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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 05, 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.'"

	RecommendedGroom + Drunken Boat + Gran CasinoThe Lower Deck, Dublin @ 20:00 Pop • Information	Feb 05, 2010 €6
Groom is a pop band from Dublin whose members are Mike, Wil, Brian, Jeroen and Ruan. With three albums under their belt to date: ‘Stitch’ (2004) and ‘All This Happened, More Or Less’ (2006) and ‘At The Natural History Museum’ (2009—out now on US label Tight Ship Records), a fourth is due in March 2010. Groom have played loads of gigs all over Ireland, and are planning on a short tour in Belgium in early 2010, all the while getting audiences to sing/clap/kiss along to their synthy pop/rock songs, calling each other names on stage and sometimes even handing out sweets. And they’ll continue to work hard on their music, because they’re also quite serious, intelligent fellows with an earnest outlook and a strong work ethic. Some of them even wear glasses

	RecommendedLisa O'Neill & BandLe Cirk, Dublin @ 20:00 Singer Songwriter	Feb 05, 2010

	RecommendedKarl Spain + Zoe Lyons + Ciaran Lawless + Keith FarnanLaughter Lounge, Dublin @ 20:30 Comedy • Information	Feb 05, 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!

	Alex MetricSpy, Dublin @ 23:30 DJ	Feb 05, 2010 €5

	BabaloniaSouthwilliam, Dublin @ 21:00 DJ • Information	Feb 05, 2010 Free Event
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	Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA CollectionIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 05, 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.

	CancelledBig Cyc & Czarno CzarniThe Village, Dublin @ 20:00	Feb 05, 2010 €26.50

	Dinosaur EncounterAmbassador Theatre, Dublin @ 10:00 Exhibition • Information	Feb 05, 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!

	Disco Not DiscoShine, Dublin @ 21:30 DJ • Information	Feb 05, 2010
Disco, house, funk & soul.

	DJ BubblesShebeen Chic, Dublin @ 20:00 DJ	Feb 05, 2010 Free Event

	DJ Eamonn BarrettThe Globe, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 05, 2010 Free Event
Eclectic mix of tunes played.

	DJ Loreana - PandamoniumShebeen Chic, Dublin @ 20:00 DJ	Feb 05, 2010 Free Event

	DJ Rob MClub M, Dublin @ 22:00 DJ • Information	Feb 05, 2010
Chart, dance, r&b.

	Do The HustleOdeon, Dublin @ 21:00 DJ	Feb 05, 2010 Free Event

	Fridays @ Cafe en SeineCafe en Seine, Dublin DJ • Information	Feb 05, 2010 Free Event
DJs and dancing until 3am, cocktail promotions.

	InsideOutSolas, Dublin DJ • Information	Feb 05, 2010
Soulful disco.

	John Digweed + LRBPOD, Dublin @ 23:00 House	Feb 05, 2010 €20

	PaperplaneThe Joinery, Dublin @ 11:00 Art • Information	Feb 05, 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 05, 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.

	Rory Montane + Aoife NicCanna + Brazillian Marina4 Dame Lane, Dublin @ 22:30 DJ • Information	Feb 05, 2010 Free Event
Both floors of 4 Dame Lane in action with two very different styles on offer. The bar holds court to Rory Montane - a backstage favorite at Oxegen and Slane - with his big bag of guitars and electronic goodies. The club has two favourite lady DJs - Aoife NicCanna and Brazillian Marina. Playing a mix of house and latin breaks and beats.

	RTE National Symphony Orchestra: Hugh TinneyNational Concert Hall, Dublin @ 20:00 Classical • Information	Feb 05, 2010 €10 - €35
Exciting young conductor Dmitri Jurowski of the famous musical dynasty makes his RTÉ NSO début. Shostakovich’s youthful concerto is witty and colourful, a panoply of parody and knockabout. Tchaikovsky’s 4th is full of volatile contrasts: biting drama, profound melancholy, shattering tragedy, and an emotional tension arguably unsurpassed in the symphonic repertoire for its sheer physical thrill. Stand back!

	The Ben Reel BandJJ Smyths, Dublin @ 21:00 Rock • Information	Feb 05, 2010 €10
A native of South Armagh, and basing himself in Monaghan, The Ben Reel Band have just released their fourth album, ‘New Horizon’, to rave reviews and some major airplay around the world, which also has not gone unnoticed by some of the world’s biggest record companies, in particular Sony Columbia NY which has recently offered them a deal. The band has built a solid reputation around the country and further a field as one of the tightest and best live acts around. The music offers a refreshing earthy, soulful, rootsie, and rockin sound, delivered by an excellent set of musicians.

	The Party by Anton ChekhovBewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin @ 13:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 05, 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.

	The ShoosThe Academy, Dublin Information	Feb 05, 2010 €12
Dublin band playing their first headliner.

	What Happens Next Is A SecretIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 05, 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 @ 13:30 Folk	Feb 05, 2010 Free Event

	Pello YellowThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 16:30 Folk	Feb 05, 2010 Free Event

	Gypsy RoversThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 19:00 Folk	Feb 05, 2010 Free Event

	Little Gem by Elaine MurphyAbbey Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 05, 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.

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