Watson Law of the land: Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr all dressed up for a pumped-up take on Sherlock Holmes Going out New Years Eve And Another Thing... Tuesday, December 22, 2009 metrolife 15 The hoTTesT TickeTs in Town Q9: Which US photographers Dublin show earlier this year was entitled American Jesus? TO P16 We have three pairs of tickets to see CHRIST DELIVER US! Feb 18 at the Abbey Theatre, 7.30pm 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. Tom Hickey (pictured) spent 15 years in which RT soap opera? A Tolka Row B The Riordans The winners of yesterdays tickets to see Brian Jonestown Massacre are: Mary McGinnity & Cory Cambridge Dance music fiends will be starting the New Year as they mean to go on at TriPods Glitterball (Harcourt Street D2, 10pm, early bird 20, on the door 25), featuring Hed Kandi staples Andy Norman and Jason Vereker (see club column), while Download TriPod Saturdays Rory Long is in the lounge. Under the same roof, though cutting a very different jib, is the Studio 54 Experience (from 10pm, 17.45), a three-hander boasting full live band Rockeroke, who will transport the PoD into 1970s/1980s era New York along with house and techno dynamo David Devalera and electroclashers Super Super Disco. At Twisted Pepper, mash-up and scratch maestro DJ Kormac and big band are headlining Scribble Records extravaganza see Clubbing column. Nearby at The Academy is Phantom 105.2s NYE Ball (57 Middle Abbey Street D1, 9pm, 25), where Delorentos (pictured) and RSAG will be joined by Heritage Centre, Tallulah Does The Hula and The Funeral Suits, while Phantom DJs will rule the 1990s indie disco school in the basement. Therell be a similar, Carry On Up The Campus vibe at The Village (26 Wexford Street D2, 8.30pm, 16.50) courtesy of the weird and wonderful The Amazing Few, who have 3D- visuals up their jesters sleeves, plus fellow minstrels Funzo, Botheads and Gran Casino. Dublin instrumentalists The Redneck Manifesto will ring in 2010 with Sparsilla and The Vinny Club at Whelans (25 Wexford Street D2, 8pm, 20), while Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club party like its 1999 at the carnival- themed Vicar Street (58-59 Thomas Street D8, 8.30pm, 29.50) with Bone Idle Circus, The North Strand Contra Band, Candice Gordon and Carol Keogh. And much more civilised: Tony Christie and Honor Heffernan performing with the RT Concert Orchestra And Big Band at the National Concert Hall New Years Eve Gala (Earlsfort Terrace D2, 10pm, 32 to 65). Hic! Stuff to do on December 31 CLUBBING St Stephens Night / New Years Eve Herm Kevin Connolly and his four Hermanos perform a rabble- rousing end-of-year gig Tonight, Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street D1, 8pm, 7 to 8. Tel: (01) 873 4800. www.myspace.com/hermwork Basshunter He looks like a computer generated image but is actually a Swedish Eurodance DJ and producer Dec 27, The Academy, 57 Middle Abbey Street D1, 7.30pm, 39.80. Tel: 0818 719 300. www.basshunter.se The Minutes Good old-fashioned rocknroll from the Dublin trio, whose New York- recorded debut album is in the can Tonight, Whelans, 25 Wexford Street D2, 8pm, 10. Tel: (01) 478 0766. www.myspace.com/ theminutesireland While this week is quiet in clubland, the post-Christmas week features a range of different events. For techno fans, St Stephens Night offers the attraction of seeing two well-known names playing back to back in the intimate Pygmalion venue (8pm, 22). Italian DJ/producer Marco Carola rose to prominence during the 1990s as a purveyor of hard- edged loopy techno, but in recent years, has slowed down the tempo and now plays a more stripped- back sound. Spanish DJ/producer Paco Osuna, who is signed to Richie Hawtins Plus 8 label, joins him on the decks. Expect to hear minimal techno all night long. On the same night, Electric Shock hosts its Christmas party in the Twisted Pepper (8pm, 8 to 10). While the night usually focuses on high- calibre international guests, this party sees it team up with the Lunar Disko and Discotekken resident DJs the Shocks Simon Conway and Giles Armstrong, Louis Scully from Discotekken and Lunar Diskos Barry Donavan spinning electro, Italo, techno and disco. Finally, if you prefer indie-centric sounds, then what better way to blow away the Christmas cobwebs than by checking out London band The XX (pictured) taking to the decks in TriPod (11pm, 12). New Years Eve is the next big night out over the festive period, but overall the trend of being faced with high entrance fees to ring in the new year to the sound of a big-name guest seems to have ended. Most venues are either putting on strong local line-ups or charging modest entrance prices for guests. The best deal appears to be at 4 Dame Lane (10pm, 10), where UK house act Faze Action aka Robin and Simon Lee are DJing. Having spearheaded the UK deep house movement in the latter half of the 1990s with classics like In The Trees, the brothers are enjoying a resurgence thanks to a string of excellent releases on their own label. Meanwhile, TriPod welcomes 2010 to the sound of good time house from Hed Kandi DJs Andy Norman and Jason Vereker (10pm, 20 to 25). Expect a suitably glammed-up crowd in attendance. Last but by no means least is Twisted Peppers New Years party (10pm, 8 to 10), which features a strong local line-up. Spread over four areas, Bodytonic stalwarts Eoin Cregan, Tayor and John Mahon spin deep house, Tribe drop drumnbass, there are eclectic beats from live act Kormac and Pogo resident Barry Redsettaz rings in 2010 with techno in the basement. Richard Brophy index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html