POP
Childline
3Arena, Dublin 8pm €45 3arena.ie
This annual charity fundraiser is always high on the agenda of pop music's predominantly youthful fanbase. It's for a great, crucial cause, and features short sets from, and long screams for, the likes of Olly Murs, Shane Filan, Boyzone, Jedward, McBusted and many more. Former Westlifer (and now 2FM presenter) Nicky Byrne is your perma-smiling host.

TECHNO
Surgeon
District 8, Dublin 9pm €18/€15
Birmingham's Anthony Childs has long proven to be a popular draw for Dublin's techno tribes. Over the years the DJ and producer, who built his reputation back in the early 1990s with a series of sparse and spacey productions, has become one of techno's finest players, be it solo or on collaborations with Regis as British Murder Boys. Support tonight from TR\ER, that coming together of Truss and Tessela (brothers-in- techno Tom and Ed Russell), and local talent Nathan Jones.

HOUSE
Vitalic
Opium Rooms, Dublin 11pm €15
It's been a while – some five years, in fact – since Pascal Arbez walked the streets of this town. His OK Cowboy album from 2005 was what put him on many radars, a record full of electro disco fever. The more recent follow-up, 2012's Rave Age, was not quite so well equipped with thrillers, so it will be interesting to hear where his musical head is at these days. Support from Colin Devine, with Space Camp in control in the Garden.

HOUSE
Flight Facilities
Vicar Street Dublin 7.30pm €24.50/€22.50
When it comes to electronic music, there's a hell of a lot of great Aussie producers making waves. For the past few years, Sydney duo Hugo Gruzman and James Lyell (above) have been reliable go-to names for tough house-pop singles. Now, after four years and eight singles, comes their debut album, Down to Earth, a release chockablock with colourful blasts of sound, which they bring to their second Irish show of 2014.