Tom Dunne: 'Wait until you hear Christy,' they said. They were right
Christy Dignam of Aslan at the Carling Rock Festival in June 1986 at the Lee Fields in Cork. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive
I knew Christy Dignan since we were in teenage bands. His was called Meelah XVIII and we both played the Ivy Rooms, in Dublin in the early 1980s. Even before they went on there was a palpable excitement in the room. “Wait until you hear Christy,” they all said.
When they became Aslan, they seemed to sign a record deal while we were still loading the van. How could this be, we wondered, until we heard 'This Is' on the radio. It was startlingly good. “These are the hands of a tired man.” Where did that come from?
