ALBUM David Lynch: Crazy Clown Time In a mixed-up world where musicians dream of film roles and actors are frustrated rock stars, it makes sense that cult film director David Lynch would record an album. From gnarly blues to upbeat trance, Lynch sounds as though hes having a blast throughout. FILM Machine Gun Preacher Gerard Butler has never been better boasts the poster for this inspiring true story about a born-again biker who went from robbing drugs in Pennsylvania to saving orphans from warlords in Sudan. Packs an emotional wallop. D Wednesday, November 9, 2011 metrolife 13 Win a College Fund worth 1,500 every day this week Full or part time courses available in Postgraduate MBA, Business & Management, Accountancy & Finance, IT Design & Computing and English Language. Simply answer the following question: Who will replace Mary McAleese as Irelands next President? A. Michael D. Higgins B. Gay Mitchell C. Sean Gallagher Text IBAT followed by A, B, or C to 53133 (Texts costs 60c. 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Scan for more info Darren Hayes of Savage Gardens six- track mix on My iPoD Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks GIG FIve qUestIons For... David Bolger, co-founder and artistic director of CoisCim Dance Theatre Metro Lifes Pick Of Screen, Sound & Print the hIt LIst electronic music. We all do. Plus, theres so much of it around, you cant avoid it. There were loads of things we were listening to while making this album. Wilson joined the band as they were transitioning from indie hopefuls to stadium stars. Looking back, he is nostalgic about Snow Patrols time as gallant underachievers. But not to the extent hed want to live through it again. I was with Snow Patrol when they were playing to 16 people in a pub. Then I left and came back and they were playing Academy [mid-sized] type venues. Soon it got very different. We had all these people working for us, all this equipment and stuff. I thought, wow this is cool. I can go out and buy anything I want. Fallen Empires is released Friday. Snow Patrol play O2, Jan 21, 2012. What can audiences expect from CoisCims new work Touch Me? Its rooted in contemporary Irish culture but also deals with the past and poses the question, what is the future? It is performed by six dancers, with live music by Kenneth Edge and a set designed by Monica Frawley. I hope the experience will be a timely and complete dance theatre experience, which will touch people deeply. What was its genesis? I started my research with interviews I made with people over a 12-month period. I wrote ten questions to start with, on a mission to get an overview of how people were feeling about our current situation in Ireland. I was touched by the sense of community when I listened back to the interviews. I then set tasks for myself and the dancers to choreographically respond to the material. Which of your productions with CoisCim has been the best- received by audiences and why do you think that is? I loved Faun, which I hope will be revived one day...? Recently, we performed Swimming With My Mother at the Edinburgh Fringe, and we had incredible reviews and audience responses. People connected straight away with this show because of the mother and son bond that myself and my mother, Madge, had on stage. It has a universal theme and is something everybody could relate too. I also enjoyed researching and making Faun, which I hope will be revived next year before going to the US. Youve directed dance, theatre and opera across the globe, more than 20 of which were for CoisCim. Which city/country excites or inspires you? I am always excited about choreographing my own company here in Ireland. So much of our work is made in the heart of Dublin and Im always honoured to have a premiere of a new work here. Which production has been the most challenging? Every piece I make has it own set of challenges but the biggest was Dodgems, which we presented for the Dublin Theatre festival. The piece was set on a real dodgem track, and I had to learn how to drive and choreograph the dancers in bumper cars to get them to understand that the real skill was in the dodging of impact, not the bumping! Lucy White CoisCims Touch Me opens at Project Arts Centre on Fri and runs until Nov 19. www.coisceim.com See Hot Tickets for a chance to win tickets to Touch Me this Saturday! Dont F*** With My Money by Penguin Prison Penguin Prison is obviously a massive Prince fan. This has got an early 1970s, East Coast, blue-eyed soul meets Prince thing going on. A Real Hero by College (feat Electric Youth) Im obsessed with the soundtrack for the movie Drive. The film itself is incredible and the music is a huge part of that. This is the theme and every time I hear it, it takes me back into the film. We Found Love by Rihanna (feat Calvin Harris) I cant stop listening to this. It makes me think of early songs by Madonna, like Cherish and Like A Prayer. Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac I used to live in San Francisco and this song by Mick Fleetwood and co [about the city] reminds me of that time. Whenever Im homesick, I put this on. Sinking Friendships by Jnsi This uses guitars in a way that sounds like [other] strings. It starts quietly then becomes a noisy, violent song. Its extraordinary. Human Nature by Michael Jackson I think the vocal on this is the finest Michael Jackson ever recorded. Theres a real joy in it, like he was still on the verge of the thing that eventually destroyed him. Darren Hayess new album, Secret Codes And Battleships (EMI), is out now A marriage forged in slacker heaven, the hook-up between sometime Pavement man Stephen Malkmus and indie polymath Beck felt so inevitable the biggest surprise was that it hadnt happened earlier. These two icons of dishevelled alternatpop got together early in 2010 to work on Malkmuss latest project with his post-Pavement band The Jicks (although the fruits of their labour didnt see daylight until 12 months later, as Malkmus had to take time off to tour the world with a reunited Pavement). Super-star confabs are often a disappointment but in this case things worked out fantastically. With Beck in the producers chair, Malkmus was encouraged to reign in the proggy, jam band indulgence that sucked all the fun out of previous Jicks LPs. To the pleasant surprise of everyone involved the resulting Mirror Traffic album sounded like all the best bits of early Pavement with the bonus that Malkmus guitar technique has improved beyond recognition in the intervening two decades. Its a shame then that the record has, to an extent, been overshadowed by last years Pavement get- together and the subsequent speculation that the Gen X quintet might be going back to the studio together (for the record: there are no plans). Malkmus has warm memories of the 12 months he spent reprising Pavements best- loved tracks. But now hes ready to move on. You are kind of living this thing you already did, he says. Its not that bad or anything. Its great that people like it. The thing is, you feel like an entertainer and not like youre actually contributing much to the future. Ive always wanted to make new stuff and keep it going. It was good to share the music with people who had never heard it but I had already lived those songs. You dont want to be desperately out there doing it again and again. Eamon de Paor Tonight, The Button Factory, Curved Street D2, 7pm, 20. 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