A mature, moody headline performance from the Belfast band who bring various collaborators on to Waterford stage

Veteran singer crams a lifetime of emotions, activism and call-to-arms songwriting into boisterous 60-minute set

Britpop’s supreme ironists send fans new and old back to their tents chuffed to have witnessed something special

Blending poetry and indie pop, the London band have a formula but it’s a good one

Cofounder and director Eddie Lee has ‘created a monster’ – and it’s a bold, brilliant and inspiring one

There were few signs of growing pains at the festival, whose move to a larger site in Co Laois comfortably accommodated 16,000

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The re-formed group’s set brims with singalong moments and has an audience streaked with grey partying like it’s literally 1999

Dublin concert is a celebration of band’s 30-year history of romping, stomping pop-rock

Garron Noone and Dermot Kennedy make cameos as North Carolina musician plays the first of two nights at Co Meath venue

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Galway International Arts Festival: At 79, Smith’s voice remains strong, and her demeanour is as pure and earnest as ever

July 2026 releases include Slow Magic; Selachimorpha; In the Aftermath, We Bloom; Ise; and Nectar

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The sound of ambition is writ large on the new single from the band’s first studio album in nine years

Singer, with his charming between song interludes, overcomes lacklustre opening to Dublin gig

A gritty voice, old-school country instincts and an enthusiastic Dublin audience combine for an impressive performance

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Rhian Teasdale is a captivating performer, with an uncanny ability to look as though she’s dancing around her bedroom

Lily Allen acts her way through her autofictional album West End Girl with humour and pathos, but this show is slight as well as startling