store COMEDY Bill Bailey Last time you toured you come down from the ceiling by your ankle. How do you follow something like that? Its very hard. I was upset with myself because after two months of being upside down I couldnt eat three hours before the show (laughs). Now Ive got other things that Ill be angry with myself for doing because I try to outdo myself every time. I always have to get a bit bruised up, thats how I know Ive done a good show. No pain, no gain. But youre enjoying it? Yeah, its a huge production and Im very proud of the show. I think its a lot more theatrical and a lot more emotional because of the album and because of the collaboration with the designer Thierry Mugler. Its really interesting and different from what weve done before. The album is like Sasha versus Beyonc. Is that obvious in the show that you have two different vibes? The title of the album says it all: I Am... Sasha Fierce. That alter ego has always come out when Im on stage. My alter ego is always there. Whats the bit of the show you look forward to most? Probably the second bit. Its really quiet and I dont really have to do anything but sing and perform. Its just me and the mic and I love that. Its a time when people really get to know me. And I dont have to worry about forgetting choreography or falling down stairs. I just stand there. When you write these songs with lyrics that are a bit more deep, performing and interpreting your music to allow audiences to get to know you is the highlight we work for. So those songs are the ones I cant wait for. When I look out to the audience to see some of them crying and the couples all cuddled together. Its just more emotional. I love Sasha Fierce doing all the up-tempo stuff too but thats my favourite. Who are you into at the moment? I like Lady Gaga. I like her fashion. It works for her, shes not afraid to take a risk. I like that. It keeps it interesting. More people should do that. Simon Wilson Sun & Mon, The O2, East Link Bridge, North Wall Quay D1, 6.30pm, 51.50 to 56.50 (returns only). Tel: 0818 719 300. www. beyonceonline.com FIVE QUESTIONS FOR... Beyonc CLUBS Oscar Mulero DJ Godfather UFO THEATRE REVIEW Moment Glorious 39 (12A) Running time: 129min Friday, November 20, 2009 metrolife 15 Its been more than a decade since acclaimed TV director Stephen Poliakoff (Gideons Daughter) made a big screen feature. This overlong, far-fetched fiddle-faddle makes you wish him back on telly. Set in the glorious summer of 1939, it stars Romola Garai (pictured) as the adopted daughter of a Tory (Bill Nighy). Her life is one big lark around his posho familys country pile until she stumbles across a secret recording in daddys office, and starts to uncover the skulduggery afoot in Britains pro-appeasement movement. Unfortunately, a cracking British character cast, an intriguing angle on World War II and scrummy frocks cant compensate for such melodramatic tosh whose every twist is more heavily signposted than advance roadworks on the N11. LI-Z Fangs for the memories: Bella (Kristen Stewart) gets to know Jacob (Taylor Lautner) while vampire Edward (Robert Pattison) looks on Before his attachment to trolls and panel shows, for Bill Bailey, there was music. And his passion was ignited by an unusual muse. Bailey, 45, remembers the moment clearly. It was the early 1970s and he was sitting in his living room with his parents watching TV. I was watching Les Dawson, he says.I was listening to him play wrong deliberately and I thought, how does he do that? I couldnt. It took skill. You have to know what youre doing to know how to do it badly. I stored that away in my subconscious. Music has long been part of his stand-up show but hes decided to turn his attentions more fully to music with his show Bill Baileys Remarkable Guide To The Orchestra, which sees him perform this weekend with The RT Concert Orchestra. I introduce the various instruments of the orchestra and give a bit of info about them in a slightly irreverent comedy way, he says. Ill introduce the oboe, for example, and well hear some of that, then all the different sections. Its like deconstructing the orchestra and allowing people to see how it fits together. He knows most people will come to see comedy genius Bill Bailey, rather than musician Bill Bailey, and many may be taken aback by the lack of reference to hobbits, Lord Of The Rings, weasels, klingons and trolls. But, although he is keen to make it an educational experience, Bailey promises the show will be doused liberally with laughs. Its a comedy show, thats the thing. Its in the guise of lots of music but we twist it and change it and put lots of musical jokes in it. I want people to share in that and not be intimidated by classical music. Baileys choice of music for the show is eclectic. Things like theme tunes that have stopped being used, he enthuses. Like the old theme tune to the ITN news which they had until about 1982. The news theme then was supremely optimistic. It must have been a pretty good time to live. All current affairs tunes now are solemn. Weve got bad news, were not being silly. Its nice to juxtapose the two and look at how certain notes set up expectations. The show evolved over two years. It felt like the right time to do it, he says. Bailey listened to Monty Python records when he was younger and rehearsed with a band called Famous Five, who he confesses were very bad but still much better than me, and who, unexpectedly, had just four members. He then became a classically trained musician and typically of Bailey gained an associate diploma from the Society Of Crematorium Organists. I listen to music all the time at home, he adds. Every day I listen to new kinds of music and practise and try to learn more. Emma Pinch Tomorrow, The O2, East Link Bridge, North Wall Quay D1, 6.30pm, 30 to 60. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.billbailey.co.uk Since the late 1980s, Spain hosted some of the worlds best clubs and parties, but failed to produce international DJs. A decade later, that situation changed with the arrival of Oscar Mulero (pictured). The tattooed DJs focus on industrial sounds and willingness to experiment with unpredictable, broken rhythms immediately set him apart from the one-dimensional techno that prevailed at the time and his popularity across Europe won him the nickname the King of Spain. Working as Trolley Route, Mulero also showed his diversity, releasing more introspective electronic music. After a few quiet years, hes back with a new mix CD on Tresor that collects many of the German labels classics on one disc. Tonight, Surge, The Good Bits, Store Street D1, 10.30pm, 12 to 15. One of the most cynical developments in electronic music in recent years has been the hijacking of the word electro by cheesy house DJs. Thankfully, there are still some producers putting out music that stays true to the style birthed in Detroit. DJ Godfather, aka Brian Jeffries, belongs to this small group. A sometime member of electro supergroup Ectomorph together with influential producers Brendan Gillen and Gerald Donald Godfather is best known for the frenetic ghetto tech variant. Less obscene than booty yet fuelled by equally raw and frenetic rhythms, the Detroit producers releases for his Twilight 76 and Databass labels and his razor sharp hip-hop-style keeps him at the cutting edge. Tonight, Mud, Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street D1, 11pm, 12. UFO was an institution for the first generation of Dublin clubbers discovering techno music during the 1990s. The club started off as a night in the UCD Bar, but moved to a number of city centre venues and provided a platform for international and local guests. However, the clubs main attraction was resident Franois. Every week, the gregarious DJ presented new techno records from the US and Europe to a passionate crowd. While the promoters did the smart thing and called time on the club before it became jaded, this reunion gig, helmed by Franois himself, provides a chance for the mature clubber to relive some of the magical UFO memories of yesteryear. Tonight, Hype, PoD, Harcourt Street D2, 11pm, 10. Richard Brophy Deirdre Kinahans gritty kitchen-sink drama focusses on the aftermath of a child murder committed some 15 years earlier; however, its not the victims family Moment concerns itself with but the family of the perpetrator. Artist and ex-con Nial (Ronan Leahy) returns home to Dublin from Cork with a glamorous new wife in tow but his arrival doesnt exactly fill his sister Niamh (Maeve Fitzgerald) with joy, nor his mother (Deirdre Donnelly), who has to steel herself for the occasion by scarfing down anti-depressants. With its plethora of anxious glances, pregnant pauses and general air of unease, Moment primes the viewer for a gruelling domestic bust-up and doesnt fail to deliver. Its difficult subject matter but Kinahan avoids sensationalism, gently teasing out the effects of a horrific crime on those related to the person responsible and putting paid to the notion that time heals all ills. Among its eight-strong cast, at least two characters feel superfluous (it would have made more sense to concentrate solely on Nial and his immediate family) but Kinahan rightly avoids sermonising and the issue of absolution is appropriately unresolved. Leahy is suitably antsy as the son, a man for whom the past is ever-present, but its Donnelly as the stoic, troubled mother and Fitzgerald as the bone-thin, indignant Niamh whose performances really grip. This production from Tall Tales Theatre Company shines a light into some dark recesses and holds it there even when the view becomes almost unbearable. Daragh Reddin Until Nov 28, Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street D2, 8.15pm, 15 to 20. Tel: (01) 881 9613/4. www.project.ie index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html