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Superfly is Kilkenny's newest club night, the brain child of organisers Don Kennedy & Richard O'Brien, bringing all things soulful and funky to the city in the front bar of McSorely's tonight.

TERRY REID could have been the lead singer in Led Zeppelin. Richie Blackmore wanted him to be Deep Purple’s frontman. Both incidents have gone down in legend to cast Terry as rock’s ‘great nearly man...’, but to think this way is to forget that Terry Reid has always been his own man.

One of the most remarkably gifted and versatile female artists ever to come out of Ireland, Maria Doyle Kennedy is appearing at the Hole In The Wall in Kilkenny on Saturday April next.

THE BLUES Brothers, one of the best loved films of all time, will be shown in The Eye Cinema on Monday at 7pm.

DJs Johnny and Finbar launched their first soul night in Rowlands Bar way back in 2006. They were relative newcomers to the soul scene in Castlebar although Finbar Hoban had made his DJ debut back in 2001 in the Humbert Inn, which had also seen the likes of DJs Dave Barry and Uggie Horkan take the role of serving up some splendid soul and northern soul nights back at the turn of the decade.

THE INDIE film screenwriter Mary Case is well known for her phrase “No pressure, no diamonds.” It’s true. Sometimes you need a bit of pressure or stress to force you into action. One woman who can testify to this is Brigid Power Ryce .

Fancy following in the steps of Westlife and Boyzone? The time is ripe for a new boy band to inject energy into the music business, and talented young men from across the Midlands are being sought to try out for this exciting opportunity.

GALWAY SOUL singer Lucia Evans has released her debut album Natural Woman and will play a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concert at the Radisson Live Lounge on Friday November 6 at 8pm.

AT JUST 15 Dublin schoolgirl Laura Izibor won the 2FM/Jacob’s Song Contest and her winning song ‘Compatible’ received significant airplay. Hotpress chose her as its ‘Hot for 2006’ artist and she became the first unsigned artist to win a Meteor Award.