Christy Moore Marquee, Cork

With some of the Vita Cortex workers already centre stage, all the others in the audience as guests, out he comes to the usual roar and it was straight into it… “I’m an ordinary man, nothing special nothing grand”.

Context is everything.

The sharp indictment of the plight of the working man set the tone for what might have been a great night, with the Irish folk legend in the driving seat and his trusted companion of 10 years, Declan Sinnott, who releases his first solo album in September, changing the gears every now and then, always in control musically.