metro Arts & Entertainment Joe Echo In Town Tonight Championed by Gary Lightbody for his extraordinary voice, this one- man band from Co Derry also co- wrote Madonnas Celebration with his remix pal Paul Oakenfold. Who knew dance music and acoustica could such a happy marriage make? Tonight, The Academy, 57 Middle Abbey Street D1, 7.30pm, 13.20. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.joeecho.com The Venga Boys Roll up, roll up the Vengabus is coming. Marvel in the sophisticated phrasing, the delineated melodies and hyper- articulated lyrics of the likes of Were Going To Ibiza, Boom Boom Boom Boom and Uncle John From Jamaica... Tonight, The Wright Venue, South Quarter, Airside Business Park, Swords, Co Dublin, 10pm, 10 to 12. Tel: (01) 890 0099. www.thewrightvenue.ie Dublin Klezfest Irelands leading exponents of klezmer music, Yurodny (pictured) and the North Strand Kontra Band, are joined by Sefiroth and guest musicians from the UK for a barn-storming jamboree of contemporary Yiddish folk rhythms Tonight, The Button Factory, Curved Street D2, 8pm, 12 to 14. Tel: (01) 670 9202. www.myspace.com/yurodny lifeArts & Entertainment Music Interview Radioclit African beats in the ome of the most exciting global dance music right now is being produced in deepest east London, just steps away from the spaceship-like construction site of the 2012 Olympic Stadium. The address in question is the Hackney home studio of Johan Karlberg, who forms dynamic DJ/ production duo Radioclit with Etienne Tron. We can get about ten people in this studio it turns into quite a party, says Karlberg, ushering us in with mugs of mulled wine. The room is incredibly bijou, draped with brilliant African fabrics and stacked with records including Radioclits brand new African house EP, Secousse, named after their club residency. Karlberg originally moved to Londons squat scene aged 19, having worked as a photographer and performed in a hip-hop band (I was a good producer but barely an OK rapper, he smiles); he and Tron became friends through a mutual love of urban pirate radio. We didnt have much equipment, so we started recording fake radio shows which we put up on our website and then created mixtapes, explains Karlberg. The name Radioclit came from the idea of a musical pleasure button. Together, Radioclit make a sassy team: cool, tattooed Swede Karlberg (the instinctive one, according to his musical partner) and debonair Frenchman Tron (the self-professed cerebral one). They also cut an irrepressibly funky sound that ricochets through varied international styles, from European techno to African, Asian and Middle Eastern genres, endorsed early on by US producer Diplo. The Secousse EP (and its upcoming sequel, Saga Africa) actually follows Radioclits acclaimed 2009 album as The Very Best their group project with Malawian vocalist Esau Mwamwaya, which propelled them S from club culture into the broader realms of world music. I think people still have preconceptions about the term world music, but its definitely changing with artists like us and MIA, says Karlberg. The hard thing is that people cant always work out what were doing because theres so much stuff weve worked with a lot of grime rappers, African musicians, artists like Santogold, weve remixed and produced weve actually just made a rockabilly-style record with Marina Gasolina, who used to be in the Brazilian band Bonde Do Role. Tron agrees. The sound of Radioclit is constantly changing because we keep discovering amazing schools of music, he says. In recent times, theyve included desert blues, Syrian dabke, Cape Verdes funan, 1950s surf music, Sierra Leones bubu... All of this feeds our creativity, but I think we still have the same attitude weve always had: one foot in the ghetto, the other in the charts. Ghetto pop. R adioclit are becoming increasingly well- travelled, with dates including Africas Lake Of Stars festival, although they still have many destinations in their sights. We find the musical style, and then we get there, says Karlberg. In the meantime, they trawl specialist record shops across Britain and France, scour YouTube clips, and recently bought an entire record collection from an informative Iraqi cab driver. They are variously aided and thwarted by modern technology, as Karlberg points out. Africa obviously doesnt have as widespread an internet connection as we do; if Im trying to send Esau new beats when hes in Malawi, itll take hours to download the one-and-a-half minute loop Ive made, he says. The title, Secousse, relates to the Congolese music genre soukous (meaning to shake), but Radioclits music is driven by complex rhythms rather than words. Tron admits hes particularly fond of straight-forward lyrics. My favourite sung line from Esau I think we still have the same attitude weve always had: one foot in the ghetto, the other in the charts The duo speak to Arwa Haider about making an impact on the global dance music scene and finding new influences for their tunes ME, ME, ME Inside the minds of celebrities Book Now Rufus Wainwright Youd be forgiven for thinking that Rufus Wainwright had retired altogether from showbusiness, passing on the baton to his feisty little sister Martha. But while he hasnt released a jot since 2007s Neil Tennant-produced Release The Stars, hes been far from resting on his laurels this year, his first opera, Prima Donna, premiered at Manchesters International Festival (and is opening in Toronto next summer) and he composed a musical adaptation of Shakespeares Sonnets for the Berliner Ensemble. Not only that, he has been recording songs for his sixth studio album All Days Are Night: Songs For Lulu, due for release in spring hence an Ireland and UK tour, for which tickets go on sale tomorrow Apr 28, 2010, Grand Canal Theatre, Grand Canal Square, Docklands D2, 6.30pm, 40.20 to 44.20. Tel: 0818 719 377. www.rufuswainwright.com 14 metrolife Thursday, December 17, 2009 10% nerves 50% far flung corners of Britain 40% my FiestaToday: Peter Kay, from his recent memoir On the two sides of Peter Kay: I dont suffer from schizophrenia but every time I perform stand-up I get a bizarre out of body experience. Part of me takes to the stage, yet I always leave another part of me in the wings, watching. The only thing I can compare it to is that advert they used to show on TV for Lockets... On his pre-show rituals at home before his first ever gigs: It took two songs to have a shower; my tracks of choice were usually Xanadu Olivia Newton-John, and Kiss From A Rose Seal (or the full version of Bat Out Of Hell if I was feeling frisky), then a quick spray of Insignia, a splash of Kouros and I was ready for just about anything. After vaulting the stairs Id position myself on the old pouffe in the front room (he never seemed to mind) where Id simultaneously try to shine my shoes and eat my chicken Kiev while watching Noels House Party. On (Is This The Way To) Amarillo: When I compered I always felt obliged to end the night with a song because it gave the show closure. Nine times out of ten it would be (Is This The Way To) Amarillo. I knew the song from my childhood and thought the sha-la-la bit The hoTTesT TickeTs in Town We have a pair of tickets to see RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Apr 28 at Grand Canal Theatre, 6.30pm For a chance to win, e-mail your answer to the question below to life@metroireland.ie by noon today with Hot Tickets in the subject line. With your answer please include your name, address and a number where you can be contacted between 1pm and 3pm. Strictly one entry per person; entrants must be age 18+. Q. Wainwright features on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack with which song? A Complainte De La Butte B Nature Boy The winners of yesterdays tickets to see Imelda May are: Laura Crowley, David Ashe, Brenda OKeefe, Ronan Rogers & Pl Cathail 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