The previously unheard music on the new album of Rory Gallagher’s music features a track he made with Muddy Waters, writes Ed Power.

Greatest showmen, mumbling rappers and born again boy-bands all conspired

If you’re reading this column there’s a good chance you’re a member of a sports club. If so, you may be familiar with a phenomenon best encapsulated by the experience of a man I know in a government organisation.

Although he is slow to distance himself from his biggest hit, Mike Rosenberg tells

Des O’Driscoll’s got all the home-grown music and entertainment news you need to know rounded-up right here.

Festival fans were as eager to snap up their camping spaces as they were to buy their tickets, judging by the speed with which the campsites filled up at Electric Picnic yesterday.

Britain: When a cheating spouse upsets the sparrow love nest, it is the children who suffer, scientists have discovered.

Limerick-born author Kevin Barry will read at Cork City Library on Tuesday, April 19, as part of Cork World Book Fest. He will read his ‘Cork’ story from Winter Pages, the first volume of the arts anthology he put together with Olivia Smith.

Ashley Keating is drummer with the Frank & Walters. The Cork-based band release their new album, Songs For The Walking Wounded, at a launch gig at Cork Opera House on Friday, April 15. The bill also features Rubyhorse and a DJ set from Mike Joyce of The Smiths.

After his success on Misfits, writer Mike O’Leary turns his attention to Irish life, writes Padraic Killeen

The National’s Matt Berninger really is enjoying his sideproject with El Vy, writes Ed Power

SINGER Morrissey has released his first novel, after months of anticipation, and social media has erupted in amusement and incredulity.

With Kerry, Donegal and Mayo all winning last weekend and Dublin likely to do likewise next weekend, the cosy consensus is that the Big Four of last year’s championship are going to have it all to themselves again this year.

Jesse Armstrong’s observations on posh people have borne fruit in his debut novel and his writing for sitcoms such as Peep Show, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Django Django were as surprised as anyone by their initial success. But what about the follow up, asks Ed Power

Johnny Marr is penning the screenplay to a movie.

Belle and Sebastian are happy to ignore the jibes and just get on with the music, says Ed Power.

The Stone Roses, Led Zeppelin and Blur have all reformed in recent times and the rock nostalgia market is way more lucrative for bands than actually releasing music.

Gerry McAvoy spent 20 years on the road with Rory Gallagher. Despite the hard work involved, he remembers those days with affection, writes Ed Power

What is immediately apparent on Johnny Marr’s new record is that there are elements of all the stages of his career dictating proceedings.

And the nominees are …

The original line-up of The Smiths could take to the stage again after they were listed as one of 15 possible new members of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Morrissey is being treated for cancer.

Chart star Morrissey claims he has been snubbed by TV stations around the world, despite having a new album which has charted highly in numerous countries.

Brandon Flowers thinks Morrissey is like a modern-day Elvis Presley.

A 40-year-old UK woman, deaf from birth, has her cochlear implants turned on. Kleenex at the ready.

Morrissey

Manchester, so much to answer for.

Morrissey’s memoir has outsold the latest Bridget Jones novel to top the best seller charts in its first week.

Famously private singer Morrissey has disclosed details of how his first relationship with a man came in his 30s and told how he later discussed becoming a father with a close female companion.

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Morrissey’s long-awaited autobiography is coming out later this month just weeks after the former Smiths’ frontman claimed he had abandoned plans to publish it.

Former Smiths' frontman Morrissey has pulled plans to publish his autobiography after what he described as a "a last-minute content disagreement" with his publishers Penguin.

GIG WISE:Christy Moore has announced a return to Leeside, playing at Cork Opera House with Declan Sinnott on Thurs, Nov 7.

Thirty-five thousand music and arts lovers packed the Stradbally estate in Co Laois for last weekend’s Electric Picnic.

JOHNNY MARR has stopped running from the past. Ten years ago, the ex-Smiths guitarist refused to play his old songs on tour. When he visited Dublin’s Academy, last March, he led his band through half a dozen Smiths standards; for his encore rendering of ‘How Soon Is Now?’, grown men were hugging.

It’s 25 years since Morrissey, his quiff intact, emerged from the wreckage of The Smiths with his first solo album, 1988’s Viva Hate. To celebrate, the singer has released a live concert film, Morrissey 25: Live, which documents a recent, intimate show in his adopted home town of Los Angeles.

Morrissey's pulled the plug on his South American tour as he's suffering from 'severe food poisoning'.

Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr was deemed a “god-like genius”, but while the musician said it was nice to be appreciated, it was really all about the music.

The Stone Roses, Blur, Pulp – everyone’s reuniting these days. Now it looks like Led Zeppelin could be coming back.

SO poor old HMV.