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Dara O'Briain Vicar Street Sep 10, 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 16, 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.

	Highly RecommendedRuby Sessions: James McMorrowDoyles @ 21:00 Singer Songwriter	Feb 16, 2010 €6

	RecommendedDirty MoneyDraíocht @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 16, 2010 €7
A family who are under financial stress come upon a sum of money. Its not a huge sum but large enough to relieve their financial worries. Where did it come from? Who owns it? What should they do with it? Will it bring a whole lot of trouble on them? Who's right? Who's wrong? It raises moral and social issues for them. What would you do? Hartstown Day Activity Centre Drama Group have worked together and devised this play through drama classes and drama workshops. They have been working alongside some students from transition year at Hartstown Community School to bring this piece to the stage.

	Artists ProofDraíocht @ 10:00 Art • Information	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event
Artist’s Proof is an exhibition by 24 Irish and international fine art printmaking artists. Visitors will be able to see the creative methodology of the printmaker showing the development of the idea from the research and exploration stages through to the rigorous process of making the print, requiring great technical skill. The prints will be displayed alongside two working proofs to provide a glimpse of how it was made.

	Beth Moysés ExhibitionSycamore Club @ 18:00 Art • Information	Feb 16, 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 16, 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.

	County Sessions: Tyrone NightButton Factory @ 20:00 Folk	Feb 16, 2010

	Dinosaur EncounterAmbassador Theatre @ 10:00 Exhibition • Information	Feb 16, 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!

	Freddie WhiteNational Concert Hall @ 20:- Acoustic • Information	Feb 16, 2010 €22
Freddie White has long been synonymous with music of the highest quality. Whether interpreting songs by his favorite writers, such as Randy Newman, Tom Waits, John Hiatt and Guy Clark, or performing his own classy compositions, Freddie's live performances are nothing short of legendary. Freddie has been part of the fabric of the live music scene in Ireland since the 1970's and his albums continue to sell well, amongst his loyal and new-found fan base.

	Funky Sourz: DJ Andy PrestonClub M @ 23:00 DJ	Feb 16, 2010 €5

	GroovalizacionSouthwilliam @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event
Electropical global beats.

	Hed-DandiDandelion @ 21:00 DJ • Information	Feb 16, 2010
DJs Dave McGuire and Steve O.

	Jelly DonutThe Village @ 22:30 Techno • Information	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event
Minimal techno.

	JezabellePurty Kitchen (Temple Bar) @ 19:00 Rock • Information	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event
Live classic rock.

	Make Art Not RubbishDraíocht @ 10:00 Art • Information	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event
Over a seven week period well known artist and sculptor Cris Neumann will facilitate the creation of 3D works by Coolmine and Hartstown Community School students in a project that will be a fun reflection of Vodafone Ireland’s Green Agenda Policy. This educational and environmentally innovative visual arts project will explore the concepts of communication, mobility and technology and how these concepts can work in the reduction and recycling of waste. For more information and photos of the works in progress check out the website: www.makeartnotrubbish.com

	Margaret McNair Stokes: Artist and HistorianNational Gallery @ 10:30 Art • Information	Feb 16, 2010
Lecturer Janette Stokes, University College Dublin

	MikaOlympia Theatre @ 20:00 Pop • Information	Feb 16, 2010 Buy Tickets
Mika's bright pop music has been compared to a melody of artists from Queen to the Scissor Sisters over to Rufus Wainwright and back to Elton John. Born in Beiruit, Mika is often accompanied by vocalist Lea Sonnek and hip-hop drummer Rainer Binder. Mika's debut album was entitled "Life in Cartoon Motion".

	Niall LawlorShebeen Chic @ 20:00 Acoustic	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event

	Search + Dub ApokaliptoButton Factory @ 20:00 Rock • Information	Feb 16, 2010
The band Search was created in 1981 by five Malaysian youths from the southern state of Johor, who started off playing their particular brand of rock music in a number of clubs around Kuala Lumpur. Widely acknowledged as being the band most responsible for increasing the popularity of the rock music genre in Malaysia, Search has earned a dedicated and consistent following among many Malaysians worldwide, one that seems only to grow in strength year-on-year. However, neither the band’s music nor following is exclusive; they cross language and cultural barriers, and music lovers from all over the world constitute a growing fan base.

	Sugar FreeThe Globe @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event
Soul, ska and indie.

	Taste: DJs Mo Kelly & Alex DonaldSolas @ 20:00 DJ	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event

	The OrphanageOdessa Club @ 20:00 Film • Information	Feb 16, 2010
This month's selection is scary Spanish film The Orphanage. The Orphanage is a subtly compelling and quietly chilling movie. Laura returns to the orphanage where she was raised, her project being to reinvent it as a home for children with disabilities. Laura transforms the old building to fit it to its new purpose. But before the new residents arrive, the sense that all is not quiet in the dusty rooms and grounds asserts itself. Thinking she may have seen her son's imaginary friend is just one way that sinister presences from the past start making themselves known. Bring a friend - you may want a shoulder to bury your head in.

	The Party by Anton ChekhovBewley's Cafe Theatre @ 13:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 16, 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.

	TrashedAndrew's Lane Theatre @ 22:30 DJ • Information	Feb 16, 2010 €5
Indie and electro.

	What Happens Next Is A SecretIrish Museum of Modern Art @ 12:00 Art • Information	Feb 16, 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.

	Yesterday's Tomorrow TodayThe Joinery @ 11:00 Art • Information	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event
Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today is an exhibition of new works by Leslie Cullinan and Helena O’Connor. Both artists work collaboratively to examine notions of time through video installation, sculpture and drawings in pencil and ink.

	El DesperadoThe Temple Bar @ 14:00 Folk	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event

	Eamon MitchellThe Temple Bar @ 17:00 Rock • Information	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event
Eamon was a former member of early 90s Dublin bands "The Conspiracy", "Babylon The Bride" and "Drowning Kristiania". Eamon also played on stage with U2 in Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork in 1987 where they performed they Curtis Mayfield classic "People Get Ready".

	Christ Deliver Us! by Thomas KilroyAbbey Theatre @ 19:30 Theatre • Information	Feb 16, 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

	Enda ReillyThe Temple Bar @ 19:30 Folk	Feb 16, 2010 Free Event

	Little Gem by Elaine MurphyAbbey Theatre @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Feb 16, 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.