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Sandy Harsch

RTÉ Radio 1 presenter Sandy Harsch dies aged 76

4 hrs

The death has occurred of RTÉ Radio 1 music presenter Sandy Harsch (76), who has died unexpectedly after a short illness.

Cheryl: a girl aloud

Cheryl slams critics of her X Factor performance

Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran stops show for marriage proposal

Sandy Harsch at work in Radio 1. Photo credit: John Cooney

Tributes paid to RTÉ Radio presenter Sandy Harsch

Subplots: A nervous tic of an album

Dublin act Subplots chart a A Silent Phase

Tickets for next year's RTÉ Choice Music Prize going on sale on Friday

Tickets for RTÉ Choice Music Prize going on sale

Coldplay: House band of the Home Counties

Coldplay - is it all yellow or is it all beige?

Cheryl:

Cheryl will "move on" from music if new song flops

Taylor Swift signs new global record deal with UMG

Taylor Swift "ecstatic" to sign new global record deal

Foo Fighters will play Belfast and Dublin gigs in 2019

Foo Fighters heading for Dublin and Belfast next summer

Snoop Dogg and Leron Gubler attend a ceremony honoring Snoop Dogg With Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame on November 19, 2018 in Hollywood, California

'Visionary' Snoop Dogg honoured with Walk of Fame star

Reviews.

Subplots: A nervous tic of an album

Dublin act Subplots chart a A Silent Phase

Wolfgang Muthspiel: a certain tenderness can be found on Where the River Goes

Album review: Wolfgang Muthspiel - Where the River Goes

Multi-tasking twenty-something Christian Sands: piano, Fender Rhodes, composition of tunes and co-production duties on Facing Dragons

Music Review: Christian Sands - Facing Dragons

Jakob Bro: Danish genius of the guitar has unleashed a brilliant live album, laden with longing and taking a little tincture of Bill Frisell and Jimi Hendrix for its potions.

Music Review: Jakob Bro - Bay of Rainbows

Grant Green (1935-1979) guitar visionary who was no mean slouch at self-assessment

Reviewed: Grant Green - 5 Original Albums

Horace Silver: music slightly inspired by Japan features on one of the albums in this Blue Note slipcase reissue

Reviewed: Horace Silver - 5 Original Albums

Elvis Costello: complex pop songs

Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now

Arche Shepp in the early days, during a performance at the New Morning jazz club in Paris.

Reviewed: Archie Shepp 5 Original Albums

Rod Stewart: Should he have made the album in Cold Old London after all?

Rod: Blood Red Roses fails to come up smelling of roses

Blood Red Roses

Hank Mobley performing at Birdland with the Jazz Messengers in 1959

Review: Hank Mobley - 5 Original Albums

Lee Morgan whose gift was lost to the world following his early death, victim of a shooting at 33 years of age in New York City in 1972.

Reviewed: Lee Morgan - 5 Original Albums

A short, sharp shock indeed

Therapy? still in the rudest of health on Cleave