The boys are back. This CD/DVD is a timely reminder, 44 years after their debut, of the revolutionary musical imaginations that fuelled Planxty's music and shaped so much of what has happened since ...

The CD consists of 17 tracks drawn from the handful of studio albums, beginning with Christy's inimitable version of Norman Blake’s True Love Knows No Season (Billy Gray) and ending with Timedance, ...

THE Planxty reunion concerts have been a complete sell out, promoters said last night. The four - Donal Lunny, Andy Irvine, Liam O'Flynn and Christy Moore - originally planned gigs at The Point in ...

Since Planxty was probably my all time favorite band of the trad-folk revival many moons ago, it has been an unfulfilled dream to see them reunited and doing a U.S. tour. While the starting four of ...

Shaggy-haired and casually dressed as ever, Ed Sheeran is grinning ear to ear when we meet him in a London hotel. We’d like to believe it’s because of our radiant company, but it turns out he was just ...

50-year anniversaries: In the latest instalment of the series, Jim Comet selects what he believes are the 10 best albums of 1973. Feel free to give us your feedback on Jim's choices Lou Reed and Bowie ...

The Irish folk band revel in each other’s company on a trip down memory lane Taking up the same stage positions they have occupied, on and off, since archive footage shot around the time they ...

Modern master of the Irish uilleann pipes who was a co-founder of the folk band Planxty Revered as a modern master of the Irish uilleann pipes, Liam O’Flynn, who has died aged 72, was a solo performer ...

CHRISTY Moore is a survivor, personally and musically. He has come through addiction, a little political bullying by British authorities and shifts in musical taste since he started out on his ...

Planxty are one of those seminal Irish acts doomed to bask in an aura of reverence while remaining essentially obscure to all but a tiny subset of the listening public. They placed a rocket under the ...