Seeing how last year’s St. Patrick’s Day bash left some folks out in the cold, the Manette Saloon is pre-selling tickets for this weekend’s shindig.

Five dollars will pay one’s way into the party where corn beef and cabbage, green beers and Bushmills will all be poured into the saloon’s figurative blender and switched to top-speed and swirled to the soundtrack of Seattle rock band Evil Twin.

Ocean’s Above, a local group from Port Orchard, will open the set at 9 p.m. March 17 at the Manette in Bremerton.

And if the night lives up the expectation of Evil Twin’s lead guitarist Jeremiah Ham — known as Master J on stage — picking up tickets in advance might be a good idea.

“We’re pretty much expecting it to be about the craziest show we’ve ever played,” Master J said. “That includes the bar at complete capacity, everybody crammed in … no room to do anything … then we’ll light up our amps and just let it go.”

Evil Twin has come to Bremerton often in the past three years, but this is the first St. Patrick’s show they’ve played at the Manette.

As for added festivities and Irish fanfare in honor of the holiday, though they don’t plan to bring any leprechauns to the stage, the Manette will be filling bellies starting at 7 p.m. Saturday with a $5 corned beef and cabbage dinner, washed down with green beer.

“It’s such a fun thing,” owner Kim Anderson said of one of the bar’s biggest holidays. “Last year we were so packed there was a line outside. (This year) Evil Twin is a very eclectic band, they are doing some twists … they are absolutely a showman band.”

Master J said the group likes to describe its music as a “cross between New York Dolls and Guns n’ Roses. A lot of our stuff used to be a little more simple, more punk, now we’ve embraced more of the rock.”

As it has evolved over its existence and now includes saxophones, keyboards and a deeper level of song writing and composition. Evil Twin’s lyrics aren’t so heavy that they’ll bog down the light-hearted St. Patrick’s partier.

“We’re not asking anybody to think harder than they want to think,” J said. “A lot of our songs are not political, not dealing with that hard of issues … they’re fun songs.”

Songs like “66 Miles to Graceland” and “Radio Salvation” speak through simplistic melody to the innate spirit that fuels the rock and roll attitude. Bringing that attitude to Bremerton, Evil Twin has found a scene that is consistently hungry for it.

“We really love the Manette,” Master J said. “I don’t know what it is but everybody is always so much more excited to see a live band.”