Ed Power looks at the state of popular music which is increasingly dominated by performers working their back catalogues to death.

Who would have thought that a marquee in Cork could attract the world’s biggest music acts? Peter Aiken reflects on 12 years of Live at the Marquee with Ed Power.

Live at the Marquee got off to a cracking start last night thanks to the ever-infectious intensity of Celtic punks Dropkick Murphys.

When Cork’s Live at the Marquee festival started nine years ago its chances of reaching a decade were slight to say the least, not because it wasn’t good but because music festivals tend to have a short life-span.

Terry Richardson’s book of photographs says little new about the megastar performer, Ian Forde reports

HOTEL prices rose 2% in the first half of this year, with Limerick now the least expensive destination in Ireland.

MUSIC promoter Peter Aiken has defied the recession and is set to rock the banks of the Lee for the next five weeks.

CORK’s newest hotel – the River Lee Hotel – is also one of the city’s most established.

IRISH music fans were treated to miming, Mancunians and – for once – not too much mud on one of the country’s busiest concert weekends.

Shane Ward says it is his dream is to sing with Pink.

MULTI-million album selling rock band Blondie have left thousands of Irish fans hanging by the telephone after scrapping plans for a live gig in Cork just hours before tickets went on sale.

MUSIC legend Paul Simon is to grace this year’s Live at the Marquee festival in Cork after a helping hand from funnyman Tommy Tiernan.

Faithless will take to the stage of the Marquee in Cork’s docklands tonight kicking off a marathon 15-gig music and comedy feast over three weeks.

ALTERNATIVE rock band, The Flaming Lips, and folk legend, Christy Moore, have been added to the line-up of the Cork summer music festival Live at the Marquee, Aiken Promotions is expected to announce today.