The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end
December 30th-January 5th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
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December 30th-January 5th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
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
Podcast review: Macmanus shows a lockpicker’s skill in opening up her high-profile guests
Irish DJ says women have to ‘constantly fight for their own rights when it comes to being safe’ while working in music
The Fontaines DC frontman meets Annie Mac to talk about childhood, London life, songwriting and finding light in the dark
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
Rhythm in the prose adds a texture to this story that harmonises with its principal theme
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 DJ and podcaster has written her second novel, but she’s still ‘scarlet’ at the prospect of being called a writer
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
Festival returns after two year Covid-19 hiatus with Dermot Kennedy, Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala
With 70,000 expected attendees, this year’s festival is set to be its largest on record
Join international guests and our top journalists for four nights of debate and discussion
Dublin-born DJ bids tearful farewell to the station after working there for 17 years
Dubliner, whose first novel is due in May, will still host Changes with Annie Macmanus podcast
Organiser Melvin Benn ‘not worried’ about coronavirus ‘at all. I’m full steam ahead’
RTÉ R&B and hiphop DJ speaks of on-air nerves, social media and ethics of branding
Women are under-represented in the Irish music industry, but a change is gonna come
The Dublin rapper thinks about performance beyond the microphone in his hand
Series to screen performances and interviews from the maiden Ballina event
Warts’n’all pop with acerbic lyrics and steady progression down the years? Yes please
The band beat acts including Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen to take this year’s prize
London’s Irish community get ready for a blast of Ed Sheeran
Donal Dineen’s ‘Pathways’ highlights success of 10 very different creatives living abroad
Liam Gallagher, Annie Mac and full line up, stage times, transport directions and more – and enjoy the music
Here’s the second tranche of stage times for the Stradbally festival
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?
The xx, Duran Duran and Chaka Khan headline this year’s sold-out festival
Comments come after Electric Picnic sells out in less than five minutes, ahead of lineup announcement
The first tranche of acts is announced hours after the festival sells out
To mark International Women’s Day on Wednesday, here are 30 women who are shaping Irish life
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
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
Twelve acts are up for this year’s prize, which picks the best album by a UK or Irish act
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices