Joseph O’Connor on Bread of Angels by Patti Smith: Vive la reine
Lucid new memoir – a sort of sequel to Just Kids – gives fascinating insight into the worldview of one of the greatest living artists of our time
John Lydon
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The Sex Pistols rock the 100 Club in London for the first time in 50 years
Original band members guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock joined on stage by former Gallows frontman Frank Carter as stars and fans welcomed their return
A Lazarus Soul’s Brian Brannigan: ‘I don’t know if the world is darker now. But it feels like dark times’
The Dublin post-punk band’s leader on the malign influence of smartphones, his disappointment in Nick Cave and his horror at anti-immigration protests in Finglas
Jah Wobble: ‘When I was much younger I drank like an Irishman’
Writing Dark Luminosity, his memoir, has been more cathartic for the London-Irish musician than he expected it to be
Why does nobody hate rotten, rancid, sanctimonious, brain-rotting music any more?
Hugh Linehan: When it comes to Taylor Swift, for example, only the tinfoil-hat-wearers of the US extreme right have a bad word to say about her
‘It’s an uphill climb but I’ve got to find myself again’: John Lydon on grief, court and feuds
The 67-year-old singer, who released first album in eight years with his band Pil, says he has constantly struggled with stage fright through his life
‘The music industry wanted a Dublin Edith Piaf. They got Sinéad O’Connor instead’
People advised her to ‘just shut up and sing’. But there was no separating the singer from the song
Glen Matlock: ‘There are those in life who would hoodwink us. I’m trying to open people’s eyes’
The former Sex Pistol combines playing in Blondie with releasing solo work – including the politics-tinged Consequences Coming
Nora Forster obituary: German music promoter, and wife of John Lydon for more than four decades
On her first encounter with her eventual husband, she recalled: ‘John passed by my table and said: Drop dead’
Singer John Lydon’s wife Nora Forster dies aged 80
Sex Pistols singer attempted to represent Ireland at Eurovision 2023 with a song dedicated to wife
Late Late Eurosong special: It’s not every day you see Jedward give advice to Johnny Rotten
Eurovision 2023: The veteran pop-rock Dubliners Wild Youth edge out 19-year-old Connolly to go forward to this year’s contest in Liverpool
Everything you need to know ahead of The Late Late Show’s Eurosong special tonight
Six acts will be competing to represent Ireland in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, including a punk legend and a favourite making her professional debut
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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