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Tinie Tempah has announced a gig at the Academy Dublin on December 6. The English rapper will be back on tour this year across the UK and Ireland, with other dates including Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Bristol and London. His last performance in Ireland was on June 6, when he performed as a special guest at The 2 Johnnies' Pints in a Field festival at St. Anne's Park, Dublin. Before this, he headlined the Sea Sessions Surf & Music Festival in Bundoran, Donegal.

Beyoncé has released a new song, ‘Morning Dew (Donk)’, marking her first new solo material in two years. The track arrived on July 4 via Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia Records. The release comes ahead of the forthcoming expanded edition of B’Day, which is set to land on September 4, exactly 20 years after the original album’s release on Beyoncé’s 25th birthday.

Brían Mac Gloinn has launched a new contemporary folk show on RTÉ Lyric FM. Airing Sundays at 6 pm, Songs to the Stranger presents contemporary folk and traditional music from Ireland and beyond. "For me, folk music is the sound of inclusivity - an open-armed invitation that pulls you up to dance and find that familiar in a stranger's eyes, to recognise each other no matter what differences might appear on the surface or languages you might speak," said Mac Gloínn.

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Take That took over Aviva Stadium with impeccable showmanship at their final stop in The Circus Live tour.

Now that Dave Grohl has officially relinquished the title – “If I wanted to be a priest, I’d be a fucking priest,” the Foos commander-in-chief told Hot Press – I think that Nicest Man In Rock status should be bestowed on Matt Berninger who’s turned affability into as big an art form as his music. The latter was embellished in 2025 by Get Sunk, his brilliant second solo album which was accompanied by two equally killer Vicar St. gigs.

Fresh from the success of Hamnet, the big screen adaption of her historical novel – for which she and director Chloé Zhao jointly received a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination – Maggie O’Farrell has returned with the hugely compelling Land. Set in the aftermath of the famine, the story focuses on the father and son duo of Tomás and 10-year-old Liam, who in 1865 set out to map Ireland as part of the great Ordnance Survey project.

Hot Press has spoken exclusively with John O’Neill, the former CEO of Tickets.ie – the Irish-based ticket-seller that went into liquidation recently, leaving a number of festivals hugely out of pocket. O’Neill who was the founder of Tickets.ie told Hot Press that he was “saddened and shocked” to hear that the company ceased trading last month.

Hot Press has spoken exclusively with John O’Neill, the former CEO of Tickets.ie – the Irish-based ticket-seller that went into liquidation recently, leaving a number of festivals hugely out of pocket. O’Neill who was the founder of Tickets.ie told Hot Press that he was “saddened and shocked” to hear that the company ceased trading last month.