London-based Niall O’Flaherty, 44, is lead singer with the Sultans of Ping. The Cork band will play at the Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow at the Electric Picnic this weekend.

The Waterboys have tweaked their style for a new album. Mike Scott tells Niall Murray all about it.

Button Factory, Dublin

Debut novelist Eimear McBride has won the £30,000 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction only a week after winning the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.

Peerless punk poet John Cooper Clarke will be in Dublin and Cork over the next week. The first time he gigged in Ireland was back in "1979ish" at the Project Arts Centre. He was then at the height of his fame.

DONOVAN doesn’t mean to name-drop, but when you have moved in his circles it is inevitable.

Lou Bega has been sent hundreds of condolences by people confusing him with Lou Reed.

Lou Reed died of liver disease.

Tributes poured in from the world of showbusiness for Lou Reed, the US musician and frontman of rock band Velvet Underground, who died aged 71 on Sunday.

Lou Reed, the punk-poet of rock who influenced generations of musicians with the Velvet Underground and who remained a vital solo artist for decades, died yesterday at the age of 71.

The renowned musician, best known for his work as guitarist, singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground, passed away at the age of 71, six months after undergoing a liver transplant in May.

EVER since Bono slipped on his trademark wrap-around sunglasses for The Fly in 1992, it’s become impossible to imagine the superstar without them.

His once groundbreaking work may have become commonplace but a new exhibition shows Warhol still has a capacity to surprise, writes Alan O’Riordan

Leonard Cohen’s life is ultimately a story of enlightenment and redemption, says Richard Fitzpatrick

The new-look Liss Ard Festival was launched yesterday outside Skibbereen in West Cork.

The last time The Horrors played Dublin, they terrified fans of Florence and the Machine, who had turned up early for her show at the O2.

JASON Pierce is exhausted.

Morrissey has been announced as headliner of this year's Hop Farm Festival in the UK.

Susan Boyle’s version of Lou Reed’s 'Perfect Day' will be released on her new album despite her previously being stopped from performing the track on television.

Simon Cowell admitted today he was caught out by the success of Susan Boyle and said her debut on 'Britain’s Got Talent' left him looking “like a complete idiot”.

Manic Street Preachers found collaborating with ex Guns N' Roses star Duff McKagan "awe-inspiring".

Music legend Lou Reed is preparing to make a guest appearance with Gorillaz as they headline Glastonbury Festival, it was confirmed today.

A woman known for singing through a PA system at a branch of Tesco has been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize.

THIS was what we expected and so much more.

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.

Rock band The Killers have recorded a song with music icon Lou Reed.

Bono and David Bowie were among friends, students and fans who left rocker Lou Reed visibly touched as he was honoured by New York's Syracuse University.

More than 30,000 music fans will be heading to the Isle of Wight for its annual music festival this weekend with crowd pleasers Coldplay and Foo Fighters taking top billing.

CHART stars The Darkness landed a pair of prizes at a TV music awards show last night.