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Tony Clayton-Lea

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Music

Album reviews: Mick Flannery’s Goodtime Charlie tells vivid, evocative stories about ordinary people

An apt follow-up to his 2021 album In The Game, Flannery’s latest is musically exploratory and well worth a listen
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • September 23, 2023
Album Reviews

Album reviews: Olivia Rodrigo masters the art of credible storytelling

The American singer-songwriter tells her tales of poignant pain with an authenticity that belies her young age
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • September 15, 2023

Simply Better
Back to School

Delicious recipes by Neven Maguire

Interview

Booker-longlisted novelist Elaine Feeney on childhood, the music of language and the power of place

Unlike many creative people, the Athenry author of How to Build a Boat has never felt the urge to escape from her past
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • September 14, 2023
Album Reviews

Album reviews: Fizz find strength in some mighty numbers

Four solo artists from Britain and Ireland make the most of their combined skill in The Secret to Life, one of this year’s best pop offerings
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • September 8, 2023
Album Reviews

Album reviews: Soda Blonde dreaming big with urbane, unsettling pop songs

The Irish band’s second album features a collection of tunes that veer from stark and vulnerable to ambitious and audacious
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • August 30, 2023
Album Reviews

Album reviews: Teddy Thompson covers the bases with touching country collection

The singer songwriter bares his soul with a set of tunes from various artists on My Love of Country
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • August 24, 2023
Album Reviews

Album reviews: Rhiannon Giddens’ You’re the One is a versatile mishmash of American song styles

Limerick-based multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens has released her first solo record since 2017’s Freedom Highway, but it’s somewhat lacking the spark found on her collaborative work
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • August 17, 2023
Album Reviews

Tony Clayton-Lea: On-form Hozier pulling new rabbits from magician’s hat in latest album Unreal Earth

Confident musician collaborates with other artists on his new album but there are no signs that you’re listening to anything other than Hozier
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • August 9, 2023
Album Reviews

Album reviews: Manics’ Nicky Wire steps away from band’s usual style with eclectic solo effort

The second solo album by the Manic Street Preachers’ founding member has been digitally released on Bandcamp, the album distribution online platform
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • August 2, 2023
Music

‘She was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ – Sinéad O’Connor’s life less ordinary

Throughout her tumultuous life, the resolutely outspoken protest singer remained very much her own person – begrudgers be damned
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • July 28, 2023
Music

Album reviews: Snow Patrol revisit the past and remind us where it all began

The release of Final Straw’s 20th-anniversary edition has much to please fans, with plenty of extras on this double album
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • July 28, 2023
Music

‘I milked the musical worth out of the Catholic Church for a while’ – singer Karen Cowley

After almost ten years with Wyvern Lingo, Cowley is about to launch her solo career
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • July 20, 2023
Music

Album reviews: Blur majors on the melody and melancholy with robust new album

Thirty years on, the British band are still producing great pop tunes at the same time as more considered numbers
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • July 19, 2023
Music

Album reviews: Mahalia dishes out lovelorn summer soundtrack on new album IRL

Precocious young musician comes of age with album of soulful ballads on breakup which share both heartbreak and joy in freedom
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • July 13, 2023
Album Reviews

Album reviews: Lucinda Williams sings a raw song of triumph over adversity

Her remarkable stamina and strength, distinctive talent and unvarnished authenticity hit all the right notes in this collaborative album
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • July 6, 2023
Album Reviews

Album reviews: Julie Byrne’s new album is tinged by tragedy but with an optimistic note

  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • June 28, 2023
Album Reviews

Album reviews: Sigur Rós’s music is the aural equivalent of watching the Aurora Borealis

First album from Icelandic group in ten years sees the group stretching the parameters of what mostly instrumental music can be
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • June 22, 2023
Music

'Raw, honest, poetic and kind’: tributes flow as beloved Aslan front man Christy Dignam is laid to rest

The Dublin singer man had been ill for over a decade with a rare blood disorder but had continued to record and perform
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • June 17, 2023
Interview

Texas frontwoman Sharleen Spiteri on losing her parents, sexism in music and the art of songwriting

Texas have sold over 40 million records, but lead singer Sharleen Spiteri doesn’t take the band’s continued success for granted. Here she talks about grief, songwriting, and why you should never give her a ‘woman of the year’ award.
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • June 16, 2023
Album Reviews

Album reviews: Jenny Lewis keeps it country in her own inimitable style

As is her wont, veteran US singer/songwriter Jenny Lewis blends wit and wisdom in her latest offering
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • June 15, 2023

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