AS THE COLOMBIAN star is confirmed to stand trial in Spain for tax evasion comes the stunning revelation that prosecutors will call Shakira’s hips to take the stand against her. “This is exactly what Shakira’s legal team feared, prosecutors playing on the vulnerability of her hips. The second they take the stand it’s all over,… Read more »
CONSIDER this your last warning. If you read beyond this point it could have a major impact of your Spotify playlists and your Netflix watchlist. John Lennon Beat his first wife Cynthia Lennon. You might not be able to hear this over the sound of you performing some mental gymnastics to talk around this, but… Read more »
CROWD footage from the 79th Venice Film Festival that appears to show popstar-turned-actor Harry Styles spitting on his ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ co-star Chris Pine has ground worldwide production to a halt for the rest of the day, perhaps even the week. In dramatic scenes reminiscent of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars earlier… Read more »
IT WAS MEANT to be five nights of triumph and a celebration of his music but not even Garth Brooks is immune to the soaring cost of tourism in Ireland. With hotel prices cynically hiked across Dublin and its surrounding areas during his five night residency in Croke Park, Brooks has fallen victim to high… Read more »
HUNDREDS of people are expected to converge on Queen’s County today to witness the country’s first Electric Picnic, which will be headlined by an appearance by US inventor and electrical pioneer Thomas Edison, with support by Four-Donkey Dynamo & The Hydro-Electric DAAAMN. The road from Dublin to the midlands is expected to be very busy… Read more »
REVELERS at Electric Picnic hoping to use the HSE’s first ever festival safe drug testing facility have been warned that is it just us or is that garda slowly tip toeing his way closer to the tent? Seen as a major step forward in dealing with drug culture and trying to prevent any deaths from… Read more »
CITING creaking knees and sensitive hearing 23-year-old festival stalwart James O’Beirne fears his days of enjoying festivals like Electric Picnic may be behind him. “The first time I went down, there was eight of us crammed into a Micra, I was in the boot the whole way down and it was all great craic. Shits… Read more »
A NEW study has provided the starkest warnings yet about the accelerated damage climate change could do, with the melting of Greenland ice caps seeing a 10-inch rise in sea levels even if carbon emissions are reduced. In the case of carbon emissions continuing at current rates a multi-metre sea-level rise appears likely but anyway… Read more »
THE HSE has pledged to make their drug analysis tent at this year’s Electric Picnic as user-friendly as possible, promising frank and clear language around what will and won’t leave you ‘chawing the fucking jaw off yourself’. As such, the HSE has only hired healthcare professionals with extensive festival-going experience to man the tent, with… Read more »
VIEWERS have been captivated by the carnage of Netflix’s documentary charting the nightmarish downfall of Woodstock ’99; but how familiar are you with the hushed-up story of Slane 1988, a once-off three-day version of the popular rock gig that came to be known as the ‘Mayhem In Meath’? Read on: The lead up Buoyed by… Read more »