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SLOW CLUB have been called “Sheffield’s very own two person take on The Commitments” by the NME, and their soul-influenced sound is coming to Galway to play Strange Brew at the Róisín on Thursday February 19 at 9pm.

Honda and Motorpark Galway will open the festive season in Galway in real style later this month with an action-packed launch event at the new Honda showroom.

MENTION THE Numero label in some soul circles and you can nearly hear the toes curling due to the company’s preference for replicating original record labels for its own repressed 45s. For others its nice to have an affordable record the way it would originally have looked.

ASKING “WHO is Lee Perry?” is like asking “What is literature?” or “What is colour?” The question is too big. He is the Muhammad Ali of Jamaican music. A pint sized genius with purple hair.

AS I write, shrill shrieks and grunts James Brown would be envious of are busting out of the speakers from my 45rpm copy of ‘I’m A Man’. Indeed the artist’s old nickname ‘Little JB’ comes from his physical and vocal resemblance to Brown. However this is unmistakably Lee Fields, a very different talent.

GET DOWN and get with it for a night of floor filling funk, soul, r’n’b, and Motown with Upbeat Generation upstairs at HALO tomorrow night.

SOUL, FUNK, and old skool r’n’b will be the order of the day when The Papa Zitas bring the Motown Big Band experience to upstairs at Halo Live tomorrow night.

SOUL FANS can look forward to Ireland’s leading Motown big band experience, The Papa Zitas, upstairs at HALO Live tomorrow night from 11pm.

TOMORROW NIGHT sees the launch of a new dance club, Klub Orange, in the Townhouse Bar on Spanish Parade.

PAUL BRADY has been one of Ireland’s most outstanding songwriters of the past 40 years, a position only really challenged by Van Morrison and Phil Lynnot.