Wogan Terry knew we knew Terry when he went over there we'd met Terry before we'd actually moved back to Orleans he'd moved over there so mean Eddie at Merriman we've done a radio program and without sorry known John Peel before done every police so when Toni hurted me an idiot and boys were apparent to the fury Burris you know he said oh wow and then he heard Sweet sixteen and he played it every more on his breakfast sure what hoping tolls are asked to do it and he just did it and people just took it and it was selling in excess of talking thousand copies a day that's it that was amazing it just took off identity just for some reason it was what was I got the number 12 and that was it just disappeared but I will love you the Tom Paxton song got the number 26 in the British as well and we didn't go over for them you know because with turbos in the top 20 but the town fizzled out then we sort
of we decided to go back into an immigration album and we did the steal away album which was great and we needed to do that for the weed natales ever the lads away excuse me the lads away from home young kids you know the Irish kids like we were you know at that age and they like to get in touch and talk only Saturday we should try and do another set of emigration so for me and before did you know terrific stuff out there you know just the children for me Mary do not let them sign her we tell them that to him I'm thinking of them though it breaks my heart to leave you know it's beautiful we do go Paul to these great songs and we wrote Phil Coulter involved we got filtered give us a bit of help but just arranged my sovereign and Phil finally came in and produced it and we did all the races between us which was great and there it was a absolute beautiful album the only in front of our I think one of the best albums we ever did and I think the last time we did together as a band was was fantastic who was the scattering which was another emigration album unless we did two more albums after that I plan a road and which were I think like a road for me is probably one of the best accused cigar bands we ever made and it's just the four of us under four brothers and it was just before Paul passed away so like it's let's great music but yeah it's great you know where do you go John Peel you know he made took remember one we were calling against the Beatles and every week he said yeah this week some songs gone we have to be some we have timber and Eddie Fury may have tabla somewhat across and I went all the way down to ourselves the debates so we I remember where his packed under de motorway and London listen to the radio or driving this big all day for myself and any weird unique someplace down and cried in our ticket was so we pulled in to hear what Reed was and I could believe it he says this he played a number two and he played Joe Joe you know Georgie wasn't Jenny says why pick for the single lives a yearís Manetti fury and of course we've got a cherry roughly found over Jerry was looking for a solitary robbed it you know it was fantastic like that table they hadn't be taken out her cradles now for about six or seven years of Peters had want everything for two
buddy family kids and a glass region kid to come here that starter here's them shape up a bit it was lovely yeah did you have much did you have much interaction with the business side of things or did you let the management your management take to take fortunately I burn here than absolute wizard in business you lose my back - either I must put a crown it funny but it is there you know art this Sheila trust me that's my way and she's here tonight they she that she been with me and Eddie when Eddie not even on the road she looked after the cakes you know she boot places where it would be staged she was he all was near so she was always a part of my life you know Lars will be like big part she takes care of the publishing company and like if we need to talk about something let me talk about if we don't we don't you know some literally hungry was itself you know she was just could you know sir the business so you do what you know so she keeps it she keeps a quote if it was left up to me I'd give it all away trust me yeah so obviously you're kind of quite lucky that you had it but your tour manager tour account and etc etc do you think are in your experience are musicians as a kind of species well-equipped to deal with the business side of things no no I mean would he go treat her Darryl Adams say was a total loss would he was absolutely internal was as bad you know Chuck Kelly and mimosa lots I ever met need help you know I mean you just don't have a business Brian you know you know businessman things about you know different things over I just you know I wouldn't be thinking about the same things I've ever sat down and we talked I be talking about something about like mine and or something that our he's got this someplace and I'm interested Marie's doing a but any case into the 80-degree to you know do you say LM lost you know yeah and I'm the same from Tom is somebody both music I have to be careful don't go above want you know don't keep contact with them because you know they were different you know we do everything differently lately yeah I think musicians are a breed but a breed of our own if you if there was I mean the audience here I've there they're songwriters the musicians some are successful some are getting there some might not get there some are there
and that's that's terrific what what what advice would you well what's the most important piece of advice you would give to any musician particularly those kind of just starting off their career because you've got the other side of it now really aren't you you know you you you you you started off successfully you maintain that you still are well what what would you what would you say to them just be for me I just if you're gonna do your music and your feelers the belongs you know it's here that belongs to be put out there to the world you know you believe in it you know keep banging the door down you know you have to keep doing it business I don't know about the business I do it I've never never cared you know the way I look at it you know I never be stoked for money he that I just give me a badge or a guitar about in the street it doesn't bother me I'll post greater there doesn't bother me and Selena I'll and the price of mail in an hour you know but like I've look he that well you know four musicians are songwriters are common first of all get a good publishing company you somebody you can trust you know that's a still for me wrong you know and if you're married if you got a girlfriend or inherent or whatever you know just always I find that if a musician leaves it just takes it and does it on his own if you bring your partner in your wife in as if you know as they share and help her in there you know shouldn't want it like two people two heads about more yeah I find that there every musician needs have got on carriers you know they all need help on the road well not so that you get the odd one who he's geared himself up says are a aren't gonna be a copy of what he go to you're going to be the savior of the people you know when he goes out there and of course everybody believes and then they take him off and all of me spending his bank account forever is gonna and then you get your divisional search and he says I really want to do this because I believe in these in the store and I really do understand this because you're gonna want to share it and he's the guy I have a quote and singing when he's on individualist Street you know and his boss can don't be afraid to do it took a real shame Dover or whatever you call it you know destiny is a guy like you know I like to freedom in people you know I hate me is like that Sam you know I hated like you were going to a room and for instance Nashville one night I was watching new thing called good ol boys Nashville is very good music now but like it was so it was no
but don't movement any you know Underwood plants was sitting there I said it was the dearest place in town trust me talk to his music counter oh it will cost you a box secure in there and it was ten times better but because the boys were building like the ground or whatever watch you know I'm a chimera dere feeling deprived you know and then I went ten minutes down the road and saw these two kids playing like what they write songs and I'm saying what was i doin open this place something it gotta make remove the kids forward at the office nothing to avoid his old man this place was just full of these very old I made it my age now right I'm like just sitting there one Hank okay Mick okay paddy you take it yeah okay buddy okay and the artists like didn't give a about the audience you're just sitting there going you know what they're having a great session what just tinkling long in the snow so dude come on I was trying to get the banjo give just give it a blast you know but it's not me fever moving but I think energy is a big thing in your in your life you know keep your energy with your music keep your energy would you you know don't ever ever let anybody say don't happy don't say I can't cause you can do it there's always a way around it dimension the Bands authority what Jonah but if you interested I'll give you another yeah you join it the grave he had a point when it I got it started just play it is I was sad to be walking under banjo I'm walking to this piece of music is like a couple years ago I got a phone call from a lot from YouTube when bono said it was Sean Penn's 50th birthday I'm moody for a cake to get a farm I do a concert and I said I hope you're constantly bring him down to Tony who's and that's where we took him so we got all the last John Sheehan and Patsy watch our and all the boys were there and even ask me he's very interested in music and I was telling me that where our bigger influence I suppose or my people always said that are from his channels music would have come from directly from the gothic monks you know and this has real initiation we would play something we say are you ready
[ how did you do that it's just said I'll give you my best news I've shown you can play like him it was a hero when he was only 12 shot a man in Mexico was crazy it's actually it's the same it's doubling up the time and I'm playing in like it do Dora's certificate and it is completely different is the AV if you go from one difficult in this to this you know and then come back to western-style music I start to gives you a head of the shock you know from the different put this is where we get her yeah and it's like this part is very Spanish which come from you had the more sin Oberon and in the Spanish music the Arabic Allah and there's no order in so don't look into them that's the same children you so imagine so that is my K room as probably just peace award with maybe who know same hundred sure knows where he came from huh that's come on boys give me a break
here okay okay right we're gonna jump into the 90s the late 90s and you you left the Furies although they spit up or whatever happened and you became a kind of effectively you can have solo yeah on your own what was was it was it a difficult decision to make or 1987 I knew then doctor for me we're going going on Eva you know it was it was you know automatic toilet you know like most of the bands get into it you get into a groove and you can't get out you know and you're locked in that position it's like being typecast as an actor you just can't get out of it you know no I didn't like this you know I'm I'm a free spirit I like to move you know what music an hour too much music left you know I remember talked to my brothers when we're in Australia I said I'm leavin but we had about three years or contracts to fill so I said you this guy I said no more I said after that date and I remember who did Carnegie Hall at two o'clock in the day Sunday afternoon we sold it out and it was an incredible feat and two days later we played in New Haven in the small little place and in the early center it was a great night fantastic in the room about twice the size of this put so so tight and people right and it was a wonderfully and I remember I said that was it we just shook hands and I said I'm leavin and then he said okay in posit fine and there was no less than Paul said I said I've got more work to do I said I can't I can't do this every night you know this is not right and I was neglecting my pipes I was singing more than play in the pipes you know lots of stuff you know so not all these songs I'd written don't want to the pro turn I'd written actually walking with my darlin her Walker would love I don't know chance opponent out there and then there was people bring in and order stuff awakened so it's not to startle a store one of herself so we became two pounds like I wouldn't I would go on stage with Eddie and the boys and open up the gig with the pokeman and we get a call on and it was great and then I would back off you know I already take it and George take it then on they back off every year backed off more and more and more to those late nearly two separate keys and then I was joining the put your tongue and then in the end once we left the boys were perfect you know once I knew they were happy I backed off you know and so they were great and I was very proud and they took it up and depicted open you know event or there's something I had to do Shirin know you know when they look back
which was very important to Eddie too because like I was making all the decisions to you know I was the bottom line was doing to me what the lads and you know was earner for me it was great relief to get away so I didn't have to do all this you know and anyone to do it it was literally for daddy in charge to take control with as well you know so anyway it was like saying I just an orphan stepping off he's keep them to trained or money gauge you know and you did it so well - I'm very proud I'm thinking was talking teddy derringer tonight was his birthday and on Christmas Eve and I was talking I'm on the phone a couple of weeks before word aunty was on just going on tour and I just come back off to her so we get to get in there and again yeah sure we have a cup of tea unit only thing about we end up sort of laughing about things till we actually Kroy I'm serious we can into giggles and without actually actually cry and then the tilma sorta we just look at each other go to has ago yeah see you next year you know it's just so many memories in there like to end them at the end of the conversation is yes okay okay no do you have another string to your bow is and that's acting you might not not okay well irrespective of what you might think you know you actually we're in Americans cause easy movie not many Irish musicians can say that that movie was Gangs of New York and you were also you've also had a quite a kind of strong role in love Havers john boy's father if if I could maybe just briefly go back to scores easy first how how did that happen now how are you approached it was very I was actually tummy King in the paper you know tummy the great friend of mine tell me a lovely play Tommy was playing injuries hotel for the American tourists Sonny's Bank exploded on stage or he was tuning up he's bang bang and of course all the the tourists made run for the exit science we should laugh that's funny that's true I found me researchers I'm in terrible trouble my bank is exploded on stage and I know because my bike it happened to me in Sacramento and the place just don't know rotor it's makes a noise and like when when I happened to my bank there was cigarette toasting rings and watches I hadn't seen for years blue her by giving
her Oh J is a testament and what can't happen topic anyway pulled I came and just no escape you just can't played him anyway so tell me was in an awkward dilemma so I said he picked up a pair of rubber you know Stouffer's they come up to the house we put one together so we're actually rolling around the backyard and would attend igloo and just putting his bag together and we're stuck together the winter sleep despite there and my wife Sheila phoned and she's she said to me Finn she tapped the phone on the window phone call from New York do you want to know where they have an audience with Martin Scorsese and it didn't it's actually didn't trigger because I'm still together with his bike and I'm said tell him to fall back in a minute we're busy were making a bag she says Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas pizza I swear and she says attend she says no without JEP you know and then I thought it was Eddie or someone mess honest and alone yes who is this cuz you can't let's mess in the body or you know hello I'm gonna hear you say I caught your name from Brendan Gleeson and Daniel day-lewis lizard whatever talk on a very insert I would like to bring you over to do this song so we said when he said over to wrong I said okay so he booted takes it some said we see you dare me we arrived or Sheila was leaning out to window called - tickets - tickets now like a seeing her eyes was Leonardo da da how he went me he's ever seen him with a great time this before he started we gave their anyway and damn what you don't speak set is amazing this word he made been horror and so straight to chai a trace they built all of the docks in this place I never saw act like it he played 200 block bank and damn when we're under said tiny day-lewis was June just seen when he had that lemon tyrant roses on what he's shown to walk on their own to tell like a peacock and they finished that set and they they come straight over to me self and Sheila honey he introduces himself a nice isn't me to tell you guys tell me that was only two guys could sing this song properly once him is dead and you're the other guy and I said oh we better hurry up so just massive room and you were talking about obviously talking about Luke's anniversary today Lou Kelly and we were doing it when he was born with Luke and it was great for
Jung Jae min Dempsey you know the young musicians young songwriters do you know how proud so proud and it it's in great hands at the moment watching younger Damien Dempsey this morning it's a tribute he gave to Luke was great yeah he's gonna carrying on the torch rage yeah I know that I was I was great to be a part of that's another so I did a music comment true again you know so it's a probably it like the influence you know hmm so is great yeah and love hate completely different experience I presume have two slightly lesser budget than Gangs of New York maybe was like when I did this song was very funny cuz he brought me turned it is Barrett and and I had to do a dance so I had to actually dance and sing the song and I said sure choked me so don't as I've never stood over me Lloyd for so to say I got sit down playing pipe sizing sit and don't so I said what am I gonna do to dance around he so had to get some movement so I Fairplay to me straight back to me mother and Lord you know the musical Doris Day I was never figure the deadwood stage oh did that was they just come and it said that's the same the rhythm put that on Tawaf we went understand to sing it and it was great I had great fun but it was 11 verses in 22 choruses and you couldn't stop you had to keep going all the way through I know I had a great time over there for like a you're annoying days and I remember when we finished this the scene what we were doing I asked him was that what was he finished with me now and he came outside to make such a big force of myself as Sheila was from tasking and Leonardo DiCaprio Henry Thomas Taggart a everyone that analyzed came I was you know to prompt the whole thing just to come out and say you know it was probably he said place is gonna be very quiet around here without you know because the stories the bit of cracked singing a few songs and was one of the lads parities in the middle of the scene Dordogne so he took over a pope and wrong called the Fiddler's elbow and we got a lend of a set of pipes trust me I found a set of pipes in Rome and we found a great Italian folk band that sang Irish music they backed me on there on the song on the movie so we have the kick for that and we went to an ice cream parlor at three o'clock in the morning loaded with Garrigan I named for the figure in the name of change we doing in the noise cream parlour tricks not gonna mourn then I
copped his bottle of wine in the corner I said I'll have a I'll have a wondered Emma said in one that milks you know and we were I remember sitting there drinking wine eating ice cream I tree o'clock in the mornin a bit long and the place was bad for people eat they script it was fantastic and we went straight to dessert after that for makeup there was the fire that was the white saying you never knew you wouldn't let me end our do you like acting I love it I think it's great its gratefulness Lee explained its it's just the same as playing music just like when when I was singing the green fields of France I'm sitting there you know and I'm talking to this man you know or if I'm singing like that song I sang the I was further than I thought it was you know I'm there like it's no different for me you know if I I'm just not great at at the moment but I'm getting good you like being busy don't you I think I love it yeah oh gee we were saying before we came down that you're you're coming to LA quite soon with a play that you've just finished story you tell us we're doing it's not a place sort of an idea I have as a thing called Jacko I've been waiting for a few years so so got the book you know which is about the fury family growing up through my eyes you know it's true as a kid you know on on so and the book will be ready to go as well by the time ago so under new album out there as well but I actually would like to make an album out there you know or start an album out there because just knows a great musician so I have more to achat or elective and it's nice to lock horns with people you know in the studio I was something different for me to do so we're just gonna go and check it out for a couple of weeks you know trow a few ideas around oh god a few friends out there mind in our backs or good hands and mr. pleasure I just wanna make a holiday out of it and then there's a friend of ours he's from Claire he's very Parliament and were flying out to him on the way back and he's looking after us for a few days this is the key to what you love doing just doing what you love doing if that doesn't sound like a silly question I just enjoy it you know I saw I just musically once they hit the stage or you know I just play you know just I don't I I just love creating music I just love put stuff together I was working on a song with the guitar there tonight before I came in and I
just I was supposed to sing this song this morning for Luke which I did you know it's a tribute which also wrote you know and then I have this other woman in the back of my brains at the moment I was trying to get off the cards are so close and that's Forest Lake it mostly been on a pond but is there a song I wrote is just too typical son of eret kid who's worked in a city but it's not pseudonym you know he's just as just as a suit so he has to get a writer you know and it's it's happened it's living on iou streets and for the rest of your life you know not normal for somebody that you never even meet it's one of these great songs while ating is a great song win for young Finbar he's very good singing a great guitar player as well and also like Martin and I Kings you know on Martin said wow what a great song so it's you know they could tend to come at you now and again yeah you've also think got a nephew in a band called the young focus that he's bringing Jeff Anthony fury that's George's good i'm gonna talk about antony and he's a very special and he's a gifted little kitties and believer like he looks and he is he looks a very same as eddie it's got the same sort of genes University you know Eddie looks at he's like I won't tell you how old he is but he you could put him into his 50s you know boys a couple of years old and uh but Anthony looks he look he looks like he never got any older than 16 you know and he's a gorgeous looking kid on Warnock or a guitar player a great songwriter are very proud of under band - doing great around here at the moment the rough in New York you're underground in New York yeah yeah yeah Alfred we're in Arlington Cemetery there two years of my student we just wanted and there was a funeral going on these two horses on that depends on I've tried everything for making something really the whole thing was a horse walk or too fast it obviously get them there you know I disapprove that people are gonna be high until something like this you know you get the nicest [Music] [Music] good evening tear sir mr.
mr. Washington I said good evening - yes sir mr. mr. Washington you know it's easy to carve his name on the stone not easy [Music] Fiori thank you very very much won't you Father thank you
Apivotal figure in your life as a musician both of them you know my mother and father okay I never really got heard my mother's music until I got to a vote maybe in my mid-twenties you know because my father with the tradition music with the pipes and of course my father traveled four years with the door Daan's with Felix and Johnny and he would have air they traveled Arden by Caravan and you know arson caravan you have to see the maps for the event you know if it does a book out called free spirits you should get your hands on and it just gives you the whole you know input of traveling musicians from the before and the famine you know and untrue it you know and there was a Lawrence a great history in here when we have you know those the farmers needed to travel and people in the tablet we need you to farmers and you know it was like that it was on between them they saved the culture you know Jordan fireman on his amazing stories but my founders people on my voters people came from the background you know and he kept it alive you know even when were kids growing up and bunny family we always got shy no songs or joking you would stop being you know because they were great friends with my father so we've added a big fluence that side of the the traditional side of your life harder you know pipes and the flutes and stuff like that and then my mother say it was singing you know my mother played the banjo she also played accordion her Malad usually called later just a single roll with the two vampers at the saw it and she you know I just dropped in to see you are and she never promised anything but musicals when we were kids me if I were to take us out to see you know 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or some laid out with James Mason or some sort of spoil movie you know but not me more show us not to talk showboat when Doris Day or anything I was up there you know me but I was into it and she loved all of those it was like a dream world for her you know she coated it to cinema and maybe see a choice she loves singing in the rain and stuff like yeah so was that I'm not talking music so one side of us you know so in a way yeah if we can just put the bandage over into effect Jordan the time I was learning to play the pipes and growing up with the pipes and planed over sterling you know learn the guitar because you're always
had there some sort of instruments string dismiss in the house mandolin stuff and my father's banjo knee had played the five string because the foisting was used for back and nourished music people think the Taliban the Taliban he was only in Saudi introduced in 1920 only 25 for the Jazz era so he came in as a loud banjo but before that it was four strings mostly that banked you know wipers if you look back this very old photographs Jordan farm and you see b-flat Piper's you know who brought the place to America being backed by facing banjo players so the first thing was a huge part of our rich music and singing especially with the Margo Perry record on you know Artemis impactor you know and he was a great friend of and the families and a cousin of my motors and it was really like the whole influence was the singing the music was almost there there was no sort of an in-between you know you're fed both so he's a depressed to be like you know that's insane okay but hurry yeah yeah Oprah had the biggest side sometimes you know but like you know she got away she came from kill for Norris he had a good she's a good snow Turner she fancy could nail him to the wall now on when wait was the retirement pipes when playing the pipes key you developed into something more than just a hobby or a pastime or indeed was it ever of the place the pipe she came to you know for me I went through competitions when I was a kid I hated competitions for Savoy you know one time once I got past the age of 12 I think competitions should be left to the into the kids you know but I had some great papers that out there that you know I took fourth place her out there and they have completely different styles of playing the place than I have you know so that on that night I happen to be probably a bit technically better you know and I won the competition for the noise they actually played as well as I did and it was like you've got to mention just a few died used to be ruined you flame over Flynn who still a beautiful to listen the name you know and he's completely different style to what I play I mean several name would be pitted against each other you know I'm like we were kids so we never really got to know each other we were sort of kept away him each other and things like that so there's that sort of stupid I suppose regimental size of the boat so he's a family's you know and damn so when we did get to know each other and talk to
each other it was wonderful because he's a great wine for music you know I'm sure I didn't follow music I live and eat it you know we breathe it yeah yeah there's not a day a cowboy what I think about something or put some together or talk editions on the phone or we're talking putting arms together and you know doing those competitions when you were very young did did give a did you feel that you're gonna have to do them well you've where you put it yeah when I got to about fifty sixteen I remember my father put me in for your office I think I was about fifteen fourteen and I shouldn't have been in for the Rochester was over 18 but they drew me in anyway in the middle beep of all these great old papers you know you had part McNulty in all these crazy you know competing against each other and Shaun series not to me no great Piper's from the Piper's Club and McDowell ring and all the lights you know and I was drawn into the middle time and of course I was disqualified and when I got home I had absolute war with my father over it I said you know don't do that me again you know this is wrongly or the wrong but duty taught her competition bring home a few copes and things like that you know it looked better so everyone every competition I think I got second didn't want to Felix Thornton and that was in clonise and like I wonder for province try to see other and and Leah rocked us into one year you know on the pipes I don't think he take the most foreign that in traditional music and Ireland you know what I was actually limited with the pipes were keys when Eddie came with me on the road my rota she was cuz Eddie was singing like you boys are very limited so I need three sets of pipes to cover all the keys of or even you know and at the very primitives like instruments when you get in there there's nothing like the tone of them to silent them and I make all my own reads so that's usually tune the pipes up from D to e just to get a different key for ready you know make different reads and put them up because you know if you tune them and eventually I got the Overtoun flute designed by design that flute and bernhard made it and that gave me a great range you know from the pipes i started to move on onto the flute so then we started really experimenting with music the pipes are always there if we need them you know for the price was a wonderful instrument once you cut them in there you know when you were sorry somebody just saying if he said the pipes on on a song or on a tune like me in that year I suppose were probably the force to ever put it into a
groove of you know what pipes you know any on Gerry Rafferty song sealed it you know or Farley didn't like them anyway I mean even back then in 1971 when touch recorded you no longer it was doing over like one mic set of pipes Eddie is there I'm here Jerry is there burn brothel horses there on basis and you man just says right you're on and I open up with the pipes and get higher and Eddie just goes you can't breathe and it's all over little cordoning was a live recording you know and it was great it was like we would look we couldn't wait to get our teeth into it you know it was fun too the more we live like sponges when we met Gerry Rafferty and Billy colony we broke with Billy and Jerry and of course was orders Tom Harvey great jazz musician Tom as well as been making great folk musicians we met over tear mark Poland t-rex 2101 was trying to run source Rex they found an ordinary Sunday hippie bands like The Incredible String Band play that Robbins Hitchcock Robin's wedding Robinson you're right yeah and he brought James Taylor would have met James Taylor over for the wedding at the time and remember I played the pipes at the weddin Amida great time but it was like the boys run around and it was very hippie now trust Jonas your wouldn't run around her pajamas you know and like the dude they put it on the papers never trust me they did it you know and this was here they were here and delight for the for the wedding feast I think they put a have a Bullock on a spit and you turned it for about four days till it was cold and I don't think it can outrun any way but he had the toes oh man that's cool you know peace and a flower and afterwards you know Africa won it around I just want to go back a wee bit before we come to there I'm sorry I just see the funny side and everything when you were when you were winning these and Piper these fashioner and your actors and those those kind of competitions do you were teenager then weren't you I think yeah what what was it like to be a teenager in Dublin back in those days fantastic and tersely don't just just pay maybe just some pictures of what you got up to okay what you didn't get up to what you did for social you know creativity expression pleasure etcetera
when we moved tota Ballyfermot for instance you know we moved out of engine alley that's where we were episode vicar street now just run a corner I'm gonna house out there and we went to school in St. Mary's and we traveled in the summer and ever in the winter we went to school patent only traveled like summer holidays and I found a motor one and they were both with the school you know so they chorus at the school so we have the same we waited for how same as everybody else in the Central Terminal is overcrowded the barracks out there the bucket there is all gone on a smaller you know and there was all sorts of oscillate those dealers too was traveling people live in the character was sort of differently if you had Jewish people living there here's our people all walks it wasn't amazing to like a big melting pot just this area you know and then all of a sudden they build polyframe who were moved out there but it was wild just like : it was like going on going into a forest it was just amazing you know when we went up on a family couldn't believe that it was like you know Toytown all the houses to stuck together we were we loved it you know because we're running around the house you know going echo echo echo when we get in there I just really remember as kids and I taught me motor was an absolute genius because he pulled open this drawer she pulled out you know like am i potent and sausages and a few eggs and Rattlers and the things you'd have like for a quick meal before bed like yes was when we moved into the house and she just pressed his button the gas went open him it changed to be motor it's magic you know on the sausages and I was looking in the door to see what else he I did there you know she wanted to go and I got a little slap at the back of the engineer she says I was here yesterday I put a shilling into the gas on effort of the tomorrow she was there today before I put an oil in there you know and did you ever did you ever travel into the city centre I presume you did when therapy here opens every box we made a few shapes in our mail as kids you know so we fancied ourselves from about 1200 forward to today we men are much lower you know but that was the end of it and we're back to music it was easier but I only fired a wanted of toughness hope you know we mixed more from the box and so we spent in the Phoenix Park playing music but if he would the boys at all driver but we the great I mean it was like my father gave us great freedom and great trust
yeah I still remember at 17 18 years of age you know on at least in the house and the front door will be left opens around her and if you weren't in he'd killed a lot of whistles in case you're around the place you know it let this whistle go and was it like a family whistling you knew it and I said I'd look at me watch say I better get in it's ten o'clock and the olives who wouldn't go in there I was at an even if teller was up over 18 19 I would look 12 o'clock was late for me what'd he say Killian before 12 you don't need to do it all right there was a lesson he learned it's you know we all respected him very much and what was the music like at that time again I mean was it was it all traditional music with the whole difference you had you had the people like used to drop into the house should really Clancy a top over you know on really it's a for a couple of nights ago my father and Felix will drop in from you know Manchester and they play the pipes all night and then you'd have a few of the answer drop in from you know tone and car you know how do young cos you're in someone was always in the house you were stupid like it was about dead bodies everywhere in the morning when you wake up to go to school to be fiddles and flutes and pipes you had to be very careful where he stepped you know Papa's again it's all over the place you know I'm able to say no the boys just went to bed an hour ago when we began ready to go so you put would to be playing music the beat sheets of music under on the table when to be scribbling out bits and scraps of music and they wouldn't come to bed like pista or our hands they would have gone to bed maybe a bottle of Guinness or to once again ISM and a good chat about west and east and how the music that was the way of you know there's no email and stuff like that was the way I was attracted our music and then I found what we can go down to Clara Galloway and take some tunes down and discuss the way it was passed around so I grew up on that you know and I know Joe he needs company above anybody that stayed in the hills chose very serious human being I'm very very passionate about Joe PBS I think Joe would get angry but Joe had to sound the same you know I was like that I don't know what it is one or expresses something he grind his teeth and he got now you'll have to sing this like you're gotta sing and stretch from your song hello leave heat eat shake will he be Kenya how important it was to your heritage you know and he used to teach me have already been at that point they flee no Joe Oh Joe he woulda came back from Glasgow
just Jenn I think he had a bit of a tough time and he came back with a score and he wanted to settle back another he's lived in Alaska for I don't really know he and Joe always look tall to me you know because I grew up Joe was like you know he always looked old you know and I never asked him his age he was there I think one of the greatest welcomes I got from him as when we arrived with the Clancy Brothers in New York in 1968 when Tommy make him laugh tell us and Paddy had approached me at Tom and Liam would I join up and they went brought that he would us you know they didn't want Eddie in the beginning they said they just need me because the banjo and the tin whistle so I wouldn't go at Eveready gonna split open he wrote her and I wouldn't do it anyway you know and so we made the deal and off we went so we landed in New York and I remembered of we walked into the Lions Head in Greenwich Village joenie was sitting there waiting not encounter and he put his arms around me and he gave me the biggest kiss I ever got off an ear on on my lips and he looked at mesister music has come to America at last Helene plus is a Europe just messin you know he was liking the boys all right come to America at last and it was lovely to see him and I spent the whole day talkin to me gotten jobs here in Teheran for what an absolute he should have in mind that he's them it was a treasure for this country should I be teaching in universities and teaching the kids and you know I said it chasing shadows around the world you know his place was here you know every time I used to see him in New York it was awful you know like to see buddy where he came from the beautiful background he came from where he had to do for a living in the enemies life you know and then of course you get a lot of food he got himself into a large debate you know where he was very good to handle it was a better than Brendan Boehner as he's known you'd watch him and he just make absolute show you to the fella that be interviewing him you know and he was gorgeous and he wouldn't do it and I named Alice your man wouldn't even know he was hit you know what he was magic it was just so beautiful you know just very Irish you know the period of time leading up to when you and then Eddie were asked to join the Clancy Brothers yeah what what was that time like in relation to your own music and what you and Eddie were doing
at the time we were sort of, we just finished it sure with the chorus there were the equivalent I suppose dr. Clancy Brewers in Scotland or muscle-bound you know the quarry folk trio they were called a buddy bell and we don't have British territory we don't hootenanny but did his program which was done by garden smitten garden had written combodia has the song comedy as well and very fancy is free and he's written for Eddie and Eddie was a forcement ever seen so Gordon Smith had written it for us and we sat it on the pipes and of course the Scots fell all over a straightaway because he worked for BBC Scotland at the time and he did a lot of folk programs and he was very interesting guy you know on on he taught us a lot about Scottish folklore that we didn't know then children with The Corries I became very friendly with Roy who wrote flora Scotland I'm a 7 him it came buddy buddies even probably I said one the best friends I've ever had in my life you know and we did a trade I wasn't really a great guitar player so I said I teach him to play the flute he taught me to play the guitar Soviet lessons for me children so we ended up in great booties and so much so on when we got married I met my boyfriend she Sheila in Edinburgh and when we got married he became best man at a wedding and and I was very proud you know do I have no no he's a beautiful man and I remember I have wanted air when he'd written flora Scotland we were in a place called Castle Terrace and Edinburgh it was owned by Diane Holly why she didn't only she rented it she was from Belfast and she was a Protestant there before Belfast and I never met her anything like that I was in love with Irish heritage like this lady was you know and she made room for everybody and our flat was a big sort of an old started George and flat you know it was you know that wonderful sort of red stone that they have over Scotland you know Sunstone hmm I know and this big flag at the top and you commune peggy seeger in Ewan McCall would stay there when they've come up or Billy Connolly would stay in jury we stayed there all the time it was heir apparent at residence me and Eddie we just dump everything in there you know we never paid a penny rent we took it as our own open the fridge and she said the food and not once for this lay and without her help trust me Billy
Connolly and Jerry myself and the boys we'd gone hungry alone at the time she was a great lady so it was like a big coming on where we all got a concession together our Florida Scotland was actually finished on the floor I've done flat you know over a bottle of Bella's whiskey one night you know and we said we're gonna finish this and we watched Troy finishing and he sang at the next day and was wonderful that's now with the national anthem of Scotland so those are like history with Roy and Ronnie Brown of course Ronnie Ronnie was like he still looks like Superman you know today you know Ronnie was running he was very scarce and very beautiful and what a great singer you know for them they were like touch they were totally different two completely different guys rivals like Madden did in the Indian music Pakistan music Arabian music it was mad until Janos he was absolutely just like myself he just lived and loved music like the two were so dangerous when we got together because would crack open a bottle of whiskey you know we just talked about music all night you know the one thing that possibly many people in the room know but maybe there won't be one or two who don't and that the how you can a marriage to kind of integrate the Uillean pipe into as you said earlier on yourself into some kind of a groove I mean it might be the wrong word to use but it's you used other instrumentation along with the alum pipes the guitar the banjo or the mandolin which kind of hadn't been done before I don't think no I have a photograph which is very funny my father in 1944 and he's got a bouzouki and he's singing with it a poke fair and 1934 he would have been 19 years old so you have to think about you know that I can then you go like Eddie used to play a thing called a Giffen which is an Irish instrument which is an earnest version of a bazooka here and Eddie played it on Sam you see it on your photographs but em it was luggage that all the instruments like the tenor banjo got knitted in you know true especially especially to Barney McKenna Barney we really made a tenor you know perlier among the public and then of course you had Johnny Keenan young John Keenan yeah who's a total master on the banjo but Johnny was opposite about a Barney completely opposite you know Johnny just love sitting in the corner and plan book man what a genius as a bunch of player and also I grew up at him he was a month
older than me and we were joined at the hips for our kids from traveling back down and little island I know you know Aykroyd Mary's over and when he passed away you know he died of cancer because of we were inseparable and you know until I went us to Scotland to already up to 1967 means seven John were never ever separated a where were kids who grew up together so broke me her to leave me he wouldn't come I asked him to come whereas he wouldn't come I remember saying no and he said I wouldn't be into it he didn't like the stage you know he's just going to play in his chosen but like you know I can to come back and you look at your house these festival now in love for this lovely you know and paddy is out there playing great pipes I was talking money in Mayo over there a short Jeff a couple of weeks ago yes and they did a lovely program for PBS television with Matt Molloy and was Louviere party in my plane to Canada played a few with your body bounced off and Rachel but you were involved also with with patty Keenan as well back in the day right yeah miss em how do you do up together yeah patty would have been paddy actually carried me pipes on our only raucous in 1964 and he he was 13 years old and there's a great photograph he has it with the two of us stand on O'Connor's bridge and his Felix toran unless his father Oh Johnny Keane does my father does my uncles Alan's just forget it if you said I'd live out the traveler people are colors bridge that they were gone over the top of the Australia to Livie and we were proud we're going to take this copy I hadn't been taken since Johnny torrential what you know so we always took it but it was fantastic it was just it was somehow wasn't mine to belong to that it was theirs you know so I can't describe it here it says just it was a pride you know that my father would all over say he would never give you a huge thing he said well don't give you a tone so that was good I like that he'd never say you know you're the bee's knees sure okay it was a simple just things like you know the task you know you mentioned earlier on but you were in New York that's when you met Joseph Heaney again and the Clancy Brothers yes maybe could you mind just going into our wee bit that's how you were asked to join ye and what that experience was like for serve autumn was say that the
Clancy Brewers to me and Eddie for the best teachers I've ever ever had in my life on stage these guys taught a stage stage craft we watched them every night we couldn't believe hello I mean we walked into in New York and they did carry gear on for a week and sold it out in 1968 that was our first cake when we went with them and we would had we were playing Stanford University it was a gig put together by a guy called Tony Savage and he was an opera singer one time used to call himself Tony salver eetzi and he actually studied under G Lee this guy right so he used to put the gigs together for us in Stanford University did all the sort of I was supposed to you know focus you know be on such a sharp house I suppose the Nazis the poke Nazis that I'll call the years ago oh geez II couldn't move II couldn't find I think Ronnie Drew is the description of the most person used to call him the folk police anyway what we huge falling outs with these guys at all and when there was a war you know misshapen Eddie especially and he recorded nap enjoy we just go straight in you know we said where did you get this from this information from I can highly rate we lock horns or tomorrow time but them we did the singers club and PEG easier tried to split doctor machine pizza good idea today Pete I met Pete as well 94 years of age Wow you know it did so much for folk they don't remember whether I beg you for Senor McCall when we did the singer slope you know before you ate don't say especially to be employer don't know you know you're the bee's knees and of course we made a little kudos wasn't it to be invited now a toast like you're in the top of that ladder now no sorry going into the universities after that and we saturated we put a great program together of some great aura sounds and stuff that we wanted to do and the minute we got there I couldn't the guide I was running to the club for Peggy and Ewan MacColl came over and he said there we don't want that he to sing while you're playing the pipes and we don't want him to play the guitar when you're playing the pipes and I said sorry no we had no money we just got there we had a few boppo we needed this money for this club and it was a lot of money and I said anyone ever going to do this was the ruler to globe they could do what they like I said they're gonna split us up we never made flicker we had never
been slit open our noses regrets ever nobody ever split us up but we need in the morning and this was a huge thing and then he says I'll sit downstairs you do the gig and I said no you come opera said and play the guitar me no you don't want to remember the argument me and Eddie and I was nearly walked out the door but we needed the money for fair play in came and entourage there was people like Raymond Roland the flipster Rogers Sherlock all the lads Kimmo from Camden Town although the trad musicians and of course they didn't who humor carnivals are big easy they wouldn't give a care anyway they just wanted to play reason jigs on each other and of course they found out I was in town playing the pipes and I'd won all these competitions so they wanted to hear me play such a doll reporting with various musicians anyway so he said whooping so I went to open it he said he'd stay for oil so he said just sorry to be an area and we played and he came over he sang his song with the pipes but he didn't play the guitar and then at the end I said get you get her unlike they couldn't stop no I mean that this roof was coming off under Irish people that were there wanted more and I'd finished with the Fox Chase on the place and they trust me he never heard her plate like this I took of the parrot onstage you know and I was angry with it too you know the passion took over I'm like I just wanted to a fifth gear Leslie got twenty fingers on his change you don't want to know it just goes into a wheel and they were just blown away with the whole thing you know Roger said so I dragged daddy up and I said dude the new one we practiced this was what they were I showed before more so I did anyone know how could you do if I sang Richard would you stand the woman walk around me and we did it we did a whole second song and we stood up and I stood up a deploy somebody sang and we never went back I said what the hell do we need to win therefore again so we administrate the Coventry and remember I promised to go back to Scotland cause me suck Nishida were going out together at the time so it made a promise that I'd come back and we've set up her confidence in Coventry who had met some great musicians give Todd and people that were really involved in music and didn't want to be you know waving a flag return being a conductor so we met real real people again English folk sings like Mark
Martin currently you know we bumped into Martin was great and the trance is you know Robin and Marian yes and Ralph McTell we met Ralph sir he was are totally hero because Ralph was just an English version of the Gerry Rafferty only the same sort amount and he had this we call it Enya they had this groove you know we wanted to get in on this groove and of course if you praise the place down in the cheeks there is you can actually groove them you know just like you groove and he's not a musical but it's so and of course I was playing all these reels and jigs and the boys what they get G's real rhythms off heady because that he was great at great very hung back injuries so they Dave Stewart rinses sat with me with his guitar and it be playing reels in Jake's with the pipes and he said just learned the bite because smooth on the cards and they were like they turned him into rock rhythms you know and it was great him so we were apparently given some Bank where it you know and your mind about the pipes or come back to the client super rush I remember looking okay thank you just again fifteen minutes but just giving you an in an in detail that's just like Billy commonly you never got back into in just Stanford University now and you ever see what we know we'd risen among tourism people never or actually in the university hitter and we didn't either degrade whose race and there we had this place sold out today which was a great night so I'm gonna mean so did have two hundred paper maybe which was great and there's no microphones like it was totally QC and we liked it no way and I saw that the tree Clancy Brothers at the door named paddy and Tom I understand her bless me said remember Center because we knew the lads you know I said Jesus it to somebody dead at home the most be something wrong Mike thought and I said ah and I got a free but really did a song chases office not me mortar of me cuz what in no more boys in them days you know so there were like three ghosts as well and your age we finished her gig and we met them and they brought this hotel and and I talked to us about joint enough so patty said as I told you and Tommy left and they just said to him again you know we wouldn't break up we wouldn't split up you know and we'd
never split up again you know and that was that was would never do that again that was the singer slip frost you okay now for us you know such as hair pills we played and says leash and privates we don't great concerts there you know I've seen The Dubliners doing terrific concerts there and supported me know sundown to see that eyes and voice of air sitting coma she knows you know and trust me they had about a ham bottle in my hands in the 70s and late 60s especially in Britain you know get nearly schmooze extruder you know any kind of true and when you think that look like a cherry roughly and the boys you know they broke down that great or you know pushed it forward and if it the transceivers the process back the caricature for rehearsal this is a funny one now like this unlike Detroit me singing of course I told 7 Newton look Tommy maker you know and the Dublin accent they said how are we going to do because like take though you know I tell me man when I get home the buddies wanted a empty gun I was alone oh the problem in hand it's doubly home so I was thinking it like I saw her Toby you know the elbows Floyd you know and they said no this won't do so it was a bit of a panic so Detroit Eddie borscht RJ's Karl all together no hope so Bobby who used to be with take in with pop and Peggy Clancy you're very good Bobby probably a great friend of mine years ago nobody man dr. Manson and then Bob you sitting in the corner I said to him did you try Bobby so the brother Bobby over Detroit him like a glove so instead of five I was heading off to America know those six was before class he brought us until Furies and did we have fun for three years with a lots they were priceless and they made sure we were all right force number one they took care of us you know and that's that's the truth they were great and great ambassadors for Jersey did you when you were in New York - Jimmy's for example Bob Dylan no or was that kind of I only met his parents reasonably in a place called a Marriott Hotel in Chicago and you were a big man torso remember link sausage tell me his name was our Grossman his
business manager and he had these blue glasses on me I said I was remember in a big cold and they came into the hotel and Lima course was great pals with Dylan and they went into the corner had a chat so we were just sitting here so I wanted him that was it you know yeah because we were just a blur in his own show at the time you know and there's nothing he wouldn't don't who we were in a burning kids you know I think I was 22 years old okay and but it's great to see him you know and that was only left an album for us I remember now and but I loved the blowin in the wind long before I'd met him you know I'd heard I mean what he'd been an influence I perceived he was an influence of you at a power trip Oh enjoy the heat he's a strange way of putting his music across and it was Lincoln he it was only when I worked at ramblin Jack Elliott I did an album with chocolate and Darryl Adams in Germany in 1978 and we tour the album with Danny Thompson and bass and Darryl and myself and Zach it was great literature and when I hear in Jack Elliot she said close my eyes you did swear you were listen to Dylan only it was it was perfect you know and then I talked to Jack about it in chunks again he says I didn't stay to my flat and I was so honored because he says he cuts his influence from Jack so it was great to work with her jack the end and anyway you know he loved it and you know he really loved them and that's good enough for me so did I you know don't write them quarry ponies you know I think he's done a lot for he was one of the no matter what people think of me now you know Jordan 260 was one meter tonight's in shining armor that legend you know but he actually changed my challenge you know yeah you know we all changed something I don't know we don't know that we don't know what goes on oh no to go his head you know no tremor not there the Georgian were just there to see where he's done you know on what he's done I think is important not what he's or he's feeling you know he's feeling belongs to himself you you have brought a banjo with you is it just gonna stay there are you getting bored possibly yeah possibly I'm gonna take it out for a few minutes yeah one is I just want to show you this they couldn't believe it when I got my hands on it because I'd heard of this instrument and it had been played by Darryl Adams long time ago and it was made in there just built from the bottom up you know
boy okay he was a looter astoria you know yeah look at this wow this is a phoenix rising from the ashes and this is a gibson master tom was a reason there's no Gibson written on it he works for Gibson and it this is all built for Gibson but like the whole thing is like a copy of Gibbs support if you look at this inlay it's unbelievable you can look at it later on and it's all here but every one of these pieces are put in by hand yes and it's an Appalachian banjo in other words the strings are very long you know so it's not it's not finger picks so let me show you [Music] so if you wanna save our foot beginning chains on the street can you spin Tommy those days ago days ago there were times in my life wish that never those days and come cuz I found the old for arrestor and I loved one once in California I got drunk songs and she wants to look [Music] she wants me to sing Oh [Music] Shoaib this is a breakdown as like very simply if you're learning to play a banjo you're what to sing with her just so easy I'm just way more alert here's the place she's saying it was like yeah sing you something I gotta do this way I was further for my we rejoin cliffs Oh Maharaj is it and New York it's a mighty please where does some peeves true sometimes
it's not graviton just to know we're still I suppose was the same as said about Dublin been fastness don't we on earth little tiny [Music] I was further than I thought I was till I found for beacon now I'm here to stay [Music] where me ben de Sol's soldiers home is just a job and they're very fun should he calls me Pat what my name is Mike but still I suppose the same fastenings don't we all have what kind of wonderful 70s now because the fury brothers are now a unit there's yourself Eddie there's your brothers Paul and George and you're becoming more more successful I think it's fair to say and was it was it champagne and roses or Guinness and sports those days for you and indeed the band with the band yeah into it I think it was one day we're going to Austria gone through all the way down through Germany on a fifty seven seater coach and like we had more people in there musicians were like put like a flashlight in the bus and somebody decided to get books face orange juice and champagne and I'd say about three hours later pulled up a desire or troll or heads off never again I'm just weren't used to it we pulled over the next phase of car pizzas and there were a few beers now we were named that way there was no none of the boys I never sort of always we did you for rent or Mary case I mean we posted and paid rent from her didn't you know this music was bigger than us you know it was always bigger than who we were you know and it was part of our heritage it wasn't just you know this thing
wasn't the fling we were taking on over the Lord because we got looking and had a look the album I mean we were doing this music we won competitions and things were kids and were groomed to play it you know my father policy to suits under the size of these nuts and who played on the streets for them you know and he'd leave is there but in the end we never saw anybody you know we just played you know it was great and it was very stage was any common join us and but it was now in Tim days nobody partager you know you did let kids loose and played it was saloon ever to pick up later on and the great friends around us you know but no it was just rent to me in the very first place we ever got as a professional gig if you like as kids we got tortilla Bob and that was playing O'Connor's Pavan re at the top of our Stevens hospital just used to be called the Brown Derby and then we got another place and call Joel Ryan's was Ryan's place he's beside the labor exchange Sarah Christ George I'm Craig Pope the groom somebody booked us for another gauge and I remember he paid as 10 Bob Moore at the time there was me and Eddie and Paul my father was only a baby shouldn't even 11 into a pope in them days you know and these are us we didn't drink much and then it was there I remember big McCarty dinkum fault when he built the embankment so Mick used to take us out in the embankment you know I except saline embankment from ik when I was 12 years of age I'm here 11 never made me a confirmation and he kidnapped me from the house with the pipes I'm if I had a family open the banquet about 12 o'clock at night confidence who had played the place and made shouting a little amends to me all days and please as it was it clear the place but I tell you something when I come into the house that night and I put the bike down with a few bobbin and me over I suggest that make pictures it tasted mine he was gonna kill it before I came here our Labor's like make was great and that would be makes for sort of you know there was Tony Tony Pope the embankment did then he built the bigger place remember determiners getting together you know Bobby Lynch was with the governor's force and Luke coming back and Luke China and open John she enjoining the governor's was you know was damage is not atonement to Clancy Brothers used to come home from America with our veto for tornadoes in
the course the boys for the Paisley is that true and drinking taller lies that we didn't have the money for it and the boys at the bank I hope you know to be fewer points for open lads and it's all great craic all right here was no jealousy and he was just all great great right as I said the music it in ten days was bigger you know it didn't belong to the class Ju you know and it didn't belong to us beyond change in the 70s when you became more success seventies the 70s changed big time I don't know what happened to the seventies would folk music was somebody's decided to put a badge on it and claim it and own it it became very military of just liked with everybody played to say no there was no freedom anymore like somebody had locked at open the boxes they'd hang on this is boy you know I put in new door for me when we came back toward him you couldn't believe there were so many different traditions when we left her and there was only one tradition Irish tradition you know we all have little different styles but Jesus was like you know somebody who joined the British Army didn't come back you know there was that much of a division you know you could feel it it was very very silly because the people that were sorted and put in the foot forward were the people getting in there and it was all a bit money or intent that in coming from different backgrounds they like that but we fought through it you know and so did all the boys you know to do ministry you know it's too deep street burns like Christie doing them and you know what the police how much do bodies got you know Roxy and you know Don Baker you know and onerous brush and all the boys and I'll go through it even fill in it you know my true the same thing but he broke through it you know you get you on and I saw him these guys are not going anywhere you know yeah you're too fun to go back to you know that they like music becomes important to them because it's popular at the time you know we did a for a living and we always will so we used to sit back and watch it happen because we knew it was going to fizzle out in a couple years you know just how we they keep it going yeah but yes there were a couple of having read up on your your kind of life over the last few days there are a couple of things that surprised me one of which you were presented with a single of the Year award by John P and I would never before I read that I would for some odd reason I would never have matched the fury brothers with John Peel yeah so this you know people see us as
their Clancy Brothers in sweet 16 they didn't know what like what we did you know you can read free spirits the book and then you'll understand it you know like I think the best one was a Steve Lillywhite said to me when he read me my god he says me Mike he says you were the most closely kept secret in orange and that's the Reiser to me you know I've never heard pipes played like I'm Elise an event oh well that's cool enough for me but it never part of me I mean I die this is a very small island Ireland you know I know but when emotion is my home and was lowly to go home to but it's really true the world I did five weeks in Australia you know and I gone to America now and I'm known allowed the worldliness number one harbors on Australia so time for we never went to South Africa Jordan we wouldn't go yeah we had three number-one albums founder we never went you know and we fought against at newspapers even our homes came sits all your stupid and so hang on a minute think folk music you know come on us and I remember read fart come on it's for for people for music is for people you know that's who we are you know for God's sake grow up you know Jesus you know this Bob Dylan says how many years cell phone one have you know before I can hear people cry you know for God's sake you know people have you just common sense you know when to universe of an old fella said we're watching a movie you don't know if you're gonna see your cobra snake you move around to be at home put your hand on a butcher or trying caramel it away you know make you know it's a I don't understand this music is music it's free you know it was belong to anybody and I think I love to hear new music and new music coming true new songs I cherry is just written a song Jerry Fleming never go back to Jerry to hit for his sister yes what's great you know for it would something that I would never do never I remember getting up from the table I'm walking away from Declan and Eve and unassisted I'm not interested I said because this is gotten to do with songwriters you know this is gonna be another x-factor stuff and I don't want to go in there and I said nothing to do of my world I said I just live in a different world you know and fair play is doing the kids great I'm making a few problem put the names out there but it's kind of odd to do me and I'm too old I love walked away and the funny mean he said no no we really want you to do this and we want your important over to pipes and stuff and I said okay so diamond a
her jury song I wanted something done because I hadn't I must say some of the jury sorry I hadn't played a place for a while you know and I hadn't put the pipes on a song for a long time actually on an album for a while and they gave me great incentive we can t use the pipes you know songs I got someone saying Jerry saw and hear the pipes is sit on it so coming back it was great for to put your songs out there for the songwriters and at least he got a show on our channel out our songs and as I said it was no Lou everybody wanted you know and everybody was a winner you know a husband it's a great show and I just enjoyed it I loved locking horns with the boys and seeing what they've got and what ideas they have and it was and I had no help you know I was like giving him a few Bob and said okay off you go there's your budget you got a produce arrange that would no help you've got an engineer and I said we need it in three weeks did it bring back memories of being on Top of the Pops that that can't process that that pop music process because you we're on top of the pops I'm not sure how nothing is it's just hard that's our the coachee light and I suppose your college in Austin it's a parent of that I suppose Las Vegas sort of feel you know that everybody likes to have around it's a prosperous I suppose P some people look at it as you know flashing lights and things like that yeah I enjoyed it you know it's hard top of the past is very funny because like when you see the size of us as you know it's when the band were getting you know get a few more Bob we were getting Richard Richard call up you know two groups will get the bigger umbrella for all the photographs are the album's of a massive and the last half of available I'm oka home chases were doing great you know yeah and you can always tell the parents are really struggling and you see them the deterioration of parents just look at the albums and I bet you're all laughing I obey you see them all young growing opening tomorrow by the other way you know I walk a stick but yeah it's great I love it you know when when you look back to when the furiousness were successful in in the 70s and 80s and the way you operate know your music as a as a business I presume what what what was the industry like back then to kind of be a part of I mean
what was was was was money a concern was getting a record deal a concern was selling records a concern yeah you have to start to go to festivals and I remember myself Anneli the force Cambridge Folk Festival we went to they would give us a gig if I played the voicing banjo because they aired or could play this banjo they didn't want the pipes for some reason I don't know and so Darren didn't wanted me to pay the banjo and I wouldn't so what we did for respect we went around the corner is a big Irish pub well fellas I had a pub is always felons who took the room upstairs so we took the tour and we packed it you know for the two nice journey cambridge hope Russell so he tied to Cambridge trust in the daytime and we did two nights in this poke which kept for starett and we met some great musicians who came out of the festival and they came to hear myself and Eddie I wanted him what's wrong with my child that's how we met Ralph force you know and they'd heard about these two worries kids over doing a an artist program so we always put it out there as were an Irish - oh you know who they never sort of were folk - you're nourish folk to it we put her up there all the time and the place of course was a big part bleahh he was Top of the Pops I think the best the one that the ones that got I think the most enjoyment er was was a per se Jim Hunt and McLaren and the boys that put it there you know because we were in America when we heard about it and they'd put a lot of work into it especially Jim Heeter and we were just amazed I know I think the big the big break was Terry Wogan Terry knew we knew Terry when he went over there we'd met Terry before we'd actually moved back to Orleans he'd moved over there so mean Eddie at Merriman we've done a radio program and without sorry known John Peel before done every police so when Toni hurted me an idiot and boys were apparent to the fury Burris you know he said oh wow and then he heard Sweet sixteen and he played it every more on his breakfast sure what hoping tolls are asked to do it and he just did it and people just took it and it was selling in excess of talking thousand copies a day that's it that was amazing it just took off identity just for some reason it was what was I got the number 12 and that was it just disappeared but I will love you the Tom Paxton song got the number 26 in the British as well and we didn't go over for them you know because with turbos in the top 20 but the town fizzled out then we sort
of we decided to go back into an immigration album and we did the steal away album which was great and we needed to do that for the weed natales ever the lads away excuse me the lads away from home young kids you know the Irish kids like we were you know at that age and they like to get in touch and talk only Saturday we should try and do another set of emigration so for me and before did you know terrific stuff out there you know just the children for me Mary do not let them sign her we tell them that to him I'm thinking of them though it breaks my heart to leave you know it's beautiful we do go Paul to these great songs and we wrote Phil Coulter involved we got filtered give us a bit of help but just arranged my sovereign and Phil finally came in and produced it and we did all the races between us which was great and there it was a absolute beautiful album the only in front of our I think one of the best albums we ever did and I think the last time we did together as a band was was fantastic who was the scattering which was another emigration album unless we did two more albums after that I plan a road and which were I think like a road for me is probably one of the best accused cigar bands we ever made and it's just the four of us under four brothers and it was just before Paul passed away so like it's let's great music but yeah it's great you know where do you go John Peel you know he made took remember one we were calling against the Beatles and every week he said yeah this week some songs gone we have to be some we have timber and Eddie Fury may have tabla somewhat across and I went all the way down to ourselves the debates so we I remember where his packed under de motorway and London listen to the radio or driving this big all day for myself and any weird unique someplace down and cried in our ticket was so we pulled in to hear what Reed was and I could believe it he says this he played a number two and he played Joe Joe you know Georgie wasn't Jenny says why pick for the single lives a yearís Manetti fury and of course we've got a cherry roughly found over Jerry was looking for a solitary robbed it you know it was fantastic like that table they hadn't be taken out her cradles now for about six or seven years of Peters had want everything for two
buddy family kids and a glass region kid to come here that starter here's them shape up a bit it was lovely yeah did you have much did you have much interaction with the business side of things or did you let the management your management take to take fortunately I burn here than absolute wizard in business you lose my back - either I must put a crown it funny but it is there you know art this Sheila trust me that's my way and she's here tonight they she that she been with me and Eddie when Eddie not even on the road she looked after the cakes you know she boot places where it would be staged she was he all was near so she was always a part of my life you know Lars will be like big part she takes care of the publishing company and like if we need to talk about something let me talk about if we don't we don't you know some literally hungry was itself you know she was just could you know sir the business so you do what you know so she keeps it she keeps a quote if it was left up to me I'd give it all away trust me yeah so obviously you're kind of quite lucky that you had it but your tour manager tour account and etc etc do you think are in your experience are musicians as a kind of species well-equipped to deal with the business side of things no no I mean would he go treat her Darryl Adams say was a total loss would he was absolutely internal was as bad you know Chuck Kelly and mimosa lots I ever met need help you know I mean you just don't have a business Brian you know you know businessman things about you know different things over I just you know I wouldn't be thinking about the same things I've ever sat down and we talked I be talking about something about like mine and or something that our he's got this someplace and I'm interested Marie's doing a but any case into the 80-degree to you know do you say LM lost you know yeah and I'm the same from Tom is somebody both music I have to be careful don't go above want you know don't keep contact with them because you know they were different you know we do everything differently lately yeah I think musicians are a breed but a breed of our own if you if there was I mean the audience here I've there they're songwriters the musicians some are successful some are getting there some might not get there some are there
and that's that's terrific what what what advice would you well what's the most important piece of advice you would give to any musician particularly those kind of just starting off their career because you've got the other side of it now really aren't you you know you you you you you started off successfully you maintain that you still are well what what would you what would you say to them just be for me I just if you're gonna do your music and your feelers the belongs you know it's here that belongs to be put out there to the world you know you believe in it you know keep banging the door down you know you have to keep doing it business I don't know about the business I do it I've never never cared you know the way I look at it you know I never be stoked for money he that I just give me a badge or a guitar about in the street it doesn't bother me I'll post greater there doesn't bother me and Selena I'll and the price of mail in an hour you know but like I've look he that well you know four musicians are songwriters are common first of all get a good publishing company you somebody you can trust you know that's a still for me wrong you know and if you're married if you got a girlfriend or inherent or whatever you know just always I find that if a musician leaves it just takes it and does it on his own if you bring your partner in your wife in as if you know as they share and help her in there you know shouldn't want it like two people two heads about more yeah I find that there every musician needs have got on carriers you know they all need help on the road well not so that you get the odd one who he's geared himself up says are a aren't gonna be a copy of what he go to you're going to be the savior of the people you know when he goes out there and of course everybody believes and then they take him off and all of me spending his bank account forever is gonna and then you get your divisional search and he says I really want to do this because I believe in these in the store and I really do understand this because you're gonna want to share it and he's the guy I have a quote and singing when he's on individualist Street you know and his boss can don't be afraid to do it took a real shame Dover or whatever you call it you know destiny is a guy like you know I like to freedom in people you know I hate me is like that Sam you know I hated like you were going to a room and for instance Nashville one night I was watching new thing called good ol boys Nashville is very good music now but like it was so it was no
but don't movement any you know Underwood plants was sitting there I said it was the dearest place in town trust me talk to his music counter oh it will cost you a box secure in there and it was ten times better but because the boys were building like the ground or whatever watch you know I'm a chimera dere feeling deprived you know and then I went ten minutes down the road and saw these two kids playing like what they write songs and I'm saying what was i doin open this place something it gotta make remove the kids forward at the office nothing to avoid his old man this place was just full of these very old I made it my age now right I'm like just sitting there one Hank okay Mick okay paddy you take it yeah okay buddy okay and the artists like didn't give a about the audience you're just sitting there going you know what they're having a great session what just tinkling long in the snow so dude come on I was trying to get the banjo give just give it a blast you know but it's not me fever moving but I think energy is a big thing in your in your life you know keep your energy with your music keep your energy would you you know don't ever ever let anybody say don't happy don't say I can't cause you can do it there's always a way around it dimension the Bands authority what Jonah but if you interested I'll give you another yeah you join it the grave he had a point when it I got it started just play it is I was sad to be walking under banjo I'm walking to this piece of music is like a couple years ago I got a phone call from a lot from YouTube when bono said it was Sean Penn's 50th birthday I'm moody for a cake to get a farm I do a concert and I said I hope you're constantly bring him down to Tony who's and that's where we took him so we got all the last John Sheehan and Patsy watch our and all the boys were there and even ask me he's very interested in music and I was telling me that where our bigger influence I suppose or my people always said that are from his channels music would have come from directly from the gothic monks you know and this has real initiation we would play something we say are you ready
[ how did you do that it's just said I'll give you my best news I've shown you can play like him it was a hero when he was only 12 shot a man in Mexico was crazy it's actually it's the same it's doubling up the time and I'm playing in like it do Dora's certificate and it is completely different is the AV if you go from one difficult in this to this you know and then come back to western-style music I start to gives you a head of the shock you know from the different put this is where we get her yeah and it's like this part is very Spanish which come from you had the more sin Oberon and in the Spanish music the Arabic Allah and there's no order in so don't look into them that's the same children you so imagine so that is my K room as probably just peace award with maybe who know same hundred sure knows where he came from huh that's come on boys give me a break
here okay okay right we're gonna jump into the 90s the late 90s and you you left the Furies although they spit up or whatever happened and you became a kind of effectively you can have solo yeah on your own what was was it was it a difficult decision to make or 1987 I knew then doctor for me we're going going on Eva you know it was it was you know automatic toilet you know like most of the bands get into it you get into a groove and you can't get out you know and you're locked in that position it's like being typecast as an actor you just can't get out of it you know no I didn't like this you know I'm I'm a free spirit I like to move you know what music an hour too much music left you know I remember talked to my brothers when we're in Australia I said I'm leavin but we had about three years or contracts to fill so I said you this guy I said no more I said after that date and I remember who did Carnegie Hall at two o'clock in the day Sunday afternoon we sold it out and it was an incredible feat and two days later we played in New Haven in the small little place and in the early center it was a great night fantastic in the room about twice the size of this put so so tight and people right and it was a wonderfully and I remember I said that was it we just shook hands and I said I'm leavin and then he said okay in posit fine and there was no less than Paul said I said I've got more work to do I said I can't I can't do this every night you know this is not right and I was neglecting my pipes I was singing more than play in the pipes you know lots of stuff you know so not all these songs I'd written don't want to the pro turn I'd written actually walking with my darlin her Walker would love I don't know chance opponent out there and then there was people bring in and order stuff awakened so it's not to startle a store one of herself so we became two pounds like I wouldn't I would go on stage with Eddie and the boys and open up the gig with the pokeman and we get a call on and it was great and then I would back off you know I already take it and George take it then on they back off every year backed off more and more and more to those late nearly two separate keys and then I was joining the put your tongue and then in the end once we left the boys were perfect you know once I knew they were happy I backed off you know and so they were great and I was very proud and they took it up and depicted open you know event or there's something I had to do Shirin know you know when they look back
which was very important to Eddie too because like I was making all the decisions to you know I was the bottom line was doing to me what the lads and you know was earner for me it was great relief to get away so I didn't have to do all this you know and anyone to do it it was literally for daddy in charge to take control with as well you know so anyway it was like saying I just an orphan stepping off he's keep them to trained or money gauge you know and you did it so well - I'm very proud I'm thinking was talking teddy derringer tonight was his birthday and on Christmas Eve and I was talking I'm on the phone a couple of weeks before word aunty was on just going on tour and I just come back off to her so we get to get in there and again yeah sure we have a cup of tea unit only thing about we end up sort of laughing about things till we actually Kroy I'm serious we can into giggles and without actually actually cry and then the tilma sorta we just look at each other go to has ago yeah see you next year you know it's just so many memories in there like to end them at the end of the conversation is yes okay okay no do you have another string to your bow is and that's acting you might not not okay well irrespective of what you might think you know you actually we're in Americans cause easy movie not many Irish musicians can say that that movie was Gangs of New York and you were also you've also had a quite a kind of strong role in love Havers john boy's father if if I could maybe just briefly go back to scores easy first how how did that happen now how are you approached it was very I was actually tummy King in the paper you know tummy the great friend of mine tell me a lovely play Tommy was playing injuries hotel for the American tourists Sonny's Bank exploded on stage or he was tuning up he's bang bang and of course all the the tourists made run for the exit science we should laugh that's funny that's true I found me researchers I'm in terrible trouble my bank is exploded on stage and I know because my bike it happened to me in Sacramento and the place just don't know rotor it's makes a noise and like when when I happened to my bank there was cigarette toasting rings and watches I hadn't seen for years blue her by giving
her Oh J is a testament and what can't happen topic anyway pulled I came and just no escape you just can't played him anyway so tell me was in an awkward dilemma so I said he picked up a pair of rubber you know Stouffer's they come up to the house we put one together so we're actually rolling around the backyard and would attend igloo and just putting his bag together and we're stuck together the winter sleep despite there and my wife Sheila phoned and she's she said to me Finn she tapped the phone on the window phone call from New York do you want to know where they have an audience with Martin Scorsese and it didn't it's actually didn't trigger because I'm still together with his bike and I'm said tell him to fall back in a minute we're busy were making a bag she says Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas pizza I swear and she says attend she says no without JEP you know and then I thought it was Eddie or someone mess honest and alone yes who is this cuz you can't let's mess in the body or you know hello I'm gonna hear you say I caught your name from Brendan Gleeson and Daniel day-lewis lizard whatever talk on a very insert I would like to bring you over to do this song so we said when he said over to wrong I said okay so he booted takes it some said we see you dare me we arrived or Sheila was leaning out to window called - tickets - tickets now like a seeing her eyes was Leonardo da da how he went me he's ever seen him with a great time this before he started we gave their anyway and damn what you don't speak set is amazing this word he made been horror and so straight to chai a trace they built all of the docks in this place I never saw act like it he played 200 block bank and damn when we're under said tiny day-lewis was June just seen when he had that lemon tyrant roses on what he's shown to walk on their own to tell like a peacock and they finished that set and they they come straight over to me self and Sheila honey he introduces himself a nice isn't me to tell you guys tell me that was only two guys could sing this song properly once him is dead and you're the other guy and I said oh we better hurry up so just massive room and you were talking about obviously talking about Luke's anniversary today Lou Kelly and we were doing it when he was born with Luke and it was great for
Jung Jae min Dempsey you know the young musicians young songwriters do you know how proud so proud and it it's in great hands at the moment watching younger Damien Dempsey this morning it's a tribute he gave to Luke was great yeah he's gonna carrying on the torch rage yeah I know that I was I was great to be a part of that's another so I did a music comment true again you know so it's a probably it like the influence you know hmm so is great yeah and love hate completely different experience I presume have two slightly lesser budget than Gangs of New York maybe was like when I did this song was very funny cuz he brought me turned it is Barrett and and I had to do a dance so I had to actually dance and sing the song and I said sure choked me so don't as I've never stood over me Lloyd for so to say I got sit down playing pipe sizing sit and don't so I said what am I gonna do to dance around he so had to get some movement so I Fairplay to me straight back to me mother and Lord you know the musical Doris Day I was never figure the deadwood stage oh did that was they just come and it said that's the same the rhythm put that on Tawaf we went understand to sing it and it was great I had great fun but it was 11 verses in 22 choruses and you couldn't stop you had to keep going all the way through I know I had a great time over there for like a you're annoying days and I remember when we finished this the scene what we were doing I asked him was that what was he finished with me now and he came outside to make such a big force of myself as Sheila was from tasking and Leonardo DiCaprio Henry Thomas Taggart a everyone that analyzed came I was you know to prompt the whole thing just to come out and say you know it was probably he said place is gonna be very quiet around here without you know because the stories the bit of cracked singing a few songs and was one of the lads parities in the middle of the scene Dordogne so he took over a pope and wrong called the Fiddler's elbow and we got a lend of a set of pipes trust me I found a set of pipes in Rome and we found a great Italian folk band that sang Irish music they backed me on there on the song on the movie so we have the kick for that and we went to an ice cream parlor at three o'clock in the morning loaded with Garrigan I named for the figure in the name of change we doing in the noise cream parlour tricks not gonna mourn then I
copped his bottle of wine in the corner I said I'll have a I'll have a wondered Emma said in one that milks you know and we were I remember sitting there drinking wine eating ice cream I tree o'clock in the mornin a bit long and the place was bad for people eat they script it was fantastic and we went straight to dessert after that for makeup there was the fire that was the white saying you never knew you wouldn't let me end our do you like acting I love it I think it's great its gratefulness Lee explained its it's just the same as playing music just like when when I was singing the green fields of France I'm sitting there you know and I'm talking to this man you know or if I'm singing like that song I sang the I was further than I thought it was you know I'm there like it's no different for me you know if I I'm just not great at at the moment but I'm getting good you like being busy don't you I think I love it yeah oh gee we were saying before we came down that you're you're coming to LA quite soon with a play that you've just finished story you tell us we're doing it's not a place sort of an idea I have as a thing called Jacko I've been waiting for a few years so so got the book you know which is about the fury family growing up through my eyes you know it's true as a kid you know on on so and the book will be ready to go as well by the time ago so under new album out there as well but I actually would like to make an album out there you know or start an album out there because just knows a great musician so I have more to achat or elective and it's nice to lock horns with people you know in the studio I was something different for me to do so we're just gonna go and check it out for a couple of weeks you know trow a few ideas around oh god a few friends out there mind in our backs or good hands and mr. pleasure I just wanna make a holiday out of it and then there's a friend of ours he's from Claire he's very Parliament and were flying out to him on the way back and he's looking after us for a few days this is the key to what you love doing just doing what you love doing if that doesn't sound like a silly question I just enjoy it you know I saw I just musically once they hit the stage or you know I just play you know just I don't I I just love creating music I just love put stuff together I was working on a song with the guitar there tonight before I came in and I
just I was supposed to sing this song this morning for Luke which I did you know it's a tribute which also wrote you know and then I have this other woman in the back of my brains at the moment I was trying to get off the cards are so close and that's Forest Lake it mostly been on a pond but is there a song I wrote is just too typical son of eret kid who's worked in a city but it's not pseudonym you know he's just as just as a suit so he has to get a writer you know and it's it's happened it's living on iou streets and for the rest of your life you know not normal for somebody that you never even meet it's one of these great songs while ating is a great song win for young Finbar he's very good singing a great guitar player as well and also like Martin and I Kings you know on Martin said wow what a great song so it's you know they could tend to come at you now and again yeah you've also think got a nephew in a band called the young focus that he's bringing Jeff Anthony fury that's George's good i'm gonna talk about antony and he's a very special and he's a gifted little kitties and believer like he looks and he is he looks a very same as eddie it's got the same sort of genes University you know Eddie looks at he's like I won't tell you how old he is but he you could put him into his 50s you know boys a couple of years old and uh but Anthony looks he look he looks like he never got any older than 16 you know and he's a gorgeous looking kid on Warnock or a guitar player a great songwriter are very proud of under band - doing great around here at the moment the rough in New York you're underground in New York yeah yeah yeah Alfred we're in Arlington Cemetery there two years of my student we just wanted and there was a funeral going on these two horses on that depends on I've tried everything for making something really the whole thing was a horse walk or too fast it obviously get them there you know I disapprove that people are gonna be high until something like this you know you get the nicest [Music] [Music] good evening tear sir mr.
mr. Washington I said good evening - yes sir mr. mr. Washington you know it's easy to carve his name on the stone not easy [Music] Fiori thank you very very much won't you Father thank you