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Jimmy Carr Olympia Theatre Sep 09, 2010

Dara O'Briain Vicar Street Sep 09, 2010

MGMT Olympia Theatre Sep 16, 2010

Michael Bublé Aviva Stadium Sep 24, 2010

André Rieu The O2 Sep 25, 2010

Santana The O2 Sep 29, 2010

Supertramp The O2 Oct 08, 2010

Imogen Heap Button Factory Oct 28, 2010

Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy Olympia Theatre Nov 01, 2010

Simply Red The O2 Nov 07, 2010

The Waterboys Grand Canal Theatre Nov 07, 2010

Gorillaz The O2 Nov 11, 2010

Michael Bolton Grand Canal Theatre Nov 11, 2010

Paul Weller Olympia Theatre Nov 16, 2010

Jimmy Eat World POD Nov 18, 2010

Gogol Bordello Olympia Theatre Nov 22, 2010

UB40 National Stadium Nov 22, 2010

Andrea Bocelli The O2 Nov 22, 2010

The War of the Worlds The O2 Nov 29, 2010

The Drums The Academy Dec 01, 2010

Arcade Fire + Vampire Weekend + Devendra Banhart The O2 Dec 05, 2010

Shakira The O2 Dec 16, 2010

Meatloaf The O2 Dec 18, 2010

You Me At Six Olympia Theatre Dec 19, 2010

JLS The O2 Jan 09, 2011

Boyzone The O2 Mar 15, 2011

Chris de Burgh The O2 Apr 21, 2011

Peter Kay The O2 Apr 28, 2011

Lenny Henry Olympia Theatre May 15, 2011

Today's Events: Feb 10, 2010

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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.

	RecommendedSong Room @ The GlobeThe Globe @ 20:00 Singer Songwriter • Information	Feb 10, 2010 Free Event
Long-running Wednesday night session of singer songwriters.

	RecommendedPJ Gallagher + Fred Cooke + Robbie BonhamHa'penny Bridge Inn @ 21:30 Comedy • Information	Feb 10, 2010 €7
Best known as the hilarious and outrageous Jake Steven's from Naked Camera, PJ has been wowing crowds all over the Ireland, and released his first DVD ‘Take After Yourself and Be Smile' in 2007 and now currently on release is his new DVD "Just Jokes". PJ tears through his hilarious live set with his customary manic energy. No one show is ever the same. His numerous TV appearances include The Tubridy Show, Podge and Rodge, The Miriam O'Callaghan show and 1 to remember with Brian Kennedy.

	Art for All AgesNational Gallery @ 15:00 Art • Information	Feb 10, 2010 Free Event
Creative Writing Workshop with Yvonne Cullen

	Beatdown DiscoSouthwilliam @ 21:00 DJ • Information	Feb 10, 2010 Free Event
Balearic funk soul disco & house.

	Beth Moysés ExhibitionSycamore Club @ 18:00 Art • Information	Feb 10, 2010
An exhibition of works by Beth Moyses (Brazil), curated by Lourdes Viso and Róisín Russell for Woman's Aid.

	Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA CollectionIrish Museum of Modern Art @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 10, 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.

	Diana JonesWhelans @ 00:00 Country • Information	Feb 10, 2010 €20 Buy Tickets
Diana Jones had released two finely crafted albums in the 1990s, but it wasn’t until she released “My Remembrance of You” in 2006 that she found her own voice and broke out of the singer-songwriter pack to emerge as a major figure in Americana music. She had discovered a connection, both biological and artistic, to the sounds of old-time Appalachia, unleashing her private muse and creating a record that landed on best-of-the-year lists in the Chicago Tribune and the Nashville Scene.

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

	Jamie TThe Academy	Feb 10, 2010

	Jarleth Regan + Derek RyanAnseo @ 20:30 Comedy	Feb 10, 2010

	Jonatha BrooksWhelans @ 20:00 Singer Songwriter • Information	Feb 10, 2010 Buy Tickets
Jonatha's new show will feature songs from her new album The Works. Brooke delved into Woody Guthrie's lyric journals for her most recent album. The Works pairs her original music with Guthrie's previously unheard lyrics.

	LadydollThe Twisted Pepper @ 21:00 Rock • Information	Feb 10, 2010
Ladydoll's music would be most suitably classified under the genre of 'Dark Rock' infused with pop undertones, which are evident in the lyrical and melodic hooks heard across the range of the band's repertoire. Intricate guitar solos and vamp-like piano sequences provide the perfect backdrop to the cleverly-placed and often dark and melancholic lyrical content.

	Pilotlight + NeosupervitalPOD @ 23:00 Indie • Information	Feb 10, 2010 €5
“The song conjures up some deep emotions about love lost and chances missed, things that might have been but never were and is quite heart-wrenching really, if you can listen to this song and not feel anything then you have no soul.” - Rawkstar.net

	Reptile CabaretShebeen Chic @ 20:00 Comedy	Feb 10, 2010 Free Event

	Spring Poetry ReadingNational Gallery @ 13:00 Poetry	Feb 10, 2010 Free Event

	The Party by Anton ChekhovBewley's Cafe Theatre @ 13:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 10, 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.

	Unplugged @ The Purty: Gavin EdwardsPurty Kitchen (Temple Bar) @ 19:00 Acoustic • Information	Feb 10, 2010
Live acoustic set.

	Vladimir JablokovNational Concert Hall @ 20:00 Classical • Information	Feb 10, 2010 €30 - €37
Mario Lanza, The Loveliest Night of The Year. A 50th Anniversary Tribute Concert starring Vladimir Jablokov & The Slovak Festival Musicians with Sean Costello & guests Niall Morris & Sandra Oman will perform all the greatest songs & duets from the great Mario Lanza to include…Begin The Beguine, Golden Days, Ave Maria, The Loveliest Night of The Year, Night and Day, Be My Love, O Sole Mio, Because You're Mine and many more

	What Happens Next Is A SecretIrish Museum of Modern Art @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 10, 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 @ 14:00 Folk	Feb 10, 2010 Free Event

	Keith HughesThe Temple Bar @ 17:30 Folk	Feb 10, 2010 Free Event

	Christ Deliver Us! by Thomas KilroyAbbey Theatre @ 19:30 Theatre • Information	Feb 10, 2010 €25 - €38
‘When I have children I’m going to let them grow wild as weeds. No one bothers with weeds and still they grow and grow.’ In a provincial Irish town in the 1950s the children have some questions: What’s happening to them and what’s happening in the world around them? And why? The young heroes of Thomas Kilroy’s urgent new play strive to carve out an understanding of the world beneath the unbearable weight of unanswered questions, confusion and their own desires. And the clergy gather like crows on the horizon. Based on Frank Wedekind’s masterpiece of German symbolism Spring Awakening, Christ Deliver Us! is a play about how hard and how wonderful it can be to grow up during a period of Irish History that we can never again look back on with nostalgia. An Abbey Theatre commision

	Little Gem by Elaine MurphyAbbey Theatre @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 10, 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 @ 20:30 Folk • Information	Feb 10, 2010
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.