School Tour
Diamond Dagger
8pm, Friday 20th July
The Joinery, Arbourhill
Admission €8, BYOB
http://www.thejoinery.org
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David Kitt, Richie Egan, Bill Blood - The Odessa Club, 15th May
Legion Of Two, Dublin Laptop Orchestra, Lurch - The Joinery, 26th April
The Joinery Fundit Campaign - 6 Days To Go
'So forget about summer. Draw the blinds, dim the lights and bask in the dark beauty of Dva. Winter is coming.' Neill Dougan on Emika's Dva, out soon on Ninja Tune.

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'As a player, he’s up there at the toppermost. But there remains an enduring mystery about Ginger: why is he such a dick?' - Dara Higgins on Beware Of Mr Baker.

'Once the film starts it goes fucking nuclear and I nearly moved a few rows back because I thought my brain might explode, for real' - Thomas Parkes on Star Trek Into Darkness.

'These lads are barely out of their teens and they play with a youthful, nerve shredding verve. Old people may need to pause every now and then to catch their breath, or rearrange their thoughts'...

NoMeansNo's guitarist Tom Holliston gives MacDara Conroy the skinny ahead of the Canadian punks' Dublin gig on 23 May

Siobhán Kane spoke with comedian Eddie Pepitone ahead of his show in Whelan's next Monday and the imminent release of his documentary The Bitter Buddha.

'There is definitely an element of trying to control things that are not controllable' - Norwegian avant-jazz guitarist Stian Westerhus talks to Ian Maleney ahead of his date in Dublin this week.

'I met people who had broken people's necks without a second thought' - MacDara Conroy talks influences, mindsets and obsessions with the clandestine Dragged Into Sunlight