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David Boland died in hospital after being found on pavement following attack in Co Kildare

Are U2 back already? This week’s must-see rock and pop gigs

Catch Metropolis, Cork Jazz Festival, Sligo Live, Westival, Robert Plant & Van Morrison, Johnny Marr, Chemical Brothers and Phosphorescent over the mid-term break

Lauren Murphy on the acts to see – and why – at the Iveagh Gardens

Alanis Morissette, The The, Aslan and Damien Dempsey some of the must sees

Liam Gallagher at Malahide Castle: a stale stroll down memory lane

The ‘King Parka Monkey’ sends them home happy but the new material is weak

Johnny Marr: Call the Comet review – Still a solid melody maker

Johnny Marr: ‘A lot of people don’t even want to see The Smiths reform’

The former Smiths guitarist on his third album, ‘Call the Comet’ – his most personal yet – and why he's happy to stay solo

‘Oasis distorted the idea of what the Manchester scene was’

Dave Haslam, onetime Hacienda DJ, has vignettes on Madchester, Morrissey and Mark E Smith

Rolling Stones, Johnny Marr, We Are Scientists: this week’s rock/pop highlights

Plus: Ben Folds, Teskey Brothers, Haley Heynderickx, Slow Skies, Car Seat Headrest

The Smiths – The Queen is Dead (Deluxe Edition) review: illuminating take on exceptional album

Donald Clarke: The game is up for Morrissey the reactionary

How did we Smiths obsessives miss the signs in the 1980s. Because they were there

David Rawlings takes a step towards Bob Dylan and Neil Young

The country star is known for his work with Gillian Welch but now he’s happy being out front

England was theirs: the high point of The Smiths

‘Strangeways’ remains a key text in understanding The Smiths’ greatness, and is why so many disciples still follow Morrissey through trying times

The Charlatans – Different Days album review: solid songs that will age well

Bananarama are back: `It was every bit as intense as a marriage, but without the sex'

Bananarama were the biggest girl group of the1980s. Can Siobhan, Keren and Sara recapture their glory days?

Ryan Adams: ‘There’s a lot of fight and a lot of light’

On new album Prisoner, Ryan Adams chronicles the private emotions behind his marriage split with Mandy Moore. ‘My life depended on making it,’ he says

From Stiff Little Fingers to Lynched: Rough Trade’s Irish bands

Geoff Travis, founder of Rough Trade Records, says he feels a deep connection with Irish culture

‘At 14, watching Johnny Marr play guitar in his bedroom was a privilege’

Conor Pope talks to former ‘Coronation Street’ star Kevin Kennedy about growing up in Manchester and his new role in stage musical adaptation of ‘The Commitments’

10 acts that would not have existed without David Bowie

As Johnny Marr once said: ‘There are musicians who are influenced by him that don’t realise it’

Christmas reads for music lovers

Kevin Courtney reviews new rock and pop books by or about Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Grace Jones, Bernard Sumner, Allen Klein and Bob Stanley

Johnny Marr: Adrenalin Baby - Album Review

Noel Gallagher: ‘What we’re left with now is the Arctic Monkeys, tax-dodgers’

The charts are a load of boll*cks. Bono goes on a bit. And he would be ‘f**king very, very, very interested’ in collaborating with Damon Albarn

Bernard Sumner: ‘I’m happier in myself. Better behaved. Less of a f***ing idiot’

He took a bath on ‘Blue Monday’, lost a pile in the Hacienda and was part of a scene that has become music myth. Bernard Sumner of New Order on living in the present

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