Spice fever is well and truly here with just three days until Spice Girls take over Croke Park.

Picture This, 3 Arena, Dublin

Ed Power was rather underwhelmed by Massive Attack's Mezzanine performance at 3Arena in Dublin.

His rise from the obscurity of the Dallas suburbs had meanwhile taken on soap opera trappings following the incarceration by emigration officials of his collaborator 21 Savage on Super Bowl weekend. Malone – born Austin Malone – duly gave a shout out to his imprisoned friend as he plunged into the hit they wrote together, Rockstar.

A network of road closures, private car parks, and litter management teams will be deployed during the concert series at Musgrave Park, Cork City, this summer in a bid to minimise the impact on family homes in the area.

Multi-Grammy award winning artist Lauryn Hill and ex-Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher have announced gigs at Musgrave Park, Cork.

Des Bishop may be living in New York at the moment, but when he comes to Cork he’s very much playing to a home audience.

Ronan Kealy aka Junior Brother has drawn plenty plaudits in the past year with his off-kilter alternative folk music.

Dean Lewis has announced he will return to Dublin to play at Vicar Street on April 21, 2019, following his sold out show in The Button Factory last year.

Azealia Banks’ reputation precedes her. At least it does in Ireland, in the wake of the Harlem rap artist’s double whammy of a spat with Aer Lingus and an internet tussle with the Rose of Tralee.

Foals have announced that they will play the Summer Series at Trinity College in July.

Equal parts indebted to Destiny’s Child and The Smiths, a band like The 1975 could not exist without the internet and the cult of the playlist, writes Leonard Duffy.

Tickets for Hugh Jackman's concert have sold out.

Westlife have announced an extra date at Croke Park on Saturday, July 6th due to phenomenal demand.

Nerina Pallot wasn’t shocked when the MeToo sexual-harassment scandal broke last year. But she hadn’t suffered as many of her peers had.

Suede played the BGE Theatre in Dublin.

Aslan’s frontman Christy Dignam decided to perform an impromptu gig for the lucky people of Kerry last night and we’re very jealous.

4,000 people braved the heat and packed into the Marquee in Cork last night to see Wicklow comedian Dara Ó Briain at his best.

Despite a rather reasonable fear of full-on melting in the heat, 4,000 people headed to the Marquee in Cork last night to chill with everyone’s favourite funny man, Dara Ó Briain.

It had been a year since BellX1 graced the Rebel County with their energetic on-stage presence.

Picture this have announced the release of production hold tickets for their sold-out summer gig performance at the RDS Arena in Dublin.

Here’s your weekly entertainment guide and news round-up with Des O’Driscoll.

All the big names are taking part.

The Summer Series 2017 could be the festival of the year.

A new book in aid of an Irish charity asked people to recall their favourite concert, writes Don O’Mahony.

Amy Schumer has been putting smiles on people's faces in Dublin and it is hours before she hits the stage with her comedy magic.

His fans will tell you he put in one of the best performances seen in years in Croke Park — and it seems Bruce Springsteen’s two concerts at the home of the GAA proved to be glory days for the Boss.

Live at the Marquee kicked off last night in Cork, so Ellie O’Byrne canvassed some of the regular festival goers to pick a stand-out memory

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A man has been found with 38 mobile phones stuffed down his trousers at a Libertines concert in the UK.

A U2 gig in Stockholm has been evacuated.

Look at him go!

Fans of The Script heading to their sold out gig in Croke Park tonight are being warned to not to bring selfie sticks.

GIG WISE: The countdown has begun for Live at the Marquee in Cork, with young whippersnapper Cliff Richard kicking it all off on Monday, June 9, followed by the equally youthful Dolly Parton (June 12).

At 70, Julio Iglesias has never lost his passion for performing, says Gerry Quinn.

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