David Kitt

The best gigs this week

Age no barrier as five pensioners help guide Nenagh to Pierce Purcell success

Cups and Shields: Nenagh preparations pay off in the Pierce Purcell Shield

Lots to see at Electric Picnic, plus Passenger, Peking Duk, Ugly Kid Joe and Iceage

Set times for the Main, Body & Soul, Other Voices and Rankin’s Wood stages

We’ll also have exclusive stage times on irishtimes.com from Monday, August 27th

What happens when a city becomes too expensive to sustain its creative community? David Kitt’s remarks about Dublin’s high rents have struck a chord with fellow creatives

‘Bloody typical’: Musician criticises reaction to announcement he is leaving Dublin

Readers respond to singer David Kitt who said he is quitting Ireland because he can’t afford to live here

Musician David Kitt says he was being forced to leave because he can't afford it anymore

Performer accuses Fine Gael of failing the city and repeating mistakes of Celtic Tiger era

The National’s guitarists are part of People, a community of musicians creating new spaces and platforms

Tony Clayton Lea picks some of the best music released by Irish artists this year

In conversation: Sally Foran and David Kitt

Plus songs you have to hear from Serpentwithfeet and David Kitt

A suspicion lingers that Choice opted for a slightly underwhelming candidate in Ships

Willy Mason, Elli Ingram, Mahalia, Mount Alaska, Lukas Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Search Party Animal and David Kitt lead the pack. Plus: International Women’s Day Weekender

Damien Dempsey – Attention Bébé Christmas Party – Mick Flannery – Jenny Greene – Fontaines DC – Fr Ted Day – Subject With Surgeon, New Jackson, Tr one and more – Aslan – Hudson Taylor – ASIWYFA – Overhead the Albatross – Something Happens

What’s on: theatre and music and the best TV

In Conversation: Magazine editor Eric Davidson and DJ Colin Perkins

Warrenpoint’s Fletcher claims Irish Close title by one hole against Athenry’s Kitt

Former Boys internationals Marc Norton and Jamie Fletcher could meet in the final

How Music Works: A boatload of scurvy musicians is a big port of call at Electric Picnic

A tiny capacity, a big heart, a Shift Shack – is this Ireland’s most intimate festival?

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, New Jackson, Tom Adams and Soulé among well-received acts

Al Kennington and Albert Hooi’s slick short is a series of portraits of people who live and work in the city

DAVID KITTYous ****Self-released

Thunder storms and mud fail to deter concert goers at Charleville Castle

Flight Facilities, Clark, Sohn, Goat, Austra and Asgeir just a few of the highlights as the event flies into form

Galway native Maria Somerville might be shy in person, but her music carries a deliberate intent

A retrospective of the late artist illuminates his remarkable artistic evolution

The Co Mayo bash wasn’t exactly the wild west, but it was nice nonetheless

The beauty of the biennial Drop Everything is its location on an Aran Island that hums with possibility

Now that Ó Drónaí has rediscovered his love for pop music, the days of regarding him as just the ‘lad with the fiddle’ are well and truly over. He talks about his indie-trad-electro-math-rock progression and why the new album will be ‘pop from tip to toe’

David Gray, Hozier, Lisa O’Neill and Patti Griffin make for the real deal in Dingle

Festival Fit enjoys great gas and quilts