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performance to this year’s Celtic Connections. I Could Read the Sky (to be filmed for later broadcast on the BBC) uses spoken text with still and video images, and superb live music from singers larla O’Lionaird (Afro Celts), Karan Casey (Solas), Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill on fiddle and guitar. with Mairtin O’Connor, accordion.
O’Grady explains: ‘What happened was that Steve Pyke asked me to write something to go with his photographs of Irish life. But I needed a good reason for the words and images to be together. And it came to me that memory is where words and images coincide, and the condition of exile is replete with memory.
‘I had moved from being a student in 705 Chicago, to Ireland, then London where I got to know the Irish scene. Up the Archway, Holloway Road, the famous Favourite Bar, so I was familiar with the Irish men and women, the stories, the sense of longing for the old home. And the music.’
O’Grady’s story coalesced round the idea of one man’s exile. An old man now, living out the end of his days in Kentish Town, but with vivid memories of childhood and his experience of a working life. So the writing round the photographs became a very successful, innovative novel. ‘Then an album‘, O’Grady continues. ‘And a film. And every so often we do it as a stage show.‘
ls there’s a danger of it wallowing in nostalgia?
‘Well, I‘m the wrong person to ask,’ he laughingly replies. ‘It’s not full of sweetness.’
He's innocent and stoical, and though full of powerful emotion, he’s also objective.
What happens on stage stands by itself. You do not need the plot or story. Everything stands on its own. What I say to the musicians is to go for passion more than thematic connection.’ (Norman Chalmers)
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