Self Aid at 40: How U2, Bob Geldof and Ireland’s biggest stars tried to create jobs
Leading rock acts united to fight unemployment but critics questioned what the mammoth concert really achieved Bob Geldof…
Fenian by Kneecap album review:
It is not all filth and fury on ‘Fenian’, which is at its strongest with tracks that are…
‘I remember getting booed at a Dublin gig for waving the Union Jack’: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on hard rock and their new doc
The legendary metal singer on fearing he’d never sing again, the band’s new warts-and-all film, and experiencing a…
D:Ream’s Peter Cunnah on finding his birth father: ‘What do you write? Hello! I might be your son’
‘Things Can Only Get Better’ became a ’90s classic but was dismissed as ‘handbag house’. Now living in…
Gorillaz at the 3Arena review: High-energy and career-spanning show gives Irish crowd exactly what they want
Damon Albarn’s ‘other’ band are now a bigger deal than Blur, and it’s easy to see why Albarn’s…
Podcaster Terence Power: ‘I got this shooting pain at the side of my face, into my jaw and teeth. It was excruciating immediately’
After beating drug addiction, Terence Power went on to co-host a hugely popular podcast with fellow Dubliner Calvin…
Dermot Kennedy on fame, new album The Weight of the Woods and privacy
As the singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy prepares for his 3Arena concerts in July, he talks about his happy place,…
Nights out with no hangover: How the boom in alcohol-free beers is keeping many pubs afloat
The popularity of Guinness and Heineken 0.0 is reshaping drinking culture in Ireland. With booze consumption falling and…
Even the Good Girls Will Cry by Melissa Auf der Maur is a raw memoir of art, grief and reinvention
She played bass in two of the scene’s most iconic bands, but her book ‘Even the Good Girls…
U2, their creative coma and the new songs on ‘Days of Ash’ that are fizzing with fury
The band’s new EP caught the music world on the hop this week. With little in the way…
Baz Luhrmann on Elvis Presley: ‘Bono read me his poem about the King… it was the perfect way to end our film, EPiC’
Luhrmann on the 50 hours of never-before-seen footage that inspired his new Presley documentary ‘EPiC’, and letting The…
‘It’s our favourite pub in the world’: Marcus Mumford on his band’s impromptu O’Donoghue’s gig and the Irish acts that inspire them
The Mumford & Sons frontman discusses making their new album, his love for Hozier, Damien Rice and Lisa…