Going PublicBack in 1990, a leaked document revealed that the FBI had compiled a report entitled "Rap Music and Its Effects on National Security…Fri May 19 2000 - 01:00
Tour a loora with DaraJust as RTE was screening its mainstream quiz show vehicle, It's A Family Affair, the host Dara O'Briain was legging it to Australia…Sat May 13 2000 - 01:00
As the Crow fliesThat American organic/folk rock/ a bit rootsy/a bit retro thing sure is a strange one; on one side of the compilation album you…Fri May 12 2000 - 01:00
The Aykroyd filesIn Ireland to film a new comedy, Canadian actor/comic Dan Aykroyd is pacing around his on-set caravan looking for his cigarettes…Sat May 6 2000 - 01:00
Dublin rocks, rolls and reelsThe Heineken Green Energy rock festival, now in its fifth year, attracted thousands to gigs around Dublin at the weekend, although…Mon May 1 2000 - 01:00
ReadingsA great double-bill at the Cuirt poetry festival in Galway today sees two of the very best Irish comics doing "readings"Sat Apr 29 2000 - 01:00
There's something about FarrellyAs the writer/director of such scatalogically wonderful boxoffice hits as Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary, Peter…Sat Apr 15 2000 - 01:00
Off his trolleyTen years down the line, the best little comedy club in the land, Dublin's Comedy Cellar is as funtastic as everSat Apr 8 2000 - 01:00
ComedyAfter stealing the show at last year's Murphy's Ungagged comedy festival, ace deadpan US comic Steven Wright (right) returns …Sat Apr 1 2000 - 01:00
ClubbingAfter establishing themselves as one of the premier club-runners in the country, thanks to their old weekend nights at The Gaiety…Sat Apr 1 2000 - 01:00
Lit up by her own blowtorchMan, what a chick. The greatest white singer to sing the blues came a-screechin' and ahollerin' out of Hicksville, U.S.ASat Mar 25 2000 - 00:00
Definite ArticleThere's not many people who can write an album that serves as a harrowing commentary on the "sexual, spiritual, political and…Fri Mar 24 2000 - 00:00
RockDay one are the latest exponents of the Bristol Beat to make a bit of a splash, although they may well be standing on the shoulders…Sat Mar 4 2000 - 00:00
Screaming successWhen a reporter from the Wall Street Journal rang David Geffen, saying he was interested in writing his biography, Geffen's pride…Sat Mar 4 2000 - 00:00
Their GenerationLong before Roger Daltrey was thrilling us all with his marvellous vocal performance in Messiah 2000 (we want our £700,000 back…Fri Mar 3 2000 - 00:00
An E please, Bob`Goddam right, it's a beautiful day," sings E from the Eels on the current hit Mr E's Beautiful BluesFri Feb 25 2000 - 00:00
When dreams turn sourBob Dylan gets thousands of requests a year from musicians seeking permission to sample his workSat Feb 19 2000 - 00:00
Beta MaxWith The Cure 'fessing up to Mogwai's work being a big influence on their new album, it's fitting that Oasis have been busy name…Fri Feb 11 2000 - 00:00
Rich's hall of fame for southern satireThe awards just keep coming Rich Hall's waySat Feb 5 2000 - 00:00
RockSuch is the demand to see Moby (right) that he's now playing both next Friday and next Saturday night at the Red Box venue, beside…Sat Feb 5 2000 - 00:00
Brit PackAdam Rickett, Ann Lee, Charlotte Church, Martine McCutcheon, S Club 7, Groove Armada, Phats and Small, Shanks & Bigfoot, …Fri Feb 4 2000 - 00:00
Great vibrationsWhen Brian Wilson first heard The Wondermints, he said that if they had been around in 1967 he would have used them to tour his…Fri Jan 28 2000 - 00:00
What has indie rock done for us?Just back from a European and US tour where they were the specially invited guests of Morrissey, Dublin quintet Sack are pretty…Sat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
Picture ThisVideo, schmideo. Blame MTV or ridiculously pretentious art school students, but one thing's for sure, and that is they just don…Fri Jan 21 2000 - 00:00
Back beyond the barricadesOf the new Manics' single, Nicky Wire says: "We started the 1990s with Motown Junk and we wanted to start the new decade with…Fri Jan 14 2000 - 00:00
Ageing hippie upsets the ego cart at Grammy bashWiping the smile off Britney Spears's Lolita face, putting a stop to the pelvic thrusting of Ricky Martin and silencing the Canadian…Sat Jan 8 2000 - 00:00
Clerical comedyAlmost every Irish comedian popped up at one time or another in a cameo role in Father Ted, with the result that some bright …Sat Jan 8 2000 - 00:00
IncomingPass my crystal thing - here's what'll be going down this year, pop pickersFri Jan 7 2000 - 00:00
Swell party that virtually set the Thames on fireA ride was out of the questionMon Jan 3 2000 - 00:00
The Jukebox Jive`Come on baby do the Jukebox jive," sang Auteur Luke Haines on How I Learned To Love The Bootboys and if it was one thing having…Fri Dec 24 1999 - 00:00
Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in spaceAs a combination of its visual arts and environmental programmes, Temple Bar Properties has commissioned a special outdoor projection…Sat Dec 18 1999 - 00:00
Rom rule`Everybody who has worked on this project has fallen in love with it," says Niall Austink, executive editor of Enter, Ireland…Sat Dec 11 1999 - 00:00
ComedyFresh from his barn-storming appearances with Eddie Izzard in the RDS, Barry Murphy (left) is on a bit of a roll these daysSat Dec 11 1999 - 00:00
Going UndergroundI was flicking through my albums of the year the other day, so I was, and was struck by how many of them could loosely be regarded…Fri Dec 10 1999 - 00:00
ComedyCurrently in the middle of his "Walking Back To Happiness" tour in Britain, the potter-turned-comedian Johnny Vegas (left) takes…Sat Dec 4 1999 - 00:00
He Ain't HeavyListen up, kids; today's talk is on cultural relativism and how such ideas affect contemporary popular music, with particular…Fri Dec 3 1999 - 00:00
The wonderful Izzard he wasShortly before playing to 6,000 people over two nights at the RDS, Eddie Izzard had played to 11,000 people in one night at Wembley…Wed Dec 1 1999 - 00:00
Off to see the IzzardAbout 10 years ago, the Irish comedy trio, Mr Trellis, went off to the Edinburgh Festival and came back telling wondrous tales…Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Cult hero Wright sets comedy festival apartThe Ungagged Comedy Festival, which was holding forth in venues all over Dublin last weekend, was the sixth comedy festival held…Tue Nov 16 1999 - 00:00
`The most unrock 'n' roll event ever'`It's the most unrock 'n' roll event I've ever been at in all my life," was the considered opinion of one seasoned hack backstage…Fri Nov 12 1999 - 00:00
Song sung blueOdder than oddness itself: The Red House Painters don't do interviews, don't have their photograph taken and simply don't believe…Fri Nov 5 1999 - 00:00
Beautiful NoiseAs Philip Larkin once said of the Bible - "it's beautiful, but it's bollocks"Fri Oct 29 1999 - 01:00