Hypnotisedby Drive, a previously unreleased Daft Punk track from 1994 that was unearthed by the Scottish label Soma. The seven-minute recording was apparently discovered on an old tape belonging to the parents of one of the band members.
Buyingtickets to the Manhattan Short Film Festival at the Sugar Club on October 2nd. The audience in Dublin will unite with filmgoers in more than 200 cities to view and judge 10 18-minute-long films. Starts 7.30pm; tickets €5; thesugarclub.com.
Determinedto make it to the IFI's September Archive at Lunchtime series. There are two films to choose from: 35 Aside, Damien O'Donnell's surrealist 25-minute drama about a schoolboy who has difficulty fitting in, and The Silent Art,Louis Marcus's 15-minute tribute to the Cork sculptor Séamus "Stonemad" Murphy. Watch separately or as a double bill before nipping back to work; ifi.com.
Hagglingover everything from vintage clothes and retro furniture to second-hand bikes and vinyl at this month's Dublin Flea Market at Dublin Food Co-op on Newmarket Square, off Cork Street in Dublin 8; open tomorrow, 11am to 5pm.
Hopefulthat Finding Reasons, the first track from New Build, could be the start of something beautiful between Hot Chip buddies Al Doyle (also of LCD Soundsystem fame) and Felix Martin.
Listeningto a letter from TS Eliot to Virginia Woolf in the Paris Review,ahead of the publication this month of The Letters of TS Eliot. In it he describes being "boiled in a hell-broth" leaving his mother off in Liverpool to take a transatlantic trip, and narrowly avoiding being carried off to Cobh himself, although not managing to escape a black eye.
Charmedto the quick by the Irish illustrator Steve McCarthy's video preview of his first children's book, complete with soundtrack by Beirut. We look forward to seeing the finished product in the flesh; mrstevemccarthy.com.
Uppast our bedtime for an impromptu Ruby Sessions on Wednesday night, when chart-topper Ed Sheeran, in town for Arthur's Day, played for an hour and a half to a packed crowd at Doyle's on College Green, in Dublin.
