Tracey Thorn first started to keep a diary in 1975, when she was 13 years old. Many of the entries...
Tom Walker has bought his own Glastonbury Festival ticket just in case he does not get booked for the stage.
Kylie Minogue has said she “can’t wait” to headline Brighton Pride later this year.
Ireland's largest festival of trad, folk, and world music kicks off on Wednesday and Katie Byrne gets into the mood by learning how to play the...
A documentary alleging the late King Of Pop Michael Jackson was a predatory sex offender attracted...
Fyre was billed as the party of a lifetime, a glamorous, luxurious, exclusive music festival on Pablo Escobar’s private island in the Bahamas.
First things first. Given the confrontational and often aggressive times we live in, it is...
Poets from Scotland and Ireland will collaborate with young writers to explore roots and links between the two countries as part of a new...
The very first winner of the Rose of Tralee has revealed how the landscape has changed for women in Ireland in the past 60 years.
Childish Gambino, Tame Impala and Ariana Grande will headline Coachella 2019.
Tickets for Electric Picnic 2019 have already sold out.
So you're going to spend the week in the desert with a three-year-old, surrounded by hippies on acid? What about the paedophiles, kidnappers,...
If you have ever been to Toronto in Canada, chances are you visited the Niagara Falls. The city of Niagara Falls, with its garish casinos and slot machines, is tacky as hell, but the falls are spectacular, and a trip on the Hornblower boat, which brings you drenchingly close to the...
In 1996, an American conductor found himself in a small coastal town in a damp south-east corner of Ireland early one morning. He was trying to find the Theatre Royal, the venue he would be...
An average of €300,000 per hour will be spent in Cork this weekend as the 41st Guinness Jazz Festival gets into full swing.
This year's Guinness Cork Jazz festival brings together an eclectic mix of acts including local indie bands and international greats - and kicks off with a funeral procession.
Enda Walsh has just had his first play staged. He's "just a boy" and it's happening in the Project Arts Centre as part of a festival of Dublin Youth...
There are just four weeks to go until the fourth Metropolis Festival and new acts have been added to the already impressive line-up.
The Rose of Tralee selection process is set to get a major shake-up in 2019, which will see Co Waterford - which had the winning Rose this year - and Carlow without Roses until 2020.
It is a year that continues to be seen as one of the most significant in recent Irish history. Mary...
If you've just about recovered from Electric Picnic but are not quite ready to wave goodbye to festival season, there's one last hurrah happing on Achill...
History will record that I played the first Féile - Semple Stadium, 1990 - in green shorts and with a hairstyle that would have been more at home in a Birmingham Six biopic than on a rock stage. If we wanted a quick snapshot of how naïve the times were then that's it right there. Louis Walsh later...
When An Emotional Fish first blasted on stage at Semple Stadium in 1990 with their indie anthem Celebrate, the alt rock band did indeed have reason to revel. Having signed a major deal with...
There's a world of difference in the musical landscape between that first Féile in 1990 and today's reincarnation. Everything from the genres that are most popular, to the way we consume music, and what we're willing to spend on it has altered in enormous ways.
There are certain inescapable patterns in life — we don’t mean to follow them, it just happens that way.
While many revellers are still recovering (head and pocket-wise) from last week's epic Electric Picnic festival, quite a few still had the wherewithall to snap up an early bird ticket for next year's event.
The owner of the Stradbally estate has described the images of waste estimated at 10kg per person at Electric Picnic as "shocking" - but insisted the mess was no worse than previous years.
If you’re one of the 50,000 plus grown adults who attended Electric Picnic this weekend and left your rubbish strewn across the campsite you should...
So the dust has settled once again on Stradbally, County Laois - Electric Picnic is over - no doubt...
There were two big fashion takeaways from last weekend's Electric Picnic. The first was that glitter is in - on girls, on guys, on teens, on grandparents, in hair, in beards, in elaborate...
Rave icons The Prodigy got 'Everybody In The Place' reaching for the lasers to close Electric Picnic last night.
It's the classic fall-back, a difficult childhood, problems in later life and who do we usually look to blame? Our parents.
Night one of the Rose of Tralee festival wrapped up in the Dome last night, with Carlow Rose Shauna Ray Lacey stealing the show as she opened up...
Carlow Rose Shauna Ray Lacey says she hopes to 'make an impact in people's lives and inspire...
'Well Dáithí, your heart pressure is just a little bit higher than when I did it before. Are you nervous?"
September, 2013. Having carried the coffin at the funeral of his father Maidhc Dainin O Se, at Carraig Church in west Kerry the week before, Daithi is...
Abu Dhabi Rose Sara Kate Mangan has revealed that she once fell off a cliff in her younger accident prone days.
Rose of Tralee host Dáithí Ó Sé has revealed that a "sauna suit" helped him get into shape for the festival this year.
Electric Picnic is predominantly a music festival, but you could happily spend your weekend at MindField this year and not feel like you're...
