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Billy Ocean is the biggest black recording star Britain has ever produced, having sold more than 30 million records in his lifetime. Ocean got his first break when he signed to GTO records, for which his second single was the Motown-ish ‘Love Really Hurts Without You’, which reached number two in the UK charts and number 12 in the US. On Bank Holiday Sunday May 6 he will be taking to the stage in the Royal Theatre Castlebar, with tickets costing €33.20 and the show starting at 8.30pm.

Billy Ocean is the biggest black recording star Britain has ever produced, having sold more than 30 million records in his lifetime. Ocean got his first break when he signed to GTO records, for which his second single was the Motown-ish ‘Love Really Hurts Without You’, which reached number two in the UK charts and number 12 in the US. On Bank Holiday Sunday May 6 he will be taking to the stage in the Royal Theatre Castlebar, with tickets costing €33.20 and the show starting at 8.30pm.

Billy Ocean is the biggest black recording star Britain has ever produced, having sold more than 30 million records in his lifetime. Billy got his first break when he signed to GTO records, for which his second single was the Motown-ish ‘Love Really Hurts Without You’, which reached number two in the UK charts and number 12 in the US. On Bank Holiday Sunday May 6 he will be taking to the stage in the Royal Theatre Castlebar, with tickets costing €33.20 and the show starting at 8.30pm.

Billy Ocean is the biggest black recording star Britain has ever produced, one who has sold more than 30 million records in his lifetime. And he is coming to the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Bank Holiday Sunday May 6.

HOT MIKADO, the jazz-infused adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s wonderful The Mikado will be performed by Loughrea Youth Theatre throughout this month.

THEY ARE brothers in hip hop, part of the music’s ‘golden age’, yet still a going concern, keen to look for new ways to express themselves; they are innovators, legends, but also laid back and nice guys. They are De La Soul.

His name may have raised one or two eyebrows when his 2002 album Lapalco appeared alongside luminaries like Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys and The White Stripes on The Irish Times’ top 20 albums of the last decade.

There’s only one place to be this Friday night if you want to get your weekend off to a rocking start and that’s Bar Ritz, Main Street, Castlebar, where legendary soul sensation Buck Taylor will be taking to the stage. The Kentucky native has made his name as one of the best soul and Motown singers around, and he will be bringing his own version of the sound of young America live on stage in Bar Ritz. Buck’s new album Sweet Soul Music, is a 13 song journey through the history of R’n’B and soul music, with song like Sam and Dave’s “Soul Man”, Al Green’s “Let’s stay together”, and Jackie Wilson’s “Higher and Higher” all taking centre stage on the album. If Buck is not your cup of tea, then Saturday night’s acoustic session with Linda and Conor in Bar Ritz may be just what you are looking for instead.

HOMER’S ODYSSEY has proved an unending source of inspiration to countless artists down the ages since it was first composed, sometime around the 8th century BC.

DETROIT HAS given the world sweet soul music through Motown and the genesis of punk with The Stooges. For The Dirtbombs, it was natural to combine the two musics spawned by their home city.