Horslips - Everything Will Be Alright

I love this song. I recall hearing it on Radio 1 once, when it was brand new.

365 Albums 330-345

1. Hymns - Lullabies Page CXVI 2012*
2. And Winter came Enya 2008
3. Drive the cold winter away Horslips 1985
4. Christmas Variations Rick Wakeman 2000*
5. The Jethro Tull Christmas Album Jethro Tull 2003
6. Music per la Notte de Natale Thijs v Leer, Louis van Dijk, Rogier van Otterloo 1976*
7. We Three kings The Roches 1990
8. Chris Squire's Swiss Choir Chris Squire 2007
9. The Christmas Album Keith Emerson 1999
10. December The Moody Blues 2003
11. The Dawn of Grace Sixpence None the Richer 2008
12. While Mortals Sleep Kate Rusby 2011
13. Kerst met Thijs van Leer en Elly Ameling in de Grote Kerk Te Monickendam Thijs v Leer & Elly Ameling 1979* 
14. Carols & Capers Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band 1991
15. A Tapestry of Carols Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band 1986

365 Albums 286-300

1. Crises Mike Oldfield 1983
2. Five Miles Out Mike Oldfield 1980
3. Tyger Tangerine Dream 1987
4. 10000 Clowns Jan Akkerman 1997
5. Short Stories Tall Tales Horslips 1980
6. Horslips and the Ulster Orchestra Live at the Waterfront Belfast 2011
7. Geluckig is het land Thijs van Leer, Louis van Dijk & Rogier van Otterloo 1980
8. Rubycon Tangerine Dream 1975
9. Le Parc Tangerine Dream 1985
10. Amarantine Enya 2005
11. The Belfast Gigs Horslips 1980
12. Pergamon (Quichotte) Tangerine Dream 1980
13. Canyon Dreams Tangerine Dream 1991
14. Earth Moving Mike Oldfield 1989
15. Sunshower Joachim Kühn Band 1978

365 Albums 121-135

1. Jan Akkerman 3 Jan Akkerman 1979 
2. Modern Vampires of the City Vampire Weekend 2013
3. Poland Tangerine Dream 1984
4. Cosmo's Factory Creedence Clearwater Revival 1970
5. Violunar Kagermann 1992
6. Tangram Tangerine Dream 1980
7. Adrenalin Rush Gareth Pearson 2006
8. Oceanic Vangelis 1997
9. All that you can't leave behind U2 2000
10. The Memory of Trees Enya 1995
11. Noise of Art Jan Akkerman 1990
12. Hymns III Page CXVI 2010*
13. Beyond the Storm Edgar Froese 1995
14. Happy to meet - Sorry to part Horslips 1972
15. Rubber Soul The Beatles 1965

365 Albums 76-90

1. The Crossing Big Country 1983 (1996 remaster)
2. Electric Warrior T Rex 1971
3. Live at Alexanders Jan Akkerman 1999
4. Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield 1973
5. Yr Hwntws Yr Hwntws 1982
6. Passion Jan Akkerman 1999*
7. Transparental Jan Akkerman & Kaz Lux 1980
8. Under my skin Gabrielle 2018
9. Abraxas Santana 1970
10. Dylanesque Bryan Ferry 2007
11. Camel Snow Goose 1975
12. The Man Who Built America Horslips 1978
13. O Brother where art thou? Soundtrack Various Artists 2000
14. Hymns II Page CXVI 2010*
15. Beggar Julia's Timetrip Ekseption 1970

(* Suitable for Sunday playing IMHO)

365 Albums 46-60

1. Beard of Stars Tyrannosaurus Rex 1970
2. Bach for a New Age Thijs van Leer 1999*
3. Renaissance of the Celtic Harp Alan Stivell 1972
4. The Tain Horslips 1973
5. The Chieftains 4 The Chieftains 1973
6. Me Myself I Joan Armatrading 1980
7. Guitar From the Heart Live in Raalte Thomas Blug Band 2005
8. Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman 1988
9. In Another land Larry Norman 1976*
10. Final Straw Snow Patrol 2003
11. Six wives of Henry VIII Rick Wakeman 1973
12. Blue on Blue Leigh Nash 2006
13. Penguin Cafe Orchestra PCO 1981
14. Shot of Love Bob Dylan 1981
15. Hopes And Fears Keane 2004

(* Suitable for Sunday playing IMHO)

365 Albums 31-45

1. Inside Llewyn Davies Soundtrack 2013
2. Joshua Tree U2 1987
3. Cuilidh Julie Fowlis 2007
4. 6 6 6 Aphrodite's Child 1972
5. Sing Lustily and with Good Courage Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band 1990*
6. Epsilon in Malaysian Pale Edgar Froese 1975
7. Trace Trace 1974
8. Tales from the Book of Time Catherine Lambert and the Lore Liege Ensemble 2003
9. The Chirping Crickets The Crickets 1957
10. Hamburger Concerto Focus 1974
11. Dona Nobis Pacem Pedal Point 1983*
12. Guitars Philip Catherine 1975
13. Regatta de Blanc The Police 1979
14. Long Player Late Bloomer Ron Sexsmith 2010
15. The Unfortunate Cup of Tea Horslips 1975

(* Suitable for Sunday playing IMHO)

365 Albums 16-30

1. Graceland Paul Simon 1986
2. Laser Love After the Fire 1979
3. Book of Invasions Horslips 1976
4. The Slider T Rex 1972
5. Philosophers, poets and kings Kate Rusby 2019
6. New York City The Peter Malick Group ft Norah Jones 2003
7. Angel on the mantlepiece Charles O'Connor 1999*
8. Solitude Standing Suzanne Vega 1987
9. Shepherd Moons Enya 1991
10. Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel 1969
11. Play to Win Gabrielle 2004
12. China Vangelis 1979
13. Cyril Cyril Havermans 1973
14. Hyperborea Tangerine Dream 1983
15. The Race for Space Public Service Broadcasting 2015

(* Suitable for Sunday playing IMHO)

Horslips - Fool the beast Live 1975

10 Great Acts from the Seventies

1. Focus
2. Yes
3. Horslips
4. Tangerine Dream
5. Vangelis
6. Mike Oldfield
7. Free
8. T Rex
9. Roxy Music
10. The Chieftains

Horslips in Dingle Rescue Me

This is nice and quite special.

Comb your hair and curl it

I thought some of you might enjoy this. For most of us it will be better to listen than to look. Aah, the seventies, eh? Charles O'Connor's little guitar is a specially made electric mandolin. BTW I am, of course, rooting for the Welsh tonight not the Irish.

10 Winter Songs

These are not really Christmas songs but winter ones.
To hear them go here.
1. River Joni Mitchell 
2. Winter time Kayak
3. Winterborn lyric Jan Akkerman
4. Drive the cold winter away Horslips/Kate Rusby
5. The throat of winter Tyrannosaurus Rex
6. Midwinter night Tangerine Dream
7. Trains and winter rains Enya 
8. Flight of the snow goose Camel
9. Winter time love The Doors/Bojoura
10. Hazy shade of winter Simon and Garfunkel/Bangles

10 Popular songs that feature the mandolin

1. REM Losing my religion
2. Rod Stewart Maggie May
3. Steve Earle Copperhead Road
4. Yes, Wonderous stories
5. Shawn Colvin Sonny came home
6. Soggy Bottom Boys Man of constant sorrow
7. Lindisfarne Lady Eleanor
8. Kinks Supersonic Rocket Ship
9. Horslips Dearg Doom
10. McGuinness Flint Dead and gone

St Patrick's excuse

St Patrick's Day is always a good excuse to put on a bit of Horslips

OGWT Faster than the hound

Retro Album of the week 11 - The Tain

The concept album The Tain by the Irish band Horslips came out in 1973 and has given me a great deal of pleasure ever since I first heard it. The band's second studio album it was recorded in Wales and is loosely based on the Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), one of the most infamous legends of Early Irish literature, dealing with the war between Ulster and Connacht over a prize bull. The songs tell the story from the points of view of Cúchulainn, Queen Maeve of Connacht and Ferdia, among others. Horslips continued their Celtic Rock style of fusing traditional Irish music and rock, using traditional jigs and reels and incorporating them into their songs. For example, Dearg Doom is based on O'Neill's March, while The March of the King of Laois forms part of More Than You Can Chew. Dearg Doom was arguably the most popular track on the album, along with Faster Than The Hound it was performed by the band on BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test.

The album is great fun but is presented in the most serious of tones. I avidly read all the sleeve notes, including the quotation "We Irish should keep these personages in our hearts, for they lived in the places where we ride and go marketing, and sometimes they have met one another on the hills that cast their shadows upon our doors at evening." W.B. Yeats. March 1902.

New Live Horslips Album

Back on St Patrick's Day last, the legendary Horslips performed in Belfast with the Ulster orchestra. It has just been released as an album and it's on my Christmas wish list. The above video was shot by someone in the audience on the night.

Happy St Pat's

St Patrick's means a good excuse to show a bit of Horslips. Not sure when this Beatles hommage took place. King of the faeries it is.

Electric Folk

One of my Christmas presents to myself was the 1969 album Liege and Lief by the Folk Rock band Fairport Convention, which I saw going rather cheaply. FP are a band I've long been aware of but had not really listened to. I'm finding it quite enjoyable. Yesterday I read this obituary to Tim Hart of Steeleye Span here. I was a little more aware of the slightly later SS but again not greatly. I suppose it is partly an age thing. The Irish band Horslips who were a little later again I think were my real love.