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Try:
spotify:track:0ddSWopFE9q0CykfTrmWaG

(Sort of loses a bit of impact with all this, maybe you can "tidy", please Fraser)

I get Christy Moore when I copy and paste your second thing.

You could have warned us it was bloody Christy Moore before posting the link.

I had to endure this pillock at Glastonbury a few years ago. I was stood in a queue to use some of the facilities not too far from the Pyramid Stage, and had to endure Moore's set under duress whilst getting progressively wetter. The arse played this long winded and extremely repetitive stupid bloody song that appeared to go on for hours, causing most of the queue to lose the will to live.

... [No spotification in my region (ohhheeerr matron)]

Thanks for the link, that's wonderful. I dodn't know there was a new Christy album out.

To counterpoint JQW, Christy Moore is an amazing talent, perhaps best experienced while not waiting for a toilet in the rain. My appreciation for him has changed since I became another Irishman in London five years ago. He's a great interpreter of songs and communicates a very specific Irish experience through some of his work. His gigs are a bizarre mix of church-like reverence and hooley-time.

For those of you with Spotify I give you his take on Richerd Thompson's Beeswing:
http://open.spotify.com/track/3gr4ZGI7pp9B5Cu7TL2R4v

Here's a live YouTube version:

I've only seen Christy Moore once, at Hammersmith several years ago... he was astonishing. One of the most captivating live performers I've had the privilege to see.

I like his version of SOYCD... it works well.

...Christy does his version of the mighty Amsterdam's 'Does This Train Stop On Merseyside?'

Again, well worth a listen - especially 20 years on from Hillsborough.

http://open.spotify.com/track/1wNjmDOgosvpQIo5C7Eafg

I heard a half a minute of this on Front Row the other night and meant to check it out. Great version.

D. Gilmour, Esq. plays guitar substantially better and sings it with tons more emotion, I like it by dint of the fact it's a gorgeously sparse and stripped down reading of the song. Thanks for pointing it out.

I hope it was worth it for most. I CAN understand JQW's comments: Christy can be enormously annoying, if not in the mood for his "humour" or if his voice slips too far into "oi'm oirish, me" (tho' strangely, he is, and that is how he speaks too!) However, when he hits the spot, in the right time and in the right place, it works, o it works. I thought this cover was going initially to be too twee, as is his "Fairytale of New York" version, but it builds beautifully, and the emotion Mark JF points out as lacking is, in my view, there in spades by the end. Lovely guitar solo too, uncertain who by.
And thanks for the Luka track: I had never herard him sound so much like big bro'.

I realise Declan Sinnott has long been his touring right hand man, and assume the accoustic and mandolin was his, but the solo is almost Gilmour-like I thought. (I'll see if google can tell me)