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Head over to Champagne Thr3e tomorrow to hear Heavygrinder's brand of pounding beats and see in the New Year. PHOTO COURTESY OF C3

This weekend we give a metaphorical kick up the backside to the year of the hound, while welcoming in the year of the swine by planting a loving kiss on its warm, wet, piggy, little snout. Yes, it's the time of year when our local readers scatter to the four corners of the island to be with their families and throw fireworks at each other until the early hours to frighten away the mythical monster Nian.

New Year's Eve itself falls tomorrow, although you wouldn't know this if you checked the Taipei Government's English Web site which, in their usual slapdash way of imparting important information to the foreign community, would have us believe that Chinese New Year's Eve is on Dec. 30 — yes, that's three-zero — and Chinese New Year's Day is Jan. 1. Sigh. One has to wonder how hard they must try to actually stuff up at stuffing up. (english.taipei.gov.tw/web/upload/117039964885700.doc)

So expect a quiet Saturday night around town as apart from Champagne Thr3e located at B1, 171 Songde Rd, Taipei (台北市松德路171號B1), which is throwing a party for the desperate and the outcast with yet another glamour model DJ bird gimmick, this time by the name of HeavyGrinder (wink, wink, nudge, yawn), and the odd bar or two, many places will be closed.

But, that may be a good thing as it gives everyone the chance to cultivate a frankly terrifying and Saturday-ruining hangover tonight. Freak out Beast has had a well-attended and well-received bands-based festival at various city venues over the last two weeks, and tonight they round the whole thing off on an electronic tip with a drum'n'bass party at VT Art Salon with Rex vs. Sandoz, Elvis, Point, Tyson, Code, Elmo and Muse Whisper. The party begins at 9pm and admission is free.

Tomorrow's hiatus in the city's nightlife is only short-lived, as by the end of the weekend everyone's had quite enough family and are in the mood to party. Tuesday is the real fun one, as Wednesday's a holiday. Luxy is serving up a double whammy as they host Irish Balearic house (new genre, anyone?) duo Agnelli and Nelson in the main room, with local lads A-Dao (who, as anyone with a vinyl habit to feed knows, runs Species Records in Ximending) and Kaoru amongst others in the Onyx Room. MoS hosts Caspar, again.

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