Neil Young

Event guide: Ed Sheeran, Uncle Vanya and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead

December 6th-12th, 2025: The best music, theatre, art and more coming your way this week

Fri Dec 05 2025 - 04:51

Steve Cropper, guitarist for Blues Brothers and Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84

Stax Records great also backed Neil Young, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty and The Band’s Levon Helm

Wed Dec 03 2025 - 22:48

Saint Etienne on bowing out: ‘Some of the things people said got me crying. You don’t realise the impact you’ve had’

Sarah Cracknell and co are going out on a high with their 13th album. They talk about Britpop, their labelmates Kneecap and Gen Z’s strange yearning for the 1990s

Sat Sept 06 2025 - 05:15

Wunderhorse in Dublin: Young crowd delirious for one of the buzziest live acts around

Collins Barracks rocked to unflinchingly earnest guitar music made evocative by clever melodies

Wed Aug 20 2025 - 09:13

Wunderhorse at Collins Barracks: Stage times, setlist, ticket information, how to get there and more

Everything you need to know about the band’s upcoming performances in Dublin

Tue Aug 19 2025 - 13:26

Glastonbury 2025: All that Kneecap and Bob Vylan outrage drowned out the air strike on the cafe birthday party

The BBC’s coverage of the festival is a wonder. But this time around it became a morass of missed points and moral cowardice

Thu Jul 03 2025 - 05:15

Kneecap at Glastonbury: British police assessing videos of group to see if offences were committed

Belfast rap group member Móglaí Bap tells large audience: ‘The prime minister of your country, not mine, said he didn’t want us to play’

Sat Jun 28 2025 - 21:11

Neil Young and Van Morrison at Malahide Castle: Decades on, these voices have never sounded better

Van Morrison makes it funky while Neil Young strides through an inspiring celestial set to fans in Dublin

Fri Jun 27 2025 - 08:49

Neil Young with special guest Van Morrison at Dublin’s Malahide Castle: Set list, ticket information, how to get there and more

Everything you need to know about the singers’ concert on Thursday, June 26th

Tue Jun 24 2025 - 06:00

Glastonbury full lineup for 2025: eyes on Kneecap’s Saturday slot after gig cancellations

Paul Mescal and Dominic West among speakers, while mystery group Patchwork may be a decoy on the Pyramid Stage

Wed Jun 04 2025 - 12:42

‘We want to stop in our prime’: Saint Etienne on their final album and why pop is a dying art

The trio of Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Sarah Cracknell are wrapping up after 13 albums

Mon Jun 02 2025 - 06:00

Neil Young to follow The Cure’s example in not using ‘bad’ dynamic pricing

Young says surge pricing a ‘bad thing that has happened to concerts worldwide’, citing The Cure’s Robert Smith

Mon Mar 17 2025 - 19:36

Glastonbury 2025: Olivia Rodrigo, Neil Young and The 1975 to headline

Young back on bill after withdrawing due to mistaken belief that festival was under BBC ‘corporate control’

Thu Mar 06 2025 - 12:09

Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside review – The sunny side of one of rock’s stormiest musicians

Neil Young has rarely sounded more laid-back than on this album of gorgeously relaxed recordings from 1977

Thu Feb 27 2025 - 05:07

Neil Young and Van Morrison to play at Malahide Castle this summer

The veteran rocker’s last Irish gig was with Bob Dylan in Kilkenny six years ago

Mon Feb 24 2025 - 17:57

Glastonbury 2025: Neil Young confirms he will play festival after ‘error in information’ led him to pull out

Earlier this week Young backed out of the festival claiming it was ‘under corporate control’ of the BBC

Fri Jan 03 2025 - 12:57

Glastonbury Festival doubles profits amid accusations of ‘corporate control’

Capacity at the famous music festival, which turns over much of its profit to charities, has increased to 210,000 people

Thu Jan 02 2025 - 15:59

Glastonbury 2025: Neil Young pulls out of festival claiming it is ‘under corporate control’ of BBC

Young says BBC wanted him and his band to ‘do a lot of things in a way we were not interested’

Thu Jan 02 2025 - 12:30

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

Sun Dec 29 2024 - 05:00

Nightmare concerts: Nicki Minaj put on one of Ireland’s most disappointing gigs. Here are nine more disasters

Including gigs by Garth Brooks, Guns N’ Roses, Lauryn Hill, Swedish House Mafia and Barbra Streisand

Mon Jul 22 2024 - 06:00

Anamoe Drive: Breakfast in Bed – Like all your treasured singer-songwriters put through a sonic wringer

Thumper singer Oisín Leahy Furlong’s debut solo album is the yin to Thumper’s yang, a delicate, un-self-pitying collection of heartbreak songs

Thu Mar 21 2024 - 05:00

Buying records, DVDs and physical books: A 2024 resolution for culture lovers

Aoife Barry: I don’t want to leave the albums I love to linger in the digital air, untethered to me and my world, so that’s why I’m back buying vinyl

Thu Jan 04 2024 - 05:00

Foo Fighters, Oasis, U2, the Rolling Stones and more: Slane’s 15 greatest acts – in reverse order

As Harry Styles limbers up for this year’s gig, on Saturday, we pick our favourite performances at the castle since the inaugural Slane Festival, in 1981

Mon Jun 05 2023 - 05:30