Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi 30th Anniversary review – still fresh, still funky as hell
Mabel’s mum deserves more credit for this visionary blueprint for female rappers
Bringing kids to festivals is the worst kind of performance parenting
Jennifer O'Connell: If you thought I was fun before I had kids, the toddler-toting festival-goers brag, see me now!
All Together Now festival: ‘It took us two hours to cover 2km’
Comparing ‘Worst Journeys’ proves the pastime of the weekend at the Waterford festival
Cream of festivals with Neneh Cherry on top: The week’s best rock and pop gigs
Indiependence, Beatyard, All Together Now. Plus: Daithí, kd lang, Billy Bragg, Jenny Lewis
The tune is out there . . . David Duchovny heads our pop and rock highlights
Also: Neneh Cherry, Jungle, Chvrches, Microdisney, Electric Eel Shock and Lux Alma
New artist of the week: Rosalía
Young Catalan merges flamenco and R&B to become one of the planet’s most vital pop stars
Lauren Murphy on the acts to see – and why – at the Iveagh Gardens
Alanis Morissette, The The, Aslan and Damien Dempsey some of the must sees
Cherry bomb: R&B singer Mabel is our new VBF
The daughter of Neneh Cherry has the buffalo stance, but she’s also got the tunes
Neneh Cherry tries to escape her past in Stockholm
Film review: It’s oppressive but this is a Swedish captor I came to love just a little
Neneh Cherry: ‘There is a very shallow, sexualised entrapment that women get sucked into’
Neneh Cherry has plenty to say, whether about appearing pregnant on Top of the Pops in 1988 or how things have changed for women in music
The Beatyard festival: Beats and boats, raps and rigging
Dún Laoghaire’s former ferry terminal transformed into excellent small festival
Something for the Weekend
From goats to music festivals, the bank holiday weekend has something for everybody
Select: music, food and games by the sea at Dún Laoghaire’s The Beatyard festival
We all know festivals are hungry work and there are lots of food options down by the water this weekend
New York’s Mister Saturday Night fever, all the way from Derry
Derry’s Eamon Harkin is half of NYC clubbing institution Mister Saturday Night. Ahead of DJing at the Beatyard, he tells of the trip from Northern indie-rock to the Big Apple
Electric Picnic – the end of an era
Mark Graham winds up his three-year odyssey with one final fling at Electric Picnic 2014
From milkshakes to jerk ribs – Electric Picnic-bound Kelis talks music, food and her love of both
Here comes Kelis. After a career of multicoloured musical twists and turns, Kelis is back with a new album “Food” to make her growing interest in all things food. Ahead of her appearance at the Electric Picnic 2014, she chews the fat with Jim Carroll
Neneh Cherry is back for another bite
It’s been 18 years since Neneh Cherry last released music under her own name, but new album ‘Blank Project’ sees her back out in front. She tells Jim Carroll about the art of collaboration and why she still feels ‘unfinished’
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