The rain mysteriously vanished as Luke Kelly’s stentorian words chimed out over Kilmainham

Home-town heroes Fontaines DC overshadowed the international stars at Forbidden Fruit, writes Ed Power

Royal Hospital, Kilmainham

Academy, Dublin

What so instantaneously made Eminem a global superstar more than a decade ago, aside from complex rhymes and the fact parents hated him, was his willingness to play with alter-egos — multitudes of them, if the videos to hits from ‘My Name Is’ (1999) to ‘Just Lose It’ (2004) are anything to go by.