Instant Win Digital Lottery Game from Rehab Lotteries high Breakology have pulled out all the stops to celebrate their fifth birthday tonight. Roni Size is a pioneering drumnbass DJ and producer; the founder of the Reprazent group, whose New Forms album won the Mercury Music Prize back in 1997. His jazz-infused take on high-speed break beat has a wide appeal. While Size hasnt been in the spotlight as much in recent years, his appearance is sure to get drumnbass fans down to Breakology. The Scratch Perverts, aka award winning UK turntablists Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts and Plus One complete the line-up. Unlike many hip-hop DJs, this group has unparalleled skills, but also understands the need to entertain the audience, which is evident on their mixes for Fabric and Harmless. Tonight, Breakology, Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 11pm, 22. They must be putting something in the water in Holland because every big trance DJ seems to come from there. Ferry Corsten (pictured below) like his fellow countrymen Armin Van Burren and Tiesto likes to play epic, stadium trance music. Corsten first rose to international prominence in 1999, when his Out Of The Blue single as System F became one of the biggest singles from the second wave of European trance. Subsequently, he released an album of the same name, followed by a second long player, Together in 2003. One of the most prolific people in trance, Corsten has also put out a long list of mix CDs and albums under his own name. If you want to hear them at the fist- pumping volume they were made for, get down to TriPod tonight. Tonight, TriPod, Harcourt Street D2, 11pm, 25. Readers with long memories will remember with some nostalgia Donal Dineens Saturday night residency at the Kitchen during the clubs heyday in the 1990s. In this slot, he managed to join the dots between indie, techno and electronica, uniting the ravers with the grunge kids while never losing the dance floor momentum. A decade later, the Today FM DJ has been given the opportunity again to bring his eclectic sounds to a weekend club with a new monthly residency at Pogo. Itll be interesting to hear what direction he takes, but as always with Dineen, expect the unexpected. Support comes from Pogo resident Barry Redsetta. Tomorrow, Pogo, Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 11pm, 5 to 8. Richard Brophy CLUBS Roni Size & Scratch Perverts Ferry Corsten Donal Dineen THEATRE REVIEW Tales Of Ballycumber Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee (15A) Running time: 71min Also Showing Friday, October 9, 2009 metrolife 17 The Arctic Monkeys turn support act in this mockumentary about their fictional roadie, Le Donk (Paddy Considine). Imagine Alan Partridge in jeans and a beanie, and youll get the flavour of Donk, a self-deluded bag of spite (or should that be s***e?) with aspirations to be a big- shot rock manager by exploiting his only act, real-life MC Scor-Zay-Zee. This chuckle-inducing collaboration between Considine and director/mate Shane Meadows (This Is England) feels more like a lark than a feature movie but its got a serious motive. Its the first example of Meadowss Five Day Feature initiative which encourages wannabes to shoot low- budget films in five days. LI-Z Halloween II (18) Rob Zombies intestines-for-brains assault on good taste. Buy the John Carpenter original instead more scares for half the price. LI-Z THEATRE REVIEW The Pitmen Painters Its 1934 and a group of Newcastle-upon-Tyne miners begin an art appreciation class. It doesnt start well cultured London teacher Robert Lyons (Ian Kelly) is as much a fish out of water as the manual labourers looking at his slides of the Sistine Chapel. So Lyons introduces his seeing by doing approach, having the class among them a Marxist, a bureaucrat and a budding talent produce their own paintings. A few years later theyre fted by major collectors, Modernist artists and receiving tea and madrigals with the curator of the Tate while still keeping up their thankless day jobs. Inspired by William Feavers book on the pitmen, playwright Lee Hall not only presents their story but also fascinating arguments for art as socialism, art as commodity, art as decoration, as well as the age old question: what is art? The ensemble cast are excellent and the decision to project images of the miners paintings over the actors heads works well. Like fine art, Pitmen works on many levels it namedrops Moore, Hepworth and Giacometti but you dont need a degree in art history to understand it. However, the lets laugh at the Geordie humour is often patronising, and the groups sudden visual literacy is sentimental and implausible. Suspend your disbelief though and The Pitmen Painters is a highly entertaining celebration of a unique group of men at a unique time in history. Lucy White Until tomorrow, Gaiety Theatre, South King Street D2, 7.30pm (tomorrow mat 2.30pm), 15 to 40. Tel: (01) 677 8899. www.dublintheatrefestival.com If theres one thing Sebastian Barry is rightly commended for, its his ability to find poetry in the lives of characters who are, in many respects, rather ordinary, and in situations that are genuinely sorrowful. This is true not only of his superb WWII novel, A Long, Long Way, but of the much-fted Secret Scripture, where exquisite phrasing illuminated the memories of a woman ensnared by the twists and turns of twentieth- century Irish history. Tales Of Ballycumber sees this flair for lyricism very much alive and, though set in the present day, its central figure is, as ever, haunted by the past. Nicholas Farquhar (Stephen Rea) is a middle-aged protestant farmer who, since his mothers death, lives alone in the family home in Wicklow. His only regular visitor is the young, impressionable Evans (Aaron Monaghan), with whom he makes chit-chat on a range of seemingly inconsequential subjects. On this occasion, talk flits from Elvis Presley, whose great, great, great grandfather came from Hacketstown, to the suicide of a local teenager. But when Evans casually tells Nicholas that hes in love with a Catholic girl, the latters pessimistic views on mixed marriage precipitates tragedy. Barrys use of language is spell-binding and sinewy throughout while Nicholass litany of reminiscences, related in a lilting Wicklow brogue, are genuinely absorbing, sometimes even spine-tingling. The problem, for this reviewer at least, comes in accepting that Nicholass words are capable of leaving such an indelible mark on his neighbour, or that the youth is conflicted enough to take the action he does. Still, Rea has rarely been on better form and hes ably supported by Liam Carney as Evans father and the ever-excellent Derbhle Crotty as his sister. Mike Brittons daffodil-strewn stage is stunning while David Leveauxs direction keeps the viewer captivated, despite some niggling reservations. Daragh Reddin Until Nov 7, Abbey Theatre, 26 Lower Abbey Street D1, 7.30pm (tomorrow mat 2pm), 18 to 38. Tel: (01) 677 0899. www.dublintheatrefestival.com AND ANOTHER THING... Jerry Fish And The Mudbug Club The gravel-voiced crooner and his band return, evoking dirty late night jazz clubs in a good way Tomorrow, The Academy, 57 Middle Abbey Street D1, 7pm, 19.85. Tel: 0818 719 300. www. jerry-fish.com Chaka Demus & Pliers Tease me, tease me, tease me, tease me baby the Jamaican reggae and dancehall duo are back on tour Sun, The Button Factory, Curved Street D2, 11pm, 15. Tel: 0818 719 300. www. myspace.com/ official chakademus andpliers Al Murray The pub landlord comedian props up his soapbox, bantering about world politics and beer Sun, Vicar Street, 58-59 Thomas Street D8, 7pm, 28. Tel: 0818 719 300. www. thepub landlord.com index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html