The Gloaming may not be a conventional band, but they could win the Choice Music Prize, writes Ed Power

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DAVID Geraghty has learned to stop worrying and embrace imperfection. “I have made the decision not to get bogged down in whether something is the best thing in the world,” says the Bell X1 guitarist, who will unveil his new solo project, Join Me In The Pines, tomorrow in Cork.

Ed Sheeran made the trip to see musician cousin Laura wed Bell X1 keyboardist Marc Aubele last weekend.

The organisers of this year's Forbidden Fruit festival have today announced the line-up for the Comedy Stage.

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Playing to a full house at Dublin’s Vicar Street is no mean feat.

TWO weeks ago, the Choice Music Prize shortlist for best Irish album of 2013 was announced — how many can you name?

Live music: Whelan’s Ones To Watch - Whelan’s, Dublin

NOBODY is quite sure when John Spillane began his residency in De Barra’s Folk Club in Clonakilty, West Cork.

Rain may be forecast but a rainbow of colour is expected over Cork this bank holiday weekend as one of the country’s largest gay pride festivals takes place.

Irish indie favourites Bell X1 join De La Soul and Bastille as headliners at the Indiependence festival in Mitchelstown, Co Cork next August Bank Holiday Weekend.

Author Dan Brown has been confirmed for the Dublin Writers Festival from May 20-26.

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.

The year-long salute to all things Irish got under way last evening with a torchlight procession through the streets of Dublin as the Gathering officially kicked-off with a New Year’s Eve festival.

Organisers of the Gathering festival have defended giving a showpiece contract for the first official event in the year-long celebration of Irishness to a UK firm.

Arthur’s Day promises top-class pub gigs. Tanya Sweeney recalls some great stories from Irish pubs

MUSIC NEWS: Thom Yorke of Radiohead has unveiled some tracks from his Atoms For Peace project during a DJ set in the US.

Final preparations are underway ahead of the annual Electric Picnic in Co. Laois this weekend.

ONE OF the most popular home grown acts over recent years, there is a definite feeling that The Coronas are a band whose star is very definitely in the ascendancy.

The Killers and The Cure will headline this year’s Electric Picnic festival.

Costing north of €500, daytrips to Lapland aren’t exactly a holiday for the masses. Not to worry, writes Pól Ó Conghaile, there are lots of winter wonderlands right here at home

THE line of people looking for food parcels at the Capuchin Centre in Dublin city centre is getting longer, not shorter, more than two years after photographs of the queues made the front pages.

Mary Robinson’s presence in Africa this week focused world attention on the famine in Somalia, demonstrating the crucial role the famous play in highlighting the plight of the poor and dispossessed, says Georgina O’Halloran.

Builders battled lashing rain and muddy conditions today to put the finishing touches to this weekend's Electric Picnic festival.

The long-awaited line-up for this year’s Electric Picnic was revealed tonight with a stellar mix of acts for music fans.

Bell X1 are embarking on a national tour.

ONE of the country’s best loved arts shindigs, The Galway Arts Festival, was launched last night but the gloss was taken from the event with news that an alternative programme was to be announced by a fringe group unhappy with the official proceedings.

Tickets for this year's Oxegen Festival at Punchestown Racecourse have sold out.

The line-up for the Oxegen music festival at Punchestown this summer has been announced.

U2 STOLE the show at last night’s Meteor Ireland Music Awards as the country’s legendary rock group swaggered away with a hat-trick of awards from the event, held in the band’s hometown of Dublin.

U2 stole the show at tonight’s Meteor Ireland Music Awards as the rock band swaggered away with three awards at their home town event.

The Sugababes are set to make their first Irish performance with new member Amelle Berrabah at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards at The Point on Thursday, February 2.

Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is to present one of the awards at next month’s Meteor Ireland Music Awards ceremony in Dublin, organisers confirmed tonight.

The Pogues, famed for controversial frontman Shane McGowan’s antics, will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Meteor Ireland Music Awards, organisers said tonight.

THEY’VE been around for decades but The Rolling Stones can still satisfy their eager fans.