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Everything you need to know about Billy Ocean, Bastille and David Gray at Cardiff Castle: Stage times, road closures, banned items and more

Yup, there's a load more gigs on at Cardiff Castle this week - here's a jam-packed guide with everything you need to know

[Bastille, Billy Ocean and David Gray]

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Bastille, Billy Ocean and David Gray bring their finest performances to Cardiff Castle this week

Three more acts are visiting Cardiff this month to entertain crowds at the city's castle. Following on from Katy Perry, Bowling For Soup, and the Blackbird Festival, July 9-11 sees soul pop legend Billy Ocean, indie lads Bastille and soulful piano hitmaker David Gray on stage at the iconic venue.

The action at the castle continues until mid-August with acts like Sex Pistols, Hollywood Vampires, and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. From superstar gigs to cosy pubs, find out Whats On in Wales by signing up to our newsletter here.

Below you'll find all the details you need to know as Cardiff Castle gears up for another few days of live music:

Event dates

• Billy Ocean - Thursday, July 9
• Bastille - Friday, July 10
• David Gray - Friday, July 11

Support acts

Billy Ocean has former Wet Wet Wet frontman, Marti Pellow as a special guest, while David Gray has Irish whimsy indie gods, The Divine Comedy opening for him.

Bastille on Friday has two guest acts, Arthur Hill and Carpetman.

Event times

Billy Ocean - Thursday, July 9 - Katie Owen DJ at 6pm/Marti Pellow - 7pm/Billy Ocean - 9pm

The event times for all three gigs will be shared later this week. We will update this as soon as we get them.

Road information for Cardiff Castle events

Castle Street will close half an hour before the events end and reopen when the crowds disperse.

For full Cardiff city centre road closure information, please click here.

Banned items for Depot Live gigs at Cardiff Castle

Chairs, portable furniture, inflatables or foldable furniture are not allowed into the castle.

Food and drink are not permitted however there are food and drink concessions within the event.

Sealed bottles of soft drinks or water under 500ml are permitted. Additionally you can take in an empty reusable water bottle of any size. You can bring metal, plastic or other materials, but not glass. There will be free water refill stations at the venue.

If you have a medical condition, a doctors note will permit diet-specific food and drink only.

Assistance dogs are permitted on site.

If you are bringing a registered assistance dog, please do let Depot know in the accessible requirements form that is emailed to you by Ticketmaster after purchasing accessible tickets.

Alternatively, please contact them at access@depotcardiff.com

Small bags/rucksacks are permitted. Bag searches will be in operation.

The full list of banned items are:

• Alcohol
• Signs
• Luggage
• Computers, laptops, iPads and tablets
• Large bags over A4
• Selfie sticks
• Professional cameras
• Cans
• Drugs
• Helmets
• Air horns
• Lasers
• Animals except guide dogs
• Glass bottles
• Spray cans
• Flags
• Umbrellas
• Chairs
• Flares or fireworks
• Toxic substances
• Weapons (including replicas)
• Perfumes
• Explosives, signalling devices, smoking devices, and very-lights
• Medicines without a prescription or justification
• Skateboards and other personal motorised and non-motorised vehicles
• Knives, syringes, and scalpels

How to enter Cardiff Castle

General admission for Cardiff Castle gigs is via North Gate, at the back of the castle.

Here's a site map to illustrate:

[A map of Cardiff Castle ]

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A map of Cardiff Castle

Set lists

Billy Ocean's set list could look something like this:

• One World
• Love Really Hurts Without You
• Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)
• Stay the Night
• Red Light Spells Danger
• Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
• The Colour of Love
• No Woman, No Cry (Bob Marley & The Wailers cover)
• Mystery
• Suddenly
• Loverboy
• When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
• Daylight
• Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)

Bastille's set list could look like this:

• Things We Lost in the Fire
• Shut Off the Lights
• Good Grief
• Oblivion (Outro : Quarter Past Midnight acoustic)
• Blame
• Hope for the Future
• Doom Days
• Adagio for Strings / Bite Down / No Angels / Requiem for Blue Jeans / Don't Let Go (Love) / bad_news / Weapon / Dreams / What Would You Do? (Other Peoples Heartache Medley)
• Of the Night
• In the Light of the Morning
• Send Them Off!
• Happier (Marshmello & Bastille song)
• SAVE MY SOUL
• Pompeii

And David Gray's set list could look like this:

• Leave Taking
• My Oh My
• Be Mine
• Dead in the Water
• The Other Side
• Plus & Minus
• White Ladder
• Please Forgive Me
• Silver Lining
• Shine (Acoustic)
• Flame Turns Blue (Half acoustic then full band.)
• You're the World to Me
• The One I Love
• Hospital Food
• Singing for the Pharaoh
• Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode cover)
• Babylon

ENCORE

• This Year's Love
• Here Comes the Rain Again (Eurythmics cover)
• I Me Mine (The Beatles cover)
• Sail Away

Ticket info

There are tickets left for this week's three gigs and you can find them at Ticketmaster. For the entire list of acts still coming to Cardiff Castle this summer, click here.

Where to park?

There is lots of parking in Cardiff city centre including at Sophia Gardens and the Civic Centre - both very near to the castle. City centre car parks are also available at: St David's Shopping Centre, John Lewis, Capitol Shopping Centre, and NCP (Adam Street, Dumfries Place and Greyfriars Road).

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