Rufus Wainwright in Dublin review: A great gig ascends to the sublime
Birthday bliss wins out over jet lag as singer performs covers drawn from his beguiling recent collection of folk standards
Rufus Wainwright
Martha Wainwright: ‘Hopefully I can write another Bloody Mother F***ing Arsehole, as that’ll pay the mortgage’
After her forthcoming brace of Irish gigs, the singer plans to take a year off to digest all that has happened since her divorce, and to begin writing again
Rufus Wainwright: ‘I asked Paul Brady to sing Arthur McBride three times one evening’
The singer-songwriter has gone back to his family folk roots via his new album, Folkocracy, and found it’s not such an uncomfortable place to be
Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy come full circle with final offering in operatic trilogy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child
José González: ‘As a father, I felt the urge to show my creative and playful sides’
Folk singer on making a pro-science album, playing in Ireland and broadening his sound
Martha Wainwright: ‘I don’t want to say everything is dependent on the love of a man’
The songwriter on the before-and-after of Covid, family break-up and finding love again
Dani Larkin: using music as a baseline for peacebuilding
The singer-songwriter on her new single, living along borders and growing up in Madden
Rufus Wainwright: Unfollow the Rules review – High point in songwriter’s career
Singer sets the bar high on first pop-oriented album in eight years
Music Quiz: Can you solve this Beatles Mathical Mystery?
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RTÉ to screen Lizzo, Lady Gaga and Paul McCartney coronavirus benefit concert
One World: Together at Home, on April 18th, will support WHO Covid-19 response fund
‘Aging, comfortable and stuck’: what happens culture when society gets old?
The hollowing out of the youth-oriented music industry is a harbinger of things to come
All Together Now: Full line-up for festival revealed
37 new acts announced for the festival in Co Waterford over the August bank holiday weekend
Boys in the better band: Fontaines DC head this week’s best rock and pop gigs
Dido, Happy Mondays, Aldous Harding, Rufus and Martha Wainwright . . . and Whitney
Rufus Wainwright: ‘I’ve played Dublin all my life, really’
Rufus and sister Martha discuss grieving for their mother, performing Christmas songs with family
Dubliner in Philadelphia: The DJ who fills the airwaves with new Irish acts
‘I used to joke that I was the only Irish person in Philly I knew that didn’t own a pub. It’s only a slight exaggeration’
Joan as Police Woman: ‘I don’t measure anything by No 1s’
Joan Wasser has no regrets about delaying her solo career until into her 30s. But as she releases a 'Best of' collection, the Connecticut songwriter is looking forwards, not back
Joan as Police Woman – Joanthology review: Underrated brilliance
This anthology perfectly illustrates how underrated Joan as Police Woman is as a songwriter
The 15 best rock and pop gigs to catch in Ireland this week
Paul Simon bids farewell, Michael Bublé in Croker, Bruno Mars and Longitude
Robbie Williams: 'At least two times I went out in Ireland and woke up in London'
The singer has just announced a live date in Dublin's Aviva Stadium next year. Here, he recalls his hedonistic years and why he changed his mind and finally gave family life a go
Jeff Buckley: death, fame, immortality – and another album
The late singer-songwriter stepped fully formed into the studio in 1993. Two decades after his death his estate is releasing a new collection of out-takes, under his mother’s guidance
Doo-wop, reggae, rock and soul: Joan as Police Woman spreads her wings
Joan Wasser is set to release her most musically diverse album yet, and this time . . . it’s still personal
Rufus Wainwright’s good vibrations
The singer-songwriter has a galaxy of high-profile fans and a dizzying range of achievements under his belt – but has never troubled the top of the charts. Does that matter to him – and, if not, what does he focus on instead?
Martha Wainwright on the concert for her mother that turned into a wake
As the concert for her mother that turned into a wake that turned into a film gets its Irish premiere, Canadian folk-rock marvel Martha Wainwright tells Tara Brady about her mum Kate McGarrigle, her brother Rufus – and performing through a veil of tears
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