Richard Hawley at 3Olympia review: Love songs, with strings attached
Concert for Coles Corner album’s 20th anniversary is a showcase for Sheffield band’s versatility and virtuosity
Richard Hawley
Claire Byrne and Mary Lou McDonald come unexpectedly close to a shouting match
Radio review: The reliably poised RTÉ Radio One presenter gets into tetchy exchange with Sinn Féin leader. On Today FM, Matt Cooper swaps ballot-box coverage for indignation
Richard Hawley: In This City They Call You Love – Heartfelt, humane and extraordinarily rich
Hawley is making his music ever more niche, but to dismiss these songs on that basis would be a mistake
Manic Street Preachers – I Live Through These Moments Again And Again: The Duets 1992-2021 review
A collection to savour from ageing rockers
Declan O’Rourke: Arrivals – Impressive record that spotlights the journeys taken
Songwriter’s eighth album is a low-key affair that does not need to shout to be heard
Laurie Shaw: Helvetica review – A glitchy, scrappy pop-punk state of Britain
Kerry-based artist’s songs brim over with clever ideas and easily spotted influences
Get out of the office: This week’s best rock and pop gigs
The Divine Comedy, Nitin Sawhney, Richard Hawley, Ann Scott, Alma, Deborah De Luca
The new dinner party rules: don’t be on time, don’t fight, do double-dip the hummus
Formal dinners are over, but casual cooking for friends throws up a new set of dilemmas. Here is a foolproof guide
‘I remember at 11 or 12 having to beg people to come into the church’
Molly King is head of development for the Other Voices festival in Dingle and has been involved with it since her childhood
Róisín Murphy: ‘Here I am. Warts and all’
Róisín Murphy’s new album Take Her Up to Monto is named for a song about Dublin’s former red-light district. “It’s a little postmodern fragment, a bit of history. But also it’s me.”
Imelda May, Glen Hansard and Colm Meaney in town for MusicTown
Festival celebrates the capital’s music scene including choruses from Handel’s ‘Messiah’
The 25 festivals and music events of the summer
It’s summertime, which means it’s time to hit the fields, parks, GAA stadiums and forests for a blast of live music. Here’s our guide to the 25 festivals and music events you have to see this year
Best Music 2013: our favourites but your final say
It’s the end of the year as we know it and we feel fine. Jim Carroll rounds up the year in music and passes the baton to you, the readers, to have the final say
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