Tony Clayton-Lea

Tony Clayton-Lea

Contributor

Tony Clayton-Lea is a contributor to The Irish Times specialising in popular culture

Regina Spektor: Home, Before and After review — Orchestral, sweeping, and sometimes epic

Musician's new album continues her search for the perfect alt.pop song.

The Music Quiz: Cher is teaming up with which fashion design house for a Pride collection?

Plus: Who is the new 2022 ‘face’ of Just Eat?

‘I continue to invest when there’s a dip in the market, as I know it will eventually turn’

Me and My Money : Johan Reveillard, co-founder of Money Jar

Ziggy Stardust at 50: ‘Bowie’s songs come from deep within him. That always resonates with people’

Ken Scott on co-producing The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars with David Bowie

Perfume Genius: Ugly Season — An artistic deviation whose challenges are hard to meet

The usually hypnotic music of Perfume Genius has been replaced by wearying self-indulgence

The Music Quiz: Which Who song soundtracks a flight scene in Top Gun: Maverick?

Which visiting act to Ireland this year referred to the country as ‘the UK’?

Me & My Money: ‘I love a good bargain, and taught my two sons to haggle from when they were very young’

Sarah Jane O’Dwyer, CEO of digital healthcare business, HaloCare

Carole Nelson Trio: Night Vision — Let the music drift over you

Carlow-based musician’s free and genteel piano playing is to the fore of this album

The Music Quiz: What was the name of The Beatles’ experimental record label?

Plus: Which UK DJ plays a special set in series 3 finale of Derry Girls?

‘You have to take risks in life and you’re not going to win every time’

Me & My Money: Julie Peelo, designer

Searching for the Answers review: Signs of creativity and growth

Hudson Taylor’s new album boasts a comforting blanket of mournfulness covering the songs

Me & My Money: Peigin Crowley

‘My guilty pleasure is buying secondhand furniture to repair and upcycle’

Rosie Carney: I Wanna Feel Happy – Quality and depth

Anglo-Irish singer and songwriter just keeps getting better and better

The Music Quiz: Wayne Rooney has a tattoo of an album title by which rockers?

Plus: U2’s Under a Blood Red Skytakes its title from a lyric in which of their songs?

‘If we could live in a world without money, I’d prefer it’

Me & My Money: Niamh Shaw, engineer, scientist and writer who lectures at the International Space University in Strasbourg