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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 RecommendedAt Last An Atlas + WindingsWhelans, Dublin @ 20:00 Electronica • Information	Feb 06, 2010 €7
At last an atlas was born and lives in Dublin Ireland. Currently he writes and records music in the house he grew up in using an organ, synths, sampler, nylon string guitar, vocals, noises and field recordings. At last an atlas' first release is called "Ships Leaving", it is a split album with Paul O'Reilly which was released on April 3rd 2009. His debut album "From Which We Were Raised" will be released on February 6th 2010.

	Highly RecommendedDara O'BriainVicar Street, Dublin @ 20:30 Comedy • Information	Feb 06, 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 RecommendedRugby: Ireland V ItalyCroke Park, Dublin @ 14:30 Rugby • Information	Feb 06, 2010 Buy Tickets
Six Nations. A game where Ireland ought to give Italy a good thrashing.

	CancelledD.I.M.Button Factory, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 06, 2010 €10
Andreas Meid, D.I.M. to you and me, began producing in 2005. Since then as a founder member of Boys Noize Records, he has released worldwide floor fillers such as ‘Is You’, “Airbus” and ‘Sysiphos”. Most recently his latest single ‘Lyposuct’, featured heavily in summer festival sets from the likes of Felix Da Housecat, Boys Noize, 2 Many Djs, Erol Alkan and Tiga. D.I.M is renowned for highly energetic Dj performances.

	RecommendedStrictly HandbagOdeon, Dublin @ 21:00 DJ • Information	Feb 06, 2010 Free Event
"Music with words for your dancing pleasure." Four rooms, three areas, two floors, one handbag. Heated terrace. Free before 11pm. Two for the price of one until 12 midnight. Ten euro after midnight.

	RecommendedKarl Spain + Zoe Lyons + Ciaran Lawless + Keith FarnanLaughter Lounge, Dublin @ 20:30 Comedy • Information	Feb 06, 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!

	A Jam Named SaturdayAnseo, Dublin @ 20:00 DJ • Information	Feb 06, 2010 Free Event
DJs: Lex Woo, Mr. Whippy, Matjazz, Warm DJ & friends jazz disco breaks latin hip-hop house afrobeat funk breakbeat soul reggae brazilian jungle

	Anton & Erin - Steppin Out (1)National Concert Hall, Dublin @ 15:00 Dancing • Information	Feb 06, 2010 €29 - €49
Step out with Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag as they return with their sensational new show following last year's sold out UK tour. National treasures from the BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing', Anton & Erin will charm you with the glamour of ballroom, as they are joined on stage by a dance ensemble, special guest vocalist and a dazzling live orchestra. From Cole Porter to Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, this fabulous evening celebrates the very best of music, song and dance in an all-new show.

	Anton & Erin - Steppin Out (2)National Concert Hall, Dublin @ 20:00 Dancing • Information	Feb 06, 2010 €29 - €49
Step out with Anton Du Beke and Erin Boag as they return with their sensational new show following last year's sold out UK tour. National treasures from the BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing', Anton & Erin will charm you with the glamour of ballroom, as they are joined on stage by a dance ensemble, special guest vocalist and a dazzling live orchestra. From Cole Porter to Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, this fabulous evening celebrates the very best of music, song and dance in an all-new show.

	Ben PrevoBewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Blues • Information	Feb 06, 2010 €12
The redoubtable Ben Prevo will be playing a special show featuring his 1955 Gibson ES225T & 1955 Gibson GA6 amplifier --- starting at 8 pm the genre bending guitarist will be accompanied by James Little on bass, Dominic Mullan on drums & Johnny Taylor on acoustic piano. Enjoy every nuance in the superb acoustics of this venue.

	Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA CollectionIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 06, 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.

	ClusterThe Village, Dublin @ 19:30	Feb 06, 2010 €20 Buy Tickets

	Dinosaur EncounterAmbassador Theatre, Dublin @ 10:00 Exhibition • Information	Feb 06, 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!

	eimogShebeen Chic, Dublin @ 20:00 Electronica • Information	Feb 06, 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.

	Gaviscom + Goldy4 Dame Lane, Dublin @ 22:30 DJ • Information	Feb 06, 2010 Free Event
Saturday night sees two of the city's finest mixologists at work over both floors. Goldy - a legendary tecnician - literally takes the roof off the bar with serious good mixing skills and a wide bag of tunes. Gaviscom takes care of the club with plenty of mash-ups, breaks and the odd random Fleetwood Mac tune.

	GroovilizationShebeen Chic, Dublin @ 21:00 DJ	Feb 06, 2010 Free Event

	PaperplaneThe Joinery, Dublin @ 11:00 Art • Information	Feb 06, 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 06, 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.

	Sing-a-Long Sound of MusicSugar Club, Dublin @ 19:00	Feb 06, 2010 €17.50 Buy Tickets

	Subplots + Autumn OwlsWhelans, Dublin @ 20:00	Feb 06, 2010 €10

	The Len Price 3 + Mouthpiece + The PacificsLe Cirk, Dublin @ 21:00 Rock • Information	Feb 06, 2010 €4
he Len Price 3 are a garage band hailing from Chatham UK. Their sound is forged in the Medway tradition, fusing driving energy, catchy hooks and a raw electric sound. On disc and at live shows The Len Price 3 offer a truly memorable and invigorating sonic experience. Their first album, Chinese Burn, originally released by Laughing Outlaw and re-released on Little Steven's Wicked Cool label, offers something for everyone from the Devils of Chatham Town to childhood memories of fat wrestlers on Saturday afternoon TV. Their second album, Rentacrowd was released in the USA to rave reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone's David Fricke and MTV's Kurt Loder.

	The Party by Anton ChekhovBewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin @ 13:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 06, 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.

	What Happens Next Is A SecretIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 06, 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 @ 11:30 Folk	Feb 06, 2010 Free Event

	Dave RooneyThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 14:30 Folk • Information	Feb 06, 2010 Free Event
Dave Rooney is a multi instrumentalist, singer/songwriter hailing from Dublin. A passionate musician, he has gigged across Europe for 15 years.

	Little Gem by Elaine MurphyAbbey Theatre, Dublin @ 14:30 Theatre • Information	Feb 06, 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.

	Lad LaneThe Temple Bar, Dublin @ 17:45 Folk • Information	Feb 06, 2010 Free Event
Ladlane formed in 2004 in Dublin. The band features Eugene Quinn from Templeogue, Dublin on guitar/banjo/vocals, Ray Dempsey from Ballyduff, Co. Waterford on accordion and Colm Keane from somewhere in north county Dublin on fiddle/vocals.

	Little Gem by Elaine MurphyAbbey Theatre, Dublin @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 06, 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.

	Indie NightThe Bull and Castle, Dublin @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 06, 2010 Free Event
Playing indie and alternative music all night. Runs til 2.30am.

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