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• Guide to what’s on in the Kibble Valley and fnrther afield


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WIN! tickets for the cinema


THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (12A); Stage and Screen, Clitheroe; from Monday


PERHAPS the most sur­ prising thing about this film a d a p ta t io n of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hugely successful stage musical is how long it took to make it to the big screen. Directed by Joel Schu­


macher and starring Ger­ ard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, M ira n d a Richardson, Minnie Driver, Michael Weston, Ciaran Hinds and Simon Callow, this glossy period piece runs to 142 minutes. Based on a story writ­


ten almost a century ago and s e t in a P a r is ian opera house, it focuses on ch o ru s g ir l Chris tine (Rossum), who sings in th e shadow of diva La C a r lo t ta (Driver) until fa te - or some darker force -


intervenes. She suddenly finds her-


seE centre stage, unaware th a t her success is owed to The P h an tom (B u t­


ler), a disfigured musical genius who lives in cata­ combs beneath the opera house. Hopelessly in love with


Christine, he makes him­ self known to her, but wears a mask for fear she'll be repulsed by his appearance. That fear develops into


a murderous rage when an aris toc ra tic p re t ty boy (Wilson) th re a te n s to steal Christine away from him. This is certainly not the


firs t time the sto ry has been filmed, b u t it is the f i r s t to fe a tu re Lloyd Webbers memorable musical soundtrack. Has it been worth the


wait? Judge for yourself. Stage and Screen is also


home to matinee screen­ ings of fes tive comedy “Chris tmas with the Kranks” from Monday. See th e Stage and


Screen ad v e r t for show times.


A Boxing Day start for walking festival


A WINTER walking festival will help Christmas rev­ ellers from the Ribble Valley put a spring in their step. Now in its 16th year, the Ramblers’ Association’s


annual event will start on Boxing Day. Around 15,000 people are expected to take part


nationwide, many using it to kickstart their plans to get fit arid healthy for the coming year. Three events are being planned locally as part of the


country’s largest walking festival. • On Boxing Day there will be a sbe-mile circular walk


starting a t 10-30 a.m. from Hurst Green Village hall car park. The route will go along the River Ribble, over Dinkley swing bridge and through woodlands and open country. • On Wednesday a four-mile circular walk will start


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from Downham car park a t 1-15 p.m. The walk to Twiston Mill will go via wooded countryside and along­ side streams. • On Sunday, January 2nd there will be an eight-mile


circular walk from Barrowford Heritage Centre car park starting a t 10 .am. Walkers will go along the canal tow- paths, up to Blacko Tower and return via the Water Meetings. Anyone who takes part in a festival walk and wants to


join the Ramblers’ Association will receive a 20% dis­ count off membership. For more information on the walks contact Ben brown on 01254 822851.


I Ail Our shopping feature winner


THERE is a festive prize awaiting reader Mrs Georgina Peel. Mrs Peel, of Fox Street, Clitheroe, correctly identified


the photographs of shop windows in our late-night Christmas shopping feature. .


Thanks to all who entered.


A real fun Christmas Cracker from players


AN ENTHUSIASTIC cast and audience thoroughly enjoyed themselves when Whal- ley Village Players presented their show "A Christmas Cracker" in a candlelit Village Hall. The show began on the Saturday evening and a matinee was performed the following


day. Neither Carol Myers nor Stuart Geddes


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had ever appeared on stage before and in fact Carol "just came along to brew up". Soon the couple were cracking jokes as they shifted the scenery and props. Carol opened the show as a very glam­


ourous "Lady Penelope" from “The Thun- derbirds”, but was speedily dressed in head­ scarf and curlers for "Mrs Shifter" and changed into period dress for another num­ ber.


Dave "I'll just play the keyboard" Taylor


was on stage almost all the time, accompa­ nying other numbers and singing and play­ ing himseE, sometimes vvith his guitar. Dave also designed and painted all the scenery. Brothers Phil and A1 Johnson sang excel­


lent duets and solos, including Phil's lively opening numbers, "Maybe its because I'm a I^ndoner", and "Any old iron", in which he also played the spoons. A1 chose the little- known Slade song "Find yourseE a Rain­ bow", for which he was joined by some of the ■Whalley Rainbows, for one of his songs and for another joined his brother in "Mud, Mud glorious mud" and "The London omnibus". Early last year Wendy Shorrock joined the group, again to make the tea, but sang


in the company's "His name was Elvis Aaron Presley" in March. In this show she strutted the stage as "Burlington Bertie from Bow", Eliza DooUttle, who only want­ ed “a room somewhere”, and in "We’re a couple of swells”, with Dave. Ten-year-old Adam had a fine time


careering about the stage as "Jake the Peg", and being instructed by his father, as the evil Fagin, on how to "Pick a pocket or


two". A scene from "The Lancashire Witches",


written while the author was staying in Whalley, was read by Jean MiEer, who also played the ra th e r hopeless Henry in "There's a hole in my bucket", with Carol as Liza. The show was produced by Grace Gem-


mell and the lighting and effects were by Neil Martin. The company will meet on January 6th.


Anyone interested should contact Grace on 01254 823402 or Jean on 824312.


B WHAT a treat my friend and I had on Sunday afternoon a t the Whalley Village Players’ “Christmas Cracker” show in the village hall. In addition to the Saturday night


performance, the group had put on a matinee especailly so those not wishing to go out at night could see the show. What a pity so few people came!


MRS MARION THORNBER, Whallcy


Adult contemporary essentials - here is our top 10 of 2004...


by Mike Rea


Another year that proves just how great music can be - not that you’d know it from the charts or the covers of music magazines with their paid-for placements. While dance music split and combined in a million different ways, adult contemporary music was well catered for, with new and old singer-songwriters con­ tributing most of this year’s top 10.


1. Will Johnson - Vultures Await Criminally under-exposed in the UK, Johnson splits his time between rock, with his band Centro-Matic, darker-skied music with his band South San Gabriel, and the occasional solo project. A perfect album - remarkable songs and a voice so capable of expression you feel every word. Where Neil Young left off 30 years ago. Will Johnson starts.


2. Green Day - American Idiot Who’d have thought tha t ‘pop-punk’ band Green Day would nail 2004’s America to the dartboard so finely. This album has i t all - great songs, proper attitude and a whole lot of rock.


3. The Walkmen - Bows and Arrows The album’s best song, The Rat, is possibly the best song of the year - a straightahead New York punk-rock attack. The rest of the album is merely majestic.


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4. Ethan Daniel Davidson - Don Quixote of Suburbia A songwriter so scarily versatile and talented that Dylan’s early years are recalled, without exaggeration, and Beck dismissed as someone who’s trying too hard. A tremendous major label debut.


5. Tom Waits - Real Gone We’ve waited a long time, but Waits gets another classic into his canon. Mixing new with old-style Waits, as avant-garde as he’s ever been. We’re still catching up.


6. Grant Lee Phillips - Virginia Creeper Fashion-less songs th a t exist because they make the world more beautEul. This is where


the Counting Crows would have been E they’d kept the promise of their debut.


7. The Black Keys-Rubber Factory How relevant is dirty blues played by a gui­ tarist and a drummer in 2004? When i t is as funky and electric as this, the answer seems as clear as the band’s explosion in popularity.


8. Some by Sea - Get Off the Ground E You’re Scared


Spikey, angular rock with a real soul, wit and tunes th a t carry a hook big enough for a whale.


9 Fountains of Wayne - Welcorne Interstate Managers


The fine-line between rock and pop produces some remarkable music. This album is the band’s best yet.


10 The Deadstring Brothers - The Deadstring Brothers


When Gram Parsons sat in on the making of Exile on Main Street, there was a moment th a t previewed this excellent album. Who cares if the Stones never make another?


Honourable mention Sufjan Stevens, Seven Swans, The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow, Ryan Adams, Love is


Hell (Pts 1 and 2), Ed Harcourt, Strangers, 2 2 - 2 0 S , 2 2 - 2 0 S


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FATHER Christmas brought good beer as well as the traditional good cheer when he arrived in Sawley. Father Christmas,


alias Richard Baker from the Bowlahd Beer Company, was joined by a little “eEer” to deliver a specially brewed Christmas beer to the Spread Eagle, Sawley. Proprietor Mr Nigel


Williams said: “We nor­ mally sell our own brew, Sawley’s Drunken Duck, which is brewed especially for us by the Bowland Beer Compa­ ny, and i t is an extreme­ ly good seller - as the regulars tell me ‘A quacking good beer’”. For this season of


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ciitherde Advertiser & Times, December 23rd, 2004 39 m Play that is Assured success!


JACOB MURRAY’S production of Dion Boucicault’s comedy “London Assurance” at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manch­ ester, is, forgive the pun, an assured success. I confess I was not familiar with the plays


of this 19th Century Dublin-born drama­ tist. He wrote this at the age of 21 and in it Restoration meets Oscar Wilde. It is full of the farcical plots of the 17th


and 18th centuries and exaggerated charac­ ters, clearly signalled by their names - Cool, Sir Harcourt Courtly, Mark Meddle and, best of-all. Lady Gay Spanker - together with Wildean epigrams such as only plain people having to talk about inner beauty. Ageing roue Sir Harcourt Courtly is a


plum of a part for Gerald Harper and he plays i t to the hilt, with a superb drawl and the most incredible eyebrows. His elaborate and colourful costumes are a credit to designer Louise Ann Wilson. He is well sup­


ported by a host of other comic vignettes - Murray Melvin as the despairing valet. Cool, Jonathan Keeble as the rubber-legged caricature of a lawyer. Meddle, and espe­ cially Peter Linford as the stammering, hen­ pecked husband of Lady Gay, who is played with spirit and verve by Race Davies. Rae Henry makes a delightfully indepen­


dent ingenue Grace Harkaway, and Charles- Aitken is the young hero who, as in all such plays, has to adopt a disguise and is then discovered to great amusement. Jon C a rtw rig h t is th e honest uncle,


Andrew Langtree the conman friend and Loma Lewis and Patrick Driver play a vari­ ety of servants. This is an evening of clever, sophisticated fun for grown-ups.


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• The play runs until until January 15th. Box office: 01618339833


Piano performance was brilliant cially brewed Christmas


• ale on offer. I t is brewed to a secret recipe, but Father Christmas let slip th a t one of the


ingredients was corian­ der. A glass of beer from the first barrel of Saw- ley’s Christmas Cracker was enjoyed by regulars


at the Spread Eagle. Pictured is Father


Christmas and his “eEer” making their delivery(s)


Three win bottles of champagne


THERE were three lucky winners of the competition for a bottle of Tat- tinger Brut Champagne which our regular wine columnist Mike Mur­ doch arranged. Tattinger is the direct descendant


of one of the oldest of all champagne houses, Forneaux, founded in 1734. The company has extensive vineyard holdings of over 250 hectares. The


chardonnay based non-vintage is ele­ gant with a flowery and yeasty palate and a penetrating length. For those not lucky with the com­


petition, Tattinger Brut is available widely and is on offer at Threshers and Tesco with up to £5 a bottle off. This is a perfect toil for your Christ­ mas canapes. There were lots of entries in the


competition, most correctly answer­ ing the question: What is the mini­ mum ageing of champagne required by law? the answer was B - 15 months. The lucky winners were: Mrs


Paula Harris, of Salthill Road, Clitheroe: Mr Nigel Atherton, of Wiswell Lane, Whalley; and Mrs Kath Bentley, of Moorland Road,


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LLYR WILLIAMS, the newly-acclaimed pianist on the British music scene and an extraordinarily versatile artist, gave a bril­ liant performance for a packed audience at the la te s t performance organised by Clitheroe Concerts Society. Franz Schubert's “Piano Sonata in B flat


major D 960” gave the opportunity for a gamut of expressive interpretation, fully exploited by Llyr and encompassing solem­ nity, tranquillity, frivolity, drama, mystery, serenity, nostalgia, lyricism, impishness, live­ liness, blus tering jocularity and brisk assertiveness. Altogether an eloquent render­ ing of Schubert, which thrilled the audience. The “Six Little Piano Pieces Op 19” by


Arnold Schoenberg were very short and, despite their atonality, were easy to listen to under the hands of this pianist.


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ra 0.1m mown MM Tn.« M urtlY ii». IIH*______ tfMO n O O Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces Op 54” made Llyr a


good storyteller, using inflections galore. He invocated the loneliness, strength and hardi­ ness of the Norwegian herdboy, the fresh clarity of outdoors in the mountains, the rather menacing marching of trolls (played with brilliant triplets), the unhurried noc­ turne (with a quiet steady rhythm in the left hand and a soaring right hand melody), and, in the last section, the sonorous echoing sound of church bells. The concert ended with Sergey Rach­


maninov's “Variations on a Theme of Gorelli Op 42”. After loud applause, Llyr Williams gave an encore,“Homewards” by Grieg, and again the differing themes and phrases of expression were so beautifully blended into perfection.


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