Dalkey Book Festival, The Killers and other events to see, shows to book and ones coming your way this week
June 8th-14th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Laurie Anderson
I glanced at the stranger beside me, saw his eyes close, his face relax
Hilary Fannin: I felt sad I missed an opportunity to yield to Laurie Anderson’s art
Laurie Anderson: ‘An important voice? My friends don’t call me an important voice’
The musician and artist on CD-roms, cancel culture and her new show, The Art of Falling
David Byrne: ‘I couldn't write songs during the depth of the pandemic’
The Talking Heads frontman is opening an exhibition with sketches spanning 20 years
Paul Weller and a Madness spectacular: This week’s unmissable online events
Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights
Michael Stipe: ‘Cold-ass b**ch was a coat I put on to protect myself. I can take it off now’
The artist and REM singer talks American presidents, parties and photographing his heroes
Laurie Anderson: On My Culture Radar
The artist on ‘dangerous’ Andy Kaufman and the viral fear spreading in New York
Cash-strapped National Concert Hall told to reflect on ‘music tastes’
Principal venue for classical concerts in Republic records a loss in excess of €41,000
Berlin techno innovator Pantha Du Prince fits right in to Perspectives series
Beacon of enlightened new music programming at NCH in fog of nostalgia culture
The Hunger: A mixed-media opera about the Famine
Production team and cast illuminate 1840s with sean-nós, economists and vivid footage
National Concert Hall launches bumper programme for 2019-20
Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-up
Golden years: 10 pop stars who made great music in their sixties and beyond
How much harder it is for a star to deliver records that matter when, like Madonna, they have passed their 60th birthday?
Grammy Awards 2019 winners: The complete list
Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ won four awards and Lady Gaga’s ‘Shallow’ from the movie ‘A Star Is Born’ won two
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
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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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices