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We're continuing with a recording from the Clifton Community Arts Festival held in September of 2024 and a real treat in store for you this evening with the recording from the concert given by Alton Conlon at the Christchurch in Clifton on the 23rd of September 2024. And on that day was a lovely afternoon concert in Christchurch in Clifton. Alton had Micheál O'Connor on guitar, Alan Kelly on accordion and Jimmy Higgins with him on percussion. And it's just a fabulous concert, wonderful singing and storytelling by Alton. So do sit back and enjoy this lovely concert. Welcome. We're going to start with this song called The Town Square. I'll introduce you to the band. They're wonderful. Micheál O'Connor on guitar, Alan Kelly on accordion and Jimmy Higgins on percussion. Thank you. It's a hardened clay in wintertime Now it's frozen in the ground It's shaped just like that day it went down It's long, it's hard, digging it up and cutting back the parts I'm truly lost, kicking that head in on the ground Slogging the dead horse in the old town square God knows I came in flying And I still place flowers on the grass At the age of ritual There's a ghost land where I'm sent to dwell There's no decent It's the same old road to the bitter end The last line of defense Kicking that head in on the ground Slogging the dead horse in the old town square I always say never You never say never I'll hold your head down to see I always say never You never say never I'll hold your head down till you can't breathe You can't see You can't see So I buried it in the night It's a hardened clay in wintertime Now it's frozen in the ground It's shaped just like that day it went down It's long, it's hard, digging it up and cutting back the parts I'm truly lost, kicking that head in on the ground Slogging the dead horse in the old town square On the old town square On the old town square Thank you Are you all having a great time at the Tifton Arts Festival? You look like a friendly crowd This one is called In the Blink of an Eye This is a song I wrote when I was about I think I was about 36 because I started to get this sneaking suspicion that time was really starting to accelerate and I'm 44 now and I can say I was right which is a nice thing to be able to say but unfortunately time is flying us but we'll make the most of it So yeah, this one is called In the Blink of an Eye It'll be over in a jiffy and sing along, it's not too complicated the bit you've got to sing is In the Blink of an Eye In the Blink of an Eye Why so hard on yourself? There's nobody else here putting you down It's just you on the road Simmering on your own in a house on the outskirts of town Let me go, she cried There's something I just can't get over It might take a lifetime Or it might be all gone In the blink of an eye We'll get it the next time He was losing his mind But not for the first time In a small little way What a big price to pay For nothing at all, there were no crimes Let me pray, she cried There's something I just can't get over It might take a lifetime Or it might be all gone In the blink of an eye So tell me you love me And save me from feeling so lonely A small act for me That won't cost much or take time Tell me this life is a mountain And I'll make it climb I have fallen in love But it's taking me forever I plead with my heart, fall with my head There's nobody else does it better Let the strain unwind There's something I just can't get over It might take a lifetime Or it might be all gone In the blink, let me go She cried Something I just can't get over Let me pray, I try Something I just can't get over Let me love, I try Something I just can't get over Let the strain unwind But there's something I just can't get over It might take a lifetime Or it might be all gone In the blink of an eye Might be gone In the blink of an eye One last time, here we go All gone In the blink of an eye Thank you. Thanks for singing along. During the lockdown, when I was stuck at home for months, I promoted an album for a few months from home and then when that kind of wore thin, I couldn't keep doing it, I decided to do an SNA course to be a special needs assistant and I'd get out of the house, my two cats wanted me out of the house. So I got called into my old boys school in Lochrey, St. Brendan's, which hasn't changed at all, and a young boy came up to me in the yard saying that when his dad was his age, he could buy these things called Penny Sweets and had I heard of them. And I showed him all my fillings and said, here's the evidence, kid. He was very persuasive, he kept going, Penny Sweets, they were such value, you know. And I write songs, so if I overhear something kind of cool, I tend to write about it, and this kid pretty much helped me write the song. He was really excited and I thought, oh, I'll write a song called Penny Sweets. I'm pretty bored in here. So I spent the next couple of days going around the yard singing this one to myself and then recorded it during that time and I think a lot of people caught on to it because there was a bit of fun and nostalgia and the news was all very bleak at the time. I forgot to bring Penny Sweets, I often bring them to a gig and throw them out. Kind of 50% of the shows I forgot today. Just a told you. I know you're going to be disappointed now. OK, sing along to this one too, it's just as tricky as the last one. It goes Penny Sweets. I make them pretty hard. Back from work with Penny Sweets Ten penny coins will get you ten whole trees Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets That fifty pence from Uncle Tommy Brought me six exploders and a dozen bombards Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets It's raining pennies from heaven Sugar, sugar is my true love Confectionary in time for complication Come together like two wings on a dove Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets Swap three white mites for five jumping jacks Swallow them all, hold on to your hats What a buzz on the sugar buzz A sweet, a sweet, my kingdom for a sweet Cold a bottle of jellies instead of white milky tea For a song, bring it on, bring it on It's raining pennies from heaven Sugar, sugar is my true love Confectionary in time for complication Fit together like a hand in a glove Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets Banks were bought with Penny Sweets Ten penny coins will get you ten whole treats Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets Sing it, we're on the way home, here we go Penny Sweets, drops your teeth Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets, Penny Sweets Thank you I thought I saw one man chewing down there Is it Penny Sweets you got? Chewing gum That is good, that is good A close second So that time that I worked in the schools for a few months I meet people over the years because I play music they tell me you're lucky you do what you love and usually the people who say that to me have careers where they get paid every month and get a pension and I see them in this lovely car and they're like, yeah I'm going on holidays in two months and I can plan something and I'm going, wow, what's that like? So I've always been kind of feeling on the other side of it and also I see people with routines and I'm like, oh you lucky thing you've got a routine you have to shower how lucky that's a joke but you have to shower you know, and get out of your pyjamas I could be like on my computer at twelve o'clock in the afternoon doing bits for music and you know, you don't have to like nobody's going to tell me to do it but when I got the opportunity to get out there and jump out of bed in the morning and meet people I loved it and I arrogantly wrote a song after about three weeks of doing it called Working For The Man and this is it for everybody who has to get up and do something and bring in the bacon as they say wake up in the morning and go down the stairs pick up my shoes from under the chair ready for the day ready to pay my way someone's got the blues in the staff room gonna bend an ear and throw my tooth in I love the company all day long I work for the man the man in me there ain't no way I'm gonna lay in bed and let my head get the better of me all day long all day long all day long some of my friends like to spin the yard make out they're busy they got so much on you'll see them sipping coffee rolling cigarettes by tree go on up the yard you'll see how it is fun they're packing good sacks and one on one they work all day long all day long I work for the man the man in me there ain't no way I'm gonna lay in bed and let my head get the better of me all day long I work all day long all day long I work for the man the man in me there ain't no way I'm gonna lay in bed and let my head get the better of me all day long I work all day long all day long all day long I work for the man the man in me the man in me the man in me the man in me the man in me the man in me the man in me the man in me the man in me the man in me the man in me Gavin Kelly on the accordion is gonna play something for you guys it would be a shame if he didn't I'm gonna play an air it's a beautiful piece of music written by a wonderful piano accordion player and composer from Scotland called Phil Cunningham he's a legend of a man and a writer and composer as well and it's called The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me The Gentle Light That Awakes Me It's called A Weak Heart Like Mine Lover, please don't leave me I'm a good man Can feel myself turning So put the wind at my back And the sun on my face Lover, won't you hold me For the rest of my days I ache and I fumble With each move I make Each move I make Loneliness has been all I've known Vampire-sized crime Your love is unbearable On a weak heart like mine Lover, I'll be now walking The streets of my mind I search for an answer Oh, no truth could I find And no peace of mind Then you draw me closer And I'll breathe you in My chest is on fire It burns from within With your skin on my skin Loneliness has been all I've known Throughout my time Your love is unbearable On a weak heart like mine Lover, won't you hold me Loneliness has been all I've known Throughout my time Your love is electrified On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine On a weak heart like mine It's Actually Lovely Mum walked by the river Shannon, where the boats go by Saddled up ready to cycle Across the countryside To find a place she'd only heard its name Oh, take me there Paradise Lane Paradise Lane Paradise Lane Don't you be silly It's only a house or two But she'd still amaze It's what the mind of a child Full of wonder can do To find a place beyond the wind and rain Oh, take me there Paradise Lane Paradise Lane Paradise Lane Follow the river and the cloudy moonlight Daddy's gonna kill me If I don't make it home on time Follow the river and the cloudy moonlight Moonlight Daddy's gonna kill me If I don't make it home on time The wheels on the gravel go round and up and down The little girl's got a big dream And it's paradise bound To find a place beyond the tears and pain Oh, the secret world Oh, the secret world Paradise Lane Paradise Lane Paradise Paradise Paradise Lane Mum walk by the river, Shannon Fan Memories Fan Memories Fan Memories Fan Memories are the worst kind Shame on me How easy it is to forget It's a mystery Now there you go All them times they keep me down I saw it in the light of day We both know it was a devastation Like a hurricane or an earthquake Like a hurricane or an earthquake Fan Memories are the worst kind I pray my soul to keep I'm ducking and diving as I Keep them out of reach Where will we go All them times they keep me down I saw it in the light of day We both know it was a devastation Like a hurricane or an earthquake Like a hurricane or an earthquake Now it won't be the last time We fall in harsh words It won't be the last time One or both of us are gonna get hurt, baby One or both of us are going down Fan Memories are the worst kind Shame on me Fan Memories keep on playing Like a tambourine keeping time for me All them times they keep me down Now I greet them in the light of day Cause even though it was a devastation We're here and let's just tell the tale Like a hurricane or an earthquake Like a hurricane or an earthquake Like a hurricane or an earthquake I'll introduce you to this wonderful band again Micheal O'Connor on guitar and vocals Alan Kelly on accordion Jimmy Higgins on percussion And thank you Aidan Reid on sound And everybody at the Clifton Arts Festival It's such a wonderful arts festival I've done it a bunch of times I'm lucky they call me back every few years And it's just when I see the phone ring And it's Des or Brendan or You just kind of go, oh lovely They're booking me this year So thank you for having me back This is a song off the new album called The Old Songs I wrote this about my cousin's pub in Banneher In County Offaly So I went to Los Angeles to make this fifth record of mine And I went over there thinking You know, I might do a hip-hop album or something Try and break into that scene There's a lot of money in it And I got there and I wrote all these songs About rural Ireland So I think I might be the first person To ever go over there and do that And the last It's fun as well It's this pub, J.J. Hock's Singing Pub My mum's first cousin ran it And I think his father before him And now his son Gerald, who's my age, runs it We used to go with kids and teenagers And there'd be this random session every night And my mum's cousin Therese They used to play the piano every night And she'd play it kind of like a puppet You know, the hands would go way up Everything was really animated And everybody and anybody would sing a song And like every genre you could think of It wasn't frat or anything It was just random And in theory it should have been awful But it wasn't Everything sounded good in the room, you know Be it the drink or be it the old curtains And about 500 layers of thick red paint That I've done on, you know, over the years So guys, if we could turn this church Into J.J. Hock's for four minutes All you've got to do is sing the chorus of this And I'm not going to tell you the words Because that would ruin it You have to sing out a tune and the wrong words And then it would be perfect Is that a deal? So don't be afraid to just shout it out, okay? Okay, this one's called The Old Song Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna dance the old dance When all the old timers are gone? That's me, Mike, in the corner After twelve pints of stout In a falsetto tone Built like a brick shithouse Yet I fall to my knees When he sings Raglan Road And my heart is transposed From its breakin' We sing Ave Maria You are my sunshine The mountains and moors To the Wichita lineman Forget all your worries We haven't a care Sing along in the starlight tonight Headspace, enjoy yourself Later than you think There's a bun in her hair In the room quite a drink Yet she takes me away As she sings it with joy And my mind is transposed From its breakin' Here we go Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna dance the old dance? Who's gonna la-di-da? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna do the old rhyme When all the old-timers are gone? Billy's from Dublin He takes over the night With a pint in one hand And the others of mine Yet I stomp on my feet When he sings Dirty Old Town And my black dog makes his way back home We sing the White Rover I'll take you home again Kathleen To know him is to love him All I have to do is scream Forget all your worries We haven't a care Sing along in the starlight tonight There's a gang up the front They've had more than a few They scream and they squabble About nothing new Yet they fill up this space It sure is a rare place Sing along in the starlight tonight Here we go Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna dance the old dance? Who's gonna la-di-da? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna do the old rhyme When all the old-timers are gone? We sing Waltzy Matilda And the M-17 Can't help fallin' in love Somewhere under the sea Forget all your worries We haven't a care Sing along in the starlight tonight Born on the bayou And here comes the night Sing along in the starlight tonight Born on the bayou And here comes the star The Tennessee walls And girls just wanna have fun You didn't see that one comin' Forget all your worries We haven't a care Sing along and listen today Here we go Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna dance the old dance? Who's gonna la-di-da? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna do the old rhyme When all the old-timers are gone? And who's gonna sing along? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? 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Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Who's gonna sing the old song? Paul came down from Longford town Threw his weight around the crowd And he made some noise Scared off all the good guys To give us something to play for Now that the city's lost all of its life He thinks he can make it on his own I know you I want to get lost inside Hit that perfect groove Before it all comes true Get to measure of who we are First boogaloo, now country too Won't be long till I'm loving you All over again Just like way back then We'll be your play line Country made your shine To get to see the measure of me And all of you I want to get lost inside Hit that perfect groove Before it all comes true Get to measure of who we are To get to see the measure of me And all of you I want to get lost inside Hit that perfect groove Before it all comes true Get to measure of who we are Oh, get to measure of who we are Oh, yeah Well, that wonderful recording was a concert given by Olten Conlin as part of the Clifton Arts Festival in September 2024 and wonderful music, wonderful singing, wonderful storytelling there by Olten Conlin and he was joined on the day by Michal O'Connor on guitar Alan Kelly on accordion and Jimmy Higgins on percussion and we'll be looking forward to hopefully Olten being part of the Clifton Arts Festival again in September 2025 This program was sponsored by Forum Connemara 095 or 1116 Would you like someone to talk to? 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