Aidan Brennan (pictured on left) on Thursday night, with Niamh de Brca, Mick OBrien and Mark Kelly filling the headliner slot on Friday. On Saturday, it is the turn of Furey, supported by south of France church music group Lo Cor De La Plana. Elsewhere, female multi- vocal ensemble Ladan are at Project Arts Centre tonight and open air performances, cils and movie screenings will bring the Trad Fest out of the concert hall and into the streets. A word of warning you may encounter gratuitous use of the word craic. Eamon de Paor Until Sun, The Button Factory, Curved Street D2, 7pm, various prices. Tel: (01) 670 9202 www. templebar trad.com CD Young Money: We Are Young Money YME/Universal Motown Star-led posse albums can be hard to get excited about and the news that Lil Waynes long-awaited Rebirth album will finally be released next month means the focus has already shifted off his Young Money collectives effort. Weezy and mate Mack Maine have rounded up a rather rag-tag bunch of rappers for their Young Money Entertainment label, all showcased here shuffling in and out of each track. Best of the bunch is current bright star Drake; worst are youngsters Lil Chuckee and Lil Twist. The rest of the group sound mediocre at best, over-Auto-Tuned and bereft of original ideas. These engineered albums, trying to offer everyone a chance to look good, inevitably end up shaped by their lowest common denominator. The best artists arent inspired enough to make an effort and the worst really struggle. Young Money doesnt break that mould. Siobhn Murphy D Wednesday, January 27, 2010 metrolife 15 Looking into the money pit BOOK OF THE WEEK Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone And No One Can Pay by John Lanchester Allen Lane, 25 DVD Fish Tank Artificial Eye, 15, 18 Hands down the best British film of 2009, this Bafta- nominated, Cannes Jury Prize winner demands rewatching. Set on a sunny Essex estate, its the anti-X Factor story of Mia (sensational non- professional Katie Jarvis, pictured), a mouthy, aggressive 15-year-old who wants to be a dancer. She lives with her mum (Kierston Wareing), her dog Tennants and her equally mouthy little sister (Rebecca Griffiths), whose idea of affection is: I like you so Ill kill you last. Boasting more shouting than the EastEnders omnibus, their family is further unbalanced when mum brings home a dishy new fella (Hungers Michael Fassbender). As Mia struggles to untangle her need for a dad with her yearnings for something more, you could cut the sexual tension with a knife. Wonderfully funny yet profoundly uncomfortable, this is no middle-class tourist goggle. Oscar-winning writer/director Andrea Arnold is writing about what she knows. Think Flashdance for the Asbo generation. Extras: Arnolds Oscar-winning short, Wasp. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh TV Picks Of The Day Natural World BBC2, 8pm What happens when you give 11 chimps video technology and a camera? Well, tonights special episode of Natural World reveals all. Created as a study into how chimps perceive the world around them and each other, touchscreen video selection and a chimp-proof camera were introduced to their enclosure and tonight we see the results the first chimp-made film in history (though anyone who has seen Transformers 2 might disagree). Adam Hyland FESTIVAL Temple Bar Trad Fest difficulties, sexually abused at home by her father, who has now fled, and physically abused by her appalling mother. As if all that wasnt bad enough, she is also a single mother, having a baby with Downs syndrome, courtesy of a rape by her father. Soon, she gets expelled from school for a second pregnancy. Again it is by her father. For all the trauma, however, the film contains flashes of hope and it is deftly directed and superbly acted, featuring a top-notch turn from pop diva Mariah Carey (which prompted her recent drunken awards speech). Sidibe, too, is excellent. I tend to disappear when I am acting as Precious, she explains. I am blank, completely, I am just feeling every emotion as Precious would feel it and how she should feel it. She has already shot her second movie, Yelling To The Sky, with director Victoria Mahoney and looks set for an extended spell in the spotlight. I hope so, she smiles. I have been given such an opportunity with this its fallen in my lap and I have to make the most of it. I owe it to myself. Precious (15A) is in cinemas from Friday. Harlem AIG? CDS? GDP? Trying to negotiate the global economic crisis is akin to wading through alphabet soup. Its an appropriate metaphor, for as John Lanchesters excellent primer exposes, the reason were in such a financial mess is that no one bothered to translate the accelerating pile up of credit default swaps, sub-prime mortgages, low interest rates, deregulation and a cavalier attitude to risk into one word: disaster. Lanchester briefly links the start of the whole sorry tale to the collapse of communism, which allowed western governments to relinquish the moral highground, partly by deregulating markets. More concretely, he shows how abuse of the credit default swap (basically the idea that risk could be sold on) was soon running rampant through the entire banking system, much to the horror of one of the JP Morgan brains who helped develop it. Lanchesters robust orienteering through the thickets of derivatives, money-obsessed bankers and collateralised debt obligations takes in a sobering visit to a semi-boarded up Baltimore, one of the worst hit cities in the US sub-prime catastrophe; elsewhere he wonders whether part of the problem lies in our cognitive inability to accurately calculate risk. Born to an Irish mother, he also devotes plenty of space to our own current economic woes and examines how the housing and credit bubbles, combined with a decade of careless political management, lead the The Economist to half joke in 2008 that Ireland is at risk of becoming Reykjavik-on-Liffey. Claire Allfree Relocation, Relocation Channel4, 8pm Youd think that a pad inside the Tower Of London would be one of the coolest ways of living in the city. But Yeoman Of The Guard Simon and wife Pauline have had enough of the brick walls and bells and want a holiday home on the Kent coast and a permanent house in Hampshire. Trouble is, they cant move until Simon quits his job at the Tower and trying to buy a home youre not actually going to live in for several years causes all manner of problems. Can Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer (pictured) help? Sharon Lougher The dreary days of late January usually mark something of a lull in the Dublin live music calendar. Which may explain why, a few years ago, the Temple Bar traders association decided this would be the perfect time to try something new, a traditional music festival pitched at locals as much as at tourists. Bringing together such globally renowned trad figures as Finbar Furey (pictured centre), Mary McPartlan (pictured on right) and Rick Epping, the 2010 event boasts one of the most eclectic line-ups yet. As is now traditional, the focus for the live music is squarely on The Button Factory, where McPartlan and Epping are joined by replica of her dog from its own hair for a tabloid newspaper article. 2007: Appears on Masterchef. Her expert handling of her shepherds pie sees her sail through to the semi-finals. April 2009: Is rumoured to be lined up as Fern Brittons replacement on This Morning but loses out to Holly Willoughby. Daytime TV is a cut-throat world! Feb 2010: Emma celebrates her return to showbiz by becoming the face of pancakes for a syrup company. Emma explains in an instructional video; Im a left-handed whisker but it doesnt matter if youre right handed. Phew! Scott Tenorman 13 index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html