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, Portishead’sJim Barr re- - ;. - marked that GetThe Blessing


., were the punk entry when they. • wontheBBCJazzAwardfor


theirmuchheraIdedalbum,uAII i Is Yes"/


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.^Somebody called us jazz-Zep- ,'pelin and we all eqjoyed that,” ■


■ joked Portishead rhythm mas-


r ter Barr, who formed the Bris- " tolian jazz-rock quartet with


■ Clive Deamer, Portishead’s drummer.’;,


; “When we were given that • ■■■■ ja z z .prize there, was a feel-


Xing that we were intruding on ‘ tiie traditional jazz scene; and somepfthepuHstswrerealittle bitsniffy. We’veplayedgigsand


- - people havewalked out of our ,,jgshows because it wasn’t trad, i


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Get The Blessing wear their jazzcredentialslightlybutdefi-


, antly, and Portishead’s trip hop v Get the Blessing', who w ill play The Grand on Saturday in a collaboration w ith Ribble Valley Jazzand Blues Club.


•; sound is fused deep into their . work.


V ^ u rm u s jcp h ck s an emo- tional punch, and is also read-


.ilyaccessible”Barradded.“We total outsiders.” , Get the Blessing’s latest of­


fering w-L’ope, and Antilbp'e - swerves away from their pre­


just try and push the bounda- „ ontheroad,but,cruciallvlsal- nes out - but we are definitely mostimproris^


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THE JUNGLE BOOK Tickets: £6/£5


Wednesday 23rd April.7.30pm


3rd - 5th April 7 30pm and use Burnley Light Opera present


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vious three albums as it makes ■ use of sounds collected whilst


■ ; .some recording habits, so we did the'albumin an empty pot-


. teiy shop in Wales,” He added. “With nothing written, eveiy-


. thing bn the album came out of four days of improvising. , • “The starting point was often experimentation with


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.Members shooting for the top sound effects, both acoustic:


' and electric, to which a groove would be added, then a tune, or a solo and so forth. It was the


• ; culmination.of four days of re - . .•> cording, three years of gigging


andi2yearsofdrinldngteaand gin.”


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* ■ And all of this despite'oth- j3*er. commitmentsfor the Get The Blessing,team, not least:


; Deamer’s recruitment as Radi- ohead’s second live drummer /


- 'a couple ofyears ago. Deamer has also worked with RoniSize'


, : and Robert Plant/and was in- i ' traduced by Radiohead leader Thom Yorke when the super-


. group made a surprise appear­ ance at Glastonbury. ■ “Radiohead were playing


Kings of Limb, pretty much for . thefirsttime, anditwasincred-


, ible to be involved in that” said Deamer.


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jugglethelogisticsbftwbdiffer- entbut very influential bands? “Itcanbe tricky, there’salot going on in all our lives,” said


■ saxophonist Jim McMurchie. • “Iliketothinkthatboththeir


hearts (Deamer and Barr) are with GetThe Blessing. Portis-


tening habits. There are a few


. cornerstones wealladmire and aspire to, especially with com-


; position f Radiohead, Bowie, ..Wayne Shorter, Ornette Cole- ; man-but we’rejust as likely to


refertoabookorafilmorapar- ticularly good meal as a refer- ence point ^


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' much more concerned about the emotional impact on the


“When we write,-we’re listenerthanweareonthemu-


sical process for the musician, so we ll often discuss the pur­


pose, context and atmosphere. of a tune and what it evokes for us.”


■ • Ribble Valley Jazz and Blues Club and The Grand


present Get The Blessing, The Grand, Clitheroe, Saturday,


Mareh29th(£i4advance,oi2c>o 421599).


headissuchabigoperationthat- theytendtotourinconcentrat- ed blocks of time so Pete Judge (trumpeter) and Ijust work on otherprojectsinthoseperiods. “Weallhaveverydiverselis-


E x t r e m e ly h ig h s t a n d a r d f o r c o m p e t i t io n , A . The winner was Gary


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: / ^ ome stunning .


images were submitted for


: V : ■ : , 1 : .RibblesdaleCamera .Club’s own annual


- competitions, held early this year because the entry


dates of the North-West area competitions are also early.


The monochrome and open


colour projections were judged by the very experienced judge Harry Emmett, of Accrington,. who commented that the qual­


ity of the entries was so high that it was difficult to assess .them.


.


He felt his final choices for the top deserved marks close


to the maximum, but people whose images received lower marks should not interpret


that they were significantly poorer. ■ . There were 19 entries in monochrome and not all were black-and-white-sepia and


. cream-coloured images were equally acceptable.


Williamson’s “Panic Room”, with Sue Marsden’s “The : Jazz Trombonist” second. David Conroy’s “Penny for your Thoughts” was third and


Sue was also commended for “Memories”


; Open colour was a bigger


section, with 34 entries. Placed first was Steve


Procter’s “On Key” and equal ’ second were Bob Smith’s


“Blossom” and Ann Moyle’s “Face at the Festival”, while Garry Williamson was third with “Is the Coast Clear?”


Ann Moyle received a


highly commended for “The Last Seat”, while images from Michael Critchley, Ken Geddes, Ann Moyle and


Dean Weaver were all com­ mended.


Most of the top images can ’ be found on the club’s website


at www.ribblesdalecamera club.org.uk The club meets at 7-30


on Tuesdays at the Pavilion,


Grindleton, and new mem­ bers are always made wel-


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Steve Proctor’s “On Key” (main picture) was first in the open colour competition and Sue Marsden’s “The Jazz Trombonist” (inset) was a close second in the monochrome section.


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An extremely fimny Accidental Death Review: “Accidental Death of


an Anarchist” at the Coliseum Theatre, Oldham


. The Oldham Coliseum’s pro­ duction of Dario Fo’s “Acciden­ tal Death of an Anarchist” was very, very funny.


Fo wrote his satirical play in ■ Wobasedonthereal-lifeinci-


’ dent of 1969 when 41-year-old railway worker and anarchist Guiseppi Pinelli “fell” from a fourth floor window of the Milan police headquarters. This English version is an


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adaptation by Deborah McAn- drew.for Northern Broadsides in 2008 and she is to be congrat­ ulated on making the play so rel­ evant to Britain today.


The setting is now a police station in Yorkshire and all the


- references are local. -' - The characters are decid­


edly British and the wonderful dialogue is contemporary and


full of topical references, which ensures that the satire is main-


. tained and the targets are famil­ iar to us."


An excellent’cast brought out all the.Humou’r and had


some incredible physical gags. This was’ a splendid mixture of.-


verbal virtuosity and farce. The police, led by “The Guv”, the DC1


(John Elkington), Detective In­ spector Pisani (Leigh Symonds) and Constable Two (Matt Con­ nor) were present at the time of the death. Detective Inspector Bertoz-


zo (Andonis Anthony) and Con­


stable One (Matt Connor) were alsointhestation. MariaFeletti (Isabel Ford) arrives to report on the reopened investigation.^ ....However they.are manipu-


Rare sighting of this golden girl


Review: “The Girl of the ■ Golden West”, performed by . Opera North at the Lowry


u The Girl of the Golden


., West” was reputed to be one ■ of the composer Puccini’s fa- ., vourite operas, but is played


Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Coliseum Theatre, Oldham - latedintoallkindsofaltemative


: stories by “The Maniac” (Jack Lord) who pretends to be the : visitingjudge.


^ : - Jack Lord gave a stunning


comicperformanceas“TheMa- niac”, both in his interactions with the other characters and


in his asides to the audience. The whole production team • combined to produce a great


. evening and had the audience laughingoutloud. : ■ -/ v - •


: On April 17th the theatre is putting on the production of


-Hobson’s Choice which I re- ' : centlyreviewedattheOctagon.


Ifyou missedit there, Itis worth catching in Oldham. • ! PippaMunroHebden


. far less often that his oth­ er more famous creations. This is hard to understand because it is a fascinating


. story with some lovely, pas- • sionatemusic. . Set in the days ofthe Cali­


fornian Gold Rush, it traces the tale of a group o f min­


ers, their Sheriff Ranee,


.. who loves Minnie the pistol­ packing, Bible-reading sa- loon owner, but she falls for


• Johnson who is actually the Mexican bandit Ramerrez. - Director Aletta Collins


and set designer Giles Cradle


/ give us a clever movement ^ from outside into the Polka


. Saloon. There a cast of char- v acters, including Sonora (Eddie Wade); the minstrel '


. ‘Jake Wallace (Gavan Ring) - ■ 'and others, drink,‘gamble ’ and pine for home under


the watchful eye of Nick the


bartender (Bonaventura Bottone). Ashby the Wells Far-


. go agent (Graeme Danby) brings news of the bandits. There is some fine sirig4 ing from all the company. Robert Hayward is a strong - determined Rance/ who descends into alcoholism when he loses Minnie. Rafael


Rojas, the Mexican tenor, is in fine form as Ramerrez, de­


veloping well in acts two and


three. LancashirelassAlwyn Mellor, as Minnie, sings both the romantic arias and the dramatic ones with power; The love scenes in'Min-


nie’s cabin are moving. I had* not seen this opera before' and I was enthralled by the


complex score and the vari­ ety of duets and choruses: -


; Opera North will return'


to the Lowry fit)m Wednes­ day to Saturday, May 14-17*?}


with “La Boheme”, in a styl- . ish production set’in’ig s o s .1


Paris and directed by PKvl- ~ lida Lloyd. -


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