Probably not a big surprise but the Guns N' Roses gig at The O2 last night did not go well. Axl Rose walked off stage after only 20 minutes. Fans were left bitterly disappointed after waiting for over an hour for the band to appear on stage.

Trouble was ...

Shimmy Marcus the director of new movie Soul Boy about the northern soul scene. There is a limited release in Ireland. It's showing at the Screen cinema in Dublin and the Gate cinema in Cork. To tie in with the premiere Sleepless Nights Northern Soul night is on this Friday ...

Michael Douglas, making his first public appearance since revealing he's battling throat cancer, he told David Letterman that "expectations are good" and "the percentages are very good" that he'll beat this thing.

"I would hate to say," said the star of the upcoming Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, ...

Today was ‘Invent A New Sandwich Day’ and we asked you to send in your suggestions. Bananas featured heavily! Here are a selection of the weird and the wonderful from this morning:

 Banana and strawberry jam on white sliced pan. Paddy

 How about a crisp and banana sambo! ...

Joe Echo were in studio today to perform their cracking new single "Sink Your Teeth In", which is available from September 4th on iTunes.

You can catch the band on the Crawdaddy Stage at Electric Picnic at 5:30 pm on Friday 3rd September.

Guns N' Roses lead singer Axl Rose claimed his "war" with Reading and Leeds' bosses "wasn't over yet" as they headlined the final night of this year's festival.

They came on stage 30 minutes late after being an hour late at Reading.

They played half an hour over their time ...

May Kay and Tom from Fight Like Apes joined us in studio this morning. Their new album The Body of Christ and The Legs of Tina Turner is out now, available on iTunes for only €4.99. Check out www.fightlikeapesmusic.com for details of all their instore sessions.

Patrick Murphy is the CEO of a new videogame development company operating out of County Limerick. Formed in November 2009 by 3 friends with little to no experience in the field. Developed their first game, Mad Blocker, in January 2010 which has since had over a million plays worldwide. Sony ...

The hit US series Mad Men was among the big winners at this year's Emmy awards, taking the title for best drama series.

The show, set in New York's advertising world, started the evening with 17 nominations, while Glee, a musical series set in a high school, had 19.

George ...

This time last week we didn’t know –

• We didn’t know that Brian Cowen, like Churchill and Obama, is a smoker. He was caught having a puff in Croke Park
• We didn’t know that an English woman would be so cruel as to throw and cat in a ...

Irish band U2's first Russian concert was marred after police arrested activists from rights group Amnesty International before the gig began. A police spokeswoman said they did not have permission to hand out leaflets outside the Moscow event. The head of the human rights group's Moscow office, Sergei Nikitin, said ...

Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Nationwide, 12A

4 out of 5 stars

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright adapts Bryan Lee O’Malley’s cult comic book series Scott Pilgrim vs The World for a fast, funny modern romance.

Scott plays the bass in a ...

Susan Boyle's performances during Britain's Got Talent were reportedly altered with Auto-Tune. It was recently confirmed that Auto-Tuning is used in The X Factor and it has now been suggested that Boyle's voice was enhanced to make her sound better during ITV's other Saturday night reality show. An insider said: ...

The Saw Doctors were in studio this morning - their new single ‘Takin the Train’ is out now and the new album ‘The Further Adventures of The Saw Doctors’ is out Sept 10th. 

In an unlikely twist, the band are to follow American rock superstars Kiss by starring ...

We spoke to Brian Byrne, a 23-year-old NCAD student from Dundrum, Co Dublin, who has just won the Irish James Dyson Award for Design.  

He’s come up with the Flip Ski boot – a ski boot that’s easy to get in and out of. When you take off ...

Josie Gibson won Big Brother last night but returned to the house for Ultimate Big Brother. Chantelle Houghton has been joined by ex-husband Preston along with Nasty Nick Bateman, Ulrika Jonsson and Nikki Grahame in the Ultimate BB house. Brian Dowling, Nadia Almada, Makosi Musambasi, John McCririck and rapper ...

A British woman is the new Guinness World Record holder for fastest typing on a phone. She breaks the old record, held by a Seattle man, by nine seconds.

It took Melissa Thompson of Salford 25.94 seconds to type a complex sentence on a Samsung Galaxy S. The ...

Republic of Loose were in studio this morning. The band take up a four month live residency at the Academy - one Friday each month from September through to December.

• Friday 10th September
• Friday 15th October
• Friday 19th November
• Friday 17th December

Tickets priced €22.50 including booking fee on ...

Kylie Minogue turned up at the Ring O' Bells pub in Somerset to perform a string of hits as a favour to her record company Parlophone. She sang an acoustic version of her current hit 'All the Lovers' as well as '80s classics 'I Should Be So Lucky' and 'Locomotion'. ...

Sports Guard Ireland is a small company that makes gumshields. What makes Sports Guard Ireland unique is that they travel to schools/rugby clubs/hockey clubs, take the dental impression on site and return the custom formed gum-shield within a few days. The gum-shields come in all colours, team colours are available and names can ...