Be it Glasonbury or Forest Fest, a good line-up is key for any music festival. How do Irish organisers attract the biggest names?
The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business
Franz Ferdinand are back with The Human Fear, perhaps their best album yet. The band’s frontman talks about two decades in the music business
Band’s power-pop experience brings Collins Barracks’ Wider Than Pictures series to a close with a bang
Concerts, dance recitals and exhibitions pulled over Vladimir Putin’s war
The four-piece bring the tequila and Tarantino vibes – just don’t call them a girl band
Music book reviews: Jon Savage reissues and Will Sergeant memoir among other highlights
Musician and film-maker Don Letts on Shane MacGowan, The Clash and being black in Britain
‘Primitive’ pop band provides melodic hooks and retro pop-laden beats
What the world will look like after the pandemic is neither written nor pre-ordained; it will be fought over
New York’s coolest band had faded. How did they come back with a brilliant new record?
The worst film of the 2010s was so reactionary, materialistic and lazy it selected itself
From war-zone beginnings, the event is now a cornerstone for the global film industry
There were no articles on page 1 of The Irish Times in 1886. But the ads told their own story
Rakel Mjöll of Dream Wife on the album that made her want to express herself loudly
Iron & Wine in for Valentine’s night, Jake Bugg sells out, and Wild Beasts bid farewell
Alex Kapranos talks about a new album, scoffing fish n’ chips in Galway, and why he wrote a song about the NHS
Beth Orton is back on the gig trail; The Lost Brothers find their way around Ireland; British Sea Power sail on; and The Pale are still hale 25 years later
The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia and established the Communist order which dominated there and eastern Europe for much of the 20th century
US president shares many of the traits of the man who led Germany into war, says historian
Martin Gore of Depeche Mode discusses moving the band in a political direction, taking on the alt-right, surviving with U2, and what the future holds for the Basildon boys
The Dubliner behind I Have a Tribe is a deep thinker and reckons there's little difference between making music and the world's fastest field sport
Commentators comparing incident to killing of archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914
The two rivals seem determined to avoid new split over Monday’s killing of Andrei Karlov
The ‘Jerusalem of Europe’ has endured two world wars and a horrendous civil war. Even so, a generosity of spirit endures among the people
Awful events have been powerfully captured in both fiction and non-fiction
NI’s Deputy First Minister to attend ceremony at Island of Ireland Peace Park in Flanders
Republic is taking active role in war commemorations across Belgium
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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