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OXFORD-BASED band ‘Story Teller’ are celebrating their first birthday any day, and after just a couple of appearances at the First Thursday Music Club, have been asked to take the 10pm Feature Spot. The line up for the Story Teller set on November 1, will be the band?s founder, Lee Valentine (guitar and Vocals), Eleanor Glynn (vocals) and Simon Dawson (guitar).

Lee has been the main songwriter for the band, but Eleanor, who only joined the band a couple of months ago, will be introducing her own material and co-writing with Lee in the future.

Lee has been in various bands over the years, playing pubs, clubs, most of Oxford colleges, New Theatre and London venues. As well as being a former model and Miss England, Eleanor has also sung in various bands, played many venues and has also been trained in classical piano. She has been writing songs since her early teens. As well as playing guitar, Simon also runs a rehearsal studio.

The October edition of the FTMC saw Toby Dawkins feature at another big night for the club together, alongside 12nother acts. The First Thursday Music Club is Thame?s biggest monthly music event and is held at The Stables at the James Figg. Anyone can play just by signing up at the venue from 7.45pm.

Check out the club on Facebook ‘The First Thursday Music Club’ or at www.firstthursdaymusicclub.com where you can find more info? including contact numbers and addresses for the organisers.

WHEN: Tuesday, October 30,2012 – TIME: 10.30am-3.30pm. FREE taster classes Tai Chi 12.00-1pm, Chair Based Exercise Class 1.30-2.30pm and Aerobics 2.45-3.30pm.

FREE Blood Pressure testing and safe exercise advice
All classes advisable to book at reception on 01844 215607.

MORE DETAILS: http://www.better.org.uk/areas/south-oxfordshire/centres/thame-leisure-centre

THE Next film to be screened at Thame Cinema will be ‘The Angels Share’ on Saturday, October 27 – Ken Loach?s latest collaboration with screenwriter Paul Laverty. The film is described as “warm, funny and good-natured” and won this years Jury Prize at Cannes.

UK 2012, 101 minutes, 15 certificate, Directed by Ken Loach, Starring Gary Maitland Jasmin Riggins John Henshaw.

The Angel?s Share tells the story of a young father who narrowly avoids a prison sentence. He is determined to turn over a new leaf and when he and his friends from the same community payback group visit a whisky distillery, a route to a new life becomes apparent.

It?s a freewheeling social-realist caper ? unworldly and at times almost childlike. Of course it also draws upon the Ealing picture Whisky Galore: an apparently gentle comedy with a harder edge than at first appears. Loach finds a happy comic register here ? happier, than his Looking for Eric ? and it is an unfashionably uncynical and unironic kind of comedy. In many ways this is his most relaxed and successful screen offering for some time.

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JOIN Racquets Fitness, Thame, for their annual Halloween party. This year’s theme is Scary Legends. Members and guests welcome!

Racquets fitness centre, North Street, Thame Ox9 3TH
More: http://www.racquets-fitness-centre.com/menus/main.asp?PN=Events

ONE of the best Beatles tribute bands around will be appearing in Thame on Friday (26/10/12, at The Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame.

They came last October and proved to be very popular. Now they are embarking on another tour for charity and have chosen to come back to Thame – another chance to enjoy and sing along to all the Beatles greatest hits!

‘Meet the Beatles’ perform such hits as Please Please me, Love Me Do, Help, Yellow Submarine, Hey Jude and many more. If you were, indeed are, a fan of the Fab Four then this fantastic show is a must for you!

The performance will be at 7.45pm. Tickets cost

THERE will be a special guest at this month’s meeting of Thame Amnesty. Dr Robert Ridgway, who lives in Seven Acres, in Thame, will be talking about land rights in Namibia and other countries of which he has in-depth experience.

Thame Amnesty is currently urging people to sign a petition to the Indonesian President about Human Rights violations in Indonesia/West Papua, copies of which will be available at the meeting.

The Thame Amnesty meeting is on Wednesday, October 24, at Lord Williams’s Lower school, Thame, at 7.30pm-9pm.

LIVE at the newly refurbished Swan, in Upper High Street, Thame – The Flyers – More information: www.lemonrock.com/gig.php?

WHEN? Saturday, October 20, 10am till 3.00pm at
in St Mary’s Church, Thame. Homemade Produce, Plants, Tombola, Raffle, Bric-a-brac, Books, Christmas Items, Handicraft gifts etc

Refreshments: Tea & Coffee
Cream Teas served all day
Homemade Soup served 11.30am – 1.30pm
Everyone Welcome

TOWERSEY Village Hall, Chinnor Road, Towersey, Nr Thame OX9 3QY – Time: 10am ? 12noon – Quality used clothes at bargain prices and also second hand books.

Coffee, tea and delicious homemade cakes on sale. Proceeds towards Towersey Village Hall refurbishment project & Macmillan Cancer Support.

For further information contact 01844 214888

THAME Cinema, usually open on a Saturday evening, will be showing the Chilean documentary ‘Nostalgia for the Light’ described as ‘A film of heart-stopping beauty and devastating horror.”

You wouldn?t imagine the two could co-exist, but Patricio Guzman?s film shows us a place where they do ? in Chile?s Atacama Desert. This deeply intelligent film of extraordinary beauty and tragic grandeur, in its desolate way as breathtaking as any BBC nature series.

See it on the big screen, and you get the full benefit of the vast blue skies over Atacama?s red sand and rock, shot with gorgeous contemplative clarity by Katell Djian. Nostalgia for the Light does something that, in the era of CGI space operas, you?d think impossible: it restores a cosmic dimension to cinema. But this profound and moving work also reminds us that part of the cosmic is the history of humanity ? politics, slaughter and all. From Jonathan Romney in The Independent

Patricio Guzman travels 10,000 feet above sea level into Chile?s Attacama Dessert. Here the sky is so translucent that it allows astronomers to see the boundaries of our universe. Yet the dry dessert climate also preserves the human remains intact: pre-Columbian mummies; explorers and miners; and the remains of the ?disappeared from the Pinochet regime. Women sift the dessert soil for the bones of their loved ones, while archaeologists uncover traces of ancient civilisations and astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies. Nostalgia for the Light is a gorgeous, deeply moving and personal odyssey into astronomy, archaeology, geology and human rights.

Run time 90 minutes. Certificate 12a – Film starts at 8pm and doors open 30 minutes before each film. Admission is