THE singer prances about the stage, twisting his face into a devilish grimace as he belts out the blues standards. He’s part Mick Jagger, part James Brown and all Joe O’Callaghan. It’s a Monday night in the mid-1980s in Cork and Hot Guitars are playing in Sir Henrys.

The three Russian feminist band members on trial over an anti-Vladimir Putin protest will know their fate next week.

Phill Jupitus’s career in stand-up survived a treacherous support slot atthe Royal Albert Hall, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

THANK you students, please sit down. It’s an honour to address the class of 2010. I know you guys are busy cramming ahead of the Leaving Cert’s commencement in a few short days.

LES PAUL, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died yesterday. He was 94.

Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multi-track recording died today aged 94.

The Who are said to be working on their first new studio album for more than 20 years.

Pierce Brosnan, who at 50 is now considered too old to continue as 007, (the next one up will almost certainly be his last), is to star in The Matador, about the friendship between a hitman and a married businessman.

With Pierce Brosnan considering hanging up his dinner jacket and departing from the 007 films, he is coming up 50 and that's a tad too old, another Irish actor has emerged as a possible replacement.

The Who's bass guitarist John Entwistle is dead.