The illustrious Saturday night super club, Download Tripod Saturdays, is to relaunch as 'Pentagon', from January 30th.
Dublin's got a new party space for the Saturday night faithful, and not for the faint of heart. Situated in a disused train station on Harcourt Street, Pentagon brings five new dimensions to Dublin's nightlife. Pentagon is the newest live music and dance party destination for, well, everyone actually. Welcome then, ladies and gentlemen, to PENTAGON THIS SATURDAY & EVERY SATURDAY ADMISSION

Eur 12

Doors @ 11pm

Tripod Lounge - Tripod Club - Chocolate Bar (open from 6pm) - CrawDaddy - Pod Old Harcourt Street Station, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
Check for listings. Group Bookings & Enquries to Kate@pod.ie Pentagon's unique format, which is the first of its kind in Dublin, runs across five rooms with each room transmitting a particular musical style. Live music, house, techno, chart, Brazilian, chill-out and minimal are all represented Dublin's most respected and sought after DJs and bands. Pentagon is housed over three stories, with five distinct rooms boasting thousands of square feet of pulsing energy. Each of Pentagon's versatile levels offers a spacious dance floor, and state of the art sound and lighting systems. David De Valera, Danny Alonso, Rob Carty, Eoin Long, Rob Le Nan, supersuperdisco, Matt Quigley, Delorient and Martin C will send the dance floors into a frenzy, keeping the skinny jeans, slip-ons and vintage Chanel happy all night long with techno, house, retro originals, and bass heavy techno mixes.

Pentagon's live music offering will feature acts such as Smash Hits! / Attention Bebe / Mainly Winehouse / Everyday People and The Amazing Few. Music on launch night by.. Hotly tipped, Belfast based techno group PSYCATRON roll into Pentagon to kick off proceedings for what will be a spectacular live AV set. 2009 was a huge year for the duo with a string of high profile productions released on some of the world's most respected dance labels. Having spent the past seven years hosting their residency at the world-famous Shine and the Stiff Kitten, 2010 will be the year where PSYCATRON's winning combination of killer DJ sets and live AV shows will see them emerge as one of the biggest Irish dance acts of the year. Rockeroke will be keeping spirits high in Crawdaddy with their unique take on live entertainment. Rockeroke combines the best of a big live band with fantastic audience participation.

Apart from a high quality and very experienced full band, including backing singers, the audience members can perform live on stage with the lyrics on the big screen. What is unique about Rockeroke is that the lyrics play like karaoke in time with the band and can be seen on the big screen and on stage monitors. The band have a repertoire of over a 100 tracks to choose from. David De Valera exemplifies a new generation of Irish DJs. Operating in the same house/techno scene as his international peers, De Valera's style incorporates a mix of pumping house and party techno. His unique style and intuitiveness behind the decks caught the attention of Sander Van Doorn. Sick of mundane, stale warm up DJs, Doorn specifically requested David to support him on the Irish leg of his 'Dusk Til Doorn' tour.

supersuperdisco is Dublin's newest electroindiepoptrash night for boys, girls and everyone else. Come dance like a robot/punk/ballerina/idiot to everything from Amanda Blank, Le Tigre, Major Lazer, Ladyhawke, Peaches, Crystal Castles, The Knife, Salt n Pepa, Ebony Bones, Black Kids, Simian Mobile Disco, Justice, Cut Copy, Chromeo, La Bionda, Madonna, Hercules & Love Affair, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, LCD Soundsystem, M83, EMF, Kate Bush, Crystal Waters, Beyoncé, Roisín Murphy, The Cure, Talking Heads, New Order and loads more. Rob Carty has been DJing in Clubs around Dublin for over six years and has been a Tripod Resident DJ for four of those.

Rob has played alongside the likes of John Digweed, De La Soul ,Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem as well as playing at this years Electric Picnic Festival. Rob plays an eclectic mix of music taking in Hip Hop, House, Pop, Rock and everything in between. So if renovated Chocolate Bar is the place for you! Rob Le Nan is as comfortable playing a funky house and disco set as playing indie,nu wave or electro. Rob has a relentless passion for quality new and old music and likes to amaze the crowd with his energy, eclestic taste and great technical abilty as a DJ. Rob has been holding successful residencies throughout dublin for the last 5 years and never fails to create a party atmosphere. Spain's Danny Alonso has been DJ'ing in Dublin now for 5 years. His style runs the musical scale from minimal to techno, with a dash of tribal thrown in for good measure. After spending years immersed in the Madrid club scene, his new collective delivers barrages of frantic but fascinating tech grooves perfect for the dance floor. If you love dance music then you have without doubt danced to his floor filling efforts at one time or another.

Guests of the opening night will experience all five unique Pentagon atmospheres including; The Chocolate Bar, CrawDaddy, POD, Tripod Club and Tripod Lounge. The final event under the night's current name will take place on January 23rd with The Amazing Few, David De Valera, Al Redmond, Padio, supersuperdisco, Rob Carty, Eoin Long, DJ Marina Dinizand and DJ iZem PENTAGON THIS SATURDAY & EVERY SATURDAY ADMISSION
Eur 12
Doors @ 11pm
Tripod Lounge - Tripod Club - Chocolate Bar (open from 6pm) - CrawDaddy - Pod Old Harcourt Street Station, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
Check for listings.
Group Bookings & Enquries to
PoD 39 Lwr. Leeson St., Dublin 2.
Ph. 00353 1 6610700/ Direct 00353 1 6624303
Fax. 00353 1 6610829
www.pod.ie
www.electricpicnic.ie