Seasick Steve Love & Peace YOU don't picture Seasick Steve as a hippy, but the cover of his new album features a hand making a peace sign and clutching a flower, and he did spend the 1960s in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, ground zero for the Summer of Love.

On June 19 – or Juneteenth as it is called in the US – Jason Mraz announced on Twitter that he was donating all his earnings from his latest album to six social justice charities, including Black Lives Matter.

In Belfast, back in the days of sunshine and big, fun-filled gatherings and hugs and sweet, sweet music, you could go into a music venue or a pub, or a hall, and hear all kinds of music that would raise your spirits.

It's hard to overstate the cultural impact and global success of Hamilton.

Boyzlife Strings Attached BOYZONE and Westlife – two of the biggest boybands to emerge from Ireland during the 90s, both manufactured in the Louis Walsh pop factory, both charting numerous number ones.

"I wrote this album for me and I have successfully satisfied 100 per cent of that target audience," says a buoyant Jack Garratt as sits down, albeit virtually, for a chat.

A TALENTED singer and dancer she may be, but Pixie Lott is not, by her own admission, an expert when it comes to kitchen endeavours.

BETWEEN 1973 and early 1975, John Lennon split with Yoko Ono, took up with his assistant May Pang and embarked on a period of intense creativity and outrageous behaviour.