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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: Mar 24, 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 RecommendedBenni Hemm Hemm + The Gorgeous ColoursWhelans @ 20:00 Experimental • Information	Mar 24, 2010 €12
The Icelandic Edinburgh based Benni Hemm Hemm is back in the UK & Ireland, along with a few of his brass playing band mates. Benni will release an EP in March/April called Retaliate, which is Benni Hemm Hemm´s third EP, but the previous two, Summer Plate and Ein i leyni, have been released in Iceland only. Retaliate will be released worldwide in April on Kimi Records on both CD and 10” vinyl. The Icelandic band Benni Hemm Hemm has performed in every form imaginable, the band has played as a stripped down trio as well as a 50 piece orchestra. Benedikt H. Hermannsson is the band leader, writes the songs and the arrangements and produces the band´s recordings.

	Highly RecommendedLegends in your Lunchtime: Mary DavisNational College of Ireland @ 13:00 Monologue • Information	Mar 24, 2010 Free Event
A series of free public interviews that lift the lid on how great modern leaders think, and what has made them the people they are today. As Managing Director of Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia (SOEE), Mary Davis is responsible for overseeing the growth and development of Special Olympics across 58 countries in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

	RecommendedDavid McSavageAnseo @ 20:30 Comedy	Mar 24, 2010 €7

	RecommendedName That Tune Music QuizOdessa Club @ 20:00 Quiz • Information	Mar 24, 2010 €20
Members free.

	RecommendedSongs of Praise: Rock n Roll KaraokeThe Village @ 21:00 Karaoke	Mar 24, 2010 Free Event

	Arsenic and Old LaceDraíocht @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Mar 24, 2010 €15 - €17
One of the best madcap screwball black comedies ever, this classic Broadway hit introduces the sweet, elderly Brewster sisters, their nephew Teddy, who believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt, and their drama critic nephew Mortimer (played by Cary Grant in the famous movie version), who is as surprised as anyone to learn that his maiden aunts’ well-known charity work now extends to the compassionate poisoning of sad, lonely old boarders with glasses of arsenic-spiked elderberry wine.

	Artists ProofDraíocht @ 10:00 Art • Information	Mar 24, 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.

	Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA CollectionIrish Museum of Modern Art @ 12:00 Art • Information	Mar 24, 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.

	Coconut RaftProject Arts Centre @ 20:15 Theatre • Information	Mar 24, 2010 €12 - €15
History is just buried truth; all that we are left with is a fiction based on something someone once sang. A darkly comic tale of three murderers and what they found on the night they broke out of jail. From an idea by Alice Bourke comes Coconut Raft, a new play with live music, written and performed by unlikely collaborators Seán Carpio, Bobby McGlynn and Bryan Quinn.

	Dinosaur EncounterAmbassador Theatre @ 10:00 Exhibition • Information	Mar 24, 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!

	ESB Feis CeoilRDS @ 09:00 Folk • Information	Mar 24, 2010
ESB became title Sponsor of Feis Ceoil in 2009. Given its distinguished record in Arts sponsorship, its country-wide reach and of course its significance as an Irish company, ESB is the perfect fit as sponsorship partner for Feis Ceoil. The fact that over 2,000 young people from every county in Ireland participate in this competition annually indicates the importance of this organisation to young people who love music. These competitions comprise all musical disciplines from Piano to Strings, Vocal to Brass, Choral to Chamber music. 32 Choirs will be competing for the title of “ESB Feis Ceoil School Choir of the Year”. The sheer depth of community involvement in the competition appeals very strongly to us at ESB as we clearly play an important role in the day-to-day society at every level and are deeply committed to the positive development of young people. ESB Feis Ceoil 2010 takes place from the 15th to 26th March in the RDS Ballsbridge.

	IntergalacticWhelans @ 23:00 DJ	Mar 24, 2010 Free Event

	Make Art Not RubbishDraíocht @ 10:00 Art • Information	Mar 24, 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

	Mark ConwayBewley's Cafe Theatre @ 20:00 Soul	Mar 24, 2010 €10

	My Fair LadyMill Theatre @ 20:00 Musical • Information	Mar 24, 2010 €17 - €20
Following their sell out musicals, ‘Scrooge’ and ‘Oliver!’ Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society are proud to present ‘My Fair Lady’, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Professor Henry Higgins takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady. He does, and young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy.

	Philadephia, Here I Come!Gaiety Theatre @ 19:30 Theatre • Information	Mar 24, 2010 €25 - €55
This play established Brian Friel's reputation as a world-class writer in 1964, and became the toast of Broadway in 1966. A timeless study of youth, old age and the chasm that divides them, the play is that rare thing: a popular masterpiece.

	Preachers SonDoyles @ 20:30 Rock • Information	Mar 24, 2010 Free Event
Think a David Byrne, Scott Walker collaboration, or Queen's greatest hits circa 1980 vs Morrison Hotel. A bit angsty, a bit Bowie, a wee bit ska, rock, blues, country, punk, croon, Mars (God of War). A Led Zeppelin / Leonard Cohen crossover sort of Johnny Cash doing Talking Heads kinda thing". Their debut album "Life, Love and Limb" is currently having the final touches made by Dave Bascombe in London (Placebo, Korn, Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode). Guest artists on the album include Gavin Friday and Liam Ó Maonlaí.

	Sleep Thieves + Nakatomi TowersWhelans @ 20:00 Electronica • Information	Mar 24, 2010
Since their live debut in November 2008, Sleep Thieves have played some notable shows including the 2009 IMRO Showcase, Club AC30 in Whelans, with Saint Etienne in Cork Opera House and Dark Room Notes at their album launch, with international artist Midori Hirano and at the Fight Like Apes curated Ruby Sessions shows in Doyle’s, Dublin. Many of Ireland’s most prominent publications have commented on the band’s potential, with their track ‘Osumi’ being selected in the Hot Press list of ‘Best Irish songs of 2008’ poll, the same magazine suggesting to "watch out for Sleep Thieves in 2009". Prominent Irish Times journalist Jim Carroll also profiled Sleep Thieves as his 'act to watch’ in the Oxegen edition of The Ticket in June 2009.

	SwitchAndrew's Lane Theatre @ 23:00 DJ • Information	Mar 24, 2010
Student Night.

	The AlternativesThe Village Information	Mar 24, 2010 €10
In aid of the Irish Pilgrimage Trust.

	The Song RoomThe Globe @ 20:30 Acoustic • Information	Mar 24, 2010 Free Event
Presented by Hamlet Sweeney.

	The Taking of Pelham One Two ThreeIrish Film Institute @ 11:00 Film • Information	Mar 24, 2010 €4
Wild Strawberries, bimonthly film club for the over 55s.

	The Tinker's CurseBewley's Cafe Theatre @ 13:00 Theatre • Information	Mar 24, 2010 €15
Includes light lunch. Emer O'Kelly of the Sunday Independent wrote: "a heart-searing, heart-searching piece of work, provoking tears and haunting the soul. If it doesn't live in dramatic memory, we have neither folk memory nor capacity for pity..... Harding's performance is nothing short of glorious -- a piece of sustained dramatic economy that is performance art of soaring, incandescent strength. Every gesture tells, every step is measured, every pause significant, every subtle change of tone adding to a threnody for a dying soul.....If audiences are not hanging out of the rafters in future venues, there is no soul for drama in Ireland."

	Wallis BirdThe Academy Singer Songwriter	Mar 24, 2010 €19

	What Happens Next Is A SecretIrish Museum of Modern Art @ 12:00 Art • Information	Mar 24, 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	Mar 24, 2010 Free Event

	Keith HughesThe Temple Bar @ 17:30 Folk	Mar 24, 2010 Free Event

	Weaving The CryBack Loft @ 20:00 Theatre • Information	Mar 24, 2010 €18 Buy Tickets
Weaving The Cry is based on Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge

	Lad LaneThe Temple Bar @ 20:30 Folk • Information	Mar 24, 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.