[2024-08-02] Van Morrison "Live At Orangefield" 2014 performances (Orangefield UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Jul 15, 2024 1:57 am

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Description
The Christmas of 1959 saw Van Morrison take to the stage of Orangefield Secondary School for his first ever live performance. Midnight Special, a skiffle group, consisted of fellow pupils, John McCullough, tea-chest bass, Cyril Downey, guitar, Billy Ruth, guitar, and Walter Blakely on washboard with Van on guitar and vocals. In August 2014, Van Morrison returned to perform three shows as a fond farewell to his alma mater as it prepared to close its doors for the final time. Live at Orangefield is a specially curated album, of recordings from these very shows.

When it first opened in 1957 Orangefield was a boys' school, then the girls' school was added before both schools merged and remained so until Orangefield was finally closed due to falling numbers of pupils in 2014. Three years later it was demolished. For roughly sixty years both schools had provided an educational and social focus to many thousands of young students from east Belfast and further afield.

"When I was a young boy back in Orangefield, I used to look out my classroom window and dream." - Van Morrison

This very special live album is a celebration of his formative years, giving us a vivid access to the past. But much more than that. The energy and drive, the poetic reinvention Morrison brings to his recollections stand out against the ravages of time. His is a voice of exhilaration and dance as well as poignancy and romance.

Tracklist
1. Celtic Excavation / Into The Mystic
2. Cleaning Windows
3. Orangefield
4. Moondance
5. Precious Time
6. That's Life
7. Too Many Myths
8. Got To Go Back
9. Real Real Gone / You Send Me
10. Rough God Goes Riding
11. Enlightenment
12. Sometimes We Cry
13. Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
14. On Hyndford Street
15. Ballerina
16. In The Garden

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Jul 27, 2024 3:20 pm

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[2024-08-02] Van Morrison "Live At Orangefield" 2014 performances (Orangefield UK)

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