I went to the cinema to see Small Things Like These. By the time I emerged I had concluded the film was crap
The fact is the film was beautiful, earnest, poetic and sublime. But that’s not what I saw in the moment
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Sage Bertie Ahern, wry Joe Duffy and stoned-sounding Irish Maga fan: Radio reactions to Trump’s US election win
Radio: Ciara Kelly hears differing takes on Trump victory while Kieran Cuddihy meets jubilant Maga fans in New York
The Nick Cave Music Quiz: What was the original name of side project Grinderman?
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’
A Portrait of Radiohead: Colin Greenwood’s photographs of Thom Yorke and the band
Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway all feature in candid portraits taken by the Radiohead bass player between 2003-2016
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From Paul Mescal in Gladiator II and Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer to Nick Cave at 3Arena and Brian Maguire at the Hugh Lane
Nick Cave: ‘Acceptance is tricky. Trying to get back to what you used to be, I consider a waste of time. You are fundamentally changed’
Ahead of the 18th Bad Seeds studio album, Cave shares expansive thoughts on grief, the ‘angel’ Shane MacGowan and the beauty of the world
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Wild God – The joy after the storm
After a series of minimal and experimental albums, The Bad Seeds are back in all their rollicking glory
A Lazarus Soul’s Brian Brannigan: ‘I don’t know if the world is darker now. But it feels like dark times’
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
Taylor Swift producer Jack Antonoff: ‘I thought Shane MacGowan would last forever... He’s the ultimate artist’
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
Shane MacGowan bows out as thousands line streets on a rainy day in Nenagh
Town turns out to welcome singer home for the last time as wife Victoria Mary Clarke delivers eulogy
Goth: Three fascinating books explore a musical subculture that is both dead and very much alive
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
Joseph O’Connor: Paul Simon knows the nearer your destination, the more you’re slip sliding away
Rite & Reason: All the emotional tones of the original psalms are in his music
Ian Paisley jr and the mock-cock-rock of Kiss: Strange things happen behind the privet hedges of North Antrim
Hugh Linehan: Gene Simmons and Nick Cave represent two very different strands of musical conservatism
Breda O’Brien: ChatGPT is the ultimate plagiarism tool. How can teachers respond?
Reforming the Senior Cycle to allow for more continuous assessment has suddenly become a lot riskier thanks to this pioneering piece of AI
‘This song is bulls**t’: Nick Cave responds to ChatGPT song written in style of Nick Cave
Singer-songwriter examines lyrics produced by chatbot, calling it ‘a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human’
Nick Cave announces death of his son Jethro (31)
Second family tragedy for Bad Seeds musician whose son Arthur died in 2015
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Unlimited Love: Formulaic, bland, appalling
Tenth album from the Californian giants is about as welcome as nuclear endgame
First Look: Liss Ard Hotel in west Cork gets a ‘friend’s lavish pad’ makeover
A major refurbishment has been carried out at the former hangout of spies and rockstars
Badhands: Far Away – Touching songs of love, loss and emotional flux
Second album from Dublin composer and songwriter Daniel Fitzpatrick, aka Badhands
Peaky Blinders, never a great drama, returns without the electrifying Helen McCrory
TV review: The BBC show is still a triumph of style over plot but it hasn’t lost its swagger
The best books of 2021 so far: Novels, memoirs, short stories and more
Authors and critics choose the books that have moved and impressed them this year
‘I want you to help me with a marriage proposal in this article’
The dark US pop poet John Murry lives in Ireland. And he’d like a hand with a personal matter
Books in brief: From young Nick Cave to 60-year-old Laura Lippman
Plus: The lure of dark money in Myanmar; and the remarkable How to Be a Refugee
Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis: She Walks in Beauty – A love affair with the Romantic poets
The English singer fulfils a long-held desire to draw on the works of Byron, Keats, Shelley et al
US investor buys Liss Ard estate in west Cork
Victorian estate owned by Swiss family will continue to operate as boutique hotel
Don’t tell me now that you never liked Woody Allen or Phil Spector’s work
If you hate everything now and you will escape future accusations of hypocrisy
Marianne Faithfull on nearly dying of Covid-19: ‘My lungs are still not okay. I need oxygen’
The singer can’t remember intensive care. ‘I was in a very dark place – presumably, it was death’
Rosie Carney: The Bends review: Twisting a classic into fresh new shapes
Donegal singer reclaims the era-defining Radiohead album from the boring blokes
Nick Cave: BBC’s censoring ‘destroys’ Fairytale of New York
The singer says the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl Christmas duet is ‘under attack’
Kylie Minogue: ‘I want to go straight for a cocktail and stagger home’
After the pandemic, she will hug her family and ‘get absolutely merry, because I don’t normally’
Mary Coughlan: ‘32 times I ended up in hospital with alcohol poisoning’
Through addiction, infidelity and other life struggles, music was her constant escape
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