NEWS: 13 May 2009
The Stradbally Hall bill has just got even tastier!
REVIEW: 09 Oct 2008
This album leaves no doubt that the former Beach Boy is now fully recovered from the 1967 nervous breakdown that effectively stalled his career for decades.
NEWS: 02 May 2007
Beach Boys frotnman Brian Wilson has confirmed that he's to play the Punchestown festival.
REVIEW: 18 Jul 2005
Sandwiched between his Glastonbury triumph and his Live 8 appearance in Berlin, the former Beach Boy and pop genius came to Dublin for what surely must’ve...
NEWS: 08 Jun 2005
A new documentary "Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the story of SmiLE" will be given a special screening in Dublin this month followed by a Q&A session...
INTERVIEW: 23 May 2005
Compositional genius, musical visionary, tormented genius – Brian Wilson is many things, but a garrulous interviewee is not one of them. Peter Murphy...
NEWS: 03 Mar 2005
Brian Wilson, Al Green and Van Morrison are among the featured artists at this summer's Live At The Marquee event in Cork
NEWS: 15 Feb 2005
This summer sees Brian Wilson perform live at Dublin's Vicar St. venue
REVIEW: 07 Oct 2004
Smile, as every amateur rock historian knows, is the great lost Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks project, abandoned after the commercial failure of Pet Sounds and...
REVIEW: 16 Jun 2004
He’s still capable of the odd moment of genius, and his place in the pantheon of rock greats is more or less sacrosanct, but Gettin’ In Over My Head...
REVIEW: 22 Jul 2002
If anything, the live sound is more expansive, the exquisite harmonies even more spine-tingling and the instrumentation more deftly executed
INTERVIEW: 27 Jun 2002
Put your questions to Brian Wilson in our latest ever-more-marvellous Hot Press Mixed Grill
INTERVIEW: 30 Jul 2002
Surf's up: The legendary Beach Boy on unreleased classics, being younger than Paul McCartney, the greatest song ever and his pet sound from Pet Sounds
REVIEW: 27 Feb 2002
A rare cosmic event attended by a large mass of devotees
INTERVIEW: 31 Jan 2002
Brian Wilson is among the most influential forces in modern music and created, in The Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds, what many music fans agree is the...
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