Death of a legend of Irish music

[scotus]

Sad to hear this.

He also had his own band, called Ashford, after he left stepaside, and I think his best ever song was with them:

[Forrest]

he was only 61 forrest, tom dunne did a tribute on newstalk t'other day

this was my fav

Thanks for the heads up on Tom Dunne's tribute Alec. I will try and locate it tonight.

I like that one too and put it up on the 'Music thread' in Soap Opera last night

https://www.escort-ireland.com/board...ic-thread.html Ah fuck it, the links not working

Here is an interesting version of The Last Resort with Paul & Ronnie Drew

[Forrest]

Here's another You Tube clip from Stepaside



I have also attached a link to an interview he did a couple of years ago for the pre - new Radio Nova Rock channel

In Conversation with Paul Ashford | Radio Nova