Its not your first visit to Ireland, is it? My mother was born in Ireland and moved to England when she was young. We went to Ireland in the late 1960s, fell in love with the place and bought a small farm in Ballydehob, off the west coast, and we lived the original self-sufficient Good Life. Youve an eclectic CV: restaurateur, nightclub partner and decorator. How much did you know about chocolate when you stumbled on El Tesoro, the cocoa hacienda you bought and which became your fortune? After living in the jungle for ten years [farming the chocolate], I considered how I could promote it. I asked friends who said Youre not famous, so no ones interested. I went to Venezuela and made hours of tape. It took me a year to edit it, then I showed it to people. The rest is history. [That material features in fly- on-the-wall documentaries Willies Winky Chocolate Factory and Willies Chocolate Revolution: Raising The Bar]. You also have your own chocolate cookbook. What is your favourite recipe in there? The mousse cake because I can still see the look on a colleagues face when he ate that cake for the first time. He turned his head sideways, closed his eyes and it took him somewhere else. You have three children. Will they join the family business one day? Evies favourite film is Willy Wonka, and Will knows why hes called Will. And Sophie loves making truffles, so well see. A few years ago, a study showed that 52 per cent of women would rather curl up with a bar of chocolate than have sex. Could that be true? Who have they been having sex with?! Lucy White Temple Bar Chocolate Festival takes place this weekend. www. templebar.ie ing in FIVE QUESTIONS FOR... Chocolatier and entrepreneur Willie Harcourt-Cooze, ahead of his talk tomorrow at the annual Temple Bar Chocolate Festival PLANET CELEB Welcome To The World Of 50 Cent GIG Grizzly Bear There are few techno records that have had the same impact as Hardfloors early 1990s classic Acperience. Featuring a seemingly endless acid climax, English DJ Billy Nasty rightly claimed that it changed peoples lives and nearly 20 years later, it still gets a euphoric reaction. While Hardfloor, aka German producers Oliver Bondzio and Ramon Zenker never quite emulated Acperience, they cut a string of memorable singles like Into The Nature and Mahogany Roots, which are best enjoyed as part of their live shows. Dutch producer Like A Tim, who has released a string of raw techno EPs on labels like DJax and his own Tim imprint, completes this acid-friendly line up. Tomorrow, Electric Shock, Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 10pm, 15. Given the DEAF festival organisers involvement with the Detroit-inspired D1 label, it is fitting that Motor City act Aux 88 (pictured), who performed at the first festival back in 2002, headline the closing party on Sunday. Keith Tucker, Tommy Hamilton and William Smith have been making soulful electronic music since the early 1990s, with their Direct Beat releases providing the inspiration for the electro explosion at the end of that decade. However, they arent trading on past glories; Aux 88 continue to forge their own path, as this years album and Tuckers sublime new solo EP as Optic Nerve demonstrate. Expect to hear the deepest music Detroit has to offer. Tomorrow, The Good Bits, Store Street D1, 10pm, 15 to 17. Scan One, aka UK producer Jude Greenaway, embodies the cross- pollination that defines much cutting edge electronic music. Inspired by electro, drumnbass, techno and dubstep, his sound sits in a grey area between all of these seemingly incompatible styles. While Greenaway has been releasing music since the start of this decade, it is only in the past few years, thanks to a series of acclaimed EPs on Combat and a more general acceptance for the dubstep tempo on the dance floor, that his visceral bass tracks have gained popularity. Hes sure to put the Twisted Peppers sound system through its paces. Tonight, Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 10pm, 10. CLUBS Hardfloor & Like A Tim / Aux 88 / Scanone Friday, October 30, 2009 metrolife 13 in Communist Romania. And its that sense of ironic absurdity that spears this curious anthology of five short films, all written by Palme DOr winner Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days), but shot by different directors. Based on urban legends that circulated in the late 1980s, the film creates a slightly incoherent patchwork of party policy affecting people on the ground. So, in one short, villagers tear around ahead of an official visit fulfilling Ceausescus requests for white pigeons and flag- waving children; in another, state photographers bow to the censorship of their newspaper, only to take the fall for a party members incompetence. This veers between light-hearted comedy and dark tales of desperate lives. Zena Alkayat If music geeks could design their perfect band, chances are the results would sound like some heavenly marriage of The Beach Boys, Sufjan Stevens, Philip Glass and Belle & Sebastian. In other words, they would sound exactly like New York chamber- popsters Grizzly Bear. Stepping softly through a landscape of orchestral rock, folk and avant-pop (the strings are by acclaimed composer Nico Muhly) the quintets tongue-teaser of a second album, Veckatimest, has basked in some of the most swoonful reviews this side of the last Arcade Fire LP. There are harmonies to make The Beach Boys blush with envy, arrangements that would have Sgt Pepper-era Beatles scratching their heads in amazement and a pastoral sensibility worthy of The Kinks. How on earth did a bunch of grad-school hipsters with a background in jazz and classical music so eerily capture the spirit of a bygone age? Those are the things we try not to analyse, says singer Dan Rossen. You can over-think the process. Were grateful and excited that people are following the record. Weve been touring such a long time. It seems strange that, all of a sudden, we should suddenly get all that attention. To be truthful, its pretty weird. Eamon de Paor Sun, Vicar Street, 58-59 Thomas Street D8, 8.30pm, 25 (returns only). Tel (01) 454 6656. www.grizzly-bear.net The recession is hitting even rap royalty, it seems. Its reported that 50 Cent restricted a recent London bar tab to a mere 75,000 (83,500). Scrooge himself would approve of another canny call presumably lifted from the Blingin Idiots Guide To Make Do And Mend? I buy diamonds on a very regular basis but now Im selling my old stuff before I get something new. No need to wire 50 Cent a cent though; hes a survivor and is even offering his services as a fiscal advisor to el prez. Word up, Barack! Anyone who can accumulate an estimated 300million from what sounds, to your average Katie Melua fan, like a right royal load of *rap deserves respect. Keith Barker-Main COMPETITION To celebrate the Temple Bar Chocolate Festival, Metro has teamed up with Temple Bar Cultural Trust to give one lucky Metro reader the chance to win a break in the capital. Prize includes one nights Bed & Breakfast at the Paramount Hotel Temple Bar and the lucky winner will also be treated to dinner for two with a bottle of wine in Gallaghers Boxty House. For a chance to win, e-mail your answer to the question below to life@ metroireland.ie by noon today with Chocolate in the subject line. With your answer please include your name, address and a number where you can be contacted between 1pm and 3pm. One entry per person. Q. Who played Willy Wonka in the film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory? A Gene Wilder B Steve Martin index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html