[Leon Kelly]

[quote=mobertol;951349]OK so you've defended what you did this year and it seems to have been successful up to a point -but those who have been writing on here about this don't seem to have any hidden agendas to me. The over-whelming voice is that something more traditional, up-market and which appeals to a wider cross-section of the community is what is wanted. A bit less lowest common denominator...yes, i am a terrible snob, but quality counts.


So where does me living in Blackburn have anything to do with the event or the running of it as an agenda...... As previously stated i have read through the feedback but what i will say again is that yes i do think we need a cross between traditional and modern withot it being boring and one of these events that people go im not going there it was boring..... I know a lot of you are seeing it from one side but the demographic is from 1 year old to 80 year old so its a hard market to please, The onus now and i feel it from being involved is it has to be bigger and the need for the celeb endorsement is the question i get asked all the time, Whos the main act and thats by everybody, so if we can work on traditional and also new stuff as well.

This year is the first year we changed the switch on and allowed a two local heros to switch the lights on along with the mayor.

Re the Christmas Fayre i think this is something that would be taken up by Hyndburn Leisure and not myself however ill pass the information onto Kerry and Rob and see where we can go, However as Gayle has pointed out, Its a thankless task at times for a lot of man hours