| Live in Dublin | ||||
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| Released | 28 January 2008 | |||
| Recorded | February 2007 | |||
| Venue | Vicar Street, Dublin | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Label | Rubyworks | |||
| Producer | Noel Eccles & Keith Donald | |||
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Live in Dublin is the second live album by Irish folk rock band Moving Hearts, recorded in 2007 at the Vicar Street venue in Dublin by Tim Martin. Noel Eccles and Keith Donald were executive producers, and the album was mixed by Andrew Boland and mastered by Martin Giles at Alchemy, in London. [1]
For this series of performances at Vicar Street, [1] the band were augmented by Kevin Glackin (fiddle) and Graham Henderson (keyboards) but minus Flo McSweeney (vocals), thereby rekindling the instrumental format adopted for the recording of The Storm (1985). Previous band members also missing from this line-up included Declan Sinnott (guitar) and Declan Masterson (uilleann pipes).
Live in Dublin received positive reviews from folk music critics.
In his review of the live concert itself in Hot Press (22 February 2007), Colm O'Hare stated: [2]
In his review of the album for The Guardian (18 January 2008), Robin Denselow stated: [3]
Denselow added:
In his review of the album for The List (28 February 2008), Kenny Mathieson [4] stated: [5]
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