Nick Cave

If you hate everything now and you will escape future accusations of hypocrisy

The singer can’t remember intensive care. ‘I was in a very dark place – presumably, it was death’

Donegal singer reclaims the era-defining Radiohead album from the boring blokes

The singer says the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl Christmas duet is ‘under attack’

After the pandemic, she will hug her family and ‘get absolutely merry, because I don’t normally’

Through addiction, infidelity and other life struggles, music was her constant escape

Kesha, Nick Cave, Peaches, Marc Almond among those covering classic T.Rex tunes

The whole of this album is more persuasive than the sum of its parts

Political correctness has ‘asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society’, musician says

The LA-based Dublin producer who worked with U2, REM and Snow Patrol has his own album out

After his turn in 1917, the actor is tackling the role of iconic Australian outlaw Ned Kelly

The once-great sitcom long ago committed the unforgivable sin of becoming nice

Short campaign means digital battle could play a major role in how election plays out

The writer on creating a world for a new album by her husband’s band, Mount Alaska

The Australian singer has masterfully cultivated the image of the Garbo of Pop, living by the old school maxim of ‘never complain, never explain’

It’s very hard not to be taken aback by the songs which are among the best Nick Cave has ever recorded

From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry

‘I suspected that drugs might have been a problem between us,’ Cave tells fan online

Actor Karl Shiels, who died on Monday aged 47, played shady Robbie Quinn in the soap

Hayden Thorpe, formerly of Wild Beasts, on new music, the future and pretend bands

How much harder it is for a star to deliver records that matter when, like Madonna, they have passed their 60th birthday?

The singer faces calls to boycott next month’s contest. But it is impervious to politics

‘Dissolute behaviour’ is key, Cave says about censoring musicians accused of misconduct

Madonna will sing as a special guest at next month’s Eurovision in Tel Aviv

His beautiful voice and avant garde compositions influenced David Bowie and Radiohead

Liss Ard which has hosted arts festivals and famous musicians on market for €5m

Musician says boycott is ‘partly the reason I am playing Israel – to stand against those who shame and silence musicians’

Our New VBF: It’s near impossible to pick her best era

Savage was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2017 and died on September 2nd

Patti Smith’s support performance is a poetic, urgent statement to the field of thousands

The audience asks the questions in this raw, intimate and revealing show

The gig is the first time Cave and his band have performed in Ireland for more five years

Also this week: Lindi Ortega, G-Easy, Mik Pyro, Kodaline, Magic Numbers, Sleep Thieves

The inaugural Vinyl festival, which takes place over the May bank holiday weekend, is a boutique event celebrating the golden age of stylus and disc

Hundreds attend christening of world’s largest short sea roll-on roll-off vessel

The Arcade Fire frontman believes being an artist is all about change – changing audiences and changing influences

Review: Musically Golden is a bit like a chain of Texas steakhouses – fun but with a slightly ersatz, almost cheap, feel

From It Takes a Village in April, to Electric Picnic in September, via The Rolling Stones

From Dublin’s huge parade to small, quirky events around Ireland