Cillian Murphy: ‘It was one of the greatest weeks of my life. I haven’t talked about it much’
The star of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man has been heavily involved in its soundtrack – as music has always been the actor’s most profound inspiration
David Bowie
Dour, charmless and intermittently tuneful: Yes, it’s Morrissey, pop’s tarnished ‘greatest lyricist’
Make-Up Is a Lie is a long way short of The Smiths, but it’s merely bad-tempered and argumentative rather than actively offensive
Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally review: Harry Styles’ new album is a retro letdown
With Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, Harry Styles genuinely wants to push forward creatively, but the results are more honourable pastiche than profound artistic statement
Event guide: Dublin Bowie Festival, Franz Ferdinand and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
February 21st-27th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Best new music books: Bowie, Boston and the Scatman’s Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop
Recent 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s death saw the publication of numerous books about him
Golden years: Colm Keena on why Dublin was the best place to be growing up in the 1970s
What surprised me was how much I liked the guns - and I also learned how to throw grenades
Magic Maker by Pam Grossman: this word-witch doesn’t disappoint
The occult author weaves a cloak of enchantment for anyone intrigued by the notion that creativity is an expression of both intellect and spirit
David Bowie: 10 years after his death, he’s still electrifying, still plugged into the 21st century
David Bowie died on January 10th, 2016. He still has a message for the modern world in a way that, frozen in time, John Lennon or Elvis Presley simply doesn’t
The Music Quiz: While making the album Diamond Dogs, which Bruce Springsteen song did David Bowie record?
Plus: Which Bowie album is named on Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2000 song Californication?
Four new films to see this week: Marty Supreme, Cover-Up, Sentimental Value and David Bowie: The Final Act
Timothée Chalamet, Seymour Hersh, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 26th, 2025
Bowie: The Final Act - fond requiem from fan 10 years after star’s death
Jonathan Stiasny’s film offers overview of iconic singer’s career with emphasis on his final artistic statement, Blackstar
Music books: From Mark Ronson’s insight into being a DJ in 1990s to Bruce Springsteen’s 50th anniversary book
Releases include Night People: How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City; Blitz: The Club That Created the 80s and more
David Bowie was right: this German pop professor is a genius
Michael Rother, the musical maverick behind Neu! and Harmonia, is an antidote to the cynicism of the modern music industry
Four music books chart unconventional lives in the industry
Influences and life moments behind the musicians from the ‘70s to ‘90s are revealed
Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails at 3Arena review: Peel It Back tour begins unshowily, then builds to a thrilling mid-set sequence
Expectations are high among fans dressed in reverential black. This Dublin show doesn’t disappoint
‘When I’m singing, I don’t think about my grief’: Choir of patients enriching their lives through music
A Dublin GP practice is the unlikely location where a group of patients meet to sing every week
The Movie Quiz: Who did not direct a film that shares its name with a David Bowie song?
Plus: Which Viking is back in action this week?
Pioneering producer Arthur Baker: Bono called me up and said, ‘Can you get me a guitar? I want to write a song’
Baker’s new autobiography charts his work producing and remixing Springsteen, Dylan, New Order and Afrika Bambaataa
Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio: ‘David Bowie was dressed like a European dad on vacation. He could wander around NYC unnoticed’
TV on the Radio frontman speaks to Irish Times ahead of headlining Beyond the Pale 2025
Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds review: How paradoxical that Victorian England’s destruction should be relayed by an Irishman
What HG Wells would think of his masterpiece as a rock opera is anyone’s guess, but audiences love it
AI promises a future that is ‘exhilarating and terrifying’
Already heavily used in business, its impact on consumers is, as yet, less practical and often harmful
The Music Quiz: Which breakfast cereal inspired the title of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)?
A special query into all things the Thin White Duke, to tie in with the Dublin Bowie Festival from February 27th to March 2nd
The Guide: Dublin Bowie Festival, Snow Patrol, Jenny Eclair and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
Guide February 22nd-28th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Twiggy looks back: ‘You’ve got to remember I was 16. It was bloomin’ exciting. I was travelling the world. I was getting paid’
Twiggy arrived like a pocket cyclone in 1966. A charming new documentary by Sadie Frost charts the rise, success and fears that came with such attention
Brian Eno: ‘I don’t like being admired, being revered. That makes me feel very uncomfortable’
Eno, who has worked with everyone from Bowie to Coldplay, discusses his new book with Bette Adriaanse, the use of AI in art and his idea of ‘scenius’
A Complete Unknown review: As Bob Dylan, Timothée Chalamet works his wee nasal cavity to death
James Mangold’s biopic is abundantly flawed, but will serve as a devotional tool for dedicated fans
Timothée Chalamet: A Complete Unknown soundtrack review – In what world does this Dylanless Bob Dylan album make sense?
Star of new biopic deserves gold medal for effort, but you can only wonder about the target audience
Skinner: New Wave Vaudeville – Spasmodic shot of art rock walks the tightrope between high culture and backstreet scuzz
Dubliner Aaron Corcoran names debut album in honour of Manhattan club’s ethos of ‘celebrating the weird part of who you are’
In 1975, Dylan, Patti Smith, Bowie and Marley woke up a cosseted music culture. It’s a 50th anniversary worth celebrating
2025 marks the golden jubilee of some fine records, to be sure, but also of a time when punk came to sack rock’s citadel and popular music began to go in new directions
Henry Mount Charles: A Lord in Slane – The strange blend of fact and fiction around one of the last Anglo-Irish eccentrics
Television: Much we think we know about the custodian of Slane Castle is conjured from thin air, as becomes clear in this absorbing documentary
Bill Nighy: ‘My grandmother kind of raised me. She was a proper Irish woman, a Catholic. I was to be a priest’
Love Actually actor talks about running away as a teenager, begging in Paris and breaking into acting
The Music Quiz: Radiohead side project The Smile took their name from a poem by whom?
Plus: Which David Bowie song did Greta Gerwig choose to take with her on Desert Island Discs?
Gavin Friday: ‘Ireland wasn’t an easy place back then to go out and be the Virgin Prunes or U2’
Ecce Homo, the singer’s new album, is not just the best record of his significant solo career but also an account of a life less ordinary
How my fear of flying can reach new heights
The only thing that resolves my fear is when I walk down the airplane steps and promise never to fly again
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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