‘I love Shane MacGowan. He’s the ultimate ... one of the last punks’

Musician and film-maker Don Letts on Shane MacGowan, The Clash and being black in Britain

Roland Gift: ‘Everyone on our street was black or brown or Irish. To me that was normal’

The Fine Young Cannibal on being Hull’s ‘first black punk’ and his creative renaissance

Richard Corrigan: On My Culture Radar

Meath-born restauranteur on ditching work to see A Lazarus Soul and the allure of Rotterdam

London Calling 40 years on: How The Clash rewrote the rule book

The Clash filleted rock, politics and history with swagger and biting social commentary

‘After sex on the damp sheets, we passed out’: Lowlights from Moby’s memoir

Natalie Portman has disputed the musician’s account of their ‘relationship’. But fear not: his new book has plenty more steamy stories

Joe Strummer: 001 review – A late great collection

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teenage years in ‘bombed out’ New York

Sara Driver has made a fascinating chronicle of the late American artist’s formative years

Béatrice Dalle: ‘I’ve never thought I’m beautiful, but I have a power of attraction’

The ‘Betty Blue’ actor on her love affair with Rupert Everett and why Jesus is sexy

New artist of the week: Superorganism

This band have an origin story that’s hard to believe

The day The Clash and punk turned Trinity into a war zone

The Clash played Trinity College 40 years ago today. The student organisers recall the British punks' explosive 1977 visit to Ireland

Denis O’Brien’s Digicel faces a cocktail of risks

Analysis: Telecom firm has 14 million subscribers but €5.9bn in debt

Bono, the most hated woman in Ireland

Bono has been made a woman of the year. It’s not enough to make Irish people like him

Conversations about Irish identity activate my gag reflex

Though I read ‘Peig’, appreciate Red Lemonade and say ‘fillum’, national identity means nothing to me

Jamie T - Trick review: at best tiring and at worst predictable