Barry Egan

In 2000, Jake Shears was ­performing in clubs like The Slipper Room on the Lower East Side in New York City. He and Babydaddy (aka Scott Hoffman) were then in a band known as Dead Lesbian and the Fibrillating Scissor Sisters.

As new exhibition opens in Kildare, Culture Club singer says things are harder for young LGBTQ+ people today

In 1987, Boy George said that if Bono still hasn’t found what he was looking for, the U2 singer should look behind the drum kit in his band.

“A startling tale of child-abuse that singes the nerve-endings,” wrote Dele Fadele in his NME review of Sinéad O’Connor’s Fire on Babylon. The Observer called it “vengeful neo-reggae”.

Reunited band says it's a great time to return to the dancefloor, as people are looking for escapism

PJ Gallagher’s earliest childhood memory is of his Alsatian dog Tara. She was the first dog he ever had. It was 1979 and he was about four years of age, and Tara was jumping over him.

Dublin singer tells how she turned inner-city pride into a dance anthem

How We Made “They see me coming, got my crown on my head/ Sceptre in my hand, still smoking Silk Cut Red,” croons Jack Lukeman on The King of Soho , the track from his 2016 album Magical Days