Cathal Coughlan
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Jacknife Lee: ‘If I’m not making noise, I get very grumpy’
- Music
- June 18, 2020, 06:00
Lockdown has affected people in myriad ways. Some go stir-crazy, some get bored to death, and some develop an unhealthy obsession with the contents of(...)

Eileen Gogan and the Instructions: Under Moving Skies – Gogan shines with confidence
- Music
- May 29, 2020, 05:00
You would be hard-pressed to locate a more enduring presence in Irish pop/rock music than Eileen Goga n. The Dublin-based songwriter and singer has to(...)

Sean O’Hagan: Radum Calls, Radum Calls review – Compelling and quietly triumphant
- Music
- October 25, 2019, 00:00
With Microdisney dead and buried (following a final gasp of breath last year) you could sense that one of that band’s co-founders wouldn’t take too lo(...)

Cathal Coughlan: On My Cultural Radar
- Culture
- September 8, 2019, 05:00
Current favourite book The best thing I’ve read in the last few months is Sinéad Gleeson’s Constellations. It’s profoundly moving and relates to a lo(...)

Ute Lemper joins Irish celebration of Bertolt Brecht
- Music
- September 7, 2019, 05:00
Born in Bavaria in 1898, playwright Bertolt Brecht worked principally in what is known as epic theatre, which favours provocative narratives intersper(...)

The week’s best rock and pop gigs
- Music
- August 10, 2019, 05:00
Saturday, August 10 AE Mak Workman’s Club, Dublin theworkmansclub.com/events/ae-mak/ When it comes to visual representation, too many music acts eith(...)

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2019: Rough Magic does Shakespeare, Nathalie Stutzmann does Bach
- Culture
- June 18, 2019, 12:59
Two new collaborations with Rough Magic Theatre Company and a promenade production of Thomas Kilroy’s novel The Big Chapel staged in the town of Calla(...)

Vox fanzine: Dark dispatches from Dublin’s post-punk scene
- Music
- February 20, 2019, 05:30
“I came from England in 1978 as I thought there was a great opportunity in Dublin for punk to flourish, but instead I was confronted with a narrow-min(...)

The tune is out there . . . David Duchovny heads our pop and rock highlights
- Music
- February 16, 2019, 05:00
SATURDAY 16 JUST MUSTARD The Workman’s Club, Dublin 8pm €10 theworkmansclub.com Dundalk shoegaze/drone/trip-hop band Just Mustard are one of the mos(...)

Cathal Coughlan: ‘Microdisney ran its course. Let’s just leave it’
- Music
- February 16, 2019, 05:00
Where there is an end, there might also be a cautious beginning. Cathal Coughlan, the Cork man perhaps best known for being the vocalist and lyricist (...)