What’s on Friday: Blawan, Sleeper, the Co-Present and I Heart Alice Heart I

BOOKS

SJ Watson and Paula Hawkins
Pavilion Theatre, Dublin 6.30pm €10
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It's the midway point for the Mountains to Sea DLR Books Festival, and perhaps the pick of the crop today is SJ Watson, author of Second Life and Before I Go To Sleep, discussing how well we know our family, our closest friends or ourselves, with Paula Hawkins, whose The Girl on the Train is being called "the new Gone Girl". RTÉ's Sinead Crowley is in charge.

ONLINE RADIO

The Co-Present
The Mezz, Temple Bar, Dublin 9pm Adm free

Online Irish music radio show The Co-Present (you can hear it via radiomade.ie) kicks off a monthly presentation of up-and-coming Irish indie/rock acts: Women's Christmas, shoegazers Segrasso and new-ish band The Evolution Project. The evening is hosted by The Co-Present'sDwayne Woods and Ham Sandwich lead singer Niamh Farrell.

TECHNO

Blawan
Twisted Pepper, Dublin 10.30pm €15/€13
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Jamie Roberts is the producer behind Blawan's cuts of distinction. In the past few years he has produced a slew of mesmerising, trippy, classy, sweltering cuts (Getting Me Down, the hypnotic What You Do With What You Have, the riotously twitchy Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage) for labels R&S, Clone and Hessle. Roberts is a producer with considerable smarts and an ability to push and pull the listener in every direction. Support tonight from Dublin techno star Sunil Sharpe.

DUB

Sleeper
The Pint, Dublin 10.30pm €10/€8
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Sleeper is second to none when it comes to heavy, throbbing, almost industrial-like dub cuts. Aside from helming his own Crucial label, Sleeper has also put out tracks for Chestplate, Osiris and Artikal Music. He’s tonight’s main attraction, joined by Whatch, DJ Bob, Kid Header and Falx in the main room, with Sean Markey, Sam Wallace and Colgi holding fort on the terrace.

JAZZ

Listen at Wellington
Wellington, Baggot St 7pm €10/€5
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The second installment of Listen at Wellington, the monthly new music series curated by composer Dylan Rynhart, features electronica pioneer Roy Carroll; woodwind duo Temenos; sean-nós- inspired improv trio Earráis; and Rynhart’s own reformed Fuzzy Logic Ensemble. Spring cleaning for the ears.

THEATRE

I Heart Alice Heart I
Project Arts Centre. Until Mar 21 8pm (Sat Mat 3pm) €14
projectartscentre.ie

This could be the last chance to see Amy Conroy’s heartwarming 2010 play (the winner of two Dublin Fringe Festival awards) about a couple of Alices who fall in love over shopping baskets in Crumlin shopping centre. Stereotypes of sexuality are turned on their head as the Alices narrate their love affair in intimate and gently comic detail. The docu-drama style gives contemporary flavour to the form as well as the story. If social justice doesn’t move you to vote Yes in the forthcoming referendum, this human story will.