Ed Power

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Contributor at Irish Times

Freelance Journalist at Irish Examiner

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Martha Wainwright on Snow Patrol, fond memories of Ireland, and that song about her dad

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Ed Power

The music industry was in a weird place when singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright released her self-titled debut album in the spring of 2005. The internet had unleashed a wave of digital piracy that posed an existential threat to the business’s profit model of flogging overpriced CDs at a vast markup. In a panic, labels were slashing their budgets. If you were a young artist looking for a record deal – as Wainwright was at the time – the outlook was grim.
Jennifer Lopez's career desperately needs the kiss of life. But this wasn't it

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ed Power

Divorce, cancelled tours, flop films... It's hard to see how the last year could have gone worse for J-Lo. Will a raunchy dance routine help? One kiss was all it took to put Jennifer Lopez back in the spotlight during her appearance at the American Music Awards in Las Vegas this week.
Nessa Barrett in Dublin review: A star on the rise in need of time to find her voice

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Ed Power

TikTok has changed how music is packaged and hyped, and now it is producing its own stars. One of the more prominent is Nessa Barrett, a 22-year-old New Jersey singer who achieved online celebrity as a teenager by lip-syncing to her favourite songs on the ubiquitous video-sharing platform. She has parlayed that fame into a budding pop career that has already won her a cult fan base.
Sparks: The band where eccentricity meets high art

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Ed Power

Sparks brothers Ron and Russell Mael expect to feel thoroughly at home when playing Dublin’s National Stadium this July. When not hosting live music, the stadium is a boxing arena – a dead ringer, in fact, for the venue featured on the cover of Sparks’ one of the classic albums the art-pop siblings from Los Angeles released in their first golden streak of success in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Death Valley review: Timothy Spall effortlessly commands the screen but this BBC drama struggles

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Ed Power

When did we decide we preferred our television detectives sunny-side up rather than served in the traditional hard-boiled fashion? At whatever point it happened, we nowadays live, beyond all hope of escape, in a cosy crime purgatory, where murder is a green light for jolly japes, and the only good cop is a whimsical one. Cosy crime isn’t new. It extends back to Agatha Christie in the 1920s and even to Wilkie Collins in the 19th century.
The Last of Us finale review: A nerve-shredding, bloody conclusion that leaves us wanting more, and soon

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Ed Power

Pedro Pascal is everywhere at the moment: recreating an iconic photograph of Harrison Ford outside the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc at Cannes; strapped to the front of the Marvel rocket ship as his Fantastic Four movie prepares to blast into orbit. Everywhere except The Last Of Us, the prestige zombie caper that has done so much to propel the “internet’s dad” to the frontline of popular culture.
Timothy Spall saves the silly, clichéd Death Valley

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Ed Power

One of the golden rules of television is that small towns in far-flung places are hotbeds of quirkiness. That cliché is revived enthusiastically in Death Valley, a fun cosy crime series from comedy writer Paul Doolan, set in rural Wales and constantly in danger of being too zany for its own good. Like an Oasis riff or Tarantino film, it borrows from all over – at the risk of occasionally coming off as an annoying cover version.
Tyler, the Creator at 3Arena review: A brilliantly evocative, provocative performance

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Ed Power

Long before Kneecap were drawing the wrath of the British establishment, Tyler, the Creator had a claim to the title of most controversial name in rap. Lyrics strewn with apparently homophobic and misogynistic remarks earned him a ban from the UK government in 2015 on the grounds that he posed a threat to public order. Turned away at the border, he claimed he was being treated like a terrorist.
Sirens review: An anaemic White Lotus cover that hits the right notes but has no tune of its own

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Ed Power

Succession and White Lotus have a lot to answer for. Just as Game of Thrones unleashed a wave of deeply wonky fantasy shows (hitting rock bottom with the hobbit-breaking Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), so these separated-at-birth caricatures of the rich and their idiocy have unleashed a wave of cheap and cheesy copycats.
Clarkson’s Farm review: Muddy escapades galore on latest serving of Jeremy Clarkson’s rural reality show

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Ed Power

As a jeering, jolly juggernaut juddering across our television screens, Jeremy Clarkson has had more lives than a vintage Ford Capri. He seemed done and dusted after getting sacked from Top Gear for punching his Irish producer a decade ago. Then there was his disgraceful Sun column about Meghan Markle, where he said he dreamed of the day she was paraded “naked through the streets of every town in Britain”. Such was the furore that Clarkson did the most un-Clarkson thing imaginable: apologise.

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