Comments on: Mick Flannery and Kate Walsh live in concert at St. Mary’s Collegiate Church Youghal http://www.youghalonline.com/2009/11/29/st-mary%e2%80%99s-collegiate-church-in-youghal-live-concert-review/ Your online community news... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:03:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dmurphy http://www.youghalonline.com/2009/11/29/st-mary%e2%80%99s-collegiate-church-in-youghal-live-concert-review/comment-page-1/#comment-4211 dmurphy Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:37:46 +0000 http://www.youghalonline.com/?p=13440#comment-4211 Mick Flannery will last a generation. I was first introduced to the songs of Mick Flannery some years ago...his songs were on a five song c.d.. the music hit me like a ton of bricks and i had not for the first time been hit with such immediate greatness and depth since i heard Bob Dylan sing for the first time....the song then was the Ballad of Hollis Brown. I was 14 then and something reached into me and told me of the howling storm and told me there was a home there...one young man and his guitar did that to me then and i live always in that world.... Rory Gallagher's ''I could have had religion '' kept me there,.so i was able to recognise the same depth and greatness when i first heard Mick Flannery sing about his world with wisdom beyond his or any age. I saw him in the everyman two years ago, and there was expectation and reverance in the halls and stairways and auditorium. We came and saw and left with a feeling that i had last felt leaving the City Hall, Cork, in 1972. Reeling and dreaming my way back in the winter night from a Rory Gallagher concert....some city, some town, and now in towns from Blarney to Youghal it is a godsend to know music is being passed onto and by some one who will last a generation David Murphy Mick Flannery will last a generation.
I was first introduced to the songs of Mick Flannery some years ago…his songs were on a five song c.d.. the music hit me like a ton of bricks and i had not for the first time been hit with such immediate greatness and depth since i heard Bob Dylan sing for the first time….the song then was the Ballad of Hollis Brown. I was 14 then and something reached into me and told me of the howling storm and told me there was a home there…one young man and his guitar did that to me then and i live always in that world…. Rory Gallagher’s ”I could have had religion ” kept me there,.so i was able to recognise the same depth and greatness when i first heard Mick Flannery sing about his world with wisdom beyond his or any age.
I saw him in the everyman two years ago, and there was expectation and reverance in the halls and stairways and auditorium.
We came and saw and left with a feeling that i had last felt leaving the City Hall, Cork, in 1972. Reeling and dreaming my way back in the winter night from a Rory Gallagher concert….some city, some town, and now in towns from Blarney to Youghal it is a godsend to know music is being passed onto and by some one who will last a generation

David Murphy

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