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November 9th-15th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Radio: Ciara Kelly hears differing takes on Trump victory while Kieran Cuddihy meets jubilant Maga fans in New York
In honour of the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds concert at Dublin’s 3Arena next week, a special quiz on the ‘grand lord of gothic darkness’
Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway all feature in candid portraits taken by the Radiohead bass player between 2003-2016
From Paul Mescal in Gladiator II and Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer to Nick Cave at 3Arena and Brian Maguire at the Hugh Lane
Ahead of the 18th Bad Seeds studio album, Cave shares expansive thoughts on grief, the ‘angel’ Shane MacGowan and the beauty of the world
After a series of minimal and experimental albums, The Bad Seeds are back in all their rollicking glory
The Dublin post-punk band’s leader on the malign influence of smartphones, his disappointment in Nick Cave and his horror at anti-immigration protests in Finglas
Jack Antonoff is a top-flight producer of the likes of Lorde, Lana Del Rey and St Vincent. He’s also very keen to talk about the recently departed Pogues singer
Town turns out to welcome singer home for the last time as wife Victoria Mary Clarke delivers eulogy
Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst; Season of The Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth; and The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth by John Robb offer different and fascinating insights into a musical subgenre with literary roots and a long reach
Rite & Reason: All the emotional tones of the original psalms are in his music
Hugh Linehan: Gene Simmons and Nick Cave represent two very different strands of musical conservatism
Reforming the Senior Cycle to allow for more continuous assessment has suddenly become a lot riskier thanks to this pioneering piece of AI
Singer-songwriter examines lyrics produced by chatbot, calling it ‘a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human’
Second family tragedy for Bad Seeds musician whose son Arthur died in 2015
Tenth album from the Californian giants is about as welcome as nuclear endgame
A major refurbishment has been carried out at the former hangout of spies and rockstars
Second album from Dublin composer and songwriter Daniel Fitzpatrick, aka Badhands
TV review: The BBC show is still a triumph of style over plot but it hasn’t lost its swagger
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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