Here’s your latest arts and entertainment round-up with Des O’Driscoll.

MUSIC NEWS: Cork singer Brian Deady announced good news this week in that he has been signed to major label Decca. 

Offaly-born composer Amanda Feery won the Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition for this year’s Cork International Choral Festival and her piece will be performed on Friday in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral. She is also working on pieces for Crash Ensemble and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

We bring you a round up of all the latest news and reviews from the world of entertainment. 

Bono and Rihanna had front-row seats as his wife’s ethical fashion range Edun unveiled its spring collection at New York Fashion Week.

Conor Lovett is performing a work by a contemporary American playwright for his new show, writes Colette Sheridan.

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

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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.

After a four-year hiatus, Dublin songwriter, David Turpin, returns this week with a new album, We Belong Dead. He now trades as The Late David Turpin, a wry nod to the fact that, in late 2011, he briefly lost his heartbeat following a swimming accident.

Lou Reed’s wife says the rock icon is recovering after a life-saving liver transplant, according to an interview published in a British newspaper.

THE Artist’s Eye, at the Glucksman Gallery in Cork, is a photographic exhibition that features artists in front of the camera.

Critical praise for the duo’s second album So Long John Fante has won them new fans around the world,says Ed Power

THE enigmatic Dublin-born fiddle player Caomhín Ó Raghallaigh has stirred the traditional scene, releasing five albums in 10 years, four of them collaborations with leading lights in Irish music.

Spoken-word artist Laurie Anderson’s work is as political now as it was when she moved to New York in 1969, says Ed Power

KT Tunstall turned to dance music after having a crisis of confidence in Greenland.

Britpop star Jarvis Cocker has lashed out at today’s pop music and TV talent shows.

An all-star cast will line out for a concert to honour legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

David Bowie is to curate this year's Meltdown arts event at London's Festival Hall.