TOKiMONSTA | The Cuckoo Box | Saturday November 21 | FREE

Hot original beats, hotter remixing of other people’s original beats, super talented and super duper fly, all the way from the City of Lights, time to get excited about TOKiMONSTA’s upcoming laptop show in The Cuckoo Box on Denmark Street. She’s hot, she’s sound and she’s looking forward to a proper Irish throwdown. Let’s show her how it’s done.

Belltable Sessions with Maria Tecce & Support | Belltable Theatre |  Friday November 27 |  €15/€12

Maria’s newest show Viva! sold-out at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, and Wexford Opera Festival. This sultry night of music blends Argentinean tango, Spanish ballads, jazz standards, and bossa nova with the words of Spanish master poet of love Pablo Neruda. The result is magical. Her powerful vocals, fiery style, elegance, and keenly intelligent interpretation of lyrics deliver a riveting and sophisticated night of passion that have won her the devotion of audiences and critics alike.

Dan Sykes Component Radio Show | RTÉ Pulse, Saturdays; 9-11pm | www.rte.ie/digitialradio/pulse | Free

Viva Music Studios & Micronite main man Dan Sykes has made the move to RTÉ’s Pulse with his Component show shaking a smooth blend of everything electronic and beat-entric from house to techno. Cutting up the mix of sounds from the thriving underground with interviews and specials expect the best music from Berlin to New York and plenty of props to the Limerick and Mid/SouthWest movements, with club highlights, news and passes. Tune in.

The Wild Onion, High Street | Veg Out Omelette with everything | €9

Leave out the pork but still eat like a happy pig when you order the Veg Out with everything from the Wild Onion. Lots of eggs, enough veg to keep your mom off your back for a year and plenty of cheese to yummyy-up the healthy vibe. This is the breakfast of champions and should be on the must-eat menu for long distance runners and all night party people. Oodles more on the American Style menu to keep veggies and carnivores alike content til dinner.

Pack of Condoms | Free from your students union or about €5

The Irish Examiner recently ran a shocker of a story revealing that sexually transmitted infections are up 1,300% !! Maybe more people are getting with the programme and having themselves screened, which should be something everyone who’s getting it on needs to get down with. Or it could simply be that y’all are forgetting that safe sex is a hellava lot more sexy than chlamydia. Wrap it up boys (and girls), it doesn’t get any more real.