Category: Features

April 22, 2025 / Features

Many recording artists release a second album, but few do it at 97. For Noel Balfour, his love of music keeps him going. Well, not just going: he looks 25 years younger than his age when we meet at Andy Busuttil’s Hazelbrook studio, Blue Mountains Sound, where Balfour has just…

March 28, 2025 / Features

When director Damien Ryan approached actor Liam Gamble to play Richard III, Gamble was unfamiliar with both the historical figure and the Shakespearian character. After investigating him, he was taken by this “badass guy” and duly auditioned. “One of the reasons I cast Liam was the searing honesty of his…

March 15, 2025 / Features

Dreams of Falling have not been idle since performing our Wilde About Oscar show in 2023-24. We’ve dived deeper into a very green pool and come up with Swift to Joyce & Beyond: Irish Genius in Word & Song. Others writers include Wilde, Yeats and Beckett, while the first half…