Donald Clarke: We’ve reached a bad place if reviewers can’t openly express mixed feelings about a singer’s epic evisceration of recently discarded boyfriends
Morrissey
Television: Passionate chronicling of Cork band’s ups and downs as they were adored in Ireland but never achieved a mainstream career
Donald Clarke: Johnny Marr’s disgusted at the misuse of his music. It's just the latest example of politicians latching on to inappropriate tunes
Former Smiths frontman (64) is on his ‘40 years of Morrissey’ tour but gigs next month appear to not be going ahead
The singer and musician helped define alternative culture through his band Sonic Youth. This year he wrote a memoir about his life in music
For Jonny Pierce, of the cult alternative band The Drums, posing naked in an empty house full of traumatic memories was an act of reclamation
Radio: On The Nine O’Clock Show, the stand-in host has a jag at the self-exculpatory impulses that scuppered his predecessor’s planned return
At the first of two sold-out Vicar Street gigs, flashes of the controversial singer’s old drollness emerge between moments of trolling ire
Tim Minchin, Bell X1, Forest Fest, Galway International Arts Festival and Imma summer parties should be in your plans this week
Hugh Linehan: Gene Simmons and Nick Cave represent two very different strands of musical conservatism
He once said he only wanted to play music. The Smiths arrived, and the rest was history
The bassist will be remembered as an able lieutenant to Morrissey and Johnny Marr. He deserves to be seen as so much more
Guitarist Johnny Marr announced the death of Rourke in a social media post
The show gave Morrissey a prime opportunity to moan like an underappreciated maiden aunt
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