The country’s most successful concert promoter, Denis Desmond, has added to his fortune by sharing a dividend totalling £5m (€5.9m) from his Festival Republic business last year.

US rapper Eminem will take to the stage to headline the Reading and Leeds festivals next year – more than a decade after he first topped the bill.

Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke says he never watches the band's videos as they never turn out the way they were initially envisaged.