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The Stradbally Hall bill has just got even tastier!

13 May 2009 - News

Beach Boys frotnman Brian Wilson has confirmed that he's to play the Punchestown festival.

02 May 2007 - News

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 been the most intimate show on his current tour.

18 Jul 2005 - REVIEW

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 with Brian Wilson and the director

08 Jun 2005 - News

Compositional genius, musical visionary, tormented genius – Brian Wilson is many things, but a garrulous interviewee is not one of them. Peter Murphy undergoes strenuous discourse with one of the true icons of ‘60s culture.

23 May 2005 - Interview

Brian Wilson, Al Green and Van Morrison are among the featured artists at this summer's Live At The Marquee event in Cork

03 Mar 2005 - News

This summer sees Brian Wilson perform live at Dublin's Vicar St. venue

15 Feb 2005 - News

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 Wilson’s descent into drug-induced paranoia.

07 Oct 2004 - REVIEW

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 singularly fails to reach the stratospheric standards Brian Wilson has previously set himself.

16 Jun 2004 - REVIEW

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

30 Jul 2002 - Interview

If anything, the live sound is more expansive, the exquisite harmonies even more spine-tingling and the instrumentation more deftly executed

22 Jul 2002 - REVIEW

Put your questions to Brian Wilson in our latest ever-more-marvellous Hot Press Mixed Grill

27 Jun 2002 - Interview

A rare cosmic event attended by a large mass of devotees

27 Feb 2002 - REVIEW

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 greatest record ever made. In February he takes his world tour to Dublin's Point Theatre and Stephen Robinson asks what's on the set-list

31 Jan 2002 - Interview

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