The Irish Times

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

Fri Jan 17 2020 - 05:00

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!

Sat Aug 17 2019 - 06:03

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

Mon Aug 05 2019 - 11:19

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

Sat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00

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

Sat Feb 16 2019 - 05:00

New artist of the week: Rosalía

Young Catalan merges flamenco and R&B to become one of the planet’s most vital pop stars

Sat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00

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

Sat Jun 30 2018 - 00:00

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

Sat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00

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

Thu Jun 15 2017 - 08:00

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

Mon Apr 11 2016 - 06:00

The Beatyard festival: Beats and boats, raps and rigging

Dún Laoghaire’s former ferry terminal transformed into excellent small festival

Sun Aug 02 2015 - 15:30

Something for the Weekend

From goats to music festivals, the bank holiday weekend has something for everybody

Fri Jul 31 2015 - 22:07

Four Tet: Morning/Evening | Album Review

Thu Jul 30 2015 - 18:00

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

Thu Jul 30 2015 - 12:00

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

Fri Jul 24 2015 - 05:15

Jim Carroll’s cultural highs and lows of 2014

A giddy, colourful Mardi Gras in New Orleans

Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00

Electric Picnic – the end of an era

Mark Graham winds up his three-year odyssey with one final fling at Electric Picnic 2014

Fri Aug 29 2014 - 00:00

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

Fri Aug 22 2014 - 00:00

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’

Fri Feb 28 2014 - 00:00