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The legendary Status Quo tour comes to The Royal Castlebar Theatre and Event Centre on Saturday February 7. It is estimated that Status Quo have played more than 6,000 live shows to a total audience in excess of 25 million people. In doing so, the band have travelled some four million miles and spent over 23 years on the road.

IT IS 1970 in New York. Five guys are bored with the music they hear, the fashion they see on the streets, and the pace of life. They decide to join forces as a rock’n’roll band, inject some mischief into music, and most of all, be themselves and live their lives as they want to. They are the New York Dolls.

THEY HAVE been described by The Guardian as “the best African band in the world”. Live, they have played support to The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Their musical scope is such that in a recent interview Chris Martin said Tinariwen was a “great influence” on Coldplay’s new album Viva La Vida.

“I DON’T think of our band as a folk band - many of the other members would disagree with me - I think we’re a punk rock band,” O’Death bassist Jesse Newman, tells me over the phone from New York. “We know how to have a good time on stage and off.”

FIDDLE PLAYER John Carty is one of the greatest practitioners of Irish traditional music and his virtuosity has been much praised. In 2003 he was TG4’s Traditional Musician of the Year and joined the ranks of previous winners such as Tommy Peoples, Matt Molloy and Paddy Keenan.

Amsterdam Beat Club parties feature top DJs, live bands, burlesque shows, go-go dancers, musical side-shows and cult film projections. For the first time in Westport, the Amsterdam Beat Club Deejay-Veejay duo Charley Rhythm and Ir Vendermuelen aka The Scopi-Tonics will take you on a crazy trip through the fabulous fifties and sixties, using stacks of original vinyl and movie material.

JABBA THE Hut was a nasty piece of work, the galaxy’s leading criminal, he had a score to settle with Hans Solo, and inspired the name of an Irish indie/electro/pop act.

THE LATE John Martyn, the man behind such classic albums as Solid Air and One World, was a fan of Ultan Conlon, so much so that he took time out too record with the Loughrea singer-songwriter.