

Having released her seventh studio record, Goodnight City, last Friday — which we described as something “almost impossible not to go back and hit ‘repeat’” on — we asked Martha Wainwright to…
Martha Wainwright assures Anthony Carew that she was not a “child prodigy” and chats about growing up in a family that writes songs about each other. “I don’t have very much…
Martha Wainwright’s first three albums run the gamut from intense confessionals and tasteful torch songs to electropop. Here, she paints from an even wider musical palette on a single album,…
Coming from a famous family has its pressures as well as its advantages. But North American folk-rock singer Martha Wainwright has successfully navigated both, becoming more comfortable in her skin…
Album opener Around The Bend is the best type of typical Wainwright – hilarious, dark and gloriously delivered. Throughout the rest of the album this style remains; satisfying the already faithful while…
As we’re shown to our seats, that distinctive Irish tin whistle emanates from the sound system to transport us directly to The Emerald Isle. Shane Howard graces the stage in trio…
Glen Hansard’s Didn’t He Ramble tour had its second date at Adelaide’s Her Majesty’s Theatre where the Irish poet and singer took the stage with an 11-piece band. Highlights from the show…
A BAND on tour encounters lots of “interesting” things, Oscar-winning Irish troubadour Glen Hansard told his adoring audience in the packed-out Sydney Opera House concert hall. It might be seeing…
If Glen Hansard is basking in the feeling of having all but made the Opera House his Sydney home-away-from-home, having played there in various guises his past few Australian tours, he…