Barry Egan: Picture This deliver awesome display of brooding emotion that leaves the crowd on its feet
At 9pm on the dot last night, Picture This arrived onstage at the 3Arena to wildly enthusiastic applause.
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At 9pm on the dot last night, Picture This arrived onstage at the 3Arena to wildly enthusiastic applause.
Booked as the headliner recently at a major venue in the UK, Sultan Stevenson arrived unannounced at 1pm and asked someone of vague officialdom in the venue could they unlock the Steinway on the stage.
Last week, Oliver Callan suggested taking a picnic into the cinema to help get through the three-and-a-half hours of Martin Scorsese’s new movie Killers of the Flower Moon.
‘Before the throne of the invisible god – kneel, kneel, kneel,” Corinne Bailey Rae sings on her cosmic-soul album Black Rainbows. Her eponymous song was playing on earphones as I walked in the sweltering heat of Dallas, Texas, last week. I’d flown over to meet Bailey Rae because she is headlining the Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork on October 29 at the Opera House.
The cover of Bobbi Arlo’s new single, the spacey banger ‘Ode to Ü’, has two people in an embrace, looking out a window. The two people, it transpires, are Ms Arlo and her girlfriend.