Live music review: Brian Wilson - Galway International Arts Festival

5/5

Brian Wilson’s story is generally understood to follow a tragic arc, that of the genius songwriter who blazed through the 1960s pop charts with the Beach Boys, went on to create arguably the greatest album of all time in Pet Sounds, and then fell victim to severe mental health problems and substance abuse.

However, that trajectory does not take stock of Wilson’s live renaissance over the past 15 years.