Dr Hook are bound for Cork

That means you can expect to hear the likes of 'When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman', 'Cover of the Rolling Stone' and 'Sylvia's Mother.'

The show will take place in the Cork Opera House on Friday, October 30. Eye-patch wearing frontman Ray Sawyer is touring with a new band, not the original Medicine Show. His current style is harder edged then his previous country-rock and pop efforts, but the humour is still there.

You might expect antics like these, from way-a-way back in the day: