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January - a month of fewer thrills than a Brian Kennedy concert. In the midst of this most frugal of month’s cultural hibernation, though, comes an unhitherto explored opportunity for creativity. You may be holding an issue of Totally Dublin as skeletal as an Assets model’s breakfast, but that’s because we’ve spent all our time inventing new ways for you to kick the bollix out of the January blues. 1. Dangerdrinking. So going on the piss after Christmas just doesn’t cut it for you anymore. You need a new buzz, and your skag dealer’s in Marrakesh on a work-related visit. Like sex in public, dangerdrinking’s all about the thrill of the unexpected. Except sex in public probably won’t result in you getting your front teeth stabbed out. Here’s the deal - you find the roughest pubs in Dublin, and, dressed to the nines in a Rangers jersey you spend the evening in the company of your most Blackrock of friends discussing your father’s decision to stop building affordable housing in this current economic climate and ordering Green Vesper Martinis. Suggested locations: pubs peripheral to Mountjoy Prison as visiting hours end, pubs peripheral to Dalymount Park before a Bohemians vs. Dundalk match, pubs where Fenian relics hang proudly where drinks promo posters ought be. i.e. Phibsboro. 2. Cult induction. Susceptibility’s the name of your new year’s game. Resolutions give you the heady feeling of a hair-shirtwearing new Puritan. After an aetheistic Christmas left you cold (i.e., nobody could afford to buy you presents that weren’t from a flea market), you decide to find religion again. Oooh. But how can you know what complex spiritual belief system suits you best? You’d better take a personality test and find out. Suggested locations: Abbey Street, or at your hall door with the two polite gentlemen your dog is inexplicably barking wildly at. 3. Club crashing. Nightclubs are useless in January. Why pay DJs to do what the ‘shuffle’ button on iTunes does for you? This is the month for crashing an altogether different type of club. You know that mysteriously well-presented old building down the lane from your house? The one that cars driven by strangely-clothed men arrive at around 2 in the morning, but are gone by the time you wake up? Yeah, it’s a Freemason’s Lodge. Canvass one of the older-looking members on his way home one early morning to offer a character reference for you to his Master Mason at the next meeting, making sure to underline how much you believe in a Supreme Being and that you’re deadly at remembering secret handshakes. You’ll be viciously initiated before long. Or! Come to our next launch party at Odessa Club, which effectively combines all three of the above. We’ll teach you the secret handshake on Facebook. Daniel Gray

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Batshit Cat Shit :: The most fun you’ll have with watching the inexorable passage of time untangle before your very face comes courtesy of Finnish designer Noa Bembibre. Now in its fifth incarnation, Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar introduces a phrase each month whose composite letters include the month’s name picked out in sweetly-coloured lettering. Lucidity varies. There’s some soundness in June’s advice to ‘Just Eat Dinner’, but November’s insistence that there’s ‘Nothing Like Little Vera To Make Things Better’ is enough to ensure funny looks from friends who already think you’re spending too much time on your own in the dark crossing days off on the stack of calendars Totally Dublin told you to buy. www.catsletnothingdarkentheirroar.com

Are You The Decorative Type? :: Beverly Hsu’s calendar’s a little more esoteric than the Miley Cyrus one your misguided uncle bundled into your Christmas stocking. Minimalist to a tee, each month is represented by a separate decorative type, and days are letterpressed in silver ink on white or black paper. The year itself is sunk into her limited edition paper, which you can feast your antennas on at her Etsy store, or at… www.beverlyhsu.com/calendar.html

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Superfly :: For a country with a fashion industry that’s relatively small, Ireland has its fair share of fair trade boutiques. From Bono’s worldsaving Edun to online ‘recycled fashion’ emporium Epoch Boutique, it remains as important to source where your cotton t-shirts come from as the origins of your morning espresso. The latest shop to sell clear-conscience clothing is MayFly, a sweetly bohemian new boutique stocked with children’s clothing by Irish brand CradleRock, fair-trade accessories and handmade jewellery. The shop is tucked away in Pleasants Place, in the same eco-friendly complex as adorable eatery the Cake Cafe. Being ethical rarely seems this sweet...

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still paralysed and I saw Jay-Z open his concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom with the words �I dropped the same day as the Twin Towers!� More or less exactly to the date eight years later he released his eleventh album Blueprint III, the first album released on his new label Roc Nation. I meet him at the plush CafÊ Opera in Stockholm, a city he first visited in 1996 for a gig that got him a jacket and roughly 1000 Euro in a paper bag. A lot has happened since.

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In 1996 Shawn Corey Carter emerged as a rapper and a promising lyricist. Now, 13 years on, Jay-Z is a platinum selling artist with more numbers ones than Elvis. But not only that - he is record company mogul with his own Roc-A-Fella label, and Universal subsidiary Def Jam, he is behind an expanding clothing empire in Rocawear, he owns basketball team New Jersey Nets, the hip sports bar chain 40/40 Club and a new publishing and entertainment venture, Roc Nation. His biggest feat to date, though, remains creating a legendary hiphop album: The Blueprint, released just about the same time as the second aircraft hit the World Trade Centre. The album featured the smooth sounds of the then-unknown Kanye West as producer of some its tracks, most notably the hit single Izzo (H.O.V.A.) and the Bobby Blue Bland-sampling Heart Of The City. Two weeks after September 11th New York, where I was living at the time, was

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What achievement do you take most pride from? To have had a solid career and being important to hiphop culture. To be more relevant now than in 1996. Yeah, a lot of rappers from your generation are not around today. You have to find your real you - who you are inside. Then you have to express that truth to an audience. Many people go through the same thing and they can feel you are honest and follow you because of that, through good times and bad. Repeatedly, some artists try to make music for 15 year olds and that is no way to express their true self. They lose out on the details, stuff that kids can sense, they’re doing themselves a disservice and they become irrelevant. Truth and feelings have no gender, colour or age. It works all over the world. The biggest asset us humans have is honesty. You described Blueprint III as a new classic. Can you elaborate?

It has that classic relation to music as an artform. The album don’t follow no trends or gimmicks, it just expresses my truth. I have written the songs only for the sake of creating music. These are songs that sound very different from each other, like Thank You, the clarinets on D.O.A., the greatness of Empire State Of Mind. Different sounds. Why did the album become part of the Blueprint trilogy? It ties together with the other two. They all represent different times of my life. The first Blueprint is about my childhood with soul samples, stuff I listened to during my upbringing. The second represents my teens during the 80s with reggae, rock, soul, the east and the west coast. Blueprint III revolves around something we haven’t seen before. To mature with hiphop. To have a career that stretches longer than three or four years. That’s not typical for hiphop. It’s about giving and discovering. Last year you almost became a political touchstone in the Obama campaign when he referred to Dirt Off Your Shoulder when opponents launched attacks. How did that make you feel? I felt that hiphop had become accepted as part of American culture and it was a respected music genre, that we had reached our goal. For a long period nonmusicians looked down on hiphop. This is like the whole world have taken to hiphop music. Rap music is a part of America. Here was the future leader of the free world and he showed that he wasn’t afraid to admit he was into rap music. Would you agree that things like that leads to the genre losing its underground status? Yes, but it’s like prejudice. It makes no difference that there’s a black president appointed to the White House. There will still be problems in America. There is still class distinction, unemployment and injustice. Sure, we’ve come a long way, just like we have in hiphop. But we have hit a brick

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wall with downloading and the major labels failing to follow the progress. They have all been so shortsighted - “we need a hit single now!”. They force big artists into making albums suited to radio instead of focusing on achieving something genuine. This is our first major obstacle in hiphop culture and we must think about how we get round it. With downloading from the Internet, do all artists have to become businessmen? An artist is an artist. If you love working creatively you will find a way of doing it. Of course it’s a lot tougher but I think the current situation will make things better. At one stage record labels made so much money that artists became a product off a conveyor belt. One year my label, Def Jam - we released 56 artists.There’s no way that 56 good artists are released during one and the same year – especially not on a single label, everyone knows that. It’s never happened in any period, even if you count all different labels. When you no longer can afford to release artists that way you have to go back to what is genuine, people who love music. For a while people just became artists to make money. I understand people wanted to hustle, it was good cuz it helped people get away from the Projects but in the end it became too much business thinking. So to scale down the industry is cool. Now labels can only afford to invest in real artists. If you no longer can get loaded through music it will only attract people who really love the craft. And that in turn will contribute to truly great music. And hopefully the musicians will make some cash... through selling merchandise

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and things like that. You have had a dream career, what would be your advice to young people involved in music? 90 percent should look to do something else. To the remaining ten percent I’d like to say “one percent of you will make it. I count on you having the passion to cope, to continue no matter what and believe in yourself, cuz people nine times out of ten say things that are wrong. Be determined and be prepared to work for free. That this will lead to becoming a superstar is a lie. People see MTV Cribs and pursue that but that’s the final destination. A lot of play and hard work is required. Apart from passion you will need supernatural confidence. If making music is something you love, just continue, do not let anyone bully you. I wish you good luck.” You see young people burning cars and harassing police in the suburbs of Europe, what do you make of that? I have advice for your politicians. Acts like that is only a cry for attention. There is obviously problems in the suburbs resulting in violence. I know, I’ve seen it where I grew up. Politicians never did anything for our neighbourhood. Why? We didn’t vote so they never saw a reason to help us. I don’t want to sound like a cynic but politicians only care about people who can give them power. When you’re exposed to poverty, bad schooling and living conditions you start to cry for attention. This is kids, so it’s hard to talk to them in the right way. They need someone or something to direct their anger at. Do you remember the exact moment you

realised that you had gone from being an ordinary rapper and become a superstar? Year 1998. I was in Virginia for a record signing session. I was already a businessman, I was executive producer on the first album but when and where it really changed was in this record store. When I looked out the window there was 10 000 kids outside. Afterwards I couldn’t make it to the car. In the end they managed to separate the crowd, I tried to get out but they broke down the barriers and I had to go back in again. Finally I could get to the limo and a helicopter appeared over us and kids where running after us on the highway. That day I realised that from now on, nothing would ever be the same. Speaking of superstars, do you have a personal memory of Michael Jackson? He called me to do a song. On the phone he said, “man, I really like that Hard Knock Life”. I said “thanks, man”. He went “no, no, the way you rap” and then he began talking about this particular part. He spoke of my album like an artist. I thought “wow, this guy is really a musician who loves details and creating, after all this fame he’s more than anything a musician at heart”. I said I wanted him to come see one of my concerts, and he did. Do you still have anything to prove? What I love with rap is the challenges. It’s all about the next album. To make an album that becomes a classic. After the first Blueprint I thought “what are you doing next?” but I came to the conclusion that in terms of rap it don’t matter. The challenge is what makes me keep going. My fuel. You turn 40 in December. For how long do you think you can be relevant to a hiphop audience? I hope to age with rap like rock artists. I don’t know how old Mick Jagger is but he’s energetic on stage anyway. I hope hiphop progresses so 60-year olds can rap from the stage. I won’t be one of them though. To stand on the stage, grabbing your balls, acting tough is not something I’ll do when I’m that age. But why should there be a difference between hiphop and other genres in that respect? It’s about music, there’s only the instrumentation that differs.

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At one stage of my life I slept in between Matthew and Emelie every night. My girlfriend didn’t object – 25 minutes up the road she was bedding down beside them too. Some boys have yellowing pin-ups gleamed from the Sun blu-tacked to their walls, and some girls use copiously fringed i-D models for bedroom adornment – we had décor altogether more eye-arousing. Nicked from Whelans walls and record shop windows we had a small assemblage of M&E-designed posters. A Jape New Year’s gig, a new Redneck Manifesto release wallpaper, and an array of album sleeves open on the stereo at any given time. Now I wake up beneath an altogether less pleasing paisley wallpaper, and she… well, I haven’t been in her house for a while. Thankfully, this January M&E will be inescapable. We asked Mr. Matthew Bolger (he’s Irish) and Ms. Emelie Lidström (she’s Swedish) to illustrate our first cover of 2010, and now I’ve got one more clever M&E to add to my collection – and what better time for you to start yours?

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What’s the thought behind our specially designed 2010 cover? We wanted to represent the optimism that people have for a new upcoming year. This is a time of year when you take a leap with your imagination. You can almost taste the endless possibilities and exciting adventures you’ll be part of. These sometimes unrealistic expectations are what we wanted to illustrate by creating an “unreal” other reality. Behold the grime of the old year and the beauty of the new!

Clockwise from top: Forma Nova; cover of Jape’s album Ritual; Forma Nova; Still from Jape’s video, Floating

What’ll the New Year bring to M&E? Hopefully joy, wealth and happiness and a lot of new interesting projects, some in new areas. We have, for example, been asked to do textile design which we are very excited about.

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When did you two decide to start working as a team on design? We made our first cover together for Jape’s ‘Cosmosphere’ album in 2002. We enjoyed so much the process of working together that we decided to do it for the rest of our lives. What are your respective design inspirations? Matthew: I was initially inspired to become a graphic designer by the covers of my record collection. I wanted to be able to capture visually the feelings and ideas the music conjured up in my mind. Since then I find inspiration in everything from sweet packaging to films, fine art, photography and the design of others. Emelie: Humorous events and dark themes. The cruelty of Nature. How much of an input do the musicians you design for have in their artwork? The musicians’ music has the main input in our design process. We listen to the music on repeat and try to draw from it a visual identity that truthfully represents it. We also ask the musicians to tell us about their inspirations, whether musical or visual. Their inclusion in the process is vital, although different musicians choose to be involved at varying degrees. Which piece are you most proud of so far? Anything for Jape really, because there is so much in the music to draw inspiration from, it never gets boring. He is so nice to work with because you can feel there is a lot of trust there. Within the artwork we have created for Jape our favourite covers would be I Was A Man and Ritual, also the video for Floating we co-directed with D.A.D.D.Y. We were also very proud of the work we did on the identity for the Forma Nova Festival in Denmark in 2007. It was great to get a chance to visualise an electronic music festival held in an old train station. If you could work for any one band, who would it be, and how would you treat them? It would have to be Ariel Pink or The Knife. Their music is very good for getting your mind to work in a different way visually. How time-consuming are your projects from start to finish? They’re all-consuming. Which country is more aesthetically pleasing - Sweden or Ireland? For your eyes, Sweden, and for your ears, Ireland. For more see www.me-me-me.se right now

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words // KARL MACDONALD Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House soothed and reassured the masses with 2008's syrupy Devotion, but the leak of its successor Teen Dream caused near apoplexy on the blogosphere. Having provided some guest vocals on Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest in 2009, the mellifluous Victoria Legrande returns to her day job and talks about the "sexual" new record that's causing such a flutter. So there's almost this impression that you're the band for 2010. Really? That's kind of intense. I just hope we have a really good year. We're really excited about touring, we can't wait to make these songs come to life. Thanks for the compliment. What's your impression of the differences between Teen Dream and Devotion? Devotion is a record we were writing on and off through periods of touring, so it was kind of a fragmented process. We're almost lucky that that record happened because of how much time management was going on. With Teen Dream, we finished touring and we basically had nothing to do but be completely dedicated to the songs that we had stored up. We also had a bit more money to spend on taking our time. That allowed us to really get what we envisioned out of it. So I think time has a lot to do with it. In an old interview, you said that you were tired of being called languid, and that when you made a new record there'd be new adjectives. What are the adjectives you're expecting to hear for the next year, then? New adjectives. Sexual. Obsessive. Rhythmic. This record has a lot of different motions to it. There are a lot of fluid elements to it that aren't fluid the way Devotion was, where things are kind of all the same level. Devotion doesn't ever go very high or very low. This record has more life in it, and I think that's a result of how much energy we put in. Creating a volcano, basically, a nine-month long volcano. So, like I said, sexual, dark, obsessive. People are going to have a lot of new words to think about. We're not trying to escape the dream-pop thing, the dream word is something that's always going to be part of our music, we're just trying to give new energy to people. You once said your four track was the most important piece of equipment you had. Does that still hold true?

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much broader spectrum of feeling. Do you have any memories of playing Electric Picnic this summer? Good God. Do I have memories of Electric Picnic? We had a great show, I remember that. But I remember not playing until like 3.30 in the morning and then leaving at 8 in the morning the next day. It was a really intense experience. I still don't believe that it really happened. The festival was missing an essential piece of equipment, so it was kind of a nail-biting experience, whether we were actually going to get to play. But it happened. Kind of like playing Russian roulette or something. Okay, compulsory Baltimore question. Do you have a favourite Wire character? I have only seen a handful of episodes of the Wire, actually, but I can tell you my favourite character is that murderous girl, what's her name? Snoop? Beach House’s Teen Dream is released through legal means on January 29th. They get all dark, sexual, and obsessive on Whelan’s on the 13th of February.

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Oscar win this year is a reflection of people’s appreciation for what’s happening within the Japanese film industry. There is more variety in Japanese film now. Our films aren’t falling into certain stereotypical categories. The new generation of film-makers are quite keen to explore the outside market and are taking an international audience into consideration when making their films. In that respect it’s a very different kind of filmmaking to what we had in the 1950s. It certainly is an interesting and encouraging time for Japanese cinema.

Henry and Sunny, Dublin-based writer/director together twenty years after their original setting Fergal Rock’s ‘melancholic tale of true love against and they meet for the first time in a cafĂŠ in Moscow all odds’, is a unique vision quite beautifully realwhere they discuss each other’s lives. ized. Shot in high-contrast black and white, Henry and Sunny imagines a complicated relationship Can you tell us about the programme and why you These plays are not related though are they? They wordsbetween // CAOMHAN an unemployedKEANE clown and his high-profile have chosen these particular films? aren’t sequels? love interest who inhabit very different worlds that We try to promote a deeper understanding of Japanese No, they are both completely different characters Rounding off The Abbey’s By Popular Demand tragically threaten to keep them apart, despite their society and culture. A lot of the films’ themes this year season, best which saw the welcome (Terminus) and not from completely different plays. The only link is that efforts. compliment that aim. We have five films for Dublin so welcome (The Sea Farer) return to the Abbey they both share an author and a location. The play This latest short from Rock assembles an acand I hope that I have selected a good combination and Peacock stages of some of its most talked-about stands on its own feet however, so audiences wouldn’t complished team that has undoubtedly contributed that people will enjoy. The press responses to all of shows, to is Little Gem, the award winning debut have to be familiar with Chekhov to enjoy the film’s positive reception on the festival necessarily circuit. them have been very positive. We have Ponyo, the latfrom actor/writer Elaine Murphy. since its Here he discusses the film’sEver depiction of a love less the play. est animation Miyazaki who is quite well known or costumes. much-raved-about appearance as part of the Fringe In Little Gem the role of Amber provedfrom the most ordinary, and how they stumbled across lead actor Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. Ponyo “I find that a lot of the time when I go into a in 2008,Paulo it hasBraganca. played to sold out audiences in Eddifficult to cast. “This play from has aSpirited really big elderly Have you worked with Brian Friel’s plays in the past? wasisasohuge hitfun, in Japan. theatre I don’t recognise the characters on stage. inburgh, London and New York, snaring its scribe fanbase, because the Kay role much and toIt is quite a deceptive film as it Yes, myI first Brian Friel play was in 1966,life. as aWith kid in be has aimed at a younger audience but we can wouldn’t meet them in costumes my everyday some serious accolades rangingasfrom the Fishamble to it. listen toPortuguese what aappears 19plumbers yeartoold to say work to do andHowever, props so our choice get them cast Two turned up at The concept of clowns the latest casualtiesthe of the Abbey - The Loves ofwith Cass McGuire. always expect Miyazaki to our deliver a deeper message Little Gem, I think, the audience members recognise New Writing award to the 2009 Carol Tambor and to really care about it, you really need someone

to shoot in black and white simplified things on that producer Orla’s door onethe daysurface to re-fit her bathrecession is a unique one. What made you settle on than suggests. A Stranger of Mine is a very one of the greatest acting experiences I have ever themselves more in the characters, particularly if In response to the level of interest shown in last year’s Best of that Edinburgh. Not bad for a woman who only strong in the role.� level. I also think it looks much more atmospheric. room. She texted meinteresting saying onefilm of them idea as the basis for your film? from awould youngbedirector named Kenji playing Casimir in another Friel playlike called seeItit all in one the suburban theatres the event the Japanese Film Festival hasAs broadened its the wrote itI because couldn’t be arsed to ahad wasyou a perfect writer and an actress is she dreaming uphim any goesof back to that almost Farside-like idea of for part of Henry and asked if he’don a low budget and actually she wrote the script whilewalking I was doing Uchida. It is his first film, Arguably Ireland’s greatest living playwright, Brian Aristocrats. We took that play to London and then Civic in Tallaght.� horizons, now taking in three locations across the library. juicy roles for the herself He to bring to lifesurprised on stage?becauseshot robbing the clowns of their color and distinctive be interested. was really he’d masters in DIT. At one stage I was working in a call uses no famous actors. The brilliance of this film is its Friel turned 80 January, celebrate his Aswhich the latest in a long, line Irish writers New York, earned it all long sorts of of awards. This a welcome return country before making to Dublin “I last initially started writing the pieceworking as a vehicle “I’mactually playing with it. You write a in piece and you traits. made a feature film Portugal a fewstructure. years centre and a and lot oftothe people there with clever script and unusual It has a great twist finding their voice in monologue form I wonder milestone birthday the Gate Theatre are presentin the latter half of November. Festival programmer for myself,� she tells me when I meet her for tea in isn’t my first time playing Andrey however, we took think about whether you can see yourself in it or to be interpreted. Afterplay is a career bit of aasgem, and famous earlier. He had a great relatively me were involved in the arts and looked like they which Ibetter don’taoff want to say too much about. It’s the kind what it is about this mode of theatre that makes it Shinji Yamada has compiled a schedule reflective of the The Abbey. “I had an audition and I was too lazy whether somebody else would be in the ing three of his greatest works in succession: Faith Afterplay to Australia yearabout with the Francesca Were youearly beingthis satirical entertainmentalthough itfado has singer been preformed awas few times inDavid Ireland, over there, signed towant were better suited to other jobs. My writing often of film you will to Byrne’s see twice! Kamikaze Girls is a so attractive emerging playwrights? imagination and forward thinking that has made Japato go toinvolves get aThe new monologue. had this idea a Annis role. There’s always thenot question about whether I’d Healer, Afterplay and Yalta Game.I Best known now I’mtodoing it with Frances Barber. industry? record label and toured around America. Hestory wentabout teenage friendship taking something familiar andfor putting it in and many Friel fans will still be overly familiar with it. beautiful coming-of-age “I was talking to Abi Spillane about it, whose nese cinema an institution, affording Irish audiences script. The youngest character came from that. Then be able to have enough distance from the piece to for the classic Philadelphia Here I Come and DancI think it’s gentle satire. We’re not taking pot-shots to London to pursueand a music career but itsubcultures. didn’t a slightly different context. I think that’s where the

Japanese fashion Shall We Dance, own debut Punk Girls featured three actors deliverthe opportunity totwo appreciate thedounique cinematic I had idea the granny’s character. it justice.â€? at anybody. I think fact that they’re surrounded out so he came toto Ireland to doorbathroom idea of for having clownsa working menial jobs where ing at Lunasa hethis has also translated number ofI started And how different is it doing thethe same part with Have fans work of Chekhov warmed theconfused play dis- the Hollywood re-make, has not to be with ing monologues, and we agreed that it’s just a matoutput of one of the world’s largest and oldest film thinking about how I was going to bring them “I do miss acting though. I have a small part in a by over-the-top characters who are motivated bycredited it?installation with his brother. The moment he walked they English, stand-outgiving visuallythem cameafrom. The clowns Chekhov’s plays into new lease different actors? become a modern classic Japan. Departures is a faster of getting the piece up and getting it outmore there. If industries. togetherare in symbolic a play and cameWhen to write romantic comedy called Happy After is in fameitand money clowns I knew that Paulo wasEver perfect forwhich theJapanese role. He death rites. It has become ofthat’s artistshow in aIactor way. of life. Totally Dublin spoke to esteemed Niall we started It’s great because keeps one makes fresh. the They’re both sympa-Well I haveinonly cinating filmin, about ever done itto in Australia where there you do something really simple, with no set changes, the mother. out in January and its nice just walk get your thetic. Their natural instinct is to entertain empathized with Henry as he was also of its Oscar win so we shooting the film last year whole global financial Buggy about his role in Afterplay, and histhe history wonderful and both of them aresetfriends, it’s and was a verycompletely more widely because warm it. 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Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9 – 1.30am

■ Dean Sherry Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Underground House, Techno, Funk 9pm

■ Takeover Twentyone Club, D’Olier St, D2 Electro, Techno 11pm, €5 ■ Taste Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St., D1 DJs Mo Kelly and Alex Donald 8pm, Free ■ Groovilisation South William, Sth. William St. D2 8pm, Free DJs Izem, Marina Diniz & Lex Woo

Wednesdays ■ DJ Steve Battle The Turks Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 11pm, Free

Pygmalion, South William St, D2 8pm Free Entry ■ Soup Bitchin’ Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay student night ■ Gaff Party Spy, Powerscourt Centre, Sth William St, D2 Electro, Electro Tech, Tech House Party 10pm ■ The Song Room The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Live music 8.30pm, Free ■ We got Soul, the Funk, and

the Kitchen Sink Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul and Funk 11pm, Free before 11.30, €5 after ■ Unplugged @ The Purty The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live acoustic set with Gavin Edwards. 7pm, Free before 11pm

Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am

■ Space ‘N’ Veda The George, Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Performance and dance. Retro 50s, 60s, 70s. 9pm, Free before 10pm, after 10pm €8/€4 with student ID

■ DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11am Chart, pop & dance with a twist

■ DJ Alan Healy Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm

■ Beatdown Disco South William, Sth. William St. D2 8pm, Free Stylus DJs Peter Cosgrove & Michael McKenna - disco, soul, house

■ Sexy Salsa Dandelion Café Bar Club, St. Stephens Green West, D2 Latin, Salsa 8pm, Free

■ Rob Reid + EZ Singles + DJ

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■ A Twisted Disco Night Ri Ra, Dame Crt, D1 80s, Indie, and Electro 11pm, Free ■ Shaker The Academy, Middle Abbey St Indie, electro, hip-hop and pop 11pm, €6/€8 ■ Spincycle Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Soul & Funky bogey tunes 8pm, Free ■ Antics POD, Old Harcourt Station, Harcourt St, D2 Indie Rock ‘n’ Roll student night with live music slots. 11pm, €5

■ Noize ALT, Andrews Lane, D2 Student night 8pm ■ The Song Room The Globe, Georges St., D2 Live original music from invited guests 8.30pm, Free

Thursdays ■ Jam Think Tank, Temple Bar, D1 Student night 10:30pm, Free ■ Real DJs presents Soul @

Latin beats.

Soul, Pop. 9.30pm, Free

■ Tea-Time Thursdays Howl at the Moon, 7 Lower Mount St., D2 Complimentary Captain Morgan’s and BBQ. Karaoke with Cormac and Stevo.

■ Big Time! The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 You Tube nights, hat partys... make and do for grown ups! With a DJ.

■ Muzik The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Up-Beat Indie, New Wave, Bouncy Electro 11pm

■ The Panti Show Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay cabaret. 10pm

■ Thursdays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30am. Cocktail promotions. 8pm, Free ■ The Little Big Party Ri Ra, Dame Crt, D1 Indie music night 11pm, Free

■ Mofo + One By One + DJ Jenny T Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am

■ Mr. Jones The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 House, Electro, Bassline 11pm, €8/5 ■ Alternative Grunge Night Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Alternative grunge 11pm, €5/3 ■ Ubangi Stomp Club Odessa Club, 14 Dame Ct., D2 10.30pm, Free Primitive rocking music on the top floor of Odessa ■ Soundcheck Spy, Powerscourt Centre, Sth William St, D2 Unarocks and Sarah J Fox play indie rock ‘n’ roll 7pm – 11pm ■ Le Cirque Wax, Powerscourt Centre, Sth William St, D2 DJ Lady Jane and Guests 11pm, €5

■ DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Energetic blend of dancefloor fillers

Fridays ■ Jam Hot 4 Dame Lane, D2 Funky Disco, House & Electro with Rob Linnane. Free ■ John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Darren C and DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 8pm – 2.30am ■ DJ Ronan M and DJ Ross Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Funky Friday and music mayhem ■ Disco Not Disco Shine Bar, 40 Wexford St., D2 Disco, house, funk & soul 9.30pm

■ Mash South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Mash-ups, Bootlegs, Covers 9pm, Free ■ Jason Mackay Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Dance, R’n’B, House 9pm

■ Fridays @ The Turks Head The Turks Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Live Indie music followed by DJ Eamon Clarke 11pm, Free ■ Fridays@Tripod, Old Harcourt Street Train Station, D2 11pm

■ Control/Delete ALT, Andrews Lane, D2 Indie and Electro 11pm, €3/4 ■ Annie’s Family Fortunes The George, Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Game show followed by 80s and 90s music. 9pm, Free before 10pm, after 10pm €8/€4 with student ID ■ Thursday night DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Indie 11pm, Free ■ After Work Party The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Rock with Totally Wired. 6pm, Free before 11pm

Solas Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Resident DJ Mr Razor delivers a mix of funk, jazz hip-hop and

■ Sonsoro 4 Dame Lane, D2 Meshing cultures, music and art with Spanish DJs, local DJs, bongos and Latin bands 11pm, €5

■ Moog 69s Thomas Reads, Parliament St, D2 Live covers band + DJ. Funk,

■ Drop Dead Gorgeous Ri Ra, Dame Crt, D2 €5 before 11:30pm, €10 after ■ InsideOut Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Soulful Disco ■ Friday Tea-Time Club Break for the Border, Johnston’s Place, Lower Stephens St, D2 Karaoke with Cormac and Stevo from 6pm. Budweiser promotions. DJs until late. ■ Fridays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJS and dancing until 3am. Cocktail promotions. 8pm, Free ■ Nightflight The Button Factory, Curved St,

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Temple Bar, D2 11pm, €5 ■ DJ Rob M Club M, Anglesea St, Temple Bar, D1 Chart, Dance, R&B. 10pm, Free before 11pm ■ Mud The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Bass, Dubstep, Dancehall 11pm, €10 (varies if guest)

■ Panticlub Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 DJ Paddy Scahill ■ Music with Words Pravda, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 Indie, Ska, Soul, Electro 9.30pm, Free

South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Dub, Ska, Afrobeat 8.30pm, Free

■ Go! Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire Soul, Indie, Disco, Rock 11pm, €10

■ NoDisko The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 Indie Rock with regular guest DJs €5 after 11pm

■ Scribble The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, House, Dubstep, Hip Hop 8pm

■ Hells Kitchen The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Funk and Soul classics

■ Room Service Feile, Wexford St., D2 Latin, Funk, Disco, uplifting Choons and Classics 9pm, Free

■ Friday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Eamonn Barrett plays an eclectic mix. 11pm, Free ■ DJ Eamonn Barrett Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Rock, indie, electro, house 11pm, Free ■ Strictly Handbag The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr Leeson St, D2 11pm, €10 (2 for 1 before midnight) ■ WAR Spy, Powerscourt Centre, Sth William St, D2 Indie, Pop 11pm, €5 ■ Al Redmond Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 R’n’B, House, Chart 9pm ■ Fridays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 Progressive Tribal, Techno and Trance ■ The Friday Night Project The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 DJ Austin Carter 10pm, Free before 11pm ■ Sub Zero Transformer (below The Oak), Parliment St, D2 Indie, Rock, Mod. 11pm, Free ■ Stephens Street Social Club Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Funk, Soul, Timeless Classics 8pm, Free ■ Let’s Make Party The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 DJ Mikki Dee 11pm ■ DJ Fluffy in the Box The George, Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Camp, Commercial, Dance 9pm, Free before 10pm €9 after ■ Karaoke Friday Break for the Boarder, Johnstons Place, Lwr Stephens St, D2. Karaoke night.

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■ Party Night Saturdays @ Howl at the Moon 7 Lower Mount St., D2 Chart music from 8pm. Free before 11.30pm. €10 after.

■ Basement Traxx Transformer (below The Oak), Parliment St, D2 Indie, Rock 11pm, Free

■ Saturdays @ Break for the ■ Processed Beats Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St Upr, D4 Indie, Rock, Electro 9pm, Free

■ Babalonia Tropical

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Marine Rd., Dun Laoghaire New bands play live 9pm, Free

■ Live Music The Harbor Bar & Grill, 6-7 Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire New bands play live 9pm, Free

Saturdays ■ Solar The Bull and Castle, 5 lord Edward St., D2 Soul, Funk, Disco 11pm ■ Strictly Handbag The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Music with words for your dancing pleasure with an alternative 80s feel. 11pm, €10 (2 for 1 before midnight) ■ The Matinee Brunch Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Super family friendly brunch club. Kids movies on the big screen 3PM. 12pm – 6pm, Free ■ Squeeze Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St., D2 DJ Aideen Kelly until 3am ■ Happy Families Aidan Kelly Funk, break beats and electronic

Border Lower Stephen’s St., D2 Current chart favourites from DJ Eric Dunne and resident club DJ Mark McGreer. From 1pm, Free ■ Guest band + DJ KK and

DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 8pm – 2.30am ■ DJ Dexy and DJ Aido Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Dublin’s biggest party night ■ Transmission The Button Factory Mix of Indie and dance 11pm, €10 ■ Pogo The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 House, Soul, Funk 11pm, €10 (varies if guest)

The Turks Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 DJ Padraig, Deco, Annie, Richard & guests 11pm, free ■ A Jam Named Saturday Anseo, Camden St., D2 7pm, Free DJs Lex Woo, Mr. Whippy, Matjazz, Warm DJ & friends. Jazz, disco, breaks, latin, hip-hop, house, afrobeat, funk, breakbeat, soul, reggae, brazilian, jungle. ■ Dizzy Disko, Andrews Lane Theatre, D2 11pm, €10 ■ Live Music The Harbor Bar & Grill, 6-7

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■ Saturdazed Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Chart, Dance, R ‘n’ B 11pm, €10 ■ Toejam The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Afternoon: Car boot sales, film clubs, music lectures, t-shirt making etc. Later on: Resident DJs playing Soul, Funk, House, Electro ■ Sidesteppin’ Bia Bar, 28 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Old School Hip Hop, Funk 45s, Reggae 8pm, Free

Saturdays

■ Saturday @ The Village The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 DJs Pete Pamf, Morgan, Dave Redsetta & Special Guests 11pm

POD, Old Harcourt Station, Harcourt St, D2 Access all areas at the Pod complex with local residents and special guest dj slots over five rooms. 11pm, €12

■ DJ Karen @ The Dragon The Dragon, Sth Great Georges St, D2 House music. 10pm

■ Gossip Spy, Powerscourt Centre, Sth William St, D2 80s, Disco, Hip Hop, House Free before 11pm, €10 after

■ Beauty Spot Karaoke The George, Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Karaoke followed by DJs playing camp commercial pop. 9pm, Free til 10pm, €10 after

■ Sugar Club Saturdays The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Salsa, Swing, Ska, Latin 11pm, €15

■ Panticlub Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 DJ Philth & Guests

■ Download + Tripod

■ Saturday @ The Wright

Venue ■ Freaks Come Out The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 Dirty Electro and House with regular guest DJs. €15

The Wright Venue, South Quarter, Airside Business Park, Swords, Co Dublin Rock, Pop, Hip-hop, Dance 10pm

■ Saturday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Dave Cleary plays an eclectic mix. 11pm, Free

Sundays

■ Saturdays @ The Turks

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■ Downtown Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Soul, Chart 10pm, Free

■ Space... The Vinyl Frontier Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Funk, Disco, Electro 11pm, €10 after 11.30 ■ Irish Reggae Dance Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Reggae 10pm, €5 ■ The Promised Land The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Soul, Funk, Disco Free ■ Saturdays @ V1 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 R ‘n’ B, Soul and Hip Hop with regular guest DJs. ■ Wes Darcy

■ Smooth Sailing Pygmalion, South William St, D2 Jim Break, Larry David, and Al Killian play smooth grooves, yacht rock, and beyond. 8pm ‘til late. Free Entry ■ The Matinee Brunch Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Super family friendly brunch club. Kids movies on the big screen 3PM. 12pm – 6pm, Free ■ Salsa v Samba The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Learn to dance Salsa & Samba from some of the best instructors in Ireland. €5, Classes from 5pm, club from 8pm – late ■ Sunday Service Odessa Club, 13 Dame Court, D2 Album tracks, old and new, and

funky disco classics 9pm, Free ■ Songs of Praise The Village, Wexford St., D2 9pm, Free The city’s rock and roll karaoke institution enters its fifth year. ■ Grazing Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St., D2 Aideen Kelly until 1am ■ Jam The Button Factory, Curved St., Temple Bar, D2 International dance hall style ■ Oldies but goodies Ri-Ra, Dame Crt., D2 Golden Oldies by Dj Steve 11pm, Free ■ Worries Outernational The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Dancehall Styles, Roots Reggae 11pm, Free B4 11.30 / €5 after ■ The Workers Party Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 With DJ Ilk 9pm

Free, 11pm Great music to end the week

Once-off clubbing Friday 8 January ■ Family South William, Sth. William St. D2 8.30pm, Free With Dave Salacious and friends.

Friday 15 January ■ Climaxxx South William, Sth. William St. D2 8.30pm, Free With DJ Chewy playing electroglobal grooves ■ International Dance Night Odessa Club, 13 Dame Court, D2 8pm, €6 The Appollonia Tribal Bellydancers present an invigorating night of dance from around the globe. Jive to live Brazilian drumming, salsa, tango, swing, tap and capoeira.

■ Jazz @ The Globe The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Sunday evening jazz 5.30 – 7.30pm ■ Hang the DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Rock, Indie, Funk, Soul 9pm, Free

Saturday 16 January

■ Gay Cabaret The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Gay cabaret shows. 9pm, Free before 11pm

Thursday 21 January

■ 12 Sundays The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 Funk, Disco, House 12pm – 12am, Free ■ Songs of Praise The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Rock ‘n’ Roll Karaoke 10pm, Free ■ Zrazy Jazz The George, Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Lazy Jazz Sunday 4pm – 7pm, Free ■ Shirley’s Bingo Sundays The George, Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Bingo & Cabaret with Shirley Temple Bar 8.30pm, Free ■ The Sunday Roast The Globe, Georges St., D2 Live music, games, roast potatoes. 9pm, Free ■ The Burning Effigies Turks Head, Parliament St., Temple Bar, D2 Soul and funk All night, Free ■ Elbow Room South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Jazz, Soul, Disc ■ Alan Keegan + One By One

+ DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm ■ DJ Jason D Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2

■ Best Foot Forward South William, Sth. William St. D2 9pm, Free With DJs Rizm and Colm K. Hip-hop, funk, afrobeat, house.

■ Funk 45s South William, Sth. William St. D2 8.45pm, Free Eurofunk, soul, jazz, disco, afrobeat, latin, hip-hop, breaks.

Friday 22 January ■ Ubangi Stomp Club Odessa Club, 13 Dame Court, D2 9pm, €10 Tiki Paul curates a rockin night of tribal rock n roll sounds with special live bands and DJ’s.

Saturday 23 January ■ Discorotique South William, Sth. William St. D2 9pm, Free With DJs Rizm and Colm K playing hip-hop, funk, afrobeat, and house.

Thursday 28 January ■ Scribble South William, Sth. William St. D2 8.45pm, Free Tom Beary (deejay), MC Little Tree (vox), Chucky (drumz) & G-Frequency (dex) 9pm, free

Friday 29 January ■ The Clipper Club The Aviator’s Lounge, above Bentley’s, St. Stephen’s Green, D2 9pm, Free Swinging sounds from the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s & 50’s courtesy of legendary Gramophone Disco DJs in a classy Georgian building. Dancing shoes and vintage clothing most welcome. 9pm til late. Free admission.

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comedy weekly Ha’penny Bridge Inn Wellington Quay, Temple Bar., D2. ■ Tuesday & Thursday Nights Battle of the Axe Dublin’s much loved open mic night. 9pm, €9 ■ Wednesdays & Sundays Capital Comedy Club The club’s flagship night. 9:30pm, €7/5 ‘Laugh Out Loud’ Comedy Nights Anseo, Camden St, D2 Wednesdays With resident MC Aidan Killian. 8.30pm, €5/7

■ Tuesdays Comedy Dublin: A night of improv and stand up. €8/6. Students €5.

The Bankers 16 Trinity St., D2 ■ Thursday & Friday Comedy improv with ‘The Craic Pack’. 9pm, €10/€8 with concession. ■ Saturdays Stand Up @ The Bankers 9pm, €10/8

The Belvedere Great Denmark St., D1 ■ Sundays Sunday improv session hosted by Comedy Dublin. 8pm, €8/6. Students €5.

The Flowing Tide 9 Lwr Abbey St., D1

■ Fridays ‘The Comedy Gaff’ promises drinks specials and comedians from around the world. 9pm Door €10/Concession €8/ Students €5.

Sheehan’s Chatham St., D2

■ Fridays Neptune Comedy Night 8.30pm, €8

The International 23 Wicklow St., D2 ■ Mondays Comedy Improv night. 8.30pm, €8/10

■ Tuesdays Andrew Stanley’s Comedy Mish Mash (Brand new comedy showcase) 8.30pm, €8/10 ■ Wednesdays The Comedy Cellar with Andrew Stanley 9.30pm €8/10 ■ Thursdays & Fridays The International Comedy Club with resident MC Aidan Bishop 8.45pm, €8/10 ■ Saturdays The International Comedy Club. Early and late shows added due to popular demand. 8 & 10.30pm, €8/10 ■ Sunday Whats New @ The International New material night. 8.45pm, €5

The Woolshed Comedy Club The Woolshed Baa & Grill, Parnell St., D1 ■ Mondays. Hosted by Australian import Damian Clarke.€5

once-offs ■ The Comedy Shed The Woolshed Baa & Grill, Parnell St., D1

John Bishop

Vicar Street, 58 Thomas St., D2 Reflections on life, fatherhood and ‘the king’ from Liverpuddlian comic John Bishop in his new show entitled ‘Elvis has left the Building’. Bishop’s TV credits include a minor role on C4’s ‘Skins’ and regular panel show appearances including ‘8 out of 10 Cats’ and RTE’s ‘The Panel’. January 7th 8pm, €23 ■ Ian Coppinger &

Guests

The Laughter Lounge, Eden Quay, D1 Coppinger takes the headline slot with support on the night from fellow Irish comedians Jarlath Regan, Gar Murran and Chris Kent. January 8th & 9th 7pm, €26 ■ Jimmy Carr Olympia Theatre, 72 Dame St., D2 Having graced the stage at the Olympia Theatre for four sell-out performances as part of this year’s Bulmers International

Classical/Jazz/Avant-garde Thursday 7 January ■ Susannah sings Blossom National Concert Hall 8pm, €20 With a band led by Phil Ware ■ Isotope JJ Smyths 9pm, €10 Dublin’s long-running jazz session

Friday 8 January ■ Nyle Wolfe National Concert Hall 1.05pm, €14 Performing his ‘Dublin Songbook’ ■ RTE National Symphony

National Concert Hall 8pm, €25 With guest artist Fiona Murphy ■ Lupo & Trilogue JJ Smyths 8pm, €10/8 Vocal and improv venture Lupo, with improvising chamber group Trilogue

Monday 11 January ■ Jill Crossland Piano Recital National Concert Hall 8pm, €20 Performing Bach, Schumann, and Chopin

Tuesday 12 January

Orchestra

■ Horizons 2010: Deirdre

National Concert Hall 8pm, €10/18/24/30/35 Performing Schumann, Chopin, and Strauss

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Saturday 9 January ■ Opera To Celebrate OTC National Concert Hall 8pm, €50 Arias, duets and ensembles from Baroque to Contemporary

National Concert Hall 1.05pm, Free With the National Symphony Orchestra

Wed 13 January

Sunday 10 January

■ Cinema Choral Classics National Concert Hall 8pm, €22/27/33/38 With famous choral numbers from Ben Hur, Amadeus, and more.

■ Defence Forces Annual

Thursday 14 January

Gala Concert

■ Isotope JJ Smyths 9pm, €10 Dublin’s long-running jazz session

Friday 15 January ■ In The Mood For Love National Concert Hall 1.05pm, €18 Love songs from the fabulous forties ■ RTE National Symphony

Orchestra National Concert Hall 8pm, €10/18/24/30 Performing Borodin, Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky

Saturday 16 January

■ Horizons 2010: Frank Corcoran National Concert Hall 1.05pm, Free With a pre-concert talk from the composer.

Wed 20 January ■ Karen Egan National Concert Hall 8pm, €22 With the Cian Boylan sextet ■ Isotope JJ Smyths 9pm, €10 Dublin’s long-running jazz session

Friday 22 January ■ Degani Ensemble with

■ Dublin Youth Orchestra

Cara O’ Sullivan

Annual Concert

National Concert Hall 1.05pm, €15 Performing Mozart, Beethoven, and a Bernard Geary premiere

National Concert Hall 8pm, €25 With over the DYOs four orchestras.

Sunday 17 January ■ NY Now: Will Vinson/ Lage Lund Quartet JJ Smyths 8pm, €12 Shoots from the world’s most demanding jazz scene.

Tuesday 19 January

■ RTE National Symphony

Orchestra National Concert Hall 8pm, €10/18/24/30/35 Performing Moart and Mahler

Saturday 23 January ■ New Year Opera Gala National Concert Hall 8pm, €20/35/50

Comedy Festival, king of deadpan comedy Jimmy Carr returns to Dublin for two additional dates in January. January 11th & 12th 8pm, €32.60 ■ Kevin Gildea & Guests The Laughter Lounge, Eden Quay, D1 The former Father Ted star takes to the stage alongside Australian import Damo Clarke, Michael Downey and lawyer turned comedian Keith Farnan. January 15th & 16th 7pm, €26 ■ Dara O’ Briain Vicar Street, 58 Thomas St., D2 The hugely popular Irish comedian and host of BBC’s Mock the Week returns to the Vicar Street stage with an extended run of his new show. January 14th – February 21st 8:30pm, €23 ■ Geoff Boyz & Guests The Laughter Lounge, Eden Quay, D1 The Scottish comedian is joined by the Conon O’ Brien show’s Shane Mauss, James Marsh and Andrew Stanley. January 22nd & 23rd 7pm, €26

Civic Theatre, Tallaght, D24 The former Naked Camera star provides the laughs as part of her new show for 2010: Blabbing Away. January 23rd 8pm, €18/14 ■ House of Fun: Maeve

Higgins

Axis Centre, Axis Main St., Ballymun, D9 Ballymun’s monthly comedy night presents the Cork born comedian and star of RTE’s hit shows Naked Camera and Fancy Vittles. January 29th 8:30pm, €16.50 ■ Kevin Bridges & Guests The Laughter Lounge, Eden Quay, D1 Providing the entertainment tonight as support for Bridges are Aidan Bishop, Bob Henigan and Steve Cummins. January 28th, 29th & 30th 7pm, €26 ■ Brendan O Carroll Olympia Theatre, 72 Dame St., D2 The Irish comedian and creator of the infamous Mrs Brown presents his new show How Now Brown Cow. January 18th – 30th 8pm, €35/30

■ Maeve Higgins

An evening of arias and duets from popular operas and composers

Sunday 24 January ■ Mantrum JJ Smyths 8pm, €10 Borne of an adventurous, no holds barred jam session encounter at last year’s 12 Points Festival, Mantrum is a collaborative project between Swedish and Irish musicians.

Monday 25 January ■ RIAM Performing Groups Gala Concert National Concert Hall 8pm, €10/12 Performing classical, jazz, pop and rock.

■ RTE National Symphony

Orchestra National Concert Hall 8pm, €10/18/2/30/35 Performing Golijov, Barber, and Mahler.

Saturday 30 January ■ Johann Strauss Gala National Concert Hall 3.15pm/8pm, €45/42/33.50/23 Waltz back in time to the glittering ballrooms of 19th Century Vienna with a magical mix of music, song and dance from the Strauss Family and Friends.

Sunday 31 January

■ Tallaght Choral Society National Concert Hall 8pm, €20/25/30/35 With the RTE Concert Orchestra.

■ Johann Strauss Gala National Concert Hall 3.15pm/8pm, €45/42/33.50/23 Waltz back in time to the glittering ballrooms of 19th Century Vienna with a magical mix of music, song and dance from the Strauss Family and Friends.

■ Isotope JJ Smyths 9pm, €10 Dublin’s long-running jazz session

■ Puck Fair JJ Smyths 8pm, €10 Brian Dunning’s succesful traditional project returns.

Thursday 28 January

Friday 29 January

Theatre ■ ‘allo ‘allo Millbank Theatre By Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft Directed by Annmarie Wolohan 8.30pm, €10-12 10 December - 12 December

■ Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol The Gate Theatre, 1 Cavendish Row, Dublin 1 Adapted by John Mortimer Back by popular demand, Dickens’ timeless classic of the true spirit of Christmas at the Gate. The famous tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from embittered skinflint to generous benefactor has delighted audiences for generation 8pm, €25 10 December - 23 January

■ Faith Healer The Gate Theatre, 1 Cavendish Row, Dublin 1 Arguably Friel’s greatest play, Faith Healer influenced a generation of Irish writing for the theatre. Frank Hardy, faith healer, has spent a life time touring the decayed villages of Scotland and Wales with his manager, Teddy, and his wife/ mistress, Grace. The story of

their touring and of their fateful return is told in separate, often contradictory, stories by Grace and Teddy and Frank himself. These narratives taken together make up a mosaic that is both seductive and terrifying. 8pm, €25-30 27 January - 20 February

■ Gaels of Laughter - A Tribute to Fred O’Donovan The Gaiety Theatre, South King Street, Dublin 2, Dublin 2 Legendary producer Fred O’Donovan devised and produced hundreds of theatre productions including Gaels of Laughter, Christmas pantomimes, Jury’s Irish Cabaret, The Jack Benny Show, and Juno and the Paycock with Peter O’Toole, Siobhan McKenna, and Jack McGowran. On this evening of celebration many of the hits from Gaels of Laughter will be performed. Proceeds from the night will be donated to The Variety Club of Ireland and the Irish Cancer Society. 7.30pm, €15-55 25 January

Jack And The Beanstalk The Gaiety Theatre, South King Street, Dublin 2, Dublin 2 The much-loved traditional pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk returns to The Gaiety Theatre. Join Jack and his beanstalk on a giant adventure, where Jack must outwit and outrun the giant. This classic tale will capture children’s interest and spark their imagination. Mon – Fri, 6:30 pm - Sat 7:30 pm, Sat 2:30 pm - Sun 1:30 pm, €16.50-35 10 December - 31 January

■ Little Gem The Peacock Theatre, 26 Lower Abbey Street, D1 Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the Sambucas aren’t getting rid of it. Lorraine attacks a customer at work and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist. Kay’s got an itch that Gem can’t scratch (but maybe Kermit can). Paul is just using Amber until he can get to Australia. The Hairy Man fancies Lorraine but fails to rise to the occasion, and Gem doesn’t like the neighbours coming in to ‘mind’ him. And

if all that wasn’t bad enough, Little Gem makes his presence felt and...well...life is never the same again. 8pm, €15-18 20 January - 23 January

■ Living Quarters The Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre, Dundrum, D16 Set in the wilds of Donegal, in a run-down army base in the mythical village of Ballybeg the audience is invited to join Commandant Frank Butler and his family as a day of celebration is punctuated and permeated by various trips down a winding and well-travelled memory lane. The central theme of the play is family life and the destructive power of secrets and deceit. 8pm, €15-18 19 January - 23 January

her, can she get help before it’s too late? 7.30pm, €7.50-13.50 7 January - 16 January

world. 9.30/11/12.30am, €8.50 17 December

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■ Scrooge’s Christmas The Pavillion Theatre, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire. Co.Dublin. Written and directed by Michael Poynor a Christmas Show for all the family! Producers of the best in seasonal entertainment in Ireland for over 20 years, the Ulster Theatre Company teams up with Pavilion for a celebration of all things Yule-ish, in a funpacked sing along version of the second most famous Christmas story of them all. 7pm/3pm, €10-63 26 December - 17 January

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axis, Main Street, Ballymun D9. The recession has hit the village of Ganderland. Mother Goose is struggling to pay the rent. To her surprise, a goose mysteriously arrives on her doorsteps - and it lays golden eggs!Mother Goose needs saving - from herself. Greed and vanity consume

Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow The Magical Christmas tree grows deep in the enchanted forest and is protected by Logan the Woodcutter. Each Christmas Santa uses the tree’s magic to make his sleigh fly and to bring the spirit of Christmas to the

Cindy Sherman, these 150 masterworks capture the world’s most vibrant urban centre from the 1880s to the present day. 27th November until 7th February 2010 ■ Lynda Benglis American sculptor, best known for her pioneering and challenging works which question the rigours of Modernism and Minimalism by merging content and form. The exhibition spans forty years of her extraordinary and innovative creative output. 4th November until 24th January

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The Abbey Theatre, 26 Lower Abbey Street, D1 It’s Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who’s recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. With the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. In fact, Sharky may be playing for his very soul... 7.30pm, €19-25 10 December - 30 January

Visual art Alliance Francais ■ Mandy O’Neill - Exhale Taken over a two year period at St Saviours Boxing Club, this photographic work explores the yearning for authenticity and a more stable, vital existence. 27 November until 6 February

international fine art printmaking artists, allowing visitors to see the creative methodology of the printmaker, and showing the development of an idea from the research and exploration stages through to the rigorous process of making the print. 28 January until 27 March

tographs, unfinished works and slashed canvases, some previously unseen, offering the viewer an astonishing new look at Bacon, in this the centenary of his birth. From 28th October until 7th March

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Caffe Noto 79 Thomas Street, Dublin 8 ■ Milada Bacik - “The Space Inside the Mind” An exhibition of new paintings by Milada Bacik, part of a continuing work on theories of mind and pattern, influenced by her recent residency in Armenia. 6 Dec 2009 to 28 Feb

Draiocht The Blanchardstown Centre, D15 ■ Colin Martin - Chalet Town New series of painitings, utilizing the vernacular environment of a dormitory holiday town to create a narrative context, in which the identity, values and states of mind that underpin and form communal space are explored. 27 November until 23 January ■ Artist’s Proof, in association with Chester Beatty Library An exhibition by 24 Irish and

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Little Christmas ‘09 Gallery artists and studio members including new talent are invited to respond by prefixing -scape with an initial element of their choice such as city, land, moon, sea etc to produce a diverse range of works of an ‘extensive view, scenery’, or ‘a picture or representation’ of such a view. 3rd December 2009 - 9th January 2010

Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery Charlemont House, Parnell Square North, D1 ■ Corban Walker - The Golden Bough Walker’s installation of sheets of Perspex presents the viewer with an environment that challenges their relationship to their surroundings. His response to the Golden Bough theme is primarily related to a process of defining how he physically and metaphorically negotiates the Museum space. 30th September until 17th January 2010 ■ Francis Bacon - A Terrible Beauty Major exhibition comprising paintings, drawings, pho-

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■ Phillippe Parreno An ambitious overview of Parreno’s work to date, the exhibition questions notions of time, reality and representation, as well as exhibition-making and performance. Comprising some 20 mixed-media works, it includes a number of works being shown in the Museum’s courtyard and grounds. 4th November until 24th January ■ What Happens Next is a Secret An experimental exhibition that attempts to addresses the question of what happens when artworks are shown in the context of a collection. By changing and re-positioning works, or even adding new ones, the exhibition shifts over the course, generating absences, which call to mind gaps in our memory and point to the partially hidden nature of Museum collections, as well as new relationships that challenge our understanding of the narrative. 26 January until 18 April ■ Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art Including photographs by such influential photographers as Berenice Abbot, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Alfred Stieglitz and

Light House Cinema, Smithfield ■ Bouvard et Pécuchet The exhibition ‘Bouvard et Pécuchet’ is a challenging tongue twister developed for the space of Light House Cinema, which attempts to open up a dimension of critical interpretation of the present moment in art, while investigating the notion of authorship 10th December until 10th January

National Gallery of Ireland Merrion Sq West, D2 ■ A Light in Darkness - Turner’s Watercolours & Silhouettes and Miniatures - The Mary A. McNeill Bequest The famous Vaughn collection of Turner watercolours, from his later European tours. This year the exhibition will be complemented by a display of seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century silhouettes and miniatures from the Mary A. McNeill Bequest. 1st to the 31st January

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■ Diane Whyte - The Echo of a Silent City This work deals with the effects of institutional enclosure on the person confined, the loss of innocence and identity associated with the institutionalisation of young offenders. 12 December until 14 January Daria Pietryka - The Peculiar Case of Ms Cloud An analysis of solitude in terms of the single human being and in context of society, Pietryka presents paintings with a deeply meditative atmosphere. 16th January until 18th February

Project 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 ■ Cult of Engagement Clodagh Emoe will present a space filled with the essence of ritual, where events – occult or banal – are bound to take place. Emoe’s solo exhibition includes structure, video, tapestry and sound, and builds a world informed by tropes of mysticism, the cult of engagement and Greek theatre. 18th December until 31st January

Rubicon 10 St. Stephen’s Green, D2 ■ News and Paper Works on Paper by Gallery Artists : Stephen Brandes, Maud Cotter, Blaise Drummond, Nathalie du Pasquier, Patrick Michael Fitzgerald, Anita Groener, Marie Hanlon, Alexis Harding, Martin Healy, Ronnie Hughes, Eithne Jordan, Michael Kane, Nick Miller, Tom Molloy, Tom

Nozkowski, Liam O’Callaghan, Laurina Paperina, Sherman Sam & Donald Teskey 14th December until 23rd December

Sebastian Guinness Gallery, 18 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 ■ The Great Redundant An exhibition of drawings by local and international artists curated by John Kenny and Jennie Taylor including works by Peter Cabocky, Nuala Clarke, Nicolas Feldmeyer and Vanessa Donosa Lopez. 11th December – January 23rd

Douglas Hyde Gallery Trinity College, D2 ■ Mike Nelson - The Paradise The twice Turner prize nominated artist will create a new installation to kick this DHG series, where , artists make a selection of work that reflects their idea of ‘The Paradise’. 4 December until 20 January

■ James Castle Born deaf in turn of the century Idaho, Castle’s art reflects a search for meaning and identity in a quiet rural world that he may often have found difficult to understand. 4 December until 20 January

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Prague is frustrating if you’re under the age of 50 or you’re not in town at a Chinese wedding. Much like the theory that models are boring in bed, central Prague, without doubt one of the prettiest places in the whole world, is just a pile of extra long limbs leading to a slow brain with an appetite for nothing more than local water and carrots. A corrupt little Disneyland on the banks of the Vltava, Prague can be so uneventful that you get to hoping that one of the thousand and one pickpockets you’re constantly being warned about will have a go just to spice things up. There’s a graff artist operating in the city who has a tag that reads ‘Stop making this city clean’. And you’ve got to agree with him. The city centre has been given a complete Hollywood makeover. They pay out-of-work actresses to dress up like mermaids and hang under the Charles Bridge in the middle of the night. They catch colds and get replaced the next night as Prague is full of out-of-work actresses, just a couple of bad auditions away from

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a career in webcams. From the castle to the museum, the whole riverbank is lit up like a shop window birthday cake and most of the locals you meet wear period costume and can change your currency in three languages. In fact most locals, those that don’t work in the gargantuan tourism industry, avoid the central district, Praha 1, and we’d suggest that as long as you’re under 50 or not in town at a Chinese wedding that you avoid them too. If you are in town at a Chinese wedding, cut loose, go wild and don’t waste any time on the naysayers who try and tell you that a pink suit in a chapel might be verging on crass. Prague 1 is a little bit hard to believe. It’s more department store than city, gated enough that the only drunks asleep on the streets probably have hotel keys in their jackets. But if you can get beyond it, and that means travelling so far that you no longer hear the Russian WAGs or English stags anymore, you find a Prague that’s still got a whiff of the dynamism and radicalism that sent Ivan and Boris packing twenty years ago.

The Cross Club in the station district is what happens when an automotive parts factory has a midlife crisis and decides to transform itself into a bar. You find it in a little visited part of town called Holesovice in Praha 7. It’s beside the train station and apart from a McDonald’s, the Cross Club is the only thing not shrouded in darkness come nighttime. When we arrived, there were a group of Prague kids stood in the hallway building joints in their snowboard jackets. The Cross Club is not draughty. Urban outdoor chic is what you might call it. If the dancefloor turns into a snowdrift, they’ll know what to do. That’s the look in Prague and if you want to get it, dig out your old Carhartts with the hammer hook, throw something waterproof on top; pierce your eyebrow or your nose, thin down to about 60kg and smoke spliffs like they come in packs of twenty. Simple. Then go do it at the Cross Club. The place is very well known in Eastern Europe because it’s quite the smoker’s delight. It gets so bad that every hour the security do a sweep and scoop out the casualties. That’s all right though. It means you don’t have to wait long for a table. On level two and a half, a chef cooks up burgers and toasties that cost no more than loose change, and that’s also all right. Up until about a year ago, Cross Club was just a private bar. The staff lived upstairs and mates, and mates of mates, were the only people allowed through the door. It took an age to get permits but they did. Even now, tripping through the mess of cable, axles and suspended truck parts, it’s hard to see how that was possible. But Prague’s corrupt. And a little corruption is never a bad thing. We met a Canadian who bought a black market driving license for about €100 and avoided re-sitting his test in Czech. On the streets, the smell of weed pushes out the smell of boiling pork and places like the Cross Club are allowed to open with no fear of litigation. It’s almost too much. The lamps are old motorcycle engines with bulb fittings bourn through the metal casing, the chairs have been ripped out of old buses and the overall impression is that you’re having a beer behind the face of a Swiss watch or in a Giger nightmare with less boob on show. The bar is on four levels, each one with different regular nights. Anus Music was playing on level three. Anus Music sounds like the Czech Drop Kick Murphys remixed by Doc Scott if you’re up close. If you happen to be on the level above or below it just sounds like airplanes taking off.

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KOLBENOVA FLEA MARKET There’s a flea market about six stops east of the centre of Prague where you can buy hunting rifles and Red Army hand grenades alongside porn flicks and mystery meats. The tracks that seperate the stalls are muddy trenches that splatter your shoes and make you instantly unwelcome anywhere with carpets. The haggle is a bit hit and miss. Mostly because if you haven’t mastered Czech or already sorted out the look from the Cross Club, they’ll assume you’re a German and charge you triple. The Germans are doing well in the Czech Republic. They own the banks, much of the supermarkets and have spirited away enough Czech footballers to make the national league little more than making-up-the-numbers. The Germans are liked in the Czech Republic because of their buying power. Proving you’re not German is the first step in a game called ‘Don’t get ripped off in Prague’. The Kolbenova flea market sits alongside a dusty road that looks a lot like the Long Mile with tyre factories instead of car dealerships. The Czechs are lookers. Every fourth model at this year’s Milan fashion week came from here, but stepping out of the metro and approaching the acres of scrub where the market makes its weekend home, you’re met with a lot of faces only a mother could love. But again, like the Cross Club, the black-tooth ugliness of the Kolbenova market comes as a welcome antidote to what you see in the centre of Prague. Or maybe I’m wrong, and you go to Eastern Europe to shop at Gap and get served by giraffes with chopstick arms

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Czech is right up there with some of the hardest languages in the world. The tenses are fine. There’s only three to begin with, but each word has seven cases. If that makes no sense, imagine a language where you have to add vowels to the end of a person’s name to distinguish whether you’re talking to them or just about them and you start to understand why an ex-pat in Prague can be content with functional rather than fluent Czech after twenty years. If you can master ‘thank you’ by day three you’re already doing better than most. Don’t be so hard on yourself if you’re not quite getting numbers at the market. Use your hands or buy a 50cent calculator off the guy with the gold teeth who does a steady line in stuffed boars,

broken dolls and nappies. Corruption, like nature, loves symmetry. We got chased out of the market for taking photos. No one sells a nearly new flatscreen TV for €50 because they want to improve the quality of their home life. Anway, we legged it from the TV thieves and hopped a tram back to the city, only to be controlled by an inspector en route. The fine is a standard €30. We only had a tenner, which meant he’d have to travel all the way to a bank machine with us for the rest. In the outskirts of Prague, bank machines are about as rare as tourists. We came to an agreement with the inspector and he allowed us stay on while he pocketed the ten. If we’d bought a 50cent calculator from the boar head salesman, we might have got off for half of that.

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THE BABY TOWER David Cerny is that artist who embarrassed the EU recently. Entropa, his work that tried to capture Europe as a map of stereotypes, wasn’t that well received by those who felt places like Bulgaria weren’t best represented by a squat toilet. But this was tame. In the past he had the same work, Shark – Saddam in formaldehyde – banned twice.

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The Baby Tower in the Zizkov area of Prague is a TV tower covered in crawling black babies. The tower is as ugly as a bag of dead bunnies but its contrast with the pristine skyline along the river make it somewhat endearing. To get to it, you have to travel by metro then walk through the belly of a mountain. It’s a really spooky tunnel that runs for about 200 metres and bends in the middle so you can’t see daylight till halfway. We heard a rumour about kids racing cars through the tunnel at night. It was impressive and barely believable. You could do it with the wing mirrors folded and everyone inside holding their breath. The Baby Tower was built on top of a Jewish cemetery during the communist era and parts of the cemetery still exist, dotted around the base of the tower like dead leaves circle deciduous trees in late Autumn. Cerny’s babies were installed during Prague’s time as the European City of Culture in 2000. They weren’t supposed to be permanent but locals found they improved the most hated building in the city so they stayed. You can find Cerny’s babies in other parts of Prague; reclining, crawling, staring off into nothing. It’s proof that underneath the architectural Botox, Prague’s still got a sense of fun. The city centre is staid and overrun with trinket shops. Every time you sense a photo op, half a dozen couples block your path and the constant German greetings will leave you feeling genocidal. But a country that has no issue attaching a dozen plump-arsed little children to its largest tower is a self-assured and wonderful place. And that makes it well worth a visit.

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I was recently dragged down Baggot Street, kicking, screaming and cursing my colleagues for signing me up to one of those horrid 12 Pints of Christmas thingies. Stepping over the vomit-laced dregs of society, making their annual trip out of the suburbs to whoop it up at their work Christmas dos, I wished desperately that I was wrapped up safe and sound in the comfort of my local boozer. Free of the paradoxical drink promotions that give you bang for buck but leave you more than a little crooked when morning, like you, has broken. Free of the wretched rebel anthems that would sour the milk in one’s tit and whose sentiment is seriously undermined by the fact it’s delivered by an 18 stone west Brit in a Manchester United jersey. And free of the underlying fear that at any given moment my night (or my life) can be brought to an untimely end by any one of the cretins who seem determined to prove our Minister for Justice’s belief that we are incapable of enjoying a good night sensibly. Devoid of a television set and any form of music, it’s the gift of the gab one is left with to build an evening’s entertainment at John Kavanagh’s in Glasnevin, aka The Gravediggers. Age 50 and over, the majority of the locals can certainly spin a yarn and bring to life a Dublin not seen since the rare auld times. But plenty of young ones too frequent the Northside’s oldest family-run watering hole, renowned for its spectacular pint of the black stuff - at €4.13 its also one of the cheapest. It’s not the easiest place to find, tucked away off the beaten track in the middle of a residential area. However it is well serv-

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iced by a number of different bus routes (40/A/B/C/D,140, 19/A, 83, 13/A). It’s situated next to the old entrance to the Glasnevin cemetery, and right behind the Botanic Gardens, giving you two further reasons to visit one of Dublin’s most salubrious suburbs. But if you bring the rugrats,bear in mind that you must have them off the premises by 7pm. Featured in several Irish movies and advertisements (including My Left Foot and The Commitments) it’s a pub steeped in tradition. It’s been in the Kavanagh family for six generations and the back lounge has managed to hold on to much of the rustic charm that made it a hit when it first opened its doors in 1833. With saloon doors, wooden tables and large benches it’s best visited on a Friday evening when it’s hopping with the afterwork crowd - though there are a steady stream of regulars who can be seen propping up the bar no matter when you drop by. It gets its nickname by proxy of the workmen who used to bang their shovels off the wall when they wanted a pint which they then shoved in through a hole in the wall, where a barman placed a jar of stout on the offending shovels so the gravediggers could take them with them

when they returned to work, bringing into existence that old Dublin colloquialism “going for a jar”. There isn’t a vast amount of choice when it comes to the alcohol (I was laughed at when I asked for a Tequila) and payment must be by cash only (no Laser), but ironically the larger front lounge has a terrific tapas menu written up daily on a blackboard. It’s only available Monday to Friday but it’s a refreshing alternative to the dull, flavourless pub grub offered by some of their local rivals. And last, but by no means least, there is the terrific front green where on bright sunny days you can while away the hours sipping your pint and enjoying one of the finest front gardens offered by any pub in the city. It’s just far enough away from town and difficult enough to find to save it from being overrun by the same hipsters who taint the Long Hall and other such establishments, and with its mix of tourists and locals the Gravediggers is a guaranteed good time, perfect to ease you into the weekend’s festivities. 1 Prospect Square , Glasnevin Telephone: 01 830 7978

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For the first time in six weeks I knew exactly what I was going to do on Friday. For the last six weeks there has been no Nightflight at The Button Factory. Facing the choice of what to do or where to go on a Friday night is a familiar feeling, but for the past eighteen months since Nightflight began the choice has been a no-brainer. Since Nightflight first began it has evolved in to far more than just a Friday night out. It established itself as a widely recognised brand name in the Irish club scene - a much-loved and respected one at that. Originally Nightflight was a fusion of DowntownSounds, Space Camp and Winter Olympics - smaller, but successful, promoters in their own right who realised they had a common crowd and taste in music. They joined together to take on the challenge of a bigger venue. And with that Nightflight was born, its philosophy being to put on good music they all love - be it disco, house, hip hop or techno. To put it simply: to host a great party. With a mixture of big name international guests from Danny Wang to Joakim to Prins Thomas and Tensnake alongside the best of the local residents such as Jon Averill, Stephen Manning and Matagouri it quickly garnered a reputation for hosting some of the best nights in town. However, whether it was the curse of the big venue or simply that there was too much variation at the night, after a year and a half the atmosphere changed. Originally attracting a stellar following that helped to create the atmosphere the night was famed for, it lost its magic when regulars began sharing the dancefloor with drunken tweenies. Tonight Tony Lionni kicks off the first of the club’s new monthly incarnation.

$"#*/ $3&8 /*()5'-*()5 words // ROSIE GOGAN-KEOGH picture // AL KENNINGTON Lionni, the Liverpool-born, Manchesterbred producer burst on to the scene last year with his uplifting take on tech house, Detroit techno and all things deep. Now with countless releases on labels such as Aesthetic Audio, Figure, Mule, Versatile and Wave he is the perfect headliner for Nightflight, and tonight a bit of the magic that made us visit every Friday returns. For now the Nightflight lads are continuing to diversify. As well as the monthly night, they are busy planning another overseas festival for this summer and hosting once-off gigs all over the city from Bia Bar to Pygmalion which will undoubtedly help them maintain their dominance on the Dublin dance scene check out Claude VonStroke’s show on the 29th January at the Button Factory for affirmation.

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Trumping this dish by a narrow margin were the rings of crispy squid that were so delicately fried in lemon and garlic we doubted the rest of the meal could live up to their superior flavour. However, at least one of our mains certainly did. On the black board that evening was yellow fin tuna soused in a red pepper salsa with a medley of chorizo and potato which we couldn’t pass up. A tribute to the chef, the fleshy tuna steak’s outer layer was white and skilfully sealed leaving the raw pink interior to melt quicker than ice-cream in the mouth. The salsa and chorizo added the necessary punch to the dish which was, as Cheryl Cole might say, “Abselutely stunnin’”. Since veal appeared twice on the menu we felt obliged to order the calf’s meat reasoning that it must be a speciality of the chef. The veal parmigiana was accompanied by mushrooms, crunchy asparagus stalks that verged on al dente and as there were no potato rosti left, mac and cheese. Slightly soggy for our taste, the breaded meat and the mac and cheese were a bit like a peanut butter and jelly coupling that perhaps should inhabit separate jars but for some strange reason have joined

forces and, lo and behold, they don’t taste half bad slathered on top of one another. A tart paste boasting capers, mint and dill added kick to the inoffensive veal and my mind is yet to be made up on whether I actually enjoyed this veritable hodgepodge of a dish, or if it was just so strange that I am mistaking intrigue for satisfaction. Our accented French waiter recommended the hazelnut and honey cheesecake and the chocolate mousse for dessert. Both, he told us, were ‘omemade’. Rich and bitter like royalty, the decadent mousse rivalled the joyous cheesecake for our affections. We’re not sure which one took the biscuit. With a glass of Pinot Grigio for me, and Chianti for him the bill arrived at €88. The unconventional approach to food at Dillinger’s may confuse, baffle and discombobulate you but in any case, it may be your meal ticket to getting you out of that rut. A change is as good as a rest, and these days who can afford to take time off work? 47 Ranelagh Dublin 6 t: 01 497 8010

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La Maison has come to le pub. Well at least Olivier Quenet, director of the fine French restaurant in Castle Market and of Oliver’s Eatery in Terenure, has injected a bit of Gallic flair into the newly renovated cosy upstairs of O’Brien’s pub, transforming the venue from an old man/ rugby enthusiast boozer to a sophisticated salle á manger that now glistens with an indefinable je ne sais quoi. If, like me, you have already visited La

Maison, it is probable you’ll be hit by a certain sense of déjà vu from the second you lay eyes on the alluring menu and solid wine list (formerly of Guibauld’s, sommelier Charles Derain has drawn up the wine lists at both) to the moment you clock your peepers on the bill since the prices are more or less en par with each other. Quenet’s formula for fantastic food, impeccable service and an ambiance you just can’t fake not only works well but triumphs, so why change it? Before commencement of the meal we were presented with a salmon broth in tiny tea cups with saucers. The flavoursome petit course, in which a school of miniscule fish fragments swam, amused our palettes and went down very well indeed. Without haste our starters arrived (nobody at Olivier’s has ever heard of ‘dépêche mode’ but then the French didn’t coin the phrase ‘laissez-faire’ out of thin air). My salad of black pudding, glazed apple and poached egg captured the essence of a high-class fry-up and the softened fruit and green leaves endorsed the arrangement with something a bit sweet and unusual. Piled generously on toasted sour dough was the other starter of tiger prawn with tomato concassé which emerged as my companion’s favourite dish of the entire meal. Previously at La Maison I had lapped up the rabbit ‘coq au vin’, baked in a delicious pie crust and stewed in red wine jus. So when I spotted the Hunter’s pie of rabbit and pigeon on the menu at Olivier’s, I just couldn’t resist. Similarly presented on a rustic wooden board with the hearty

pie positioned in the centre and flanked by a dish of braised red cabbage fondu on one side and a bowl of celeriac puree on the other, the sense of déjà vu continued as I delved deep into the flaky pastry. I found treasure in the form of slow cooked delicious game, never doubting that the dish would be any less than excellent. Although my companion thoroughly enjoyed his skillet of cod fillet with cockles and smoked bacon in a white wine jus (despite the potatoes being slightly undercooked), this more than adequate but almost lacklustre dish paled in comparison to my prized Hunter’s killings. Dessert had its winners too. The rich and warm, gooey chocolate fondant which I had sampled before at Quenet’s other establishment surpassed the less memorable Bailey’s cheesecake with the sheer opulence of its runny centre, immediately impacting on the taste buds and exposing a weakness in me for pure indulgence. Two glasses of Cotes du Rhone from the vineyards of Estezargues brought the bill to €80.40. Proof that chic and stylish cuisine can exist in pub surrounds is in every detail of Olivier’s upstairs eatery, and an almost full-house on a Tuesday night is further evidence that despite tightened purse strings, punters are still willing to pay for quality French fare from one of the finest gourmands in the business. 8-9 Sussex Terrace Upper Leeson Street Dublin 4 t: 01 676 2851

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Milk and Honey is the sweetest thing to hit Aungier Street since Goldilocks was last spotted bed-hopping from one DIT student’s accommodation to the other in the early 90’s. Well what else was she to do while her porridge cooled? Formerly Darwin’s CafĂŠ, the deliciously named Milk and Honey has been open since September and its storybook dĂŠcor both inside and out which has been causing heads to pivot is like something you would more often see in London than in our fair city. Owner Ruth Clendennen who previously worked in PR and interior design wanted to create a little neighbourhood cafĂŠ where customers would feel comfortable sitting with friends or passing the time with a book or newspaper whilst enjoying a speciality coffee and good quality, affordable food. And she has done just that. Since it was extremely popular with the patrons, Ruth decided to continue using the same coffee from the previous owners which is supplied by a boutique roaster based down in Cork called ‘Badger and Dodo’. Specially trained baristas, who all specialise in Latte Art and have competed in international competitions, take care of business with the beans. The cupcakes are baked fresh by Daisy Chain Cupcakes and include such unusual flavours as coffee and pecan and banana and caramel, and conscientious Ruth has tried to source as many ingredients as possible from local suppliers. For breakfast there is an array of treats on offer from scrambled eggs with crispy bacon and tomato relish on ciabatta for a lean â‚Ź4.95, or organic porridge with either honey, cinnamon and brown sugar or granola and natural yoghurt for â‚Ź3.75 and under. Lunch consists of ‘scrumptious sandwiches’ like baked ham with Irish cheddar and red onion relish, or roasted

Mediterranean vegetables with hummous and mixed leaves (â‚Ź5.95), or ‘hearty fare’ of homemade lasagne or the bake of the day served with a side salad (â‚Ź7.25). 68 Aungier Street Dublin 2 t: 01 475 9144

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Ruairi Maguire’s Bar and Organic Kitchen Dundrum Town Centre seems to be a bottomless pit of new businesses from clothes stores to shoe shops to restaurants and bars. The latest to open its doors to frequenters of the largest mall in Europe is Ruairi Maguire’s Bar and Organic Kitchen, a traditional style bar with a modern twist – all the food from the milk to the potatoes is 100% organic. That means NO harmful pesticides, synthetic additives or artificial fertilisers make their way into any of the dishes on offer here. On the menu is a 10oz sirloin (₏25), beer battered wild cod and chips (₏14.95) and pork schnitzel (₏17.95). Lunch specials are served daily from ₏10.95 and starters including wild seafood chowder, chicken liver pate and stuffed Portobello mushroom range from ₏4.50 ₏10.95. As of yet there is little in the range of organic alcohol behind the bar, but an organic wine is available in red and white called 35 South. Big screen TVs mean you won’t miss a single second of the match while you tuck into some wholesome, poison-free pub grub, and you won’t miss a single bargain either with the January sales just a hop, skip and a jump away. Pembroke District Dundrum Town Centre Dublin 14 www.ruairimaguires.com

:6. :". New to the coastal village of Monkstown is Tom Yam, purveyor of exotic Thai cuisine at not-so-exotic prices. With the focus on providing customers with the freshest, most authentic Asian food that doesn’t call for the remortgaging of yet another limb, Tom Yam is certainly a welcome addition to the seaside Dartaccessible suburb that until now was lacking a bit of spice. If the drool-inducing list of yummy starters such as grilled dumplings (â‚Ź6.40), Thai meat sung (â‚Ź6.80) and pork spare ribs (â‚Ź6.40) does nothing to whet your appetite, I would recommend you get your hypothalamus seen to ASAP. Likewise, the main courses on offer will send any normal red-blooded human being into a state of salivation with a choice of ‘Sea food on fire’ – a combination of mixed seafood with special spicy sauce and Thai herbs (â‚Ź15.50), squid with chilli and holy basil (â‚Ź14.50) and the chef’s special - Massaman chicken curry (â‚Ź13.50) among countless other delicious dishes. With more than twenty years in the food industry, head chef Charlie Phuakchoo’s impressive resume reads better than a Steinbeck novel having cooked for President McAleese, Sir Bob Geldof and at least one of the James Bonds during his career, and the Southern Thai can also lay claim to opening Diep Le Shaker and later, Tiger Becs on Dawson Street before arriving at the next big thing on Dublin’s culinary scene, Tom Yam. From February, cookery classes at Tom Yam will commence and are planned to run on a monthly basis. For a small fee of â‚Ź49, Charlie will teach you the fundamentals of Asian cookery with a demonstration, hands on learning and when school’s out you’ll be rewarded with lunch and a deserved glass of wine. Maybe 2010 will be the year you actually follow through with your New Year’s resolution to get the finger out and learn how to cook? 8A The Crescent Monkstown Co. Dublin t: 01 284 3309

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Brasserie Sixty6 66-67 South Great Georges St, Dublin 2 Stylish, buzzy restaurant, right in the heart of Dublin’s shopping and entertainment district. Great food and drink, fantastic surroundings, exciting atmosphere, reasonable prices. Whether it's a lazy brunch at the weekend or a business lunch, or simply a romantic dinner, at brasserie sixty6 is always our pleasure. Finger-licking desserts, a full vegetarian menu, carefully selected wine list chosen with accessibility, value and good taste, delicious cocktails to start your evening… you will not be disappointed.

Odessa

Cafe Irie

Odessa is Dublin’s original dining lounge, a mesh of style and substance. Thanks to its newly-popular Fivers menu, its defining quality has become offering affordable sophistication. The restaurant offers a mouth-watering menu renowned for its tapas-style offerings and an unparalleled cocktail menu, all in a chilled-out atmosphere.

A Buddha-balanced haven from the helter-skelter lunchtime of the rest of Dublin 2. With a more-thancomprehensive range of coffees, teas, and juices, and a meaty menu comprising paninis, ciabattas, sandwiches, and some rustic pizzas, Irie’s Zen-attuned environment offers the food to match. Its car-bootsale approach to decor and smiling staff makes it impossible not to eat, drink, and be Irie.

t: 01 670 7634 www.odessa.ie

t: 01 672 5090

14 Dame Court, Dublin 2

11 Fownes Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Open: Mon-Fri at 11am, Sat-Sun 10am, Until: Sun-Wed til 10.30pm, Wed-Sat til 11pm

t: 01 400 5878 www.brasseriesixty6.com

Brasserie de Verres en Vers

Café Novo

Brasserie de Verres en Vers is a new, modern interpretation of the French brasserie. Quietly glamorous and sedately cool, design is an integral part, with clean lines, dark wood finishes and an elegant contemporary floral detail. With an all-day menu, the emphasis at Brasserie de Verres en Vers is on classic French bistro fare, with ever-changing plats du jour, staple and signature dishes and a focus on fresh quality produce. The menu at Brasserie de Verres en Vers is complemented by a carefully chosen list of French wines and champagne and a great selection of aperitifs and digestifs.

Café Novo, a chic new international bar and brasserie opened it doors in October 2008. This fun and flirty eatery will woo diners with a carefully selected menu that offers traditional favourites with a twist - making it the perfect brunch stop for peckish shoppers or evening dinner and drinks spot for city slickers. Conveniently located on Harry Street, just a few steps from Grafton Street, Café Novo offers informal-style drop-in dining, whether you want to grab a modern take on a club sandwich or to simply sip on a cocktail. Mon-Sun 10am-10pm, bar open to 12.30am

at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin

Breakfast: Dinner: Sunday Brunch:

Harry St, Dublin 2

06.30-10.30 Mon-Fri 07.00-11.00 Sat-Sun 17.00-22.00 Mon-Sun 13.00-4pm

t: (01) 6463353 dine@cafenovo.ie

www.radissonblu.ie

Sinners

Café Carlo

12 Parliament Street, Dublin 2

63 - 64 O’Connell Street, Dublin 1

Belly dancing and Baba Ganoush, Sinner’s is a traditional Lebanese restaurant in the heart of Dublin City, which combines good food with a vibrant atmosphere. Sinners Lebanese Restaurant is a former recipient of a “Best Ethnic Cuisine” Temple Bar award and continues to serve patrons a wide variety of tantalising Lebanese fare. Guests at Sinners will find a welcoming staff, who provide an excellent service to ensure you have an authentic, fun night out.

The relaxed and intimate setting of Café Carlo, coupled with its high-quality, reasonably priced food and friendly, attentive staff has made this restaurant a huge favourite with Dublin diners. Not only is it a popular choice with visitors to our fair city, it's also found a place in the hearts of the discerning locals, who return time and again to soak up the Cafe Carlo atmosphere and enjoy some genuinely delicious food. Free glass of wine with every main course when mentioning this ad!

Open 5pm til late

t: (01 888 0856 www.cafecarlo.net

t: 01 675 0050

Eden

Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 The acclaimed, award-winning Eden restaurant serves contemporary food with a distinctive Irish flavour, overlooking the vibrant Meeting House Square in Temple Bar. With a set of mouthwatering dishes available for mains, from mushroom tarts to duck confit, and a stunning location, Eden is one of Dublin’s must-eat experiences.

t: 01 670 5372 www.edenrestaurant.ie

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Venu

Punjab Balti

Anne’s Lane, off South Anne St, Dublin 2

15 Ranelagh Village, Dublin 6

Venu has enjoyed a loyal following since it opened in 2006 and it has been renowned for its well-executed, varied food menu and for its award-winning cocktail bar. If you are looking for a vibrant place that serves great cocktails and quality ‘home-made’ dishes at reasonable prices it is hard to look much further than Venu Brasserie. Tues - Sat: Dinner 5.30 til late Saturday Brunch: 12pm til 4pm

Old favourite Punjab Balti retains its popularity and success after 13 years by consistently serving authentic Punjabi cuisine, prepared in the same traditional manner as in the Indian subcontinent's Punjab region for centuries. Over the years this famous Ranelagh restaurant has won major recognition for it's top quality food, intimate ambience, excellent value and service. You can bring your own beer or wine and there are also takeaway and delivery services available that are perfect for a Balti night in. For current special offers check out www. punjabbalti.ie

t: 01 67 06755 www.venu.ie charles@venubrasserie.com

t: 01 496 0808 /01 491 2222 info@punjabbalti.ie

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SoHo

South William

La Mere Zou

Harbor Bar & Grill

Unpretentious cooking, laid back surroundings, nice sounds, reasonable prices, easy dining and a friendly welcome. Bang in the middle of Dublin city centre - right where you want to be. One all day menu, whether for a quick bite, or a shared platter, or lunch, or casual dinner with friends or colleagues. We offer simple classics and staples prepared using the best ingredients, and executed with style..What you want, how you want it. Laid back eating at SoHo.

With a new menu devised by Lolly and Cook’s, the South William bar transcends regular pub grub. With tasty quiches and salads on the board, along with the aptly named ‘Savage Roll’, this is a bar you’ll find almost impossible to leave, and food you’ll keep coming back to. Open 7 days from midday.

A solidly French restauramt offering bistro classics with a moden touch, La Mere Zou opened in 1994 and specialises in Classic French cuisine. They also offer a large selection of seafood directly from the local fishmarket. At La Mere Zou you can relax in a warm, familial atmosphere while enjoying the very best in cuisine and service.

Food served from 12am to 10pm

Lunch: Monday - Friday 12 -3pm Dinner: Monday - Sat 6 - 11pm

One of Dun Laoghaire’s newest dining experiences, the Harbor Bar & Grill offers elegant surroundings and a faultless menu. From pork belly to open smoked salmon, HB&G’s spread is diverse but complex. Average prices per meal is €12, with a wine list ranging from €20 upwards. The bar and grill boasts a perfect coastal location, with a stunning view of the eponymous harbour from the beer garden.

17 South Great Georges Street, Dublin 2

Open: Mon-Fri 12pm, Sat & Sun 10.30am Last Orders: Sun- Wed 10.30pm, Thurs-Sat 11pm

52 South William St, Dublin 2

t: 01 672 5946 www.southwilliam.ie

22 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2

t: 01 61 6669 www.lamerezou.ie

6 - 7 Marine Rd., Dun Laoghaire

t: 01 214 5772 www.harborbarandgrill.com

t: 01 707 9596 www.sohodublin.com

Diep Le Shaker

Diep Noodle Bar

Prices dropped... Standard still very high. To ensure absolute authenticity in Thai cuisine Diep fly all essential ingredients in fresh from Bangkok. Diep Le Shaker make no adjustments in the chilli content of their fare. This stunningly designed restaurant is the recipient of the prestigious Thailand Brand Award awarded by the Government of Thailand and the Thai Select Award awarded by the Ministry of Commerce, Thailand for authentic cuisine.

Thai and Vietnamese food experts, Diep, offer a great value noodle-based menu with an exciting and exotic range of dishes including soups, salads and stir-fries. Diep Noodle Bar’s Bangkok Street Food menu is a steal and includes three courses of soup, appetiser and main course for €16 available Monday to Sunday until 7pm. With it’s fresh and genuine approach to cooking alongside it’s popular cocktail bar, warm hospitality and it’s releaxed but vibrant atmosphere. Diep Noodle Bar is a firm local favourite.

55 Pembroke Lane, Dublin 2

Ranelagh Village, Dublin 6

t: 01 661 1829 www.diep.net

t: 01 497 6550 www.diep.net

DAX

Coppinger Row

A welcoming bar area offers a post-work winddown or light evening meal, perfect for you and your colleagues to enjoy with hot and cold tapas, available Tuesday to Saturday. Ideal for business and perfect for pleasure, or to dine privately for groups of between 10 and 14 people, Dax Restaurant is only a stones throw away from you and your business so why not take the time to visit a restaurant of refreshment, rejuvenation and reinvigoration.

The Bereen brothers from South William Urban Lounge have created an exciting new option for dining out in Dublin: fresh simple mediterranean dishes, perfect for diving in and sharing with friends, family and work colleagues alike, in the funky laid-back atmosphere of Coppinger Row, slap-bang in the middle of coolest quarter of south city Dublin.

23 Pembroke Street Upper

Off South William St, Dublin 2

Tues - Sat 12noon - 11pm Sunday 1pm - 8pm Closed Monday

Tuesday to Friday from 12.30pm to 2pm Tuesday to Saturday from 6pm to 10pm

t: 01 672 9884 www.coppingerrow.com

t: 01 676 1494 olivier@dax.ie www.dax.ie

Pacino’s

Ukiyo Bar

The Farm

Chai Yo

For over 15 years Pacino’s has been a family-run restaurant known for its delicious ‘Classic & Gourmet’ pizzas and pastas, steaks and salads. It serves traditional, fresh, quality Italian cuisine. Its beef is 100% Irish, and sourced from reputable suppliers, and its pizza dough made fresh, inhouse, daily. Pacino’s offers a modern dining experience, with an old world vibe – stylish brickwork, wooden floors and soft lighting all combine to create a relaxed, rustic, informal atmosphere.

Ukiyo Bar is Dublin’s premier late night bar, restaurant and entertainment venue. Open from 12pm till late 7 days a week, especially on Thursday, Friday and Saturday when we keep our kitchen open past midnight. At Ukiyo we strive to provide our customers with a unique dining and entertainment experience - from the best value lunches to great sushi and sake in the evening, attentive and knowledgeable service, top shelf cocktails and some of the best club nights in Dublin at the weekend. Not to mention our private karaoke booths, making Ukiyo the immediate choice for a first date, a birthday party or a corporate bash.

The Farm is about tasty homemade locally sourced free range, organic and fresh food. Healthy vegetables and fresh herbs. All their food is freshly prepared and cooked to order.

Famed for their Teppenyaki tables creating a unique and interactive eating experience, as well as meals made from the freshest, highest quality ingredients and a great party opportunity, Chai Yo perfects the balance between fun and food. For the less party-inclined of visitors, there is a quieter downstairs section. Something for everyone!

18 Suffolk St., Dublin 2

t: 01 677 5651 www.pacinos.ie

7-9 Exchequer Street, Dublin 2

t: 01 633 4071 www.ukiyobar.com

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3 Dawson St, Dublin 2

11 am to 11 pm 7 days a week

t: 01 671 8654 hello@thefarmfood.ie

100 Lower Baggot St, Dublin 2

Mon-Fri:12.30-3pm, 6pm-11.30pm Sat: 5.30pm-midnight Sun: 3pm-10pm

t: 01 676 7652 www.chaiyo.ie

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The Road Director: John Hillcoat Talent: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit McPhee, Guy Pearce, Rober Duvall Released: January 8th

Nine Director: Rob Marshall Talent: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman Released: December 18th ‘Your films are so stylish’, fawns Kate Hudson at one point during Nine, trying to get its hero, director Guido Contini, into bed. ‘You care as much about the suit as you do about the man wearing it’. It’s dangerously easy to apply this quote to the film itself; Chicago director Rob Marshall pays overblown stage-homage to Fellini, with a musical detailing the director and his women, all bewilderingly acted and sung in silly Italian accents. Scenes are lifted and re-enacted; Penelope Cruz sizzles as a new Sandra Milo, wild-eyed diva Fergie shines, paying strong-lunged tribute to Amarcord, and the perennially miscast Nicole Kidman makes for a paltry Anita Ekberg, flitting in and out of scenes in a bouffant blonde wig. Nine is a film about a film about the making of another film, in which the plot is slowly devouring itself. We are guided and directed through the meta-cinematic maze, fittingly enough, by Guido, Daniel Day Lewis’ skinny-tied protagonist. The director is a magnetically attractive monster of ego and fecklessness, forever cancelling meetings, fleeing to curl up in the foetal position in the refuge of the dressing-room. The con at the heart of the film is that there is no script; Guido is fashioning a plotline as he goes along, from the wreckage of his personal life. Like its template, 8 1/2, each scene brings a confusion of new and demanding characters, and the appearance of each of the nine actresses merits a show-stopping, visually stunning (though rarely very catchy) song. Nine is incoherent but technically brilliant, luscious, excessive - but prohibited from being a guilty pleasure by its lofty and ‘artistic’ subject. Where Chicago tried a little too hard to win us over to musical theatre, Nine dives straight in and assaults us with spectacle, barely stopping to ground the songs in any logical context. There are simply too many showgirls, too little time, too much money thrown at over-the-top show stoppers themed around Folies Bergéres. It’s a blatantly indulgent premise, an excuse for half of Hollywood to sing and dance and re-enact characters from cinema history. But then isn’t that what Oscar films are for? Nine is a beautifully executed artistic love-in, an insubstantial but dazzling riot of pasta pastiche and pointless Oscar-angling. Roisín Kiberd

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You know, life is a bit like a road, yeah? Growing up and shit. Where does the road end? Where does it begin? Fucking QUESTIONS, man. This is an astoundingly insincere film. The basic premise: in a quasi-post-apocalyptic America, Viggo Mortensen and his stupid son have to journey south in the hope of finding shelter, supplies and warmth - but are faced with the ever-present danger of roaming cannibal gangs. While mankind’s near destruction seems to be implicated as having been something of our own doing (it’s easy to infer references to global warming), the film strains endlessly to re-affirm capitalistic, conservative family values. When the son delights in drinking his first (and perhaps the planet’s last), battered can of coke, it’s difficult not to laugh with sheer revulsion. Equally so, the positive reviews it will inevitably receive for being “heartwarming” should be seen as a testament to our own vain aversion to open discursive analysis of our society or it inequities. – OM

Humpday Director: Lynn Shelton Talent: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore Released: December 18th Despite the suggestiveness of the title, Lynn Shelton’s new release is more concerned with modern bromance than getting down ‘n dirty. With the impromptu entrance of Andrew, the self-styled Kerouac, into his old college buddy Ben’s life, his domestic bliss is turned upside down and it isn’t long before Ben is (willingly) led astray and into a Dionysian-style potential orgy to be specific. Talk arises of Hump Fest, the local art festival for budding porn aficionados and before you can say Ron Jeremy, Ben and Andrew have signed up to bump uglies, film it and walk away with the coveted Hump Fest title. Despite the overt surrealism of the plot, Shelton manages to inject some much-needed realism into the film, specifically by contrasting the fortunes of both leading protagonists and adding some depth and pathos to the scenario. Humpday is a light-hearted, left of centre indie-flick featuring some stellar improv performances by the cast and thankfully has enough poignancy to be much more than just a comedy for the lads. - LH

Where The Wild Things Are

Nowhere Boy

Director: Spike Jonze Talent: Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano Released: December 11th 4/5 For Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers to have crafted this brave, beautiful adaptation based on a children’s book nine sentences in length is an astonishing accomplishment, one that proves original author Maurice Sendak, who hand-picked Jonze as director, correct in his assertion that a suitable translation could not have been achieved under the guidance of anyone else. Jonzes’ fantastical, anarchic take on the story of a lonely boy who regularly retreats into the preferable world of his imagination is honest yet playful at heart, and likely to impress even the books’ most loyal fans. Prompted by a fight with his mother Max escapes to ‘where the wild things are’, the wild things being giant creatures (manifestations of his desire for acceptance) who declare him king. Max Records, an endearing, enjoyably mischievous presence throughout, is perfectly cast as his name-sake and an upbeat score supplied by Karen O superbly compliments his youthful enthusiasm.- AR

Director: Sam Taylor-Wood Talent: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff Released: December 26th It takes a certain amount of courage to make a film about John Lennon that doesn’t feature The Beatles (other than the opening chord of A Hard Day’s Night at the very beginning). Similarly, it takes quite a bit of courage to represent his relationship with his mother in such a way as to accentuate the Oedipal tensions that defined their time spent together. Unfortunately, it takes very little courage, and quite a large helping of laziness, to ignore such a concern in the second half of your film, and revert to the familiar, dramaturgical territory that plagues so many popular musicians’ biopics. Nowhere Boy is certainly a film of two halves. The result of its thematic and stylistic inconsistency is an unremarkable film. Of course, the largely bland narrative is lent intrigue by the fact that its centrepiece is John Lennon. It’s not as good as listening to his music, so do that instead. - OM

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

Happy Ever Afters

Director: Betty Thomas Talent: Justin Long, Anna Farris, Christina Applegate, Jason Lee Released: 21 December

Director: Stephen Burke Talent: Tom Riley, Sally Hawkins, Jade Yourell, Ariyon Bakara Released: December 26th

Pleasantly energetic and reasonably harmless for the most part, ‘the squeakquel’ fulfils its most basic function as a mindless distraction if little else. With their guardian Dave indisposed the troublesome trio are left in the care of computer-game fanatic Toby and enrolled in a high-school where they struggle to fit in. Meanwhile disgruntled former manager Ian is grooming their new rivals The Chipettes for stardom. Zachary Levi, as irresponsible slacker Toby, is sufficiently awkward enough to generate a few laughs on the rare occasions he’s on screen. It’s a shame that the same can’t be said of his furry co-stars whose appeal is hinged on updated for a modern audience hip-hop speak and high-pitched musical numbers that are unlikely to impress anyone over the age of five. Those unfortunate enough to fall outside that age-bracket will find that the film pales in comparison to more intelligent animated adventures such as Up. - AR

When two wedding parties collide in Stephen Burke’s ‘screwball Irish wedding comedy’, the results are disastrous in more ways then one. Burke makes a number of recognizable ceremonial clichés the subject of his ridicule, the neurotic runaway bride, the controlling mother, the over-protective father, various obnoxious children, but with so many characters and scenarios bordering on farcical the film ends up entertaining the stereotypes it tries in earnest to parody. Stressing the importance of love and its ability to be found in the most unexpected of circumstances is commendable if somewhat contrived and the film does touch hesitantly on some topical issues, unhappy marriages, illegal immigrants, culture clashes, that provide some depth however they are soon abandoned in favour of numerous incidents and misunderstandings that aren’t amusing or clever in the slightest. Despite its enthusiasm and admirable intentions, Happy Ever Afters is simply not funny enough to compensate for its weaknesses. - AR

Up In The Air Director: Jason Reitman Talent: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick Released: January 15th Up In the Air sees Juno director Jason Reitman catering to the grown-ups, a film that could only have been made in a climate of financial disillusionment, of lay-offs and corporate despair. George Clooney is adeptly cast as ‘Job Transition Counsellor’ Ryan Bingham, a Jet Set nomad whose job it is to fire people their companies are too cowardly to confront. Unchallenged in air miles and a native speaker of corporate babble, Bingham’s career leaves him disconnected, a ‘parenthesis’ in the lives of family and friends, and he decides to reconnect with the life that is passing him by outside the Departures Lounge. Clooney wisely knows when to play it thoughtful and when to send up his own slick cappuccino-sipping image. Reitman gives us a view of an America stunted by unemployment. The fly-on-the-wall camerawork and inclusion of interviews with the real life unemployed are a thoughtful touch, and the plot is leisurely paced and gently amusing. But Reitman’s film barely strays beyond reassuring familiarity, falling back on scenes like the airport rush or the awkward family wedding, conventions as unambitious and overused as its twee folk soundtrack - RK

Sherlock Holmes Director: Guy Ritchie Talent: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Rachel MacAdams, Mark Strong Released: December 25th

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It’s elementary, my dear readers. You take one washedup Mockney film director, one irrepressibly charming actor and a story that’s been told so many times it’s in the Guinness Book of Records. The result: surprisingly good. The stylistic overkill and London grime of Lock, Stock and its ilk translate well to an action flick template; reined in by box office convention, the result is fast-paced and tongue-in-cheek, more coherent than anything in Ritchie’s recent Kabbalistic back-catalogue. Holmes’ London is a steampunk dream, a mud-coloured, industrial landscape populated by opium fiends, necromancers, street harlots and a worrying number of Irish buffoons. Ritchie casts the detective as part dandy in the underworld, part kung-fu cartoon superhero; a charmer, a scientist, a bare-knuckle boxer and a dab hand with the nun-chucks. Rachel MacAdams fits the corset convincingly as Holmes’ nemesis and erstwhile lover Irene Adler, while Jude Law plays the straightman, surprisingly likeable as Watson. The plot loses track of itself towards the end, remembering it’s a blockbuster and going out with a blast of CGI gun-powder, but Ritchie remains largely respectful to its pipe-smoking myth, producing an enjoyable homage which leaves some of the mystery intact. - RK

Avatar has been, for some people, the most hotly-anticipated film of the decade, perhaps of all time, bringing with it the inevitable great expectations that come with its “most expensive film ever” title and the ten years of production it has undergone before appearing in our local cinemas in “glorious” 3-D. I will say that if this film being in 3-D is reason enough for you to want to see it, then you’re very much part of James Cameron’s target market. I suspect, aesthete as you are, that you’ve eaten your fair share of Pritt-Stick and glitter-encrusted macaroni shells in your time also. “It just looks amazing!” is the blithe refrain of the totally legendary mass of those suitably visually literate amongst us to enjoy unconditionally this hideously derivative, yet technically pioneering, work of unmitigated mediocrity. The film plays as a half-baked, foetal collision between The New World and District 9 - two films which, flawed though they are (the latter far more than the former), retain an integrity which Avatar distinctly lacks. The difficulty for the spectator lies in stomaching Cameron’s touristic, childish notions of cultural otherness for the best part of two hours, before he gets into the “spectacular” battle scene paydirt which, though idiotic, holds no pretensions relating to social integration or environmentalism. Then again, in the context of the narrative, the inevitability of violent conflict renders any “progressive” social message Cameron may have intended to shoehorn into his 160 minute advertisement for HD-television utterly obsolete. Does it really matter what I say though? Will the righteous (or at least self-righteous) amongst us be heard over Cameron’s impressive aerial battle sequences and alien tits? Will moral consistency and artistic validity ever be preferable to explosions and flying dinosaur-like things? For the love of cinema, please don’t go to see this film. Oisín Murphy

Director: James Cameron Talent: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana Released: December 16th

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Beach House Teen Dream [Bella Union] Despite the flippancy suggested by the title, Beach House’s third album is a slowburning synthesis of dream pop surrealism backed by an innate ability to craft a tune. With a vein of melancholia running right through the pop veneer, Lover of Mine has Fleetwood Mac circa Sara written all over it, while Take Care wears their Beach Boys/Zombies influences on its sleeve. Bringing the sublime Mazzy Star to mind, the duo cleverly deploys echoed vocals and a delicate piano presence throughout to create something ghostly yet tangible all at once. - LH

Trembling Bells Carbeth [Honest Jon’s]

Vampire Weekend Contra [XL] Okay, knives out. The Columbia rich-kid afro-indie pioneers are back, and even if you allowed that there were enough undeniable pieces of pop genius on the debut, it’s surely time to extract a pound of flesh from the sophomore effort as revenge for the hype and the polo shirts. What’s wrong with Contra, then? Well, its first single and opening track Horchata is infuriatingly anaemic steel drum pop, and it’s named after a Latin American rice drink (in case you forgot how cosmopolitan Ezra Koenig is). On a whole-album scale, there’s also buckets of sonic experimentation for its own sake, from heavily treated drums to analogue-sounding synths and even auto-tune. It feels contrived, like a deliberate attempt not to make the cardinal error of replication But, contrived or not, the band now audible on advertisements, over movie credits and bleeding from the iPod headphones of tweens have made a commendably brave creative decision. While afrobeat elements created a talking point of Vampire Weekend in the first place, it was the New York indie rock lineage that probably helped them cross over to a mainstream crowd, and they have relinquished that. Even Cousins, the chaotic spiritual successor to A-Punk, is driven by heavily treated guitars and features some bizarre bells. The cheery White Sky is evidence that, as for many others, Animal Collective loomed large in Vampire Weekend’s 2009, but the Nigerian guitar lines stop it short of pastiche. Diplomat’s Son starts as an archetypical VW afropop song before taking a peculiar turn into rhythmic reggae on piano and fluttery strings. Weird stuff, but the eyes are never off the melody and, while often seemingly arbitrary, nothing is incongruous. Broadly speaking, sonic unity is not something that Contra possesses, but that’s not to say that the box of chocolates approach doesn’t work. It becomes dependent on the strength of the songs, and barring the abomination that is Horchata, there’s more than enough here to pull it off. Sophomore slump averted. Karl McDonald See also: Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line [V2], Born Ruffians – Red, Yellow and Blue [Warp], Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca [Domino]

On their debut album Trembling Bells summon up everything that was great about Fairport Convention or Trees and add their own peculiarly modern twist, making a sound as weird and wonderful as anything today’s left-field can conjure. When I Was Young is an instant modern folk-rock classic. The End Is The Beginning Born Knowing is as odd as its title. It’s all a bit mad in fact, but never pointlessly so. Watch this record achieve “legendary” status. - CG

Western Homes Are Empty [Rack and Ruin] Western Homes is the prettiest foetus I’ve seen all month. The embryonic project of Ciaran Hoogendoorn came with the recommendation of one tasteful friend and the assurance that roughly three people in the entire universe have bothered listening to his debut (free) record. Concurrent with the Antlers’ reverb-washed histrionics, but with the sweeter edge of blissed-out Broken Social Scene, Western Homes has melted down winter and poured it into a 50mb zip file. You heard it here fourth. - DG

Snoop Dogg Malice ‘n’ Wonderland [EMI] Snoop Dogg has made it. His painstaking self-promotion has given him such a prominent public profile that it actually doesn’t matter what his music sounds like. A few guest verses on other people’s hits will keep up the pretence that he is a serviceable rapper. He’s not. He’s staler than Maddy jokes, and having Lil Jon shout “whadditdo!” on his album three years after he was relevant definitely doesn’t help. – KMcD

David McAlmont and Michael Nyman The Glare [MN Records] BONG! David McAlmont takes recent news stories and sings them over Michael Nyman’s music. BONG! Jaw-droppingly good album ensues. Like the real news, at times The Glare makes you smile, at others it makes you want to well up, but during songs like In Laos (lush and pretty) and Going To America (bouncy and uplifting) you’ll hope McAlmont and Nyman keep this incredibly fruitful collaboration going. - CG

Jon Hopkins

Drunken Boat

Seven Gulps of Air [Domino]

Plumb The Depths [S/R]

With his electronic adeptness secured, Jon Hopkins revisits his previous work for Seven Gulps of Air, an EP comprised of two new tracks and three older ones overhauled by Tunng, Geese and Tom Middleton. Welding African themes and dirty basslines with more traditional chamber instruments, the EP is a kaleidoscope of interweaving patterns and nervous-breakdown-sounds. Hopkins often hits the right note to soundtrack the small hours and jumps from multiple extremes to produce often schizophrenic but compelling results. - LH

If you’re going to do alt-folk these days, you either need to make girls cry with every sonorous note of lament, or be very self-aware. Drunken Boat are the latter, all ill-fitting line-lengths and strange geological metaphors. It’s more than a little poetic, and if the arrangements get a little solemn at times, it’s a small price to pay. Add this to the growing list of Irish things to be excited about. - KMcD

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Duke Special

Hunter-Gatherer

Little Revolutions [Reel To Reel]

I Dreamt I Was a Footstep In The Trail of a Murderer [S/R]

Featuring a lilting piano at the crux and vocals inflected with all the subtleties of a Belfast accent, Duke Special’s new collection of b-sides and rarities sounds like an extended version of one of his trademark tunes. Occasionally he hits upon a jazzier stroke of luck that will endear to some but realistically, you’re more likely to comment on the ill-advised covers which are tackled here, including Prince’s I Feel For You, and Tainted Love. Oh dear. One for devotees only (if such a terrifying thing exists). -LH

A second salvo from the burgeoning subterranean Dublin experimental scene (coming to an issue of the Wire near you soon), Hunter-Gatherer’s debut exists in the same realm of nocturnal sleep-consciousness as Patrick Kelleher’s You Look Cold, carried out through a no-lessimpressive vehicle of muted electro and mood-altering ambience. Its faults are apparent – a flat mix that strands the album’s stand-out moments in a sort of lo-fi middleground, and three tracks too many - but its intricacy and intensity mark HunGa’s debut as a must-listen. -DG

First Aid Kit

Yeasayer

The Big Black & The Blue [Wichita]

Odd Blood [Secretly Canadian]

Harmonies are nice, but they start to lose effect if the entire album seems to just consist of two voices following each other around, singing nu-folk spirituals over strummed acoustic guitars. The two young ladies of First Aid Kit certainly acquit themselves well vocally, and there is a certain charm to the textured simplicity of the songs. But if it’s originality you want (and it might not be), look elsewhere. - KMcD

Standing out from the neo-psychedelic NYC scene for their Eastern flourishes, Yeasayer pulled off their debut album with sitar-picked aplomb. Odd Blood, sadly, falls on its arse like an amputee on ice. Madder Red lands on the malevolent side of 80’s MOR-disguised-as-world-music, while I Remember combines the wobbly-kneed instrumentation of Animal Collective’s Water Curses and the fishy-fingered vocals of The Little Mermaid’s soundtrack - Odd Blood is different, certainly, but different in the way that gets your pencil case nicked in school. -DG

Mark Garry Sending Letters To The Sea Unlike the rather crude packaging it comes in which is akin to a college art assignment, Sending Letters To The Sea is far from rough around the edges. Led by visual artist Mark Garry, the Fingal Arts Office-backed project sees an array of talents including Karl Him and Nina Hynes moonlighting through ten oft-otherworldly tracks. From the Efterklang-esque The Crossing to the accomplished instrumentals, Sending Letters To The Sea is an understated gem and is exemplary of exactly where arts funding should go. – LH

Lightspeed Champion Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You [Domino] Dev Hynes first post-Test Icicles album was a little hard to take seriously as a work of value since a) he co-wrote Boa vs. Python and b) he’s mates with the Horrors. Besides that, it was a total Bright Eyes knock-off. Life Is Sweet’s a punch to my cynical gut though – a work of spit-polished songwriting, sweet, neat, and nary a self-conscious fringeflick to be seen – and Faculty of Fears the prettiest thing he’s laid his hands on outside of Nylon’s design staff. - DG

Chris Brown Graffiti [Jive] Gee-uhh! Uh-huh uh-huh. Now once upon a time, not too long ago a nigga like myself had to strongarm a hoe, but ever since lil Chris got all up in my girl RiRi’s grill I been after the nigga’s head on a plate. Muh’fuckin’ baller be showing up at the Grammy’s again, Hova be ripping him a new bow-tie (no homo). But yall, listen. I ain’t mad no more. Little Chris committing SUICIDE with this Graffiti shit. Album be faggier than Kanyeezee’s wardrobe. Pull your skirt back down, grow a set man. – JZ

Four Tet

Rihanna Rated R [Def Jam] When you’re the biggest female r’n’b star in the world and you’re about to follow up one of the best pop albums of recent years with eagerly anticipated new material one imagines you don’t really need to go on the hunt for publicity. Sadly the attention Rihanna has attracted this year has largely been over the attack she suffered at the hands of her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown outside the Grammy awards in February. The photos of Rihanna’s battered and bruised face which appeared in the press a few days later at once threw Brown’s career into disarray and made Rihanna an unwitting and unwilling victim – and judging by the defiant tone of Rated R, it’s a role she is keen to leave behind. If one comes to Rated R expecting Rihanna’s insights into domestic violence, or details of her troubled romance, disappointment may lie in store (and it would be morbid, even ghoulish to acquire the record for such crass motives) but Rated R does at least flirt with themes of being abused, or wronged, or being caught in dangerous situations. The mood is heavy throughout, and thematically it is dark – almost austere. The album is therefore lacking a stonking disco track of the Don’t Stop The Music variety, but the brooding atmosphere and steady pace of Rated R is largely very successful. Much of it, like Wait Your Turn or Hard, sounds like Rihanna’s recent collaboration with Jay-Z and Kanye West (Run This Town, which doesn’t feature here). It’s a harder, tougher sound than one might be accustomed to hearing from Rihanna but the blacker the record gets, the better. Ne-Yo and Stargate help out with production, Slash appears on Rockstar 101 to add heavy metal clout and Will.I.Am features on the standout Photographs, a track which switches gear to great effect; ballad-like one moment, groovy soul-pop the next. While Rated R is not as immediately impressive as Good Girl Gone Bad was, with repeated plays it offers great reward. Next time she’s at the Grammys she should be making headlines for the right reasons. Ciaran Gaynor See also: Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman [Def Jam], Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 [Def Jam], Cheryl Cole - 3 Words [Polydor] Human League - Dare [Virgin]

There Is Love In You [Domino] Blame it on the company he’s keeping, or on the slightlyless-jubilant-than-usual reception his last Four Tet album, Everything Ecstatic received, but Kieran Hebden has CHANGED man. The self-reflexive influence of his Wolf Cub/Moth project with Burial has infected Four Tet with a distinct dubstep/garage influence. Less ambient and more driven, There Is Love feels like a remix redux of an old-style Tet album – and centerpiece track Love Cry is the spectral, soulful proof of its rejuvenated success. - DG

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