One of the world’s longest-running film festivals is rolling out the red carpet for a special guest next week who was tracked down after 40 years thanks to the Irish Examiner

Brighton? Isn’t it full of spivs with Kiss Me Quick hats tipped at a jaunty angle?

The investment arm of the Davy Group has made a further retail swoop on Cork city’s Patrick Street, having bought the Moderne last year for circa €4-5 million in an off-market deal.

Young Wonder credit the internet for ensuring they can remain in Cork, writes Ed Power

CORK DJ Stephen Grainger (aka Stevie G) is launching his own record label, Soul Jamz Records, with its maiden release being a double A-side 7” vinyl single.

An online petition, ‘Save the Pav’, is gathering momentum to reopen one of Cork’s best-known night entertainment venues after yesterday’s shock announcement that The Pavilion had closed its doors.

MUSIC NEWS: The big issue among the music world’s chattering classes this week has been the announcement of Metallica’s headline slot at Glastonbury.

GIG WISE: The countdown has begun for Live at the Marquee in Cork, with young whippersnapper Cliff Richard kicking it all off on Monday, June 9, followed by the equally youthful Dolly Parton (June 12).

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.

Karan Casey’s sixth solo album, Two More Hours, is her first of entirely self-penned songs.

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After the demise of the idiosyncratic alt-pop band Talulah Does The Hula a few years ago, Paula Cullen, Caoimhe Derwin, Lauren Kerchner and Jessie Ward found themselves at a crossroads.

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Joseph O’Leary reflects on 15 years with one of Cork’s best-loved bands.

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Cork stakes its claim as Europe’s jazz capital this weekend, with some of the world’s biggest names in funk, soul and blues in town for the 35th Guinness Jazz Festival.

MUSIC NEWS: U2 have revealed they hope to finish their new album by the end of next month, with a release date yet to be specified for 2014.

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Music fans are lined up for a real treat with loads of gigs, many of them free, as part of the annual Cork Folk Festival which kicks off on Oct 10.

MUSIC NEWS: Co-operation between Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher would put the fall of the Berlin Wall in the shade, but the formerly feuding Brit-pop kings are rumoured to be working together.

MUSIC NEWS: Nile Rodgers seems to be in so many places at the moment you shouldn’t be surprised if he pops his head out of your fridge when you reach for that cold drink later today.

FOR five decades, Gay Byrne has taken a central role in Ireland’s national conversation.

A shop unit that traditionally would have been swamped by frantic, last-minute male shoppers seeking luxury Valentine Day gifts is now itself seeking proposals, and courting a new relationship.

MUSIC NEWS: Roman Abramovich’s new year party on St Barts in the Caribbean may have been a bit far for his Chelsea team, but their absence was hardly noticed at a bash that was chock-a-block with big names from the music biz.

MUSIC NEWS: We mentioned last week that Johnny Marr had his debut solo album on the way for next year.

CULTURE NIGHT: Yes, Culture Night is upon us once again, and we couldn’t begin to list the gazillion events that are taking place nationwide, other than to say that if you’ve ever complained about the price of things in this country, tonight is the night to make the most of some of the free stuff. Check out www.culturenightcork.ie or www.culturenight.ie

A talent agency to the stars has signed the Irish comedic genius behind the hilarious Sminky Shorts internet cartoon sensation.

MUSIC NEWS: Irish twin sister duo Heathers are probably best known for their ‘Remember When’ tune from the Discover Ireland ads.

Summer bird cages, iconic rock stars and kooky crafts are all part of the weft and warp of Esther N McCarthy’s wish weaving.

The Duke of Edinburgh has been advised to rest so will have no visitors in hospital today, sources have said.

MUSIC NEWS: Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody, below, is one of the busiest men in show business at the moment.

MUSIC NEWS: It’s a world record you’d never want to be part of. Jay-Z and Kanye West played the track ‘Niggas In Paris’ 12 times at a recent show in the French capital.

MUSIC NEWS: For a man knocking on the door of his seventh decade (his birthday is Jun 18), Paul McCartney is showing no signs of slowing down.

UNIVERSITY of Limerick has just made a €9 million sporting crossing of the River Shannon, to bring its first sports amenities to its growing north campus. Next to join up on this side of the river will be the medical faculty building in the autumn.

UCC are set a develop a new centre of excellence for sport in the third-level institution on a 100 acre site on the western outskirts of Cork city.

NEW YORK’S Carnegie Hall, London’s Barbican, and the Cork Opera House are all celebrating the 75th birthday of Steve Reich, the great American composer.

PARKING any talk of belt-tightening, the city down south showed it had the nous to knock the best out of straitened circumstances in a three-day extravaganza of jazz and drink.

TICKETS have just gone on sale for what promises to be another epic Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. The October Bank Holiday event will feature more than 1,000 musicians from 29 countries.

IT WAS rural Ireland’s version of Sunset Boulevard at “The Ploughing” in Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny, as an estimated 83,000 people flocked to the annual pageant of country life.