The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end
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Annie Macmanus
aka Annie Mac
The Wolfe Tones’ Celtic Symphony and NWA’s Straight Outta Compton: Separated at birth?
Donald Clarke: Rap lyrics have been used as evidence against hundreds of people in UK courts. It’s part of a cultural divide that campaigners want to end
Changes: Just you, me, Annie Macmanus and Idris Elba. No wonder I can’t stop listening
Podcast review: Macmanus shows a lockpicker’s skill in opening up her high-profile guests
Music industry ‘unregulated’ for young female DJs, Annie Mac tells UK inquiry
Irish DJ says women have to ‘constantly fight for their own rights when it comes to being safe’ while working in music
Grian Chatten of Fontaines DC: ‘I only started to realise over the last couple years that I was quite weird in school’
The Fontaines DC frontman meets Annie Mac to talk about childhood, London life, songwriting and finding light in the dark
Harry Styles at Slane: Stage times, set list, ticket information, how to get there and more
Everything you need to know about the star’s concert at Slane Castle on Saturday, June 10th, supported by Inhaler, Wet Leg, Mitch Rowland and Annie Mac
The Mess We’re In by Annie Macmanus: Power of music to save a life
Rhythm in the prose adds a texture to this story that harmonises with its principal theme
Bob Geldof said yes, Annie Macmanus said no, Barry McGuigan said both. So what was the question?
Róisín Ingle: These days, to avoid the embarrassment of a public refusal, potential recipients are contacted in advance to see if they would be amenable to accepting the honour
‘The concept of monarchy is absurd’: Annie Mac on London-Irish life, rejecting an MBE, and the pull of home
The DJ and podcaster has written her second novel, but she’s still ‘scarlet’ at the prospect of being called a writer
Annie Mac’s Before Midnight: A dance party for nightclub fans juggling children and careers
The Irish DJ’s parties promise all the thrills of a hedonistic night out but with a respectable finish time for older dance-music fans
Electric Picnic tickets sell out in half an hour
Festival returns after two year Covid-19 hiatus with Dermot Kennedy, Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala
Electric Picnic 2022 line-up: Dermot Kennedy, Tame Impala and Arctic Monkeys to headline
With 70,000 expected attendees, this year’s festival is set to be its largest on record
Winter Nights 2022: Irish Times festival includes Brian O’Driscoll, Helen McEntee, David Baddiel
Join international guests and our top journalists for four nights of debate and discussion
Annie Mac presents her final BBC Radio 1 show
Dublin-born DJ bids tearful farewell to the station after working there for 17 years
Irish DJ Annie Mac to leave BBC Radio 1 after 17 years
Dubliner, whose first novel is due in May, will still host Changes with Annie Macmanus podcast
Electric Picnic 2020: Headliners announced for summer’s biggest music festival
Organiser Melvin Benn ‘not worried’ about coronavirus ‘at all. I’m full steam ahead’
Tara Stewart: ‘I can’t cope with criticism’
RTÉ R&B and hiphop DJ speaks of on-air nerves, social media and ethics of branding
Musicians making sound moves to get the gender balance right
Women are under-represented in the Irish music industry, but a change is gonna come
Kojaque review: A year after ‘Deli Daydreams’, he’s still in control
The Dublin rapper thinks about performance beyond the microphone in his hand
Other Voices: Line-up revealed of every show in 17th series
Series to screen performances and interviews from the maiden Ballina event
Gig of the Week: Lily Allen
Warts’n’all pop with acerbic lyrics and steady progression down the years? Yes please
Mercury Prize 2018: Wolf Alice win for Visions of a Life
The band beat acts including Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen to take this year’s prize
Ed Sheeran: ‘My Irish heritage is something I’ve always been proud of’
London’s Irish community get ready for a blast of Ed Sheeran
‘All drama is about identity’: Irish artists never truly leave home
Donal Dineen’s ‘Pathways’ highlights success of 10 very different creatives living abroad
Samhain festival: everything you need to know
Liam Gallagher, Annie Mac and full line up, stage times, transport directions and more – and enjoy the music
Electric Picnic: stage times for the Electric Arena, Cosby, Mindfield and Theatre of Food
Here’s the second tranche of stage times for the Stradbally festival
Electric Picnic preview: A fortress of friends and curry cheese chips
Electric Picnic is all about those perfect moments of music and madness in Stradbally. So which songs, stages and Picnic slices are our writers looking forward to?
Electric Picnic: Elbow one of 20 acts just added to line-up
The xx, Duran Duran and Chaka Khan headline this year’s sold-out festival
Melvin Benn would ‘absolutely welcome any regulation’ of secondary ticketing market
Comments come after Electric Picnic sells out in less than five minutes, ahead of lineup announcement
The xx and Duran Duran to headline Electric Picnic
The first tranche of acts is announced hours after the festival sells out
30 Irish women you need to know
To mark International Women’s Day on Wednesday, here are 30 women who are shaping Irish life
Other Voices 2016: the Dingle session steps up a gear
Title sponsors and a larger cultural offering mean that this is the year when the Dingle event stops being a small music-industry weekend away and becomes a full-blown festival
From Whelan’s to worldwide: the rise of James Vincent McMorrow
In the How Music Works series, Niall Byrne talks to people about their work in music. This week, Ken Allen, label owner and manager with Faction Records on building James Vincent McMorrow’s career, and the problems facing the Irish music industry
Radiohead, Anohni and David Bowie on Mercury music prize shortlist
Twelve acts are up for this year’s prize, which picks the best album by a UK or Irish act
Watch: Get a sneak peek at Lapsley at Other Voices
The live music series recorded in deepest Dingle returns to RTE on Saturday
The next big things in music
Who are the acts to watch in 2015? And how did our predictions for last year fare? We asked some music industry insiders to look into their tea leaves and make some predictions
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