1981-02-04 - Planxty - TimeDance - Eurovision Interval 1981

Specially commissioned for Eurovision 1981.
Timedance consists of 3 pieces:
a The Humours Of Barrack Street (Whelan, Lunny) 0:05
b Isercleran (Whelan, Lunny) 2:02
c Ballymun Regatt (Whelan, Lunny) 4:20
04 April 1981 - RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin, Ireland
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[@Maxiboy0141]

43 years later & still raises the hairs on the back of my neck!

[@en3usiastfortesque368]

Very interesting to compare to Riverdance in 1994.......same DNA with more punch. Great stuff.....thankyou for posting.....

[@schragemusik]

One of my favourite pieces of music ever.

[@tallllus]

Liam O'Flynn playing those pipes like it's nothing. Genuis at work.

[@EdwynNSanchez]

Timedance. A song of tradition. Very amazing choice for an Interval act at Eurovision 1981.

[@johnm3022]

Without doubt, Liam O'Flynn was the best piper that Ireland ever had. Rest in Peace Liam.

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

a The Humours Of Barrack Street (Whelan, Lunny) 0:05
b Isercleran (Whelan, Lunny) 2:02
c Ballymun Regatt (Whelan, Lunny) 4:20

[@WildDancer101]

Ah yes, the moment where Riverdance got its roots. :)

[@johnmc3862]

Sure, Bill Whelan composed it.

[@WildDancer101]

@@johnmc3862 You mean composed?

[@johnmc3862]

@@WildDancer101 Indeed, typo.

[@xenber]

It wasn’t actually. I have been trying to find a video of when it started but been unable. I remember a whole row of Irish dancers tap dancing in unison on a long stage, there was no ballet, it was true Irish dancing. Not one dancer but a whole long row drumming their feet and dancing and afterwards, everyone went crazy for more! Michael Flatley was the one who was asked to organise the dancers but the one who had the the original vision was not Michael.

[@WildDancer101]

@@xenber That time in 1994 when that Riverdance interval act got a standing ovation at the Eurovision contest?

[@mosheridan7016]

The best intermission in decades

[@johnmc3862]

Wait where are the orchestra? 😜

[@alistairbanfield6965]

is C Ballymun Regatta ?

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

I think so

[@mcmanustony]

@@AndyIrvineFanblog it is!
a) The Humours of Barrack Street- trad. (on a C chanter with the drones from the Rowsome D set)
b) Isercleran (Bill Whelan)
c) Ballymun Regatta (Lunny)

[@kristianstipe]

Who is the fiddler?

[@Gogs126]

Nollaig Casey

[@kristianstipe]

@@Gogs126 Thought so! :D

[@Sweetmelody2011]

Isn't this more Moving Hearts than Planxty?

[@johnmc3862]

O Flynn makes it Planxty.

[@AndyIrvineFanblog]

No, it is Planxty, Andy was never in Moving Hearts.