24 Aug 2011 - News

A sophisticated gentleman does a poo

14 Dec 2009 - REVIEW

One of the tracks was recorded in Dublin.

13 Oct 2009 - News

The deadline is approaching for entries to the 2008 International Songwriting Competition, with the full list of judges just announced, including Tom Waits and Black Francis.

26 Aug 2008 - News

His body is the medium for that voice, which causes him to shudder and shake, as though frustrated by the limits of his corporeal prison.

15 Aug 2008 - REVIEW

Tom Waits kicked off his three-night stint in Phoenix Park last night with an evening of stories, song, glitter and doom...

31 Jul 2008 - News

Live photos from Tom Waits' first of three Dublin dates at the Rat Cellar marquee in Phoenix Park on July 31.

31 Jul 2008 - Gallery

Ahead of Tom Waits' much-anticipated Dublin visit for three gigs this Wednesday July 30 – Friday August 1, organisers have released final stage time and ticket security information.

29 Jul 2008 - News

Tom Waits opened his Glitter And Doom World Tour on Tuesday night in Phoenix, Arizona to universally rave reviews.

20 Jun 2008 - News

(A conversation with himself)

16 Jun 2008 - Interview

Tom Waits plays three nights at The RatCellar in Phoenix Park this July, with tickets going on sale next week.

21 May 2008 - News

Tom Waits will be doing his best to beat the touts when he brings his Glitter And Doom tour to Dublin on this July.

21 May 2008 - News

Hotpress.com can now confirm that Tom Waits will play two Irish dates this summer, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.

07 May 2008 - News

Numerous venues rumoured for Waits' in promoters bidding war

24 Apr 2008 - News

Tom Waits's new album is a sprawling, all-encompassing collection of politics, history and cultural tidbits. Brilliant.

23 Nov 2006 - REVIEW

Someone once said that listening to a Tom Waits CD is more like watching a play than hearing an album. So seeing a Tom Waits show is perhaps akin to some abstruse sensory overload that, no matter how high the expectation, will bite you like a shark. The Carre Theatre in Amsterdam is a beautifully classic, large auditorium with retracting chandeliers and burgundy seats.

03 Dec 2004 - REVIEW

Someone once said that listening to a Tom Waits CD is more like watching a play than hearing an album. So seeing a Tom Waits show is perhaps akin to some abstruse sensory overload that, no matter how high the expectation, will bite you like a shark. The Carre Theatre in Amsterdam is a beautifully classic, large auditorium with retracting chandeliers and burgundy seats.

03 Dec 2004 - REVIEW

In a rare interview, US alt culture icon Tom Waits talks to Dave Fanning about touring with Zappa, getting the nod of approval from Dylan, his fastidious approach to songwriting and why Bill Hicks remains America’s foremost political commentator

22 Oct 2004 - Interview

The only problem with writing about any new Tom Waits record is the man himself describes his own work so accurately that any further attempts at conceptualism are rendered superfluous.

27 Sep 2004 - REVIEW

Alice and Blood Money are Siamese twinsets written by Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan for a stage production directed by Texan image alchemist Robert Wilson

09 May 2002 - REVIEW

A shaggy dog story: Tom Waits shows up at a Northern Californian studio, prospecting for premises close to home so that he can ferry his kids to and from school while working.

28 Apr 1999 - REVIEW

The Black Rider is Waits’ strangest album yet and also possibly his strongest.

01 Dec 1993 - REVIEW

See him after midnight in the trailer-park: beside his fire with its strange aromas, the withered man with the parched voice and the piercing eyes with even stranger talismans on his jacket.

10 Sep 1992 - REVIEW

*Well, it's 9th and Hannepin/And all the donuts have/names that sound like prostitutes/And the moon's teethmarks are/on the sky like a tarp thrown over this...*

11 Oct 1985 - REVIEW

A misbegotten, footsore bone-crushing trek through the industrial badlands of Northern Germany finally left me in a single hotel room in Frankfurt uncorking a dutyfree bottle of Old Bushmills.

11 Oct 1980 - REVIEW

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