As promised, here are the latest details for the second annual thumped.com Christmas Party. As you know by now, this all takes place in conjunction with The Ballroom of Romance at 8pm TONIGHT (Friday 19th) in The Lower Deck in Portobello. Admission is 8 euro, and includes a free music video CD, Mixtape Kris Kringle & a ticket for the Bumper Christmas Raffle. The Tycho Brahe will be taking the stage at 8.30pm*, followed by The Dudley Corporation & then finally the one and only xKNIFEDx. DJ's will take over at about 10.30 & we'll have The Gentlemen of Exotique, & a true clash of the titans - Awesome Dudes feat. Robbie Analog vs Extreme Excellence feat. Bullets. Oh boy. * Really - The Tycho Brahe are going on at 8.30pm whether you're there or not. We mean it. They have to be somewhere else tonight & so won't be hanging around - SO GET THERE EARLY. You have been warned. ------------------------------------------------------------ :-Mixtape Kris Kringle It's not too late to make your mixtape / CDR / minidisk - just leave it under the Mixtape Christmas Tree & take one out for yourself. How festive is that? ------------------------------------------------------------ :-Confirmed raffle prizes include: - A tin of USA biscuits - Jaffa cakes. - Chocolates (if they last that long) - Oh and lots and lots of records and CD's and stuff. As long as everyone that promised raffle prizes remember to bring them along on Friday.. ------------------------------------------------------------ :-The Venue Directions to the Lower Deck can be found here: http://www.ballroomofromance.com/thelowerdeck.html ------------------------------------------------------------ All proceeds from tonight will be split between the Merchants Quay Project & The Perm Childrens Fund. (There's more information on both of these at the bottom of this message). 900 euro was raised for the Cleft Lip & Palate Association at last year's Christmas gig in Doyles, so we're hoping to do even better this time. ------------------------------------------------------------ Oh and one other thing . The wrong details for The Road Relish Christmas Party were printed in the paper on Thursday. It's taking place next TUESDAY (the 23rd) and it's 1 euro in, not 12. Grand so. More info here: http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=10656