Joan Wasser on Jeff Buckley: ‘I really understand the fascination... he was spectacular’
Joan Wasser, aka Joan as Police Woman, talks about her ‘spectacular’ late fiance Jeff Buckley, flat-out fun touring with Iggy Pop and the craft of songwriting
Rufus Wainwright
The Music Quiz: What is Sam Smith’s middle name?
Plus: Special Pride edition including questions on Elton John’s tattoo and kd lang’s tribute band
Rufus Wainwright in Dublin review: A great gig ascends to the sublime
Birthday bliss wins out over jet lag as singer performs covers drawn from his beguiling recent collection of folk standards
Martha Wainwright: ‘Hopefully I can write another Bloody Mother F***ing Arsehole, as that’ll pay the mortgage’
After her forthcoming brace of Irish gigs, the singer plans to take a year off to digest all that has happened since her divorce, and to begin writing again
Rufus Wainwright: ‘I asked Paul Brady to sing Arthur McBride three times one evening’
The singer-songwriter has gone back to his family folk roots via his new album, Folkocracy, and found it’s not such an uncomfortable place to be
Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy come full circle with final offering in operatic trilogy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child
José González: ‘As a father, I felt the urge to show my creative and playful sides’
Folk singer on making a pro-science album, playing in Ireland and broadening his sound
Martha Wainwright: ‘I don’t want to say everything is dependent on the love of a man’
The songwriter on the before-and-after of Covid, family break-up and finding love again
Dani Larkin: using music as a baseline for peacebuilding
The singer-songwriter on her new single, living along borders and growing up in Madden
Rufus Wainwright: Unfollow the Rules review – High point in songwriter’s career
Singer sets the bar high on first pop-oriented album in eight years
Music Quiz: Can you solve this Beatles Mathical Mystery?
Plus: a Rufus Wainwright muse, an unlikely Bryan Adams cover, and the oldest male solo artist to hit No 1
RTÉ to screen Lizzo, Lady Gaga and Paul McCartney coronavirus benefit concert
One World: Together at Home, on April 18th, will support WHO Covid-19 response fund
‘Aging, comfortable and stuck’: what happens culture when society gets old?
The hollowing out of the youth-oriented music industry is a harbinger of things to come
All Together Now: Full line-up for festival revealed
37 new acts announced for the festival in Co Waterford over the August bank holiday weekend
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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