Moving Hearts

• Christy Moore - vocals, guitar, bodhran
• Donal Lunny - bouzouki
• Declan Sinnott - guitar
• Eoghan O'Neill - bass
• Brian Calnan - percussion/drums
• Keith Donald - sax
• Davy Spillane - Uileann pipes
  
  

Bio:

Formed by Christy Moore and Donal Lunny after Planxty. Hugely influential in Ireland.

Brian Calnan (percussion/drums) was replaced by Matt Kelleghan after the debut LP. Christy Moore left after the second LP in 1982 and was replaced by Mick Hanly. Hanly left after "Live Hearts" and the final album "The Storm" was entirely instrumental. Flo McSweeney was occasional vocalist before the band split ca 1986. They reformed and performed sproadically since then.

 

Press release announcing the double-7" edition.

Notes: Produced by Donal Lunny. Recorded at Keystone and Windmill Lane studios in Dublin during the summer of 1981. The limited edition double-7" version was released after the single had already entered the Irish charts. Both tracks are non-LP. The live track was recorded at Collooney, Co.Sligo, on 25 July 1981 and features Mick Hanly.

side one:
Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette (Jim Page)
Irish Ways And Irish Laws (John Gibbs)
McBride's (Lunny/Sinnott)
Before The Deluge (Jackson Browne)
Landlord (Jim Page)

side two:
Category
Faithful Departed
Lake Of Shadows
No Time For Love

Notes: Recorded at Keystone Studios and Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin in the summer of 1981. Produced by Donal Lunny, assisted by Andrew Boland.

side one:
Remember The Brave Ones
Dark End Of The Street
All I Remember
Let Somebody Know

side two:
What Will You Do About Me?
Downtown
Allende
Half-Moon

Notes: Lineup: Christy Moore, Donal Lunny, Declan Sinnott, Eoghan O'Neill, Matt, Keith Donald, Davy Spillane

side one:
Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette ¹
Before The Deluge ¹
Let Somebody Know ²
McBrides ¹
What Will You Do About Me ²

side two:
No Time For Love ¹
Downtown ²
Dark End Of The Street ²
Half-Moon ²
Remember The Brave Ones ²

¹ from Moving Hearts
² from Dark End of the Street

side one:
McBrides
2-1 Freddie
Downtown
All I Remember
Open Those Gates

side two:
Strain Of The Dance
What Will You Do About Me?
Let Somebody Know
Lake Of Shadows

Notes: Recorded at Windmill II Studio, produced by Donal Lunny. The lineup is listed on the back cover as: Flo McSweeney (vocals), Davy Spillane (uileann pipes), Keith Donald (soprano sax), Eoghan O'Neill (bass, vocals), Matt Keleghan (drums), Noel Eccles (percussion), Donal Lunny (keyboards, vocals), Artie McGlynn (guitar) and Suzanne Rhatigan (backing vocals).
Both tracks were non-LP but surfaced on compilations. "State Music" is on Tara's Irish Folk Collection LP/K7/CD (TARA 2014) [1985].

The Lark:
o The Lark in the Morning
o Earl the Breakfast Boiler
o O'Broin's Flightcase
o In the Mountains of Holland
o Oh Hag You've Killed Me
o Peter O'Byrnes's Fancy
o Langstrom's Pony
The Titanic
o An Irishman in Brittany
o A Breton in Paris
The Storm
o The Storm in the Teashirt
o The Staff in the Baggot
Finore
Tribute To Peadar O'Donnell
May Morning Dew

Notes: Lineup:
* Davy Spillane (low whistle, uilleann pipes)
* Declan Masterson (uillean pipes)
* Keith Donald (soprano sax, alto sax)
* Noel Eccles (percussion)
* Matt Kelleghan (drums)
* Eoghan O'Neill (bass)
* Donal Lunny (bouzouki, synthesiser, bodhran)

tracks: The Lark (live)

side one:
Before The Deluge
All I Remember
McBrides
Landlord
Downtown

side two:
What Will You Do About Me
Faithful Departed
No Time For Love
Let Somebody For Love

The Girl in the Big House "An Phis Fhliuch" ¹
Allende
McBride's
Faithful Departed
Downtown (live)
All I Remember (live)
Let Somebody Know
Before The Deluge
Category
Irish Ways And Irish Laws
The Lark
Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette
Ballinspittle Boogie ¹

¹ previously unreleased tracks

Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette
Before the Deluge
Landlord
Faithful Departed
Lake of Shadows
Dark End of the Street
All I Remember
Let Somebody Know
Downtown
Allende
Half Moon
McBrides (live)
2-1 Freddie (live)
Strain of the Dance (live)

CD tracklisting:
The Lark
The Titanic
Finore
Tribute To Peadar O'Donnell
Category
Lake Of Shadows
Downtown
The Storm
May Morning Dew
McBrides

DVD tracklisting:
May Morning Dew
McBrides
Category
Finore
Tribute To Peadar O'Donnell
Lake Of Shadows
The Titanic
The Lark
The Storm
Downtown

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