Planxty Noel Hill chords by The Pogues

"Planxty Noel Hill" refers to Noel Hill, a renowned traditional Irish musician who, at the time of the release of the band's second album, Rum Sodomy and the Lash, claimed that the Pogues were disrespecting the whole Irish music tradition. Planxty has come to mean something akin to "cheers". On the first Pogues tour of Ireland, some of the boys and Hill participated in a panel discussion on Irish radio, during the course of which Hill described the music of the Pogues as a "terrible abortion". (the incident is described in and the quote is taken from The Lost Decade.) This confrontation occurred during the course of a studio debate on RTE Radio hosted by BP Fallon. Given the political reality of Ireland, this is a pretty damning critique, inasmuch as abortion was (and continues to be) illegal in Ireland and thus an affront to both civil and eccelisiastical teaching. So the use of "Planxty" and the tune in general is more a tongue-in-cheek dig at Mr. Hill than an honorific. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.