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Music

Album Reviews
‘We’d love it’: The Edge on U2 returning with Larry Mullen jnr to the Las Vegas Sphere in 2024

‘We’d love it’: The Edge on U2 returning with Larry Mullen jnr to the Las Vegas Sphere in 2024

U2’s residency-opening show went ‘way better than I ever could have expected or hoped for’, says the band’s guitarist

By Róisín Ingle●
Sun Oct 1 2023 - 01:48
The Music Quiz: What book by Zadie Smith inspired title of Arlo Parks’ 2021 debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams?

The Music Quiz: What book by Zadie Smith inspired title of Arlo Parks’ 2021 debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams?

U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere in Las Vegas: What the first reviews say

What did the world’s media think of the most ambitious performance in the Irish band’s history?

Sat Sep 30 2023 - 11:49

‘I’ve never experienced anything like it’: U2 fans on the band’s Las Vegas Sphere debut

The band’s huge show U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere opened on Friday night at the most talked-about music venue in the world

Sat Sep 30 2023 - 10:28

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RIAM’s inaugural Wigmore Hall Festival has drawn to a close. How did the new venue perform?

RIAM’s inaugural Wigmore Hall Festival has drawn to a close. How did the new venue perform?

Review: The academy’s 300-seat Whyte Recital Hall could be a boon for the kind of events now held in the National Concert Hall’s John Field Room

Ed Sheeran’s new album, Autumn Variations, has landed. The news is not good

Ed Sheeran’s new album, Autumn Variations, has landed. The news is not good

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Jape: Endless Thread – After six albums and two decades, the Dubliner has found a winning formula

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Wilco: Cousin - a progressive album dappled with a sumptuous melancholic hue

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RBG Trio: RBG Trio – Excellent debut from a cross-Border improvisatory jazz machine

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Sufjan Stevens: Javelin - Songs of tenderness and vulnerability with added poignancy

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