Paul Weller

Rick Buckler, The Jam’s drummer, dies aged 69

Former bandmates Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton ‘shocked’ at muscian’s death after a short illness

Tue Feb 18 2025 - 23:48

Steve McQueen: ‘It was always Saoirse Ronan and her mother. So there was this bond. There’s this kinship’

Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940

Sat Nov 16 2024 - 05:15

Blitz review: Saoirse Ronan has little to work with in Steve McQueen’s absorbing but crowded war-time drama

Steve McQueen’s extensively researched script alights on racism and looting, but at heart is a boy’s own adventure

Thu Nov 07 2024 - 05:00

Heaven Sent: The Rise of New Pop 1979-1983 review: Inventiveness and experimentation from start to finish

This fresh form of forward-thinking UK music upended machismo, put anarchy back in its box and reinvented pop

Thu Jul 25 2024 - 05:00

Paul Weller at Trinity College Dublin: Stage times, set list, ticket information, weather and more

Everything you need to know about the singer’s concert on Thursday, June 4th, which is part of the Summer Series at Trinity College

Tue Jul 02 2024 - 05:30

Paul Weller: ‘The UK is led by idiots – public-school idiots. They don’t give a f**k’

The singer’s new album is his most political since The Jam eviscerated England’s class system with Eton Rifles in 1979

Sat May 25 2024 - 05:30

Paul Weller: 66 review – Charming and draining in equal measure

Album review: That Paul Weller is still very much in the game at 66 is no mean feat, but a bit more grit wouldn’t go amiss

Thu May 16 2024 - 05:15

Irish man’s new Santa Monica Airport restaurant takes off

Wild Geese: Restauranteur on life in LA and how his business thrived during pandemic

Fri Feb 11 2022 - 05:22

Paul Weller: An Orchestrated Songbook – Splendidly coherent work

Fri Dec 03 2021 - 00:00

Paul Weller: Fat Pop (Volume 1) review – Masterful with flashes of magic

Fri May 14 2021 - 05:00

Paul Weller and a Madness spectacular: This week’s unmissable online events

Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights

Thu May 13 2021 - 06:00

Paul Weller: ‘I’d hate to think how my health would be if I hadn’t stopped drink and drugs’

The Modfather turned lifestyle counsellor is back on form on Fat Pop (Vol 1), his new album

Wed May 12 2021 - 05:00

Declan O’Rourke: Arrivals – Impressive record that spotlights the journeys taken

Songwriter’s eighth album is a low-key affair that does not need to shout to be heard

Fri Apr 02 2021 - 05:00

MCD ordered to pay €7,000 compensation to cancer patient

Woman left ‘humiliated’ by treatment of security staff at Paul Weller gig in Trinity

Wed Mar 31 2021 - 18:09

Declan O’Rourke: How I learned to trust Paul Weller’s advice

The ‘obsessive’ Dubliner learned to let go after bringing the Jam man in as producer

Wed Mar 31 2021 - 05:00

Paul Weller: On Sunset – Modfather delivers more rock ’n’ soul magic

At 62, Weller is clearly not interested in resting on his considerable laurels

Fri Jul 03 2020 - 06:00

The Beatles split: ‘I was shattered’ – Paul Weller, Booker T and more on the the band’s abrupt end

The Fab Four parted 50 years ago today. Fans and insiders relive the end of John, Paul, George and Ringo

Thu Apr 09 2020 - 13:52

Miriam Lord’s week: Varadkar set for family Christmas in Mumbai

Taoiseach’s father will celebrate 80th birthday in the land of his birth

Sat Dec 14 2019 - 05:16

When Westlife battled Bob the Builder: The Christmas No 1 wars

From Slade v Wizzard to Bob the Builder v Westlife, winners and losers recall the struggles

Mon Dec 17 2018 - 12:53

Paul Weller: True Meanings review – A return to form and focus

Wed Sept 12 2018 - 09:30

Old friends Franz Ferdinand, The Revs, and Paul Weller: the best rock and pop gigs this week

Iron & Wine in for Valentine’s night, Jake Bugg sells out, and Wild Beasts bid farewell

Sat Feb 10 2018 - 03:00

Preview 2018: The year of the Monkeys – and Vampires

Arctic Monkeys and Vampire Weekend come out of hiatus with new albums, while Liam Payne gets off the pot and Sigrid and Saint Sister show why they’re tomorrow’s women

Sat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00

‘There are very few songs about the famine. It was skipped over’

Singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke mines the darkest corners of Irish history on his latest album

Mon Oct 30 2017 - 05:00

The Charlatans – Different Days album review: solid songs that will age well

Wed May 24 2017 - 10:22

Jawbone review: A gritty boxing movie that's well worth the pay-per-view

Johnny Harris writes and stars as an alcoholic fighter going back in the ring, with great support from Ray Winstone, Michael Smiley and Ian McShane

Thu May 11 2017 - 07:00

Paul Weller gets back to his creative best on A Kind Revolution

Wed May 10 2017 - 14:14

Stone Foundation - Street Rituals album review: Funk-soul power and musical muscle

Fri Mar 31 2017 - 13:51

Billy Bragg makes tracks around ‘the old, weird America’

The singer-songwriter recorded his latest album on a marathon 2,728-mile rail journey

Tue Jan 03 2017 - 05:00

Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter and poet, dies at the age of 82

Artist’s most ardent admirers compared his works to spiritual prophecy

Fri Nov 11 2016 - 06:52

The Spitfires – A Thousand Times review: brazen jauntiness nods to Paul Weller

Watford four-piece’s second album combines brawny vocals and mod-infused indie-rock

Thu Aug 25 2016 - 21:45

Television review: What the Dickens? Agatha Christie classic steals the Christmas show

‘And There Were None’ proves a compelling piece of costume drama, while Luke Kelly gets an affectionate, enjoyable treatment

Fri Jan 01 2016 - 13:24

Weekend in... Boston

This little big town has emerged from its introverted shell to offer a livelier mix of cultural offerings, plus an exploding food scene

Sat Oct 24 2015 - 01:00

Model Glenda Gilson marries in Co Clare

Exposé TV presenter and businessman Rob McNaughton wed in Kilrush ceremony

Fri Aug 29 2014 - 17:17

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Fri Jul 18 2014 - 00:00