Then because of the Troubles it was taken off the radio for a day in case it was offensive, so we sent them the translation and they played it again. Bono said that when he first heard it in a car, he had to pull over. Noel Edmonds played the song on Radio 1 for the first time and then after the next song he said: “We’ve been inundated with people asking, ‘What was that?’” So he played it again. There were only three TV channels back then, so we knew people would watch Harry’s Game. I think we used the second take, and layered it on top of that. Ciarán and I sang looking right at each other. Some people thought I was singing, “On the dole, all day.” Yorkshire TV sent over an engineer, Richard Dodd, who’d worked on 10cc’s I’m Not in Love and introduced us to the idea of layering the vocals. It was common in the reels and jigs world, but Ciarán thought it would be good to slow it down. The chorus, “ Fol lol the doh, fol the day, fol the doh fol the day,” comes from ancient Irish “mouth-music”. We were never a political band, but the sentiment that all things must pass inspired the lyrics. The moon and the stars, youth and beauty.” There’s no solution to war, just people killing each other. The Irish Gaelic lyrics for Theme from Harry’s Game derived from a saying in a book of old Irish proverbs that our grandfather had given Ciarán: “Everything that is and will be, will cease to be. You’ll feel the earthiness and the atmosphere.” Whenever people ask where that sound comes from I say, “Go to Donegal. I would have loved to have been a rock’n’roller, but gradually I realised that I had a different timbre and an ethereal feel, which is very much part of the Clannad sound. That’s when we knew the song had touched a nerve. Not one person stood up, and the music just played out. I thought, “That’s that.” After the second hour, there were less people talking over the music. At the end of the first hour-long episode, the house lights came up, the song played and nobody reacted. Yorkshire TV loved it.īefore Harry’s Game aired over three nights, we went to a private press showing in London to around 100 people. We had the lyrics, harmonies and melody in a couple of hours, then came back the following evening and recorded a demo on a little cassette recorder. We’d just started using electronics and wrote the song on a Prophet 5 synth. It was a difficult time for us because Enya had just left along with our manager/producer, Nicky Ryan, to pursue a solo career. We wanted something more ethereal than the grim reality of life in Northern Ireland depicted in the series, so wrote a hymn to the Troubles. He, the head of music and the producer had all heard a Scottish-Gaelic song on our previous album and came over to Dublin to tell us about their project.Ĭiarán and Moya came over, and we wrote Harry’s Game in my house in just a week. Also, the OVA Chapters can both be watched after concluding season one as they are not directly connected to the main series, however, we recommend finishing both seasons before you check these two out.In 1982, Yorkshire TV approached us for some music for a drama series called Harry’s Game, based on Gerald Seymour’s 1975 novel set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The preferred order in which you should watch the Clannad series is the release order, however, you may want to skip the movie as it is mostly just a recap of season one and not necessary. Clannad After Story: Another World, Kyou Chapter (2009).Clannad: Another World, Tomoyo Chapter (2008).There are multiple ways which you can watch through the Clannad anime being either chronologically or in order of release.
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