@PatCarty

@PatCarty has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in November 2021. The social media accounts linked to from @PatCarty are: • Instagram Besides social media accounts, PatCarty has populated their site with: • Johnny Marr review: Smiths' songs shine brightly in Dublin • Mike Scott of The Waterboys: ‘Where The Streets Have No Name, that’s a wonderful track, but it’s the melody from The Whole of the Moon in the chorus’ | Irish Independent • The Rolling Stones: The Biography | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • 'Jagger’s voice sounds phenomenal': Pat Carty dives into the Rolling Stones' new album • U2’s new single Street of Dreams: despite some fortune cookie lyrics, it finds strength in simplicity | Irish Independent • Elvis Costello in Dublin review: A faltering voice but still able to deliver • Paul Noonan (Bell X1) Interview Sunday Times • David Sedaris is on sparkling, close-to-the-bone form in his latest collection | Irish Independent • Lily Allen & gigs not meeting expectations - GoLoud Player • 55 years ago today: Joni Mitchell released Blue | Hotpress • Paul Weller: Woking Warbler is all business on a night of highlights in Fairview Park – The Irish Times • The American School of Spies review: A fine tribute to the other ‘Monuments Men’ who saved Greece’s famous treasures from the Nazis | Irish Independent • Fantastic Kingdom by Helene von Bismarck: Knowledgeable treatise on harm done by Brexit – The Irish Times • Concert venues - what makes a great one? | Newstalk • ‘Experts in a Dying Field’ review: Patrick Freyne puts band back together for cosmic, comic meditation on music and grief | Irish Independent • In Killing Maradona, football’s fallen genius is celebrated — with the best writing reserved for his pitch prowess | Irish Independent • Maggie O’Farrell ventures into the mystic in new novel that is both poetic and moving | Irish Independent • Paul McCartney: The Boys Of Dungeon Lane album review | Louder • Pet Sounds turns 60 | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • The Lemon Twigs: Look For Your Mind! album review | Louder • Super Furry Animals review: Welsh wonder band impress at Olympia in Dublin • Marilyn Monroe’s love of literature | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • John Connolly: ‘I had a long-standing animosity towards Irish fiction and Irish writing’ | Irish Independent • Spotify turns 20 - how did it change the music industry? | Newstalk • Book Review: 1996: My Backstage Pass To The Wildest Year Of Britain’s Wildest Decade... | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • Few and Far Between by Jan Carson review: A bizarre proposal to drain Lough Neagh reimagined in magical novel | Irish Independent • Antonia ­Senior’s Stalin’s Apostles and Robert Verkaik's The ­Writer and the Traitor reviews: Infamous Cambridge Five spy ring and how they rose to such high positions | Irish Independent • DJ Dave Fanning on his long career, interviewing the stars and having selfies with fellow music fans | Irish Independent • The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín: collection highlights author’s mastery of the short-story form | Irish Independent • Pat Carty on U2’s new ‘Easter Lily’ EP: Surprise release of the second batch of songs in just weeks shows how great a band they still are | Irish Independent • Gorillaz review: Damon Albarn and co produce spectacular show at 3Arena, Dublin • The Library Of Traumatic Memory review: Neil Jordan' sci-fi | Irish Independent • Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs review: A masterful study of self-styled monk who broke the Romanovs | Irish Independent • The Shortest History of Ireland by James Hawes: A dizzying, thrilling ride through 14,526 years of Irish history | Irish Independent • Hotel Exile by Jane Rogoyska: Moving account of ordinary folk caught in second World War – The Irish Times • The Black Crowes: A Pound Of Feathers album review | Louder • Album reviews | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • The Last Kings of Hollywood review: Paul Fischer appraises Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg | Irish Independent • Going to Zossen, Or The Capitulation of Vasily Mikhailovich review: AV Pankov's debut is a savage parody of capitalism | Irish Independent • Man on the Run | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • Neptune’s Fortune review: Julian Sancton fictionalises real-life adventurer who chased treasure on the ocean floor | Irish Independent • U2’s ‘Days of Ash’ review: A band full of political fire, this is their best release in decades | Irish Independent • Why Arthur Miller's The Crucible is especially potent during the reign of Donald Trump | Irish Independent • Obituary: Andrew Ranken, drummer with The Pogues known for his ‘warrior’ beats who helped power the notorious trad outfit to international success • Super Nintendo by Keza MacDonald: How Mario turned a playing card manufacturer into a global gaming giant | Irish Independent • Mark Haddon’s life-affirming brush with death: ‘The grim reaper is not all he’s made out to be’ – The Irish Times • Bob Dylan's Desire at 50 | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • Lucinda Williams review: US country star marks birthday with fine gig at Olympia in Dublin • Departures by Julian Barnes: Enjoyable rambling, a story and a grateful goodbye – The Irish Times • The Final Score by Don Winslow: ‘The best crime fiction in 20 years,’ says Stephen King, but he’s underselling it | Irish Independent • A melodic gift and a focus on female characters: Why there’s more to Leonard Cohen than ‘Hallelujah’ | Irish Independent • Hothouse Flowers at Tradfest: Powerful night of music from a band with real soul – The Irish Times • Pat Carty: My one evening with David Bowie in Dublin was worth a thousand nights in the doghouse | Irish Independent • Emmylou Harris review: Fond farewell to American country star at final gig at 3Arena, Dublin • Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie. | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • The Masque Of Desire: A Bob Dylan Story | Hotpress • Phil Lynott: poet, pioneer and poster boy of Irish rock, 40 years on • Dead Ringer review: An action-packed caper tackling the JFK ­assassination | Irish Independent • Pat Carty: Which came first, the rockstar or the rock-star hair? And what happens when you can’t field a mullet anymore? | Irish Independent • The Best Books of 2025 | Hotpress • Music of 2025 In Review with Pat Carty | Newstalk • Wish You Were Here at 50 | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • Queen's A Night At the Opera at 50 | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • Insomnia by Robbie Robertson - review | Arena - RTÉ Radio 1 • Mortimer’s A to Zs of English History review: Entertaining snapshot of everyday life through the ages | Irish Independent • Bob Dylan review: A moving Shane MacGowan tribute among the highlights at 3Arena, Dublin • The Dublin Pub by Donal Fallon: A joy from start to finish – The Irish Times • We Did OK, Kid review: Anthony Hopkins's memoir is a forthright portrait of a Welshman | Irish Independent • Wings - The Story of a Band on the Run: What Paul McCartney sent in the post after a bad review | Irish Independent • The Eleventh Hour – A Quintet of Stories review: Salman Rushdie reflects on all his yesterdays | Irish Independent • The Who: Who Are You (Super Deluxe Edition) album review | Louder • Tim Wheeler on early fame: ‘I got hammered during the gig. The next day we were doing MTV interviews but I woke up in my own vomit. Management were really upset’ | Irish Independent • Who wants to live forever? Why Silicon Valley’s super-rich are so fixated on the quest for eternal life | Irish Independent • Music critic Pat Carty on the lost art of agreeing to disagree when it comes the arts and culture | Irish Independent • Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere film review | Louder • Truly by Lionel Ritchie: A cut above the usual music memoir – The Irish Times • Richard Hawley review: Songs of magnificence at the Olympia in Dublin • Pink Floyd’s gripping and often bitchily entertaining story of madness, ambition, ego – and an awful lot of money | Irish Independent • Injury Time review: Kevin Smith's lighthearted tale of his character's trials of middle age | Irish Independent • Born To Run at 50 • Van Morrison at 80 • Pat Carty on kids at gigs: ‘Could I have imagined the da or ma beside me at Slane for Bowie? Not unless I was in a sweat-soaked nightmare’ | Irish Independent • Queens of the Stone Age in Dublin: Kilmainham erupts with cathartic glee at ferocious gig • ‘Even his enemies admired his chutzpah’: How Trump became a God of New York in the 1980s • How a book forger fooled the literary world until his audacious ruse was rumbled • Pat Carty on the New Lad: ‘Wherever they ended up, the Oasis reunion was like a bat signal, calling them out of the shadows for one last adventure, one last moment of belonging’ | Irish Independent • A Marriage At Sea: A True Story Of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck review: Sophie Elmhirst’s remarkable true story about love, adventure and endurance | Irish Independent • Don’t be Cruel: why the kingmaker behind Elvis Presley doesn’t deserve his bad rap • Forest Fest review: Peter Hook and Teenage Fanclub among highlights of Day 2 • Leon Bridges review: Soul power of Texan star shines through at rain-soaked Iveagh Gardens, Dublin • Dinner with Charlton and backstage with Nureyev - an ode to the golden age of the celebrity interview, recounted by a master practitioner • A riveting history of tanks - Mark Urban’s evolution of the military machine hits the bullseye • Pat Carty: Glastonbury's main stages showed a changing of the guard from old men to young women • Oasis Tour Begins | Newstalk • Simple Minds in Dublin: seasoned pros bring the party atmosphere • ‘I said, Geldof, this is gonna hurt but it’ll help, and scratched his back like a maniac. It gave him a sexual identity with the girls’– BP Fallon’s life and times • Tracks II: The Lost Albums - review • Lana Del Rey review: Incredible stage set makes for fine show at Aviva, Dublin • Bruce Springsteen's staggering The Lost Albums asks why lesser records were released instead • The sound of glorious pandemonium: Two nights with The Darkness in Ireland • 1975 The Year the World Forgot by Dylan Jones review • ‘A poor man’s guitar? No ma’am, it’s a rich man’s ukulele’: The lesser-known Beatles stories that will make you smile • Paradise House by Paul Perry: A fascinating, original and well-executed speculative fiction about James Joyce • The ‘sublime insanity’ of airmen who tried to cross the Atlantic first – inspired by a Dubliner • The Waterboys review: New tunes and old classics in the mix at 3Arena • ‘Society sees sadness as something to be solved — I don’t agree’ • Untaxing page-turner from Bill Clinton and James Patterson in their third collaboration • Elaine Feeney delivers a moving meditation on enforced female roles in Irish society past and present • Bonnie Raitt in Vicar Street: a healing night of welcome warmth and real soul • Air by John Boyne: Superb, at-times harrowing, still questioning • Bono: Stories Of Surrender - Father, Son, And Holy Ghost | Hotpress • Bryan Adams in 3Arena review: Groover from Vancouver gives fans the night of their lives • Glenn Patterson’s The Northern Bank Job is a superb account of Northern Ireland’s most infamous bank robbery • As Long As The Guitar Plays: The Rolling Stones and Exile On Main St. | Hotpress • Qween reign supreme • The Illegals by Shaun Walker: The Russian agent who couldn’t get Irish people to shut up, and other spy stories • Gavin Friday: ‘I wouldn’t wish Bono’s success on anybody’ • The Flaming Lips review: Wayne Coyne and co hit the heights for brilliant gig at Olympia, Dublin • John Connolly: ‘Colin Farrell could play any character … he wants to be Charlie Parker’ • Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold – Rich narrative highlights ‘the fear of the empowered woman’ • ‘You can’t stick a knife in someone in a cosy way - Anthony Horowitz on the myth of the gentle murder • Paul Brady in Dublin review: A welcome stroll through master song writer’s rich past • Gavin Friday review: Soaring falsetto and Virgin Prunes' revivals make for a fine night • Theatre review: Moonlight: The Philip Lynott Enigma tackles the life of Ireland's great rocker • Chips with everything: How the AI arms race was won and why one dealer controls the industry • Forgiven? Ryan Adams in Vicar St. • John Lydon: ‘I have great fun ­ribbing Bono. He doesn’t have much of a sense of humour’ • Mike Scott: ‘Ireland is recovering from a long trauma, and opening out in to a liberal future. I feel very at home’ • Bryce Dessner on Taylor Swift: ‘It’s incredible how she finds her way in’ • The Darkness - Dreams On Toast | Album Review • The mightiest Fleetwood Mac line-up albums in one handy box • Justin Hawkins of The Darkness: 'I love Cork! I had a birthday there' • From daring musician to influential artist: revisiting the reputation of Yoko Ono • ‘I don’t believe any woman would be happy with my son, he’s available for himself and no one else.’ The wives, and lovers, of Pablo Picasso • Ben Okri’s ‘Madame Sosostris’ is a masquerade of literary illusions and insufferable navel-gazers • Sturgill Simpson at Vicar Street: Cosmic country maverick let’s his superb music do the talking • The sexts of early explorers and using polar bears to pull sledges – Erling Kagge’s The North Pole is full of discoveries • Book Review: Adrian Duncan sculpts a serious, artistic and challenging novel • The Vanishing Point by Paul Theroux: If this is his last round–up, his final words are good and true ones • The black pioneers who gave Elvis Presley his ‘leg-shaking things’ and much more • The JFK Conspiracy sheds light on a failed secret plot to kill Kennedy before president ever took office • Eric Dezenhall's Wise Guys and the White House is a fascinating delve into mobsters and the American presidents they influenced • The Best Books Of 2024 | Hotpress • Gig review: The Pogues and friends provide rousing revival of debut album at 3Arena • U2 Special: "Sometimes we move on too quickly and some real beauties can be left behind" | Hotpress • Damien Dempsey: We should play trad music in church every Sunday • Tom Waits' The Heart Of A Saturday Night still sounds smoky on anniversary coloured vinyl • Mötley Crüe rock like a rowboat in a typhoon on the 35th Anniversary edition of Dr Feelgood • Business Post Book Reviews • Night & Day by John Connolly: An entertaining collection of short stories • James Lawless’s Helios starts with a fine premise but descends into a Carry On caper in the Spanish sun • Nick Cave review: Aussie star is magnificent, malevolent and moving at 3Arena, Dublin • Christy Moore review: Superb set at Vicar Street proves he's no ordinary man • Chris Stapleton at 3Arena: Soulful, deep and intimate – and the crowd sang every word • Sack: Wake Up People! – Irish indie veterans release their best album • Crowded House at 3Arena: The close-knit family band display real warmth in an atmospheric gig • Thin Lizzy's big year: Revisited, remixed and thoroughly expanded • Lauryn Hill and the Fugees in Dublin review: Everything fans hoped for in a great show combining soul and power • Simon Delaney on his new projects: a crime thriller novel and a film with Andrew Scott • Rock of ages: David Hepworth on why the show goes on for music’s resilient old guard • Dermot Bolger pokes at old sores in masterful novel full of secrets • My Favourite Things: Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid | Hotpress • Kris Kristofferson at The Olympia Theatre | Hotpress • Stephen Fry’s Odyssey skilfully pays homage to Homer’s wandering hero • Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari: A worrying and fascinating history of information networks • ‘I have no hobbies; writing is what I do’: At 67, author Robert Harris has no plans to slow down • Chernobyl Roulette - A War Story, by Serhii Plokhy: Gripping and unsettling account of Russian misadventure • Robert Harris’s Precipice holds a blowtorch to war-time leader’s affair • "It does what great art is supposed to do, taking the artist's experiences, however dark, and making them universal": Nick Cave returns to the water on Wild God • Coldplay in Croke Park review: Croker loses its collective mind to choruses purpose-built for this kind of night out • Coldplay ready to rock fans at Croke and make the critics choke • Pat Barker’s latest in ancient Greece trilogy gives voice to Trojan women • AC/DC review: Blistering gig at Croke Park, Dublin, proves Aussie rockers are the greatest • AC/DC: We salute them — and all those about to rock at Croke Park • Imelda May guides the new voices of Electric Picnic • Aston Barrett Jr on The Wailers return to Waterford’s All Together Now • Bogus adventure from Keanu Reeves fails to come together so wait for the movie instead • Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc is a sobering study of global states which leave democracy in the bin • A Lazarus Soul on their new music and being covered by Christy Moore • Operation Biting: Richly detailed account of key WWII manoeuvre • Paul Weller review: That's entertainment as Modfather thrills at Trinity • Stevie Nicks Live Review: Fleetwood Mac singer flies solo in Dublin • Manic Street Preachers And Suede Live In Dublin Review: Double header provides dream night out • Liam Gallagher at 3Arena review: A near-religious 1990s experience delivered by that wondrous voice • Pearl Jam Live Review: Seattle vets make an epic return to Dublin • Out now: Asylum Albums 1976-1980 finds Joni Mitchell inhabiting the art department • Mike Scott on playing Musgrave Park and why Cork is 'Ireland’s seat of poetry and music' • Adam Higginbotham’s admirably researched story of the Challenger space shuttle disaster • Tom Jones and Nile Rodgers & Chic in St Anne’s Park review: groove, soul and a good night out • ‘A slow apprenticeship’: Why Kevin Barry’s new book has been decades in the making • Did the world’s most notorious pirate end up spying for his king? Depends who you choose to believe • Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession offers intriguing panoramas of life, death and other messes • Richard Hawley review: Sheffield star shines at Olympia in Dublin • Rod Stewart review: Hot stuff from the 79-year-old despite the rain in Dublin • Pat Carty with Steven Van Zandt - Full interview Audio • Album Review: Paul Weller - 66 | Hotpress • Steven Van Zandt on Bruce Springsteen's recent Irish gigs, and life with The Boss • Bryan Adams review: Canadian rocker rolls out the hits at 3Arena • Richard Hawley: I'll never forget the Irish venues that backed me early on • Bruce Springsteen in Dublin review: The Boss brings curtain down on glorious Irish sojourn • Gig review: Eric Clapton joined onstage by Paul Brady at 3Arena, Dublin • Crowded House: we’re excited for Ireland tour, even if there’s another pint disaster • Bruce Springsteen's 10 best albums — ranked • The Black Keys review: Straight to the point with meaty set at 3Arena, Dublin • Roland Philipps’s Broken Archangel charts the rise and fall of Roger Casement, a naive Irish hero • Nuclear War: A Scenario: Meticulously researched fictional account of N Korea attacking US • Interview: Rich Robinson on The Black Crowes and Happiness Bastards | Hotpress • "It all becomes a bit by-numbers": Sheryl Crow fails to evolve on unambitious Evolution album • Donegal drifter in Anthony Glavin’s Way Out West is a tad too aimless • Gig review: Simple Minds alive and kicking as they roll out the hits at 3Arena, Dublin • The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards. Classic Rock Review. • Gig review: Mixed bag from Liam Gallagher and John Squire at Olympia, Dublin • Tale of 12 shipwrecks dives deep beneath the waves to reveal the past • Fourteen Days: Stories about pandemic shut-ins in New York from Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Celeste Ng, Scott Turow and Emma Donoghue • Mike Scott: ‘I think U2 learnt a lot from the Waterboys’ • Rebecca Boyle takes us on a time-travelling odyssey around the moon • The Underground Sea by John Berger: A timely collection with still-striking thoughts • The Superannuated Man - Carty's Musical Memories Of 2023 | Hotpress • Armchair Theatre: The Best Books Of 2023 | Hotpress • Shane MacGowan: the man who made Irish music cool • How drugs ruined Sly Stone’s career and this frustrating story of his life • ‘Indomitable Irishry’: How Yeats helped radicalise Ireland — and vice versa • Ranulph Fiennes pays tribute to his hero Lawrence of Arabia • Sticky Fingers, Tattoo You... Pat Carty ranks the Rolling Stones' 10 best albums • Arctic Monkeys in Dublin review: Alex Turner and co kick hard at triumphant 3Arena gig • Kraftwerk in Limerick review: German pioneers nudge King John's Castle into the electronic age • All the people, so many people, hand in hand in their Blur love • Peter Gabriel review: Brilliant blend of old and new at 3Arena, Dublin • Christy Dignam funeral: He’s one of ours, we’re gonna miss him • Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson: Writing with the true language of our souls • The Sleep Watcher by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: a young woman’s awakenings • Michael Bublé apologises for being too sexy as he reels off greatest hits in Dublin • Bruce Springsteen Dublin review: Sunday Times • Articles, Reviews And Pontifications for Hot Press Magazine • The Record Machine on 103.2 Dublin City FM • Twitter • Facebook