Planxty
Timedance
1981 — WEA IR28207 EP
Side One
Timedance:
1. The Humours of Barrack Street
2. Isercleran
3. Ballymun Regatta
Side Two
Nancy Spain
This was music specially commissioned for Eurovision 1981.
According to Christy Moore, "…performing in the Eurovision. It was a truly memorable experience as Planxty played 'Timedance' for The Irish Ballet Company and 600 million Europeans went into the kitchen to make cocoa. The seed for Riverdance was sown and I got to bang my Bowrawn for Ballerinas."
"Timedance '92" was included in (the below) 1992 Bill Whelan release, performed by Planxty (minus Christy Moore)
The Seville Suite - Kinsale to La Coruna
1992 - TARA 3030 CD
Track List:
Kinsale
O'Donnell's Lament
Pedro de Zuibiaur
Fr. Conry's Jig
Storm
Coast of Galicia
Road to la Coruña
Caracena
TIMEDANCE '92: Humours of Barrack Street/Isercleran/Ballymun Regatta
Dún Briste
Timedance '92 Credits
Uilleann Pipes - Liam O'Flynn
Bouzouki, Guitar, Bodhrán - Dónal Lunny
Bouzouki and Mandolin - Andy Irvine
Fiddle - Nollaig Casey
Piano, Keyboards and Keyboard Percussion - Bill Whelan
Strings - The Timedance string Ensemble Leader, Audrey Collins
Timedance was arranged and produced by: Dónal Lunny and Bill Whelan
Alternate Release
Seville Suite - Kinsale to La Coruna: 1997 - Celtic Heartbeat UD53107 CD
Excerpts for the sleeve notes
The album also features a re-recording of 'Timedance' which was performed by Planxty (including Bill) for the interval of the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest which was staged in Dublin. This re-recording features Planxty musicians Liam O'Flynn, Dónal Lunny and Andy Irvine as well as Nollaig Casey on fiddle.
In 1981, RTE commissioned Dónal Lunny and myself to write a piece of music which would be used as the centrepiece for their presentation of Eurovision in that year. 'Timedance' was performed by
Planxty and subsequently released as a single. This 1992 re-recording affords not only a pleasurable
opportunity to reassemble most of those involved in the original, but also a chance to have a new
look at the treatment - eleven years on. In the event, we decided to leave much as it was, but there
is a new arrangement of 'The Ballymun Regatta'."