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title: "Gilbert O’Sullivan brings his 60-year tour to Jersey Opera House"
url: https://www.nsfw.info/gilbert-osullivan-60-year-tour-jersey-opera-house/
published: 2026-10-12T13:00:49+00:00
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summary: "Gilbert O'Sullivan will perform at the Jersey Opera House on 3 December, adding a special Island date to his UK tour marking 60 years in music."
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# Gilbert O’Sullivan brings his 60-year tour to Jersey Opera House

**In brief:** Jersey-based singer-songwriter Gilbert O’Sullivan will perform at the Jersey Opera House on 3 December as part of his UK tour marking 60 years in music. The Irish musician, behind classics such as *Alone Again (Naturally)* and *Clair*, will play songs from across his career alongside material from his 21st studio album. Tickets are available at jerseyoperahouse.co.uk.

## A Local Legend Comes Home

Despite having lived in Jersey for many years, Gilbert O’Sullivan only gave his first performances on the Island earlier this year, making the newly announced Opera House date all the more significant for local fans. The Jersey Evening Post reports that a special date has been added on Thursday 3 December at the Opera House, tacked on to the end of a UK tour that began on 1 September at Malvern Theatres and winds through Milton Keynes, Edinburgh, Bristol, Liverpool and Portsmouth before arriving on our shores.

It is, when you think about it, a pleasingly quirky footnote in Island life: one of the most recognisable voices in British pop history has been quietly living here all this time, and Jersey only recently got around to rolling out the welcome mat. Better late than never, as the man himself might say.

## Sixty Years and Counting

O’Sullivan first found major success with *Nothing Rhymed* in 1970, and what followed was a career that most artists would trade their entire back catalogue for. According to the Jersey Evening Post, he has accumulated 16 Top 40 records, including six number ones, and his songwriting has earned him three Ivor Novello Awards, among them Songwriter of the Year, as well as three Grammy nominations.

The hits that will fill the Opera House on 3 December read like a greatest-hits playlist from a particularly well-curated radio station: *Alone Again (Naturally)*, *Clair*, *Get Down* and *Nothing Rhymed* are among the songs spanning his career. He will also perform new material from *On The Record*, his 21st studio album, demonstrating that six decades in the business have done nothing to blunt his creative output.

## Getting Your Hands on Tickets

For anyone wishing to attend, tickets are available through the Jersey Opera House website at jerseyoperahouse.co.uk/events/gilbert-osullivan-celebrating-60-years-of-music. Given that this is a special addition to an already busy UK tour, and given the Island connection, demand from local audiences is likely to be strong. Those who missed his earlier Jersey performances this year will not want to let this one slip by.

## The NSFW Perspective

There is something quietly wonderful about the fact that Jersey has its very own Grammy-nominated, Ivor Novello-winning pop legend living down the road, and that it took the Island the better part of several years to put him on a local stage. One suspects that if Jersey had a resident with 16 Top 40 hits and six number ones in, say, Nashville or Nashville’s spiritual equivalent, there would be a statue, a street name and a themed afternoon tea by now.

Still, the Opera House on a December evening, with one of the genuinely great British songwriters of the last half-century performing material from a 60-year career: that is a night out worth clearing the diary for. Jersey audiences who appreciate real craft in popular music, the kind built on melody, wit and proper songwriting rather than algorithmic production, should consider this essential viewing.

*Source: [Jersey Evening Post](https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2026/10/12/gilbert-osullivan-to-celebrate-60-years-in-showbiz-with-opera-house-show)*