Going PublicBack in 1990, a leaked document revealed that the FBI had compiled a report entitled "Rap Music and Its Effects on National Security…Fri May 19 2000 - 01:00
Tour a loora with DaraJust as RTE was screening its mainstream quiz show vehicle, It's A Family Affair, the host Dara O'Briain was legging it to Australia…Sat May 13 2000 - 01:00
As the Crow fliesThat American organic/folk rock/ a bit rootsy/a bit retro thing sure is a strange one; on one side of the compilation album you…Fri May 12 2000 - 01:00
The Aykroyd filesIn Ireland to film a new comedy, Canadian actor/comic Dan Aykroyd is pacing around his on-set caravan looking for his cigarettes…Sat May 06 2000 - 01:00
Dublin rocks, rolls and reelsThe Heineken Green Energy rock festival, now in its fifth year, attracted thousands to gigs around Dublin at the weekend, although…Mon May 01 2000 - 01:00
ReadingsA great double-bill at the Cuirt poetry festival in Galway today sees two of the very best Irish comics doing "readings"Sat Apr 29 2000 - 01:00
There's something about FarrellyAs the writer/director of such scatalogically wonderful boxoffice hits as Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary, Peter…Sat Apr 15 2000 - 01:00
Off his trolleyTen years down the line, the best little comedy club in the land, Dublin's Comedy Cellar is as funtastic as everSat Apr 08 2000 - 01:00
ClubbingAfter establishing themselves as one of the premier club-runners in the country, thanks to their old weekend nights at The Gaiety…Sat Apr 01 2000 - 01:00
ComedyAfter stealing the show at last year's Murphy's Ungagged comedy festival, ace deadpan US comic Steven Wright (right) returns …Sat Apr 01 2000 - 01:00
Lit up by her own blowtorchMan, what a chick. The greatest white singer to sing the blues came a-screechin' and ahollerin' out of Hicksville, U.S.ASat Mar 25 2000 - 00:00
Definite ArticleThere's not many people who can write an album that serves as a harrowing commentary on the "sexual, spiritual, political and…Fri Mar 24 2000 - 00:00
RockDay one are the latest exponents of the Bristol Beat to make a bit of a splash, although they may well be standing on the shoulders…Sat Mar 04 2000 - 00:00
Screaming successWhen a reporter from the Wall Street Journal rang David Geffen, saying he was interested in writing his biography, Geffen's pride…Sat Mar 04 2000 - 00:00
Their GenerationLong before Roger Daltrey was thrilling us all with his marvellous vocal performance in Messiah 2000 (we want our £700,000 back…Fri Mar 03 2000 - 00:00
An E please, Bob`Goddam right, it's a beautiful day," sings E from the Eels on the current hit Mr E's Beautiful BluesFri Feb 25 2000 - 00:00
When dreams turn sourBob Dylan gets thousands of requests a year from musicians seeking permission to sample his workSat Feb 19 2000 - 00:00
Beta MaxWith The Cure 'fessing up to Mogwai's work being a big influence on their new album, it's fitting that Oasis have been busy name…Fri Feb 11 2000 - 00:00
RockSuch is the demand to see Moby (right) that he's now playing both next Friday and next Saturday night at the Red Box venue, beside…Sat Feb 05 2000 - 00:00
Rich's hall of fame for southern satireThe awards just keep coming Rich Hall's waySat Feb 05 2000 - 00:00
Brit PackAdam Rickett, Ann Lee, Charlotte Church, Martine McCutcheon, S Club 7, Groove Armada, Phats and Small, Shanks & Bigfoot, …Fri Feb 04 2000 - 00:00
Great vibrationsWhen Brian Wilson first heard The Wondermints, he said that if they had been around in 1967 he would have used them to tour his…Fri Jan 28 2000 - 00:00
What has indie rock done for us?Just back from a European and US tour where they were the specially invited guests of Morrissey, Dublin quintet Sack are pretty…Sat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
Picture ThisVideo, schmideo. Blame MTV or ridiculously pretentious art school students, but one thing's for sure, and that is they just don…Fri Jan 21 2000 - 00:00
Back beyond the barricadesOf the new Manics' single, Nicky Wire says: "We started the 1990s with Motown Junk and we wanted to start the new decade with…Fri Jan 14 2000 - 00:00
Clerical comedyAlmost every Irish comedian popped up at one time or another in a cameo role in Father Ted, with the result that some bright …Sat Jan 08 2000 - 00:00
Ageing hippie upsets the ego cart at Grammy bashWiping the smile off Britney Spears's Lolita face, putting a stop to the pelvic thrusting of Ricky Martin and silencing the Canadian…Sat Jan 08 2000 - 00:00
IncomingPass my crystal thing - here's what'll be going down this year, pop pickersFri Jan 07 2000 - 00:00
Swell party that virtually set the Thames on fireA ride was out of the questionMon Jan 03 2000 - 00:00
The Jukebox Jive`Come on baby do the Jukebox jive," sang Auteur Luke Haines on How I Learned To Love The Bootboys and if it was one thing having…Fri Dec 24 1999 - 00:00
Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in spaceAs a combination of its visual arts and environmental programmes, Temple Bar Properties has commissioned a special outdoor projection…Sat Dec 18 1999 - 00:00
ComedyFresh from his barn-storming appearances with Eddie Izzard in the RDS, Barry Murphy (left) is on a bit of a roll these daysSat Dec 11 1999 - 00:00
Rom rule`Everybody who has worked on this project has fallen in love with it," says Niall Austink, executive editor of Enter, Ireland…Sat Dec 11 1999 - 00:00
Going UndergroundI was flicking through my albums of the year the other day, so I was, and was struck by how many of them could loosely be regarded…Fri Dec 10 1999 - 00:00
ComedyCurrently in the middle of his "Walking Back To Happiness" tour in Britain, the potter-turned-comedian Johnny Vegas (left) takes…Sat Dec 04 1999 - 00:00
He Ain't HeavyListen up, kids; today's talk is on cultural relativism and how such ideas affect contemporary popular music, with particular…Fri Dec 03 1999 - 00:00
The wonderful Izzard he wasShortly before playing to 6,000 people over two nights at the RDS, Eddie Izzard had played to 11,000 people in one night at Wembley…Wed Dec 01 1999 - 00:00
Off to see the IzzardAbout 10 years ago, the Irish comedy trio, Mr Trellis, went off to the Edinburgh Festival and came back telling wondrous tales…Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Cult hero Wright sets comedy festival apartThe Ungagged Comedy Festival, which was holding forth in venues all over Dublin last weekend, was the sixth comedy festival held…Tue Nov 16 1999 - 00:00
`The most unrock 'n' roll event ever'`It's the most unrock 'n' roll event I've ever been at in all my life," was the considered opinion of one seasoned hack backstage…Fri Nov 12 1999 - 00:00
Song sung blueOdder than oddness itself: The Red House Painters don't do interviews, don't have their photograph taken and simply don't believe…Fri Nov 05 1999 - 00:00
Beautiful NoiseAs Philip Larkin once said of the Bible - "it's beautiful, but it's bollocks"Fri Oct 29 1999 - 01:00
SkaBack in the hey-day of Two Tone, it was all about Madness, The Beat and the always underrated The Selecter (right)Sat Oct 23 1999 - 01:00
