Acts due to perform at the Marquee in the coming weeks include Hall and Oates, Kris Kristofferson, Toto, David Gray, Tommy Tiernan, Bros, Christy Moore and Nathan Carter.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Picture this: A couple of thousand young women and men, in their late teens and early 20s, all crammed excitedly into a giant tent in search of romance, or at the very least, the shift.

The announcement follows the release of the third single from that album, Give Me A Minute.

Radio hits galore, a kicking live sound, and arguably the most vocally gifted, naturally charismatic Irish frontman since Phil Lynott, — it’s not hard to see why everyone loves The Coronas.

Loping onstage and deftly swatting away a heckler within the first two minutes of his set, Tommy Tiernan was on top form at the Marquee.

Epic was how the man behind me described the gig as we left on a euphoric high, and even that description fell short.

Who’d have thought channelling the vibe of a 1970s game show host would work for a 24-year-old Dublin comedian?

It wasn’t called the Showgrounds for nothing. The site may now be occupied by the Marquee music bonanza for a few weeks in the year, but last night was definitely ‘SHOW’ time for Cliff Richard fans and there was a whole lot of Just… Fabulous Rock ‘n’ Roll going on.

Tommy Tiernan may draw his fair share of controversy but it’s not something he enjoys, writes Ed Power.

A pure entertainer from head to toe, there’s a reason why Olly Murs has packed the Marquee every time he comes to Cork. He’s all fun, no additives; just 100% pure fun.

Humblebrag. Noun. An ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud.

 

Damien Rice doesn’t do frills on stage.

Good call, Mike — rev ‘em up with some rocking stuff from the new album and stop them getting too complacent or nostalgic. Then give a nod to the die hard fans with the older stuff such as ‘We will not be lovers’.

MUSIC NEWS: Perhaps it’s fortunate for the Glastonbury organisers that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs isn’t on their bill this weekend. 

The Verve were clearly not describing Billy Idol when they said the drugs don’t work.

Success in a county like Longford

Lionel Richie and Status Quo set to rock Marquee, Cork

They’re not just cute. As Paul Curran of Dublin fame put it so well in conversation after this year’s Munster football final, "They’re annoyingly cute."

"The amount of times I had to take off my glasses to wipe away the tears of laughter," the woman behind us said, shaking her head at her friend who still had obvious tears in her eyes too.

MUSIC NEWS: Neil Young has already found a replacement bassist for Billy Talbot after the Crazy Horse founding member suffered a "mild stroke".

New album and gigs lined up in Glastonbury, Dublin and Mitchelstown-

As Marquee acts go, Elbow aren’t in the same vein as entertainment icons Dolly, Tom or even our own Imelda.

One look at the crowd strolling down the Monahan Road and you’d never believe that to most of us a year ago, Nathan Carter was a virtual unknown.

Music promoter Peter Aiken, whose Live at the Marquee gigs have entertained more than 500,000 people in Cork’s docklands over the last decade, has promised to rock Leeside again next year, as well as releasing an album of the decade’s highlights.

Your reviewer, Marc O’Sullivan disqualified himself from critiquing The Wall by stating his dislike of it at the beginning of the article.

Dublin GAA chairman Andy Kettle has confirmed the county board’s spending on intercounty teams will hit close to the €2m mark again this year.

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.

Music legend Sting and boyband the Wanted are the latest names to be added to this year’s Live at the Marquee concerts in Cork this summer.

Rock veterans The Rolling Stones returned to where it all began as they posed outside a recreation of the venue of their first ever gig, half a century on.

It’s been a decade, but Steps are back together and will tread the stage in Cork this summer, writes Tina O’Sullivan

IT could be said Bell X1 live are like Velcro. In that you just want to storm the stage and stick yourself quite forcefully to leadman Paul Noonan.

TO her credit, Imelda May has achieved the improbable, attaining mainstream success as a rockabilly artiste.

MUSIC legend Tom Jones will set pulses racing at Cork’s Live at the Marquee summer concert series.

THE ‘Groover from Vancouver’ is coming to Cork.

THE Rocket Man is coming back to Cork.

ROLL up, roll up, the Marquee is back in town. And what a way to follow the opening act, Megadeth, and with two nights of the boy band of the moment – JLS.

THE success of Cork’s Live at the Marquee music festival over the last five years proves the need for a permanent events centre in the city, a leading promoter said last night.

Blondie have been confirmed to play the Live at the Marquee series of shows in Cork this summer.

TWO big names were added to the Live at the Marquee bill yesterday.

MORE than 80,000 tickets have been sold for Cork’s Live at the Marquee concert series which kick off tonight.

GRANDFATHER of grunge Neil Young and the poet of New York, Lou Reed, are the latest big names to confirm gigs in Ireland this summer.