Halloween The Devil Of A Night.


H


alloween is the night of ghoolies,


ghosties, long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night. When we took over the New Windmill Hall for the night we cer- tainly had things that go bump in the night thanks to the fabulous Hugh Rainey Jazz Band.


S


adly, we didn't sell


as many tickets as we did last time round but, thanks to the raffle run by Brian, we did man- age to make a small profit. The benefit of fewer ticket sales was that we were able to have a big- ger area for the dance floor which enabled many more of our terpsichorean ex- perts to demonstrate their talents for longer.


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think the sale of fewer tickets than


last time was partly the result of two publicity errors. While the publicity exercise


was put in hand in plenty of time some of us think it was a mistake to call it a "Halloween Mu- sic Night". Many responders to the publicity posters thought it was an event for children and were


not interested when they learned it was not. The other interesting point was that I submitted my draft poster to our publicity experts who, to give it more punch, removed some of the information I


had thought relevant. I was not totally con- vinced by the re- vised draft so I dis- tributed a mixture of posters. It


was interesting to find


that the original post- ers attracted a reason- able number of re- sponses, from all over the borough while the revised poster attracted only one. I had asked if we could get a plug on a local or Essex radio sta- tion but this didn't happen.


I


n addition to the small profit


we made the other


good thing is that everyone who at- tended the evening thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Some


have asked when we are going to do it again. If we do it will probably be at about the same time next year but it won't be on


Halloween. Thus far, I have not heard of any- one being struck by a flying witch's broomstick on the way home.


Alan Booty 25/11/08


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