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POD and Hidden Agenda present TOBY KAAR MIRACLE FORTRESS MOTHS Friday 16th December 2011 Crawdaddy – Harcourt Street – Dublin 2. Doors – 11pm Tickets €8 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie www.soundcloud.com/tobykaar www.soundcloud.com/miracle-for tress www.soundcloud.com/mmoths

Emeli Sandé has had to reschedule her debut appearance at The Sugar Club from Wednesday 30th November to December 13th. Her management would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused. All tickets purchased are valid for the new date. Tickets priced €19.90 including booking fee are on sale now. The talented singer songwriter has written compositions for some of the greatest names in modern pop including Tinie Tempah, Professor Green, Tinchy Stryder, Cheryl Cole, Susan Boyle, The Saturdays and Wiley. She was behind most of the influential tracks in 2010. The 23 year old who hails from Scotland [...]

Rodrigo y Gabriela will be touring the UK and Ireland with their new Cuban band, the C.U.B.A., featuring some of Havana's finest musicians. The dates are the first time Rod & Gab will have toured with a full band, and the shows will offer a unique opportunity to experience this already amazing live act as never before. Rodrigo y Gabriela's new album, recorded with C.U.B.A., and entitled 'Area 522; is released in the UK & Ireland on January 23rd. The album was recorded in Havana during the summer of 2011, and was produced by Peter Asher [...]

Aeroplane makes his return to Dublin for an intimate set at Crawdaddy following on from his amazing set at this year's Forbidden Fruit Festival. He tours his brilliant "In-Flight Entertainment" mix, which combines pop and indie with disco and balearic, creating a sound that is totally unique to Aeroplane. All tracks on the mix are completely unreleased, original songs (no remixes), and new to our ears, which is what makes this mix special. You're hearing the songs for the first time within the context of a carefully crafted mix.You also get to hear a brand new Aeroplane track! [...]

• Aeroplane (Official) - In Flight Entertainment Minimix

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Call in the cash cow, The Presidents of The United States of America are back! In a astute move, the band will perform their self-titled 1995 debut album in full (at just 38 minutes we hope there's an encore). Featuring the songs 'Peaches'. 'Lump', 'Dune Buggy' and 'Back Porch', the night is sure to be a right nostalgia-fest. Ticket Info Tickets on sale Thursday 10th November priced €25 (including booking fee) from http://www.ticketmaster.ie & Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. 0818 719 300 - Republic of Ireland customers 0844 277 4455 - [...]

“All the Pieces Matter” is a night of The Wire-themed talk and entertainment taking place in Block-T, Smithfield with Dublin Intellectual at the helm on Friday November 25th. Lined up on the night are talks from: Francis Halsall, NCAD: “Social Systems in the Wire” Barry Shanahan, UCD: “Authenticity & Representation in the Wire” Daniel Fitzpatrick, NUIG “The City as Body in Deadwood & The Wire” Niall Heffernan, UCC: “It’s all in the Game: Game Theory in the Wire” as well as a screening of a mystery episode and music Inspired by [...]

U:mack are bringing Battles with fellow Warp Records signing Babe Rainbow as support to Dublin this month. There's some tickets still available on www.tickets.ie/umack , and in sound cellar Babe Rainbow: Babe Rainbow - It's All Happening from Atomized on Vimeo .

MOTOR CITY DRUM ENSEMBLE (MCDE, Germany) xxxy (All City, UK) FRANKIE BINGO ALL CITY DJs JOMA RO FLYNN (Subject) BUTTERPOP & more Adm: €14.00/€12.00 (Members/Students)

JOY ORBISON (Doldrums, UK) FLOATING POINTS [3hr Set] (EgLO, UK) TR-ONE (live) BARRY REDSETTAZ THE VERTICAL RHYTHM JOINT (Swing & Jazz Dancing, 1930s Speakeasy Costume & Decor) QUARTER INCH COLLECTIVE & more http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/ event/week46/

Onra launches his Chinoiseries 2 album with support. POGO COSMIN TRG (50 Weapons, RO) FRANKIE BINGO ALL CITY DJs ROB DE LUX & more

The Youth Folk , lead by Anthony Furey, launch their eponymous EP on Thursday 17th November in Whelans of Wexford St. The show is to be the band's last gig of a hectic first year, which began with them appearing as part of Whelan's Ones to Watch Festival 2011 . The Dublin band have spent the last year touring the country and making festival appearances at CastlePalooza, Vantastival, and Knockanstockan. A limited physical edition of the EP will be included in the admission price on the night. Doors open at 8pm and tickets, [...]

It's been a long time coming but today it was confirmed that Van Morrison will play his first Dublin and Belfast concerts in over a decade at The Odyssey, Belfast February 3rd and The O2 Arena, Dublin February 4th 2012. Tickets limited to 4 per person on sale Thursday 10th November at 8am. Tickets for The O2, Dublin from €56, €65, €81, €86 to €115 Tickets for The Odyssey Arena from £55, £60, £75 to £100 To purchase tickets In person: From 100 Ticketmaster Outlets Nationwide By Telephone (24 [...]

Bell X1 have lined up a midnight show for Saturday 17th of December in Olympia Theatre with all proceeds going towards the Capuchin Day Centre , a homeless centre based on Bow Street, Dublin 7. Paul from the band used to live in the area and it was here he got to know Rocky, about whom the song Rocky Took a Lover was written. Rocky was one of the many who were fed and looked after by the centre. Since the recession, the numbers attending the centre have doubled, and so they are under [...]

Cork-based music director Brendan Canty has made a name for himself as Feel Good Lost with videos for Jape, Moths, Sun Glitters, Boy 8-Bit, Daithí O'Dronaí, Mark Geary and Wintercoats (the gorgeous 'Working On A Dream' is below) and this weekend, he presents two gigs in The Pavilion in Cork. Solar Bears , Sert One and Reid are set to play a special audio / visual concert in The Pavilion, Cork on Sunday the 6th of November - admission is €7 on the door. The night before tipped [...]

The next State versus gig takes place this month on November 18th in The Mercantile from 9pm. Cassette tape record label Quarter Inch Collective are our versus challengers on the night and they have selected three fine artists to represent them in Simon Bird , Wiltz and Rhino Magic . As always, the gig is FREE. Facebook event is here. Here's a bit more about the bands: Wiltz are a three-piece instrumental rock band from South Dublin. Formed [...]

Red Hot Chili Peppers have confirmed that they will play a show in Croke Park on Tuesday 26th of June 2012. The band are set to play Dublin's The O2 next Friday, November 4th as part of an arena tour in support of their tenth studio album I'm With You . Tickets for next year's stadium show will go on sale that very day at 8.00 am from Ticketmaster and the price range has not been specified. In other related news, RHCP's Flea will join Damon Albarn next week for Honest Jon's [...]

Revered jazz-folk singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux will play the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Tuesday, November 8th. Peyroux is touring her fifth album Standing on the Rooftop which was released earlier this year, but is perhaps best known for Careless Love from 2004. 'Dance Me To The End Of Love' (Leonard Cohen cover) Bill Wyman plays on Standing on the Rooftop and co-wrote ‘The Kind You Can’t Afford’, a funk-infused bluesy track. Tickets are priced at €25 and €35, available [...]

It impressed us as a venue for the recent John Vanderslice gig and now the Unitarian Church on Stephen's Green in Dublin is going to pay host to three more live events. Elevens kick things off with an EP launch show on November 11th, followed by Delorentos on 25th and Halves (pictured and surely a band born to play such a venue) with special guests Jennifer Evans and the 3epkano string section on December 9th.

Phenomenal Handclap Band return in the New Year with their second album for Tummy Touch - Form & Control – an ambitious work which takes their clever fusion of international psych, soul, and cosmic disco a [...]

• Tummy Touch - Following (special single version)