There can be few musicians who, 40 years into their careers, can still command two nights at the Dome Concert Hall and fewer still who can do it with folk.
But Ireland's Christy Moore, once described as the Erroll Flynn of folk music, has always oozed charisma. And, judging by his reception at last year's Glastonbury, alongside The Libertines and Scissor Sisters, his protest songs are starting to find new ears.
Now name-checked by everyone from Elvis Costello to U2, Moore was slogging it out as a bank clerk in County Kildare until strike action left him free to busk in the streets.
Moving to England in the mid-Sixties, he discovered the musical traditions of his homeland in London's Irish ghettos and, after forming the supergroup Planxty, became a leader of the folk revival.
Both an Irish institution and legends throughout Europe, Planxty mixed traditional music with fresh instrumentation and the balladic sensibility of the Dubliners. By the time they disbanded in 1974 (reforming recently for a sell-out tour), Moore had become as known for his campaigning (CND, the "H Block" internments, civilian bombing by the IRA) as for his gritty brogue.
Recently collected into a six-CD retrospective, Moore's own compositions and reworkings run the gamut from tortured to tender. There is a long-standing joke that he knows only nine chords, carefully rationing them to three per song. But, faced with a rare live appearance by a one-man cultural phenomenon, who's counting?
Starts 8pm, tickets £28.50/£25, call 01273 709709
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