Six is less the staging of a traditional historical musical than an indoctrination into the cult of the superfan

Summer music falls into two broad categories: songs that make you feel better about the life you have and songs that offer a fantasy of a more glamorous, more exotic existence that is somehow as magically affordable as the drinks at Club Tropicana

Beautiful arrangements are in abundance here, although many of Nash’s lyrics sound like the aural equivalent of an exposed nerve

Allen, who stars in McDonagh’s play The Pillowman, on turning to acting, dealing with addiction and her disillusionment with the music industry

Television: Horgan and Allen’s new dramedy has a big problem: it’s just not funny

Tech tools can be used to ingest the creativity of artists, learn from it, then spew out music and lyrics at scale. That’s not ideal

Matriarchal music, from John Lennon’s tribute to his mother Julia to the Spice Girls' magnificent Mama

Pop’s mums have told of guilt, loneliness and prejudice. Do men face the same problems?

There’s an undeniable buzz about the country’s first festival for LGBTQ+ community and its friends

All Saints at Leopardstown, Carnival of Funk in Cork, and Another Love Story in Meath

After overnight fame led Kate Nash to a breakdown and bankruptcy, the singer has found a new lane

18-year-old singer from West Sussex whose folk-pop songs feel like snapshot in time

The capital’s newest festival is aimed at the LGBT+ community and friends

Social network blames faulty server for loss of text, photos, video and 50 million tracks

Singer-songwriter has a voice that’s as distinctive on record as it is in real life – it’s about time we properly listened

Rock & pop gigs of the week: Frank & Walters, Damien Dempsey, Villagers, Lily Allen

A deep, hot bath is one of life’s luxuries and can even take the form of an uber-massage or hydrotherapy

The band beat acts including Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen to take this year’s prize

Fame, failure, assualt, getting high: nothing is off limits in the singer’s memoir

Almost nothing else from this era can match the mythology or legacy of this work