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ws night David Berman died on August 7 after committing suicide. The musician, singer, poet and cartoonist was best known for his work with indie-rock band the Silver Jews which he disbanded a decade ago. Berman had just released his first music since then under the Purple Mountains moniker addressing heartbreak, grief, and bitterness. It’s “a truly beautiful album in which the listener will simultaneously relish in Berman’s return whilst feeling an overwhelming wave sorrow for the songwriter’s display of unbridled sincerity,” said our reviewer Zara Hedderman. Tonight, paying tribute to a hero of theirs are: Adrian Crowley, Steve Windings, Anna Carey and Patrick Freyne, Maija Sofia, Skelokrats, Eileen Gogan, The Former Soviet Republic, Dudley Colley and a host more to be announced. The Sound House, Thursday October 17, €15 (proceeds to Aware) club Inner City Live “Let me take you to a place I know you want to go. It’s a good life…” Formed by record producer, composer and techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson, and vocalist Paris Grey, Inner City are best known for their early crossover hits Good Life and Big Fun. 30 years later and 20 years since their last European shows, Inner City return with Saunderson teaming up with his son Dantiez alongside vocalist Steffanie Christi’an, armed with new material such as Need Your Love. Do pay heed to the two-part procedure to this evening’s proceedings. The after party seems a natural bedfellow with the D1 x 25 night in Tengu back in March. Sunday October 27, Button Factory, 7.30pm10,30pm - Inner City, €15; Yamamori Tengu 10.30pm-3am - DJ sets by Kevin Saunderson, Donnacha Costello, Eamonn Doyle and Simon Conway, Cignol (Live), €15 As always, Klein is masterfully adept at intersecting and interconnecting crises. This time round with the publication of On Fire, she’s got her detective board out pinning and threading connections between climate change, the rise of white supremacy (climate barbarism), neoliberalism, the enhanced sense of nationalism and the war that is waged on our attention spans. “We have to get out of this ‘my crisis is bigger than your crisis: first we save the planet and then we fight poverty and racism, and violence against women’. That doesn’t work.” She also calls into question the virtue signalling of individuals in this Goliath battle. Heady and necessary stuff from a seasoned social activist. National Stadium, Friday October 18, €12-€35 festival Dublin Theatre Festival The second phase of the festival rolls out after a series of heavy-hitting world premieres such as Mám and Beckett’s Room and yet another Anu show (Faultline) which everyone is scrambling to find a ticket to. Highlights we have pencilled in for this phase include The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia (pictured, Project Arts Centre), Raymond Scannell’s writing debut for the festival which explores the busted flush of an indie musician, returning home to live with his parents, against the backdrop of contemporary concerns. Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed (Peacock) is Dylan Tighe’s hugely ambitious take on a film condemned as nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic upon its release but also a masterpiece in hindsight. Burgerz (Smock Alley) which explores how performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers after someone threw said food item at them and shouted a transphobic slur. We’re also intrigued by Collection of Lovers which concerns the documentation of encounters with 200 lovers across 20 cities by Portuguese artist Raquel André and Us/ Them (Pavillion) which explores a hostage situation from the vantage point of children. Until October 13 dublintheatrefestival.ie 90