Thom Moore: Guestbook
Joe Volkmann
January 27, 2012
Great music, and fun exploring your site (it'll take a bit to read all).
Regards
Joe - ACS '61
john bermingham
January 2, 2012
looking forward to welcoming Thom and Seamie O'Dowd to Crocanoir on Sat January 28th. Crocanoir is a farmyard theatre at the end of a boreen in the valley of Sliabh Na Mban in Tipperary. www.crocanoir.com
john Bermingham
valerie warren
June 27, 2011
would love to know where you are performing around dublin or even further afield. Georgous and Bright is the song that's brightening my days at the moment. I love the poetry of it and I wish I had a significant birthday coming up so that I could force my family to show how much they care by bringing you to my party to play for us!!! Thanks for putting the words together that articulate so much of my own experiences and whisper of others waiting to happen. You are blesed with a great gift.
Pam O'Reilly
April 30, 2011
Hi Thom,
we had a great night in Tulla last night and have enjoyed listening to Gorgeous and Bright over coffee this morning. You carry calm and hope in your voice I find it very soothing.
I remember going to a recoding studio in Dublin with Julie years ago as a guest of yours for a day and sitting behind the sound desk marvelling at the process. My memory is that it may have been in a lower part of a building near the canal???? It is an experience that stayed with me.
I was very blessed to have been surrounded by so many talented musicians at that time.(early 90s) I was telling Ronan this morning that they played non-stop - Julie, Seamus, Jonny 'box' Connolly, Steve Lennon, Dave Donohue...... whenever and wherever (pubs, flats)they met the music just flowed from them like conversation............they taught each other tunes without teaching............ it was amazing really when I look back on it ..... it was in their bones and was effortless - I was living a documentary!!!! It's funny, I knew most of the tunes they were playing so well I could hum along with them but for some reason never learned an instrument - I remember at the time thinking it was too late for me because they had been playing since they were children - isn't that just madness really - being so young (early 20s) and feeling so old!!!!! I think I was waiting for my dream to catch me and instead of chasing it I was watching others live out their dreams - always ever so slightly on the 'outside' of it all - Thom I think there's a song in that Ha Ha - still nothing rhymes with Pamela !!!! Ha Ha
It was a long time ago now - I had moved from Clare to Dublin to attend the Gaiety School of Acting but I think I was completely overwhelmed by the dramatic change of life - from a very rural village in West Clare to Dublin City. I remember feeling lost and loney and plan-less but I felt like I was part of a special unbreakable 'family' when I was with this group. They were a real anchor at a vulnerable time and the last connection I have to Dublin 6 before I moved back to Clare.
My God, I haven't thought about these people or my time in Dublin for so long Thom - you've become my confessor ha ha !!!!
Anyway, we both really enjoyed our time in your company last night and will keep a look out for your next gig. Call by any time you're in our area, we have a spare room if you or your family are every passing our way. (15 mins from Ennis Train Station) Thank you for a wonderful night of music.
Pam
Guy Jones
April 16, 2011
I landed by sheer accident on the song CEDARS OF LEBANON and it made me very emotional.Thank you for writing this wonderful song .It made me so proud to be an Irish Lebanese who lived just across the road from ACS in Beirut for a number of Years.Thank you
Tom Myp
April 12, 2011
Что это такое?!? Как может человек купить себе здесэ что пить? Где бар???
Linda Hart
March 29, 2011
Met you in another lifetime when I was with Kieran White and you were singing in Pasadena with Janie, et al. Still trying to find clean recordings - 8-track tape just doesn't cut it anymore. But more importantly, am planning a trip to Ireland later with year with three grandchildren, ages 9, 6 & 5. What do you recommend in places to see, things to do and, of course, music to hear? Thanks and glad that you are still singing!
BRENDAN LITTLE
March 11, 2011
thanks for the midnight well days
great memories just out of boarding school you made everything possible
Walter
December 26, 2010
May your journey to Poland be everything you hoped for!
Latest YouTube videos: SOLDIER ON => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q41gpYo2zk ; GORGEOUS AND BRIGHT => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwOkV3Jf45E
Walter
December 12, 2010
It was a great learning experience to put together YouTube videos of your songs! It my intent that they will help spread the word.
This Guy Who Used To Go With Her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTn-YfnWtz4 and Clamberine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ppZXkHbCQ
Fil Campbell
December 10, 2010
Hi Thom
I'm really enjoying listening to your songs here. I'd been looking for an album of yours for ages and eventually came across one in America from a fellow Graves scholar of yours - Jay Ansill, who's been doing some work with me when I'm touring over there.
So, got you.... I'm currently looking for songs for a new album so it's great to find all these tracks here and I'm heading on over to Broadjam now.
Best wishes
Fil Campbell
Walter
November 30, 2010
Great Coach Lane is now on YouTube with lyrics! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy8vVQ88UIQ
Walter
November 22, 2010
San Patricio with lyrics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyWG9hl9PNU
Walter
November 3, 2010
It's just not right that you don't have a larger footprint in YouTube. Maybe this will help. It's 'unlisted' until you say it's OK to make Public. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kWAvSDjdeY
Meta Osborne
October 11, 2010
Just back from a wonderful weekend visit to Rome with my mother (a Carlow woman) and my two sisters - one of my mother's 'must-dos' was a visit to the Palatine Hill. Unbelievably the first song on the radio when I got back home was "Do Carlow Boys Come Home".....eerily uncanny
simon
September 29, 2010
My dear Mr Moore,
May i start by apologising to resorting to dubious measures such as this...It really is the last resort.Could you possibly be so kind as to post the lyrics to the truly wonderful "Turn the Corner". Yours hopefully etc.
Caitie Rose
August 27, 2010
Sarah - I just posted the lyrics to "Send This Whisper (to Avalon)". I think they're right! :) See here:
http://caitierosie.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-first-cd.html
Jack van Asdonck
August 7, 2010
Dear Thom,
I'm just 'recovering' from a holiday spend in Ireland, a lovely inspiring guitarweek with Seamie O'Dowd, who sang your beautiful song Cedars of Lebanon, and a week in New York. 2 of your countries.
Now back in Holland I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your music. You must be one of the most underestimated musicians around!!
Thanks,
best wishes,
Jack van Asdonck
Holland
musicgroup www.airlaut.nl
Kevin Joel
August 6, 2010
Greetings, I like your music and your website, This is a good site and I wanted to post a little note to let you know, great job! Thanks
home page: http://www.downsafely.com
Dr John O'Connor
July 16, 2010
Please Google Fort Chipewyan and Cancer and follow links to Tarsands and myself, Thom. I would love your input..
Carmel Nic Airt
May 30, 2010
Feel I've come home after too long in the wilderness!! Thank you! Still searching for The Scholar!
Jack Brennan
March 12, 2010
Hi Tom, I met you when you played at Port Fairy Folk Festival years ago, I drove the bus from Adelaide. Hope all is going well for you.
sarah gill
March 6, 2010
Hi Thom,
wondering if you would do me favour,i'm listening to an old maura o'connell album and the song
send this whisper to avalon, i can't make out all the lyrics, its a beautiful song, i'd love to learn it, i've searched for hours on line and can't find lyrics, its driving me nuts, i'd love to have all the words, is there any chance you'd send me them? It is an amazing song. Kind Regards Sarah
anne osborne
February 6, 2010
can i buy your cd's anywhere?
elayne Landy
January 21, 2010
greetings from the past, Thom.
Stayed with you and Kathy, Koo and
Rua, and Erin in Sligo when we were all so very young. Your life
seems to have been a grand set of adventures.
Jho Harris
October 9, 2009
Hi Thom,
Thought it was about time I searched the web for you again, love the page and the songs I hadn't heard before. I hope I'm still your biggest fan (though I'm trying to lose a few pounds)
Working on a new project and hope to be in touch with you about it soon,
Simon Burgess
October 8, 2009
Hi, saw you in Sligo 197? with Pumpkinhead. More recently (90's) found 'Gorgeous and Bright' in Kieron and Dierdre's record shop here. 'The Navigator' as a tribute to James Cook is fantastic and ties it all together.
Cheers
Claudia van Corva ( formerly Barner)
September 10, 2009
Hey, Thom. I am the Claudia that was "not your Goddess" from your Pasadena days. I am happy you are well and musical/literal :)..... Wondering: did you ever finish the song that was "for me"??
Walter
July 29, 2009
Would there be any recordings of your work at the Radison? Which guitar are you playing the most these days and why?
Liam Grace
July 28, 2009
thanks for all the albums todate - they are a joy.
Any chance of compiling your un-released songs & issuing on CD?
FleetratHar
May 23, 2009
Действительно интересный сайт, добавил в избранное, буду заходить почаще
Terri Cullen
May 11, 2009
I saw you play a number of times quite a few years ago now. A local group that play in a small bar where I live in Greystones (Dan's) have played a couple of your songs at my request and it is great to hear them again. I was wondering if you could tell me where you play around teh Dublin/Wicklow area as I would love to hear you sing live again.
Jennifer Ho
May 5, 2009
How fine to see and hear you at your art. Music blazing robs a heart of its load too!!I hope someday a collection of my favorites: Still Believing, Crackbone Tune, Cedars of Lebanon, Michael, Queen Love, Here Cavan Girl, Comes A Man, most of Gorgeous and Bright,,,Love and Aloha Nui, brah
Carlos Olivares
March 10, 2009
Merhaba Thom, kifaik. I just wanted to say thanks for such great music and fondest times, back in those L.A. days. On this year I had hopes of making a holiday to Ireland and wishfully getting to see a gig of yours, but alas, perhaps we will have to defer.
My wife spent her childhood and schooling and civil war in Beirut and I had hopes of introducing you, . . . maybe next year.
Do you make it to France or Germany?
Sincerely,
Carlos Olivares
Philip O 'Dowd
February 10, 2009
Hey Thom,
Keep writing and playing your songs, they're brilliant. Thanks for the pleasure of listening to them.
Oleg & Serena Verzhinsky
January 23, 2009
Dude!
How ya doin'? We're still here after sixteen years! And still married . . .! Carmen got married for the second time a couple/three years ago, and just had a baby girl, Lucy Magdalena. I'm sure all the Deutschers send their regards. We're talking to you right now. Sorry about it being 3:00 a.m., Oleg's a twit!
Serena & Oleg
Sandra O'D
January 15, 2009
Happy New Year to you and your family!!! Fond memories of Seamie, Rick and your good self in The Strand last year. Mighty stuff!!
cexWewabraree
December 9, 2008
ОЙ, как приятно оказаться снова на вашем сайте, в очередной раз хочется вам пожелать удачного развития и воплощения всех идей!
Miriam Devaney
December 8, 2008
THOM, HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT 65TH BIRTHDAY ON THE 6TH DECEMBER, CARMEL SENDS HER GOOD WISHES AS WELL. WE HAVE FOND MEMORIES OF YOUR TIME IN LISHEEN
the aspirational tom moore (little t)...
December 5, 2008
O Magical Carmenist, O Gorgeous and Bright One, Happy Nicholas Day Birthday, and Best Wishes for a Triumphant Celebratory Concert in the Cherrytree on 13th! The Real Magic Has Yet To Come! In the meantime, Still Believing, sit on the lap of the Goddess, and Sing your beautiful Heart Out! Until the end of time, the end of all...
Vicky Martinez Dorr
November 21, 2008
One more time I congratulate you and the band. Last night at the Radisson was great!! I spent a lovely time and atmosphere was super!!
Thanks for the "Irish tango"
cheers
Vicky
malcolm shellard
November 3, 2008
Once again the computer tracks the
musician down.I never saw you live but I treasure your work with Pumpkinhead,Midnight Well and your cd Gorgeous and Bright. Thanks for great music.
Sean Kellyn Moore
September 16, 2008
I love your music and I'm very proud to have you as an uncle! Bless you!
David Brodette
September 15, 2008
Thom,
It was great listening to you and the rest of the group again at the Radisson in Black Rock last Thursday. I love the CD and have been listening to it quite a bit on the plane back to the states as well as over the weekend. I was also trying to find somewhere where I could find Carolina Rua. I saw it on Mary Black's playlist but it looks like it was only produced in vinyl. If you know where I could get a copy it would be great. I look forward to my next visit to Dublin and listening to you again over a couple of pints.
Seamie
September 11, 2008
Howya Thom.I'm just planting a link to a website.
www.oconnorhaydenodowd.com
Chat soon.
Robbi
August 13, 2008
Hello Thom! I'm a massive fan of Clannad's and know that you wrote 'Strayed Away'. Is your version available to buy??
Bill Neal
August 11, 2008
Hello, Thom. My friends and I used to hear you with Train to Sligo in Pasadena, and I hired you for a wedding once. I'm so glad to see this website, and that after all these years you are so committed to songsmithing still! Hope to see you in Ireland someday!
Alida Montegna
August 11, 2008
Hi, Kelly and Nell were married yesterday and I met his sons (my 2nd cousins) for the first time. They told me about this website so I thought I'd check it out. Just wanted to say "hi" cousin.
Philip Kilpatrick
July 22, 2008
Hi Thom!!
Saw you and Seamie at Mulhollands on Friday night. I was the photographer at the front. I have to say your set was very impressive!! Thats why I stayed so long. Anyway you can see the results om my "myspace" web page. Here`s the url.:-www.myspace.com/danthedobermann
Thanks
Walter
June 16, 2008
Love your songs! Do you ever get back to Southern California (Studio City) to play....
Tein
March 15, 2008
I heard Thoms 'Georgeous and Bright' on a world music radio program in Australia about a year ago but missed the artist's name. Appeals to the radio station and 'googling' the lyrics came to nothing till this year. (Good to see lyrics on the website, thanks.)
I'm wondering whether the recorded live version (played on air in Australia) is available? (The rythym and Thom's vibrato resonated perfectly on that non-reggae version.) Any suggestions?
Seamie
January 28, 2008
Great session in Strandhill the other night.We'll do it again before long I hope.
Best.
Errol Walsh
January 15, 2008
Cool site Thom! I couldn't resist a quick peek and a listen to some tracks before leaving on holiday tomorrow!
Errol
Harry
January 5, 2008
Merry Merry Merry
Was remembering our time in Monterey...long time ago.
Bob Clevenger
December 26, 2007
Hi Thom
I was a regular in the Train to Sligo days at the Loch Ness Monster.
I'm learning to play a bit of guitar and will be trying to get "Still Believing" and "The Navigator" down pretty soon.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Seamie
December 23, 2007
Have a great Christmas,Thom.Regards to the family.
Sandra O D
July 30, 2007
Hi Thom,
Any Sligo gigs or even Cobblestone gigs coming up?
Sandra
Bob Robinson
July 21, 2007
After spending the summer of 93 in Ballisodare, Dreamer in Russia has been on and off a fixture on my playllists. We saw you in Sligo town, and Seamie O'Dowd a few times at Feehily's...and now my son and I are coming back to Sligo....Fondly remember Seamie doing Bandon Car, and I occasionally attempt Carolina Ruadh in our living room.
On Thursday we'll fly from North Carolina...
Nick Day
June 11, 2007
Where does a person get a drink around here?
Joe
May 20, 2007
Hmm, the third of the Maugheraboy crew to sign in here. How ya doin Thom? Rather rustic, woody-lookin website. A WANTED poster wouldn't look out of place (virtually) nailed to this background. Do you remember that Jimmy Crowley sont 'The Bandon Car'? Where he sings 'if you're a manorawoman who likes the porter'. I remember sittin up one night in our house listening to that with yourself and Séamie and the rest of the gang. Some time later it came back to me when I read your paper on Quantum Prosody. Oh how I laughed! By the way, this website doesn't come up when one googles your name. What does come up is a link to your othe site on http://www.harp-thistle.com/thom/ so you might want to stick a re-direct link or something. Just seen a photo of us kids with our Dad outside your house. Apparently the photo was taken by Bill Jackson. Séamie got it from Rick, I think. Brings back memories. Good luck to you now! Ongi izan - as we say here in Euskal Herria.
Sandra O D
May 17, 2007
Hello There, My first time to visit the site. Had a listen to the song you composed for the Eurovision Con Songtest, "No Arrow". A brilliant song. I agree with what Seamie has said about the whole thing. Dervish deserve better. Your song I'd bet wasn't even listened too. Anyway, hope you and yours are well?
Seamie
May 13, 2007
How's it going? I sent a greeting to the Dervishes'guestbook to show a bit of solidarity.Was thinking about yourself as well.
All due respect to the powers that be,(and I suppose that analysis could only be fair after all concerned dust themselves off after last night),but I can't help thinking that a few fundamentals should seriously be looked at.
For the boy's sake,I'd have loved to see a win,but in another way,the people that criminally ignored "No Arrow"have to re-evaluate,which might turn things to the good.I'm no expert on song contests,and actually lost a tenner in a bet that Ireland would win,but the last word on all this could turn out to be that you have the situe figured to a T.
I would suggest to you not to enter a song next year until some of the right people give you a fair hearing.You've been magnanimous enough to allow yourelf to be judged so judgement is now your right. If anyone approaches you next year,argue your case,but I would suggest that unless you feel that you're getting a fair hearing,don't stand in front of a jury allowing first rate songs to be given second and third rate judgement.
Of course,this could all be the ravings of a guy who lost a tenner in a bet,but one way or another,if you found yourself slightly enheartened by the situation,you're probably entitled to.
Hope all else is well.See you soon hopefully.Regards to Lyuba (spelling right I hope)
Lizzy Doe
May 7, 2007
Hello there, I heard Seamie sing "Turn The Corner" and it was magnificent. Since then have looked out a few more of your songs and am much enamoured. Hope life is treating you well, all the best from Limerick.
Bianca
April 21, 2007
Hi Thom,
Really enjoyed last night....didn't realise how many brilliant songs you had written (bravo)great meeting you.
Seamie
March 1, 2007
Howya now?
Was working with the Dervishes in Dublin again.Heard ye had a great night the night before the Late Late.Sorry to miss that.Heard it settled them for the big night.Much appreciated I believe.Chat soon.
John Boy
February 28, 2007
Happy new site T! just found it on Seamie's. (problem with the picture page tho! you were never 14!!)
Seamie
November 29, 2006
Congrats on the new site.I'll link it to mine.Mine is www.seamieodowd.com if you get a chance you might do the same.Enjoyed the tunes the last two days.The spin to Castlebaldwin was a bit of crack too.All the best.
Gerry O
November 20, 2006
Ah Tommy, there you are. Do they know how great your songs are? I hope so. I have loved playing them for most of my life.