The Guide: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nas and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
November 9th-15th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Primal Scream: Come Ahead – Bobby Gillespie and company return with a sorely disappointing album
Ethical concerns are the least of fans’ worries, as not even David Holmes’s involvement can save this woefully inadequate collection
The Nick Cave Music Quiz: What was the original name of side project Grinderman?
In honour of the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds concert at Dublin’s 3Arena next week, a special quiz on the ‘grand lord of gothic darkness’
Ronan Collins: ‘My mother always said: if your feet don’t feel right, the rest of you will suffer’
Me & My Money: Ronan Collins, broadcaster and singer
Four new films to see this week
Cillian Murphy in Small Things Like These and Hugh Grant in Heretic, plus Anora and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
The Guide: The Corrs, Dublin Book Festival, Cork film festival and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
November 2nd-8th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Fionn Regan: O Avalanche – Stone-cold sublime
The Co Wicklow musician’s seventh album is simply a beautiful piece of work
The Music Quiz: Radiohead side project The Smile took their name from a poem by whom?
Plus: Which David Bowie song did Greta Gerwig choose to take with her on Desert Island Discs?
Panti Bliss: ‘To be totally honest, I never expected to live this long!’
Panti Bliss (aka Rory O’Neill), performer/entertainer
The Guide: Max Richter, Kneecap, Bambie Thug and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
October 26th to November 1st, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Christy Moore: A Terrible Beauty review – Hits the bull’s-eye again and again
There is no emotion that doesn’t get a nod in the singer-songwriter’s latest album
The Music Quiz: Who sings Ode to Billy Joe on Mercury Rev’s covers album of Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete?
Plus: Which of The Smiths was once thrown into jail, he says, for wearing a Baby’s Got a Gun T-shirt?
Why are so many old rockers still touring? ‘It doesn’t matter how much money they have. Musicians live for the next gig’
David Hepworth, author of Hope I Get Old Before I Die, on why rock stars never retire
Gavin Friday: ‘Ireland wasn’t an easy place back then to go out and be the Virgin Prunes or U2’
Ecce Homo, the singer’s new album, is not just the best record of his significant solo career but also an account of a life less ordinary