Music & Gigs
Smash Hits revived for Michael Jackson special
Teen pop magazine Smash Hits is to be revived for a one-off special to
celebrate the life of Michael Jackson, it has been announced.
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British fans will lose out in draw for Michael Jackson memorial
Saturday, 4 July 2009
The clamour for tickets for Michael Jackson's public memorial began last night
but the singer's British fans will be disappointed.
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Michael’s death is ‘tragedy’, says Pulp frontman Cocker
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Jarvis Cocker — who infamously stormed the stage while Michael Jackson
performed at the Brits — has broken his silence about the star’s death,
calling the singer’s musical demise “a tragedy”.
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Quincy Jones shocked at Jackson death
Saturday, 4 July 2009
The record producer behind Michael Jackson’s biggest hits has spoken of his
shock at the singer’s premature death.
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Cocker breaks silence over Jackson's death
Friday, 3 July 2009
Jarvis Cocker - who infamously stormed the stage while Michael Jackson
performed at the Brits - has broken his silence about the star's death,
calling the singer's musical demise "a tragedy".
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Wilco - (Wilco - The Album) (Nonesuch)
Friday, 3 July 2009
You've got to hand it to Jeff Tweedy, Wilco's frontman. When this, their
seventh album leaked online about two months ago, Tweedy didn't do what most
other musicians of his stature would and complain bitterly in the media
about how vile the internet is or bring forward the release date of the
album to maximise sales.
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Album Reviews 03/07/09
Friday, 3 July 2009
Patrick Kelleher - You Look Cold (Osaka)
The 24-year-old Wicklow singer has emerged without fanfare with an album bound
to earn a Choice nomination next year.
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Pop/Dance Music 03/07/09
Friday, 3 July 2009
To many, the words ‘mobile disco' conjure up an image of a perma-tanned man in
a Transit van, loaded up with a wood-effect twin-deck unit, flashing traffic
light-effects and a crate of dog-eared 7” singles, on his way to get the
party started with some Shalamar at a hotel wedding reception sometime in
the mid-1980s.
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Folk Music 03/07/09
Friday, 3 July 2009
Fresh from whipping up a frenzy at the Open House, Celtic Connections and
Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, the ‘Hillbilly Hurricane’ that is
rootin’-tootin’ Kansas City four-piece, The Wilders, blasts its way to
Belfast’s Black Box tonight.
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Classical Music 03/07/09
Friday, 3 July 2009
The connection between Ireland and the United States is one which needs little
reference but which deserves celebration — especially on the weekend of
Independence Day.
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Racist graffiti painted near home of Big Brother star Noirin Kelly
Friday, 3 July 2009
The family of Big Brother's Irish star Noirin Kelly have revealed that her
new-found fame has seen them become the focus of cruel racist slurs.
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Susan Boyle's got talent, but she's also got a subtle makeover
Friday, 3 July 2009
After Susan Boyle’s successful appearance in Belfast, Showbiz Correspondent
Maureen Coleman reports that the troubled star is sounding, and looking,
better than ever
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Psychedelic folk rockers Horslips are back
Friday, 3 July 2009
Horslips are Back with a capital B -- and this time round they are doing it in
style.
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No theatrics, just a spotlight and Susan Boyle’s soaring voice
Thursday, 2 July 2009
The lights in the Odyssey dimmed and a voiceover announced “over 19 million
people watched the grand final”, and although the Odyssey holds nowhere near
that capacity, the noise from the crowd would suggest otherwise.
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Magnificent U2 thrills Barcelona at Camp Nou
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
The waiting is over, the circus is rolling, and the verdict is: wow. After
years of planning and months of preparation and practice, U2 got their 360
tour under way in Barcelona last night and stunned a sell-out crowd at Camp Nou
with a spectacular show and a performance that perhaps only they could pull
off — intimate despite the vastness of its setting.
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U2 kick off world tour with something Nou
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Irish rockers U2 have revealed they picked a space-age circular stage for
their world tour — kicking off spectacularly tonight at Barcelona’s giant
97,500-capacity Camp
Nou stadium.
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Bruce Springsteen’s late gig at Glastonbury leads to £3,000 fine
Monday, 29 June 2009
Bruce Springsteen cost Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis £3,000 when his set
breached a curfew by just nine minutes — but the farmer still declared the
festival “the best ever” yesterday.
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The Michael Jackson hit machine keeps on rolling
Monday, 29 June 2009
Michael Jackson topped the album chart and made six new entries in the singles
top 40, yesterday, six years after his last number one. His Number Ones
album, that features his biggest hits, raced up the charts from 121 to
number one.
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Only the music matters for Moby
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Anyone in touch with the music scene during the late Nineties will remember an
album that was impossible to avoid.
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Jackson albums dominate sales charts
Friday, 26 June 2009
Michael Jackson's sales have instantly seen a massive boom as a result of his
death.
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Jack Penate - Everything is New (XL Recordings)
Friday, 26 June 2009
It is a phenomenon of sorts that has gone widely unnoticed this year, but a
score of British acts — roundly dismissed as landfill indie following
over-hyped and ultimately boring identikit music — have come good with their
second album.
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.U2 Album Poll
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
| No Line On The Horizon |
 2% |
| How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb |
 3% |
| All That You Can't Leave Behind |
5% |
| Pop |
1% |
| Zooropa |
2% |
| Achtung Baby |
19% |
| Rattle and Hum |
8% |
| The Joshua Tree |
49% |
| The Unforgettable Fire |
5% |
| Under a Blood Red Sky |
6% |
