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Acclaimed author will visit library


AUTHOR: Robert Williams, whose second book, 'How the Trouble Started' (pictured below), is earn­ ing good reviews.


It’s Indie


a hint of ‘Irony’


New CD from


AUTHOR Robert Williams will return to his Ribble- Valley roots later this month when he talks to readers at Chatbum Library. The busy village library has


recently been hosting an adult reading challenge and the visit is in celebration both of Mr Wiiliams' latest book,' "How the Trouble Started", and the Reading Rewards reader development scheme. Chatbum Ubrary manager


Gary Wilson commented: "I arti excited about hosting Robert Williams as he talfc about writing and his new book How the Trouble Started. "The event takes place


here at Chatbum Ubrary, in Sawley Road, starting at 7 p.m. om Wednesday August 22nd. There is no charge.


but booking is essential." For more information about


the event or to book, phone the library on 01200 441047.


local Grafts. Fanners Market at Browskolme Tithe Barn


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local band The Ragamuffins inspired by economic crisis’


OUT NOW: Curtains up the Ragamuffins' new CD 'Irony Curtain' ■ David founded the band in 2007 and it is now his full-time job. He said: "We're really pleased with the way everything has come together. The name of the album is a play on the old Soviet 'iron curtain'."


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AN indie pop band founded at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School has unearthed a silver lining to Europe's current debt crisis. The Ragamuffins, whose lead singer David Jaggs lives in


Simonstone, has taken the state of the economy as its inspiration for its first proper studip album. Ironically entitled "Irony Curtain", • the 16 track CD, which is also downloadable, uses humour, melody and a dance beat to, as David says, "make a record that paid attention to the financial crises the world has started facing up to". The CD is released on new Uverpool-based record label 7L


Recordings. Its sleeve features a metallic theatre style curtain, which Moor Lane haberdashery Patches & Buttons helped the band make. Other album artwork has had input frorn, Martin Nuttall, of Hoody Marvellous, and David's former CRGS classmate Richard Brunning, who lives in Clitheroe.


The band, which also includes Paul Heck, of Blackburn,


Chris Pusey from Essex and Wales' Jonas Tattersall, will be showcasing songs from "Irony Curtain" at The Aspinall Arms, Mitton, on Saturday A u g u ^ 18th. It will be playing Uverpool's K i^h b u s e as part of the Mathew Street Festival on August 24th and the following evening, will apear at the Lomax Theatre, also in Liverpool before returning to,the Ribble Valley to play Chipping Village'Hall on Friday October 26th. In touring the album. Ragamuffins will be joined onstage by a trumpeter and trombonist.


' The Ragamuffins have previously supported Dizzee Rascal at


Austria's Snowbombing Festival and played the mainstage at the Ribble Valle/s own Beatherder Festival. For a copy or to download "Irony Curtain", log on to: www.theragamuffins.bandcamp.com.


New studios to host first workshops


. A NEW artists' studio and exhibition space in the centre of Clitheroe will hold its first art workshops next week. Ribble Valley Art Studios is the brainchild of local artists Keith


Parkinson and Beverley Chapelhow. They wanted to establish a creative hub where artists could work in close proximity, gaining inspration from each other, and also let the public see them at work and admire and acquire finished pieces. The result is Ribble Valley Art Studios, now up and running


in Rowland Chamber, just off Wellgate in the centre of Clitheroe. Next Wednesday, August 15th, the studios will host its first art workshops day. It will comprise a series of short one-off sessions that will be complete sessions in themselves but also designed to give a flavour of what will be available in longer programmes being planned at the studios. An Adult Art Workshop will run from 10 a.m. to noon and


allow participants to explore various art techniques with Beverley and Keith. In the afternoon, from 2 to 4 p.m., there will be Children's


The Tithe Barn at Browsholme Hall, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BBI3DE


VVorkshops, in which Keith will work with seven to 11-year- olds exploring drawing and his wife,' Sheila, will work with a six-and-under group. The adults' workshop costs £8 per person and the cost


for children is £6 per child with a £2 reduction for further children in the same booking.: . > ' ; For more information or to' book call 07528055723 or e-’mail: info@ribblevallevartstudios.com ' , ■


Parkinson sketching in Clitheroe Beverley Chapelhow and Keith


Alix stages and stars in own show :


O N E of Clitheroe's rising stars is to host a showcase of | talent in her hometown this Saturday (August 11 th). : Alix Carey (17) who won .


a coveted place at the Italia Conti Academy in London,: w i l l star in the event at The


Grand. The former Ribblesdale


High School pupil, who is j; studying for an acting and • dance degree in London, |S holding the show to raise money to help support her studies and a quarter of the profits will go to the Ellle \ Leathert Fund. This is to ^ help fund a trip to America for Ellie, who suffers from s cerebral palsy, so she undergo an operation to-|


help her walk unaided. Tickets for Saturda/s ^ ; a i


• show are available V Grand box office on 012W,|


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Boorntown Rats + Panjenix Fn 10th Aug


Ga rry Roberts and Simon Crowe, the driving force behind the Boomtown Rats sound, have p ut their powerful alliance together once again to re - ignite and develop the essence of their music as i t should be heard. T h is is " part of their 3 5 th anniversary to u r and will be performing ail their classic hits Doors 7 pm (£ 1 0 adv)


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' Showcase of Talent 'Alix Carey Benefit Night Sat 11th Aug


Local performing arts talent hosted v


• by Chtheroe girl,and star dancer Alix Carey, who attends the Lo ndon-based


■ italia Conti Thea tre School: T h is '. ' ■ fundraising event is to help Alix’s studies and a quarter of all profits to


, T h e Elite Leathert fund Doors 7 pm (£ 1 0 / £ 5 adv)


FILM


Ladies Fi lm N ig h t Breakfast at Tiffany’s


Tue 4 th S eptember, Doors 7 .0 0 pm (£ 1 2 .5 0 inc two course meal)


Ladies Fi lm N ig h t -


Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Tue 2 n d October, Doors 7-OOprri (£ 1 2 .5 0 inc two course meal)


La die s F i lm N ig h t ' ( Midnight m Pans


-Tu e 6 th November, Doors 7 .0 0 pm 5 0 me two course meal)


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RIBBLE Valley band Urban Empire are kicking up a real storm ahead of their return to The Grand


Urban Empire have just landed back on terra


^ a after the thrill of opening the main stage at The Beat Herder festival, while a new single -1 0 1 Acre Wood - is poised for release.


"We were chosen out of 1,500 tsands to be first on at Beat Herder and it was just the coolest thing


we ve ever done," said Urban Empire guitarist Alex Procter, from Wilpshire. ^ 'W e got an e-mail out of the blue a few days before Beat Herder - we thought it was a hoax. It was totally mad - we had our own Teepee and free beer - it was an incredible moment for the band Death in Vegas and Orbital played the main


stage, and we were all stood in the field later on thinking 'wow' we'd done that."


^ A moody, melodic sound, for Urban Empire think Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Joy Division and the Editors... but Alex was inspired by the rough and tough punk sound of the Sex^Pistols.


"M y mum and dad bought me the Sex Pistols


greatest hits for my 10th birthday and the Pistols inspired me to pick up a guitar and play," said Alex. "I was in a Sex Pistols tribute band with our drummer, Rob Hirst. We gigged all over England at 15 and it was an amazing musical education. 'W e were at school learning Maths and English and at night we had middleaged blokes shouting’


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Pistols lyrics at us when we were playing live. We had the safety pins, spiky hair and the leather jackets. I went to see the Pistols when they played


Manchester. It is some of the greatest music ever written. "It was DIY music and we have the same ethic in Urban Empire. We practice in a converted pigsty in


Enfield, and we spend a lot of time messing about getting our sound right. "It can take so long to get your music recognised,


but there's a real momentum now. Clint Boon from the Inspiral Carpets said he loved our music after we won a battle of the bands contest." Last month Urban Empire supported Happy


Monday's maraca-shaking freaky dancer Bez, with Alex adding: "It was a mad place, an old converted Victorian mansion in Manchester and Bez was buying us drinks all night."


Urban Empire return to The Grand - where they


recorded their first EP - in just a week's time. Make sure you don't rniss out.


'We always love playing The Grand, it's a special


place," added Alex. "It's A level results day, so it should be a really nice, happy atmosphere." • Urban Empire are Alex Procter, Nick Gizzi (vocals and guitar), Rob Hirst (drums) and Matt


Lambe (Bass). They play The Grand next Thursday August 16th. Tickets £3 ariv stanHinr,


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£10 VIP ticket including a pre-show meal, VIP table in the bar area and drinks service all evening.*


*On selected events, see separate publicity for more details.


Urban Empire on the main stage at the Beatherder Festival and (below), the band's frontman Nick Cizzi


Lunchtime Live Friday afternoon Jazz


12-2pm, £2 entry Lunch menu available


August


10 Mark Lewis Trio 17 Henry Botham Trio 24- John Wickham Trio


3 MUSIC Urban Empire -t Friends'


T h u r1 6 th A u g, 7 pm (£ 3 a d v )


Kelsey Gill and Friends Fri 17th A u g , 7 pm (£10adv)


Super 8 Cynics + guests Sat 18th A u g, 7 pm (£ 6 a d v )


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Acoustic Village Sun 2 6 th A u g , '7 pm (£ 7 5 0 a d v )


Abba Forever Fri 7 th Sept, 7 pm (£18/£15adv)


Mighty S Sat 8 th Sept, 7 pm (£10adv)


Ratpack Vegas Spectacular Fri 1 4 - S a t 15th Sept, 7 pm (£ 20 ad v )


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