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	Emergenza Information	Dec 09, 2009 - Apr 27, 2010
Emergenza is the world's biggest festival for unsigned bands, with an average of 6,000 bands participating every year in 200 different cities all over the world. Every year the national finalists gets to spend three days in Germany at the Taubertal Open Air festival, where the world final takes place, with an average of 30,000 people showing up over the weekend. This is where, every year, the best band wins a professional production for their first album and where plenty of other musicians are rewarder for their skills with prizes from the festival's sponsors.

	Highly RecommendedDara O'BriainVicar Street, Dublin @ 20:30 Comedy • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Buy Tickets
After leaving college, Ó Briain began working at RTÉ as a children's TV presenter. At this time he also began performing his first stand-up gigs on the Irish comedy circuit. He admitted, "I did the trip from Donegal to Dublin to play to six people; then I turned round and drove home again. I did about three or four years playing to a lot of bad rooms, but learning as I went. It's not bad when someone gives you 40 quid for standing up and telling jokes. I remember thinking: 'This is the life.'"

	Highly RecommendedHaiti Fundraise: BATS + Groom + Hunter Gatherer + DJsThe Mezz, Dublin @ 20:00 Information	Feb 04, 2010 €10
Three bands, DJs, and lots of bakers come together to help raise money for GOAL in Haiti. Bands: BATS - Hunter-Gatherer - Groom DJs: Nialler9 - Popical Island Djs - The Mary Jane Girls

	Highly RecommendedJape + Giraffes (Trinity Rag Ball Gig)POD, Dublin @ 22:30 Indie	Feb 04, 2010

	Highly RecommendedLeviathan: Political CabaretButton Factory, Dublin @ 20:00 Monologue • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €17.50 Buy Tickets
With Mark Little. Second Republic: A New Constitution for Ireland? With a panel including Brendan Halligan, chairman of the Institute of International and European Affairs; lecturer and columnist with The Irish Times, Elaine Byrne; Senator Rónán Mullen; and one of Ireland’s foremost constitutional experts Gerard Hogan SC. There will also be entertainment of a political and scandalous hue from Paddy Cullivan and The Emergency: Live.

	Highly RecommendedNo CrowsOdessa Club, Dublin @ 20:30 Folk • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €10
Members in for free.

	RecommendedDirty 9sShebeen Chic, Dublin @ 20:00 Indie • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
The Dirty 9s formed in 2008 and haven't wasted anytime in their mission to take their music to as many people as possible. Named after the less than flattering nickname given to their local bus service -the 39 the Dublin five piece first came to the public's attention when they won the €10,000 grand prize on Irish TV Show Deis Roc.

	RecommendedeimogTower Records, Dublin @ 17:00 Electronica • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
In-store. Since their first live appearances, Eimog have been steadily attracting the attention of both audience and critics by staging awe-inspiring, emotionally transcendent atmospheric performances. Four months after they were formed, Eimog teamed up with indie band Fine Before You Came for a series of live concerts around Italy. The experience helped the band consolidating their live sound as well as expanding their fan base. Shortly after the successful live experience with Fine Before You Came, Eimog released a 6-song demo tape called “Untitled ”. The demo tape was self-produced and self-distributed and was very well received by their increasing number of fans. The band made it twice to the finals of Italia Wave Love Festival and won a number of national music contests, gaining more confidence as they toured and played their instrumental set in front of bigger audiences.

	RecommendedKarl Spain + Zoe Lyons + Ciaran Lawless + Keith FarnanLaughter Lounge, Dublin @ 20:30 Comedy • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €26 Buy Tickets
Karl Spain:"The future of Irish comedy is in safe hands" - Hot Press Zoe Lyons: A comedy goddess! - Outrageously funny with a blast of genius and originality - UK Ciaran Lawless: Brilliant Irish comedian - see him before he becomes famous! Keith Farnan: Former lawyer turned comic is legally obliged to make you laugh - case dismissed!

	Art StudiesNational Gallery, Dublin @ 18:30 Art • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
The Shock of the New: 20th Century Graphic Art Lecturer Dr Angela Griffith, Trinity College Dublin

	Beatdown: DJ Handsome PaddyPygmalion, Dublin @ 22:30 DJ • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
Hudson Mohawke, Flying Lotus, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Joker, J Dilla, Glitch Mob, Lee Fields, Harmonic 313 and Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings.

	Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA CollectionIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €0
Between Metaphor and Object features a range of works from the IMMA Collection, primarily sculptures and installation works from the 1990s. It provides perspectives on the diversity of practice that is represented in the IMMA Collection from this period, explores its particularities, and considers them in the context of international trends of the decade. The title of the exhibition references perceived polarities in art since the 1960s and also proposes the idea of the continuous flux visited upon artworks in the mind of the viewer between symbolism and objecthood. Notably the exhibition incorporates a number of pieces from the Weltkunst Collection, which is on loan to IMMA since 1994. This significant collection of British sculpture and drawings of the 1980s and ‘90s will return to the Weltkunst Foundation in 2010 and the exhibition acknowledges the generous loan of these works.

	Big Time!The Bernard Shaw, Dublin DJ • Information	Feb 04, 2010
YouTube nights, hat partys... make and do for grown-ups.

	Cobra StarshipThe Academy, Dublin @ 19:30	Feb 04, 2010 €16.50

	Control/DeleteAndrew's Lane Theatre, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €4
Indie and electro.

	Dinosaur EncounterAmbassador Theatre, Dublin @ 10:00 Exhibition • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €10
Nobody has ever seen a living dinosaur, but scientists can give us a good idea of what they looked like and how they moved. We often imagine dinosaurs as colossal flesh-eating beasts that lived on our planet for an incredible 160 million years. Some were indeed gigantic, but many were only as heavy as a Labrador dog and many were vegetarian! Did you know that the Ornithomimus could run faster than an Olympic sprinter? See how the sociable Triceratops lived in herds, caring for and protecting their young. Meet Dilophosaurus, a relative of the first dinosaur found in Scotland. Come face to face with the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the fiercest land predators ever known. This massive animatronic model, 4 metres tall and 7 metres long, is so lifelike you’ll think it’s the real thing! Walk past the head of a hungry Tyrannosaurus and watch as his terrifying jaws go SNAP!

	Dirty Car Tape Bastards + Pocket Aces + Hassle MerchantsShebeen Chic, Dublin @ 20:00 Acoustic	Feb 04, 2010 €5

	Eamonn Barrett4 Dame Lane, Dublin @ 22:00 DJ • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
One of Dublin's most in demand DJs and its easy to hear why. Eamonn brings his infectious energy to the decks when he plays. He likes to mix it up and have fun. Expect lots of sonic booms with an indie electro slant !

	eimogWhelans, Dublin @ 22:30 Electronica • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
In-store. Since their first live appearances, Eimog have been steadily attracting the attention of both audience and critics by staging awe-inspiring, emotionally transcendent atmospheric performances. Four months after they were formed, Eimog teamed up with indie band Fine Before You Came for a series of live concerts around Italy. The experience helped the band consolidating their live sound as well as expanding their fan base. Shortly after the successful live experience with Fine Before You Came, Eimog released a 6-song demo tape called “Untitled ”. The demo tape was self-produced and self-distributed and was very well received by their increasing number of fans. The band made it twice to the finals of Italia Wave Love Festival and won a number of national music contests, gaining more confidence as they toured and played their instrumental set in front of bigger audiences.

	IsotopeJJ Smyths, Dublin @ 21:00 Jazz • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €10
Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

	MashSouthwilliam, Dublin @ 21:00 DJ • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
Mash-up breaks edits dubs & versions.

	MuzikButton Factory, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 04, 2010
Up-beat indie, new wave, bouncy electro.

	PaperplaneThe Joinery, Dublin @ 11:00 Art • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
Paperplane responds to recent negotiations between European editors and an internet search engine regarding a lucrative and legislated agreement on the digitisation of the world’s books. Fears that the world’s ‘last library’ might be controlled as a commercial enterprise have sparked debate about the future of literature in light of the proliferation of virtual records as well as the simultaneous decline of readership. Digitisation allows for more practical and accessible circulation of texts and for new life to be breathed into forgotten publications. Consequently, however, the book in its physical form becomes a rarefied object of obsolete function.

	Picturing New YorkIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 14:00 Photography • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €0
Picturing New York comprises 145 masterworks from the photographic collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, covering the period from the 1880s to the present day. It celebrates the tradition of photographing New York, a tradition that frames and influences the perception of this vibrant urban centre. Including photographs by such influential photographers as Berenice Abbot, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Alfred Stieglitz and Cindy Sherman, it explores both New York and its inhabitants, highlighting associations – from the vast, overwhelming architecture and bright lights, to the diversity of people that lie at the soul of the city.

	Real DJs presents Soul @ SolasSolas, Dublin @ 20:00 DJ • Information	Feb 04, 2010
Resident DJ Mr Razor delivers a mix of funk, jazz, hip-hop and latin beats.

	Rolling and TumblingFoggy Dew, Dublin @ 21:00 Rock • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
They say of themselves: "Is Stones, but is blues, rock, soul, dance... as well!"

	Scott KohlmannBewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Jazz • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €10
Scott Kohlmann, jazz guitarist from Dublin. Has been playing around the Dublin jazz scene for about three years now. Studied in Newpark Music Centre for three years and currently studying classical guitar. This gig will consist of mainly original compositions and arrangments of well known standards. The line up is Johnny Taylor (piano), Mick Cody (double bass) and Dominic Mullen (drums).

	SoundcheckSpy, Dublin @ 19:00 DJ • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
Unarocks and Sarah J Fox play indie rock'n'roll.

	The Party by Anton ChekhovBewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin @ 13:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €15
Includes light lunch. At her husband's lavish birthday party, Olya is tired - tired of the guests, tired and angry with her husband, who is flirting with the young girls. And tired for that other reason... Because Olya has a secret. A secret that she hides from them all with catastrophic effects.

	Thursday Night Rock at the Baggot InnThe Baggot Inn, Dublin @ 21:00 Rock	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event

	Thursdays @ Cafe en SeineCafe en Seine, Dublin @ 20:00 DJ • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
DJs and dancing 'til 2.30am, cocktail promotions.

	Tommy FlemingNational Concert Hall, Dublin @ 20:00 Folk • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €35
Tommy Fleming is know as the "Voice of Ireland" wherever he travels across the world his unique and powerful voice has captivated audiences .As one of Ireland most successful male singers each year he returns to Ireland for his annual tour Tommy's concerts at the National Concert Hall are always very special. Tommy will be joined by his 10 piece band for 2 concerts in February 2010.

	What Happens Next Is A SecretIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event
This is an experimental exhibition which attempts to addresses the question of what happens when artworks become part of a collection and are subsequently shown in many different contexts. Working from a potential list of works, the artworks will be changed during the course of the exhibition, with removal of artworks generating absences which call to mind gaps in our memory and point to the partially hidden nature of Museum collections. Additions of works will draw out new and perhaps unexpected associations, and new narratives will emerge within the overall structure of the exhibition. Other strategies such as repositioning works within the exhibition will be used to alter the pace of the exhibition. A list of these potential works will not be disclosed in advance.

	The GuitarmanThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 14:00 Folk	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event

	Adrian O'KeeffeThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 17:30 Folk	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event

	Little Gem by Elaine MurphyAbbey Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 04, 2010 €25
Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the Sambucas aren’t getting rid of it. Lorraine attacks a customer at work and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist. Kay’s got an itch that Gem can’t scratch (but maybe Kermit can). Paul is just using Amber until he can get to Australia. The Hairy Man fancies Lorraine but fails to rise to the occasion, and Gem doesn’t like the neighbours coming in to ‘mind’ him. And if all that wasn’t bad enough, Little Gem makes his presence felt and…well…life is never the same again.

	The FolksmenThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 20:30 Folk	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event

	George MurphyThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 23:30 Folk	Feb 04, 2010 Free Event

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