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B y .T o n y D ew lm r sb ALFRED Wainwright loved solitude, particulariy on the Lake District fells, and yet through his books thousands have been attracted into that spectacular landscape. To many fell-wanderers, it was the gruff and sometimes


cantankerous author from Blackburn - brought up among mill chimneys, noisy factories and dirty canals - who will


always be the Lake District's most significant adopted son. One man who knew him better than most was writer


and broadcaster Eric Robson, who will be staging a special presentation on the life of Wainwright at The Grand, Clitheroe on February 27th.


, Robson, who accompanied Wainwright on his Lake


■ District walks in the BBC television series, said: "I don't think people have recognised the fundamental importance


of Blackburn to Wainwright's achievement because he did his early fell walking in that area. Also, the grit and self-sufficiency bred in the early days in mill town Lancashire were a profound part of his character. When we were filming the BBC series we brought ^ him back here. We took him to the first hill he attempted - the walk out to Darwen Tower. "He told me that as he sat there as a young lad he


had a real revelation, it was if he'd been given the keys to the kingdom of the hills. 1 remember him saying to me on a walk up Pendle Hill: 'Do you know, people often ask me what my favourite place is. Well i'll tell you what my favourite piece of grass is'. "I was running through Haystacks and all the


obvious places, and Wainwright said: 'I bet you can't guess: it's the centre circle at Ewood Park'. "If we were out walking on a Saturday he would


always have a transistor radio for the football results. Blackburn Rovers and walking was the core of his being." While Robson never shared AW's fondness for


"Coronation Street", third rate fish and chips or Blackburn Rovers, he recalls Wainwright as a kind and considerate man. . Robson added: "When the TV series was first mooted, I was summoned to Kendal to meet the great man in a truly dreadful cafe. "Out of the comer of my eye I noticed a slice of


boiled ham disappearing off my plate, which he put into a napkin and then into his pocket. "Nothing was said, but later I found out he was


taking it home for Totty his cat, who was quite ill. I remember a shy, gentle and thoughtful man." The BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time


presenter is chairman of the Wainwright Society, who, 80 years after Wainwright first visited the Lake District in June 1930, recreated his journey, taking a bus from his home in Blackburn to Windermere, and climbing Orrest Head. it changed his life, that view out over Windermere from Orrest Head, but it's changed the lives of tens of


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thousands of other people as well," added Robson. "Before Wainwright, people stood in the valley


bottom and said: 'We can't get up there, we can't do it.'


"Then th e /d see Wainwright's way of dissecting


mountains - which is phenomenally clever and suddenly found that if they followed this line on the map, it made sense; it got them to the top. "Wainwright is every bit as clever as the man


who invented the London Underground in my opinion - he took a mountain, he filleted it, turned it into a two-dimensional image and made it more understandable." Robson said Wainwright made one mistake: that he


called his books guides. "They're so much more than that - the/re works


of artistic excellence, cartographic brilliance, there's poetiy, all sorts really. I've had my hands slapped for this, but i'll cany on saying it - any fool can be a guidebook writer: I write guidebooks. "But what he did was so much more, and it


crosses the generations; It keeps on attracting new generations of people that it introduces to the hills." ■ "Eric Robson on the life of Alfred Wainwright"


takes place at The Grand on February 27th, with a special question and answer session following the presentation. Tickets cost and are £8 are on sale at The Grand


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r-3 THE sounds of the mighty Kasabian will rock


the house at Clitheroe's The Grand on Saturday week, writes Tony Dewhurst. 'I'ou know a tribute band is worth their salt


when they earn glowing praise from' the lead singer of the band they emulate and Kasabian front man Tom Meighan reckons their hard working doppelgangers, Kazabian, who appear at The Grand on January 26th, play so well they want them in one of their shows. "These lads are frighteningly good, I couldn't


believe it when I first saw Kazabian live - they produce a stunning act," said Meighan. "I've been keeping tabs on them ever since and when I get chance to see them I do." Meighan added: "They just sing our songs


perfectly. We definitely want them to be part of one of our shows this year. It might happen that we'll put them on instead of us one day or it would be great to get them in the video." Kasabian produced some of the finest rock


anthems of the past decade, from Club Foot, Fire and Reason is Treason, so tribute act Kazabian are a must-see, along with local supports, NY Tourists from Blackburn and Villiers from Clitheroe. Meanwhile, excitement is growing ahead of the first semi-final of the Ribble Valle/s


Kazabian on stage during a live set at a 'fake festival' for tribute bands


inter-school charity talent contest, CRAB, the brainchild of The Grand's secondary school forum.


Contestants from Clitheroe Royal Grammar


School, Ribblesdale High School, St Augustine's RC High School and Rowland High School (Grammar, Riblesdale, Augustines, Bowland


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You know a tribute act Is worth their salt when they earn praise from the lead singer o f the band they emulate. Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan says: “I’ve been keeping tabs on them for ages. They’re frightening, they’re so good." Two top rate regional bands in support.


- hence GRAB), have already held their preliminaries, with four acts from each school progressing into the semi finals. Pop group Silent Laughter and three girl soloists - Emily Jackson, Grace Davies and Nyima' Murray-all from Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, will meet singing stars Payton-Leigh


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U V— ^ set to rock The Grand Kelly, Benya Sweeney and dancers Chloe Jackson


and Emily Billington from Ribblesdale in the first semi at The Grand on January 23rd (7 p.m.) A week later the second show includes


unicyclist Jared Cramsie from St Augustine's, who will compete against Hannah Smith, Beth Ferguson, Susanne Garth and up-and-coming band Collicfe from Bowland. The winners frorh each heat will perform again


at The Grand final on Friday Februaiy 8th and it promises to be another sensational evening of song and dance.


This year, all monies raised will go towards the


nominated charities - Parkinsons UK, The Stroke Foundation and The Solomon Project, helping some of Africa's poorest children. Tickets are available from the schools taking


part. Semi-finals (£6/£4 OAPs and under-18's) Finals (£12/£8 OAPs and under-18's). Another date your diaiy is the The Grand's Be


My Band Finale, to be staged at the venue on January 20th.


Be My Band is a project for young musicians


that has seen five bands, including the wonderfully named Tactical Nuclear Penguins, come together in the rehearsal rooms of The Grand throughout the winter. After 12 weeks of tuition and practice, Sunday night Oanuaiy 20th, 7 p.m.) is show time. Tickets £3 advance, under- 18s free. For more detail on any of the events, phone The Grand box office on 01200 421599.


SELECTED EVENTS"


JANUARY 2 0 '"—Be My Band-Finale (6.30pm £3) 2 5 '"_ F am ily Fun: Winter Wonderland (4.30 pm £ 4)


2 5 '"_ A c o u s t ic V illa g e XIII: Harp &. A


Monkey./P anjenix / Beat Based / Conserve (8pm £6)


2 6'"_K a2abian + Guests (7pm £7) 27™_Heaven In The Afternoon (3pm £6) 2 9 '"_ F ilm : Chasing Ice (6.30pm £12/£6)


FEBRUARY I f—Buddy Holly’s Winter Dance Party (7pm £15/VIP £ 2 5 )


2"“_ B la ckm amb a /T h o se Dirty Words/ Ascalon (7pm £ 5 )


3 " "_ Jh e A n im a ls & Friends With Steve Cropper (6.30pm £15)


5 '''_ L FN ; Anna Karenina (7pm £14.50) 9 ’’'_ T h e Wave Pictures + Jo n n ie Common (7pm £10)'


, IT '—RIbcaged: A n Inspector C a lls , (7pm £12/£6U18s)


.12 "'—Ribcaged: A n Inspector C a lls (7pm £12/£6U18s) ,


1S"’_NRG (7pm £5)


■16"'_Ribcaged; A n Inspector C a lls , (2pm.£12/£6U18s)


16'”_T.Rextasy (7pm £15) IT’"_Monster C e ilid h Band ' (2pm £ 8 /£ 4U 1 8 s /F re e U12)


18’ "_^CBeebies-Sid Sloane (Ham & 2 .3 0 pm £10/£8U18s)


•* For a full list of all of the events taking pIaceat:JheGrand, please visit our website. -


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