Spotify use Times Square billboard to highlight West Cork songwriter

Bill Maybury is the latest artist to be featured on Spotify’s Radar program with a curated playlist containing the songs that he has collaborated on

Bill Maybury, a songwriter from Ballineen in West Cork, on a billboard in Times Square, New York. “It was surreal just seeing your face up in Times Square, with the ads after me was like a Marvel ad and then it’s a Samsung ad and then it's me and it’s like how the hell is this happening.”

From writing songs in a Cork City café to writing lyrics with artists like Cian Ducrot and James Bay, a young songwriter from Ballineen in West Cork said it was “surreal” to see his face on a Times Square billboard for the first time.

Twenty-seven-year-old Bill Maybury said he always wanted to be a songwriter, ever since he was 10 years old and went to pursue songwriting in the School of Music.