The Party's Over!
Well party night finally came and Maggie Mary and I arrived at the venue two hours ahead of kick off to put out all our memorabilia. We took delivery of a "groovy chick"- a balloon sculpture to represent a Jackie reader - and modelled on one of our own staff who also modelled for some of our covers - Wendy Rigg. Sadly, Wendy, who was looking forward to the party, couldn't make it on the night, so we have promised to send her a picture of the sculpture. Our groovy chick stood six foot tall and was clutching a Calvin Klein bag (of course!) and had huge false eyelashes. She looked great and certainly created the wow factor as guest started to arrive and spotted her nonchalantly reading the first ever copy of Jackie!
First to arrive were Brian Petrie and Ed Walker - two layout artists who had worked on the magazine in its early days.
Thereafter a steady stream of people joined us and after a few minutes spent remembering who was who, we repaired to the presentation room for the premiere of the DVD - Teenage Kicks. The DVD was a rip roaring success - with people pointing at the screen and screaming as they recognised themselves and others, from twenty to thirty years ago!
Music was chosen to reflect the different eras - from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, Sweet to the Bay City Rollers - and of course, those Wham boys!
Gordon Small then made us all laugh with memories of many many incidents from the past - some which some people might prefer to forget!
Then it was party time and as the disco played hit after hit from times gone by, many ladies (and a few men) of a certain age, forgot they weren't teenagers any more, kicked off their shoes
and danced till midnight.
We all agreed it was the best night we had had in a long long time and we are going to try to have at least an annual do of some kind to keep the contact going.
Thanks to everyone who came and made this a night to remember!
First to arrive were Brian Petrie and Ed Walker - two layout artists who had worked on the magazine in its early days.
Thereafter a steady stream of people joined us and after a few minutes spent remembering who was who, we repaired to the presentation room for the premiere of the DVD - Teenage Kicks. The DVD was a rip roaring success - with people pointing at the screen and screaming as they recognised themselves and others, from twenty to thirty years ago!
Music was chosen to reflect the different eras - from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, Sweet to the Bay City Rollers - and of course, those Wham boys!
Gordon Small then made us all laugh with memories of many many incidents from the past - some which some people might prefer to forget!
Then it was party time and as the disco played hit after hit from times gone by, many ladies (and a few men) of a certain age, forgot they weren't teenagers any more, kicked off their shoes
and danced till midnight.
We all agreed it was the best night we had had in a long long time and we are going to try to have at least an annual do of some kind to keep the contact going.
Thanks to everyone who came and made this a night to remember!
posted by anne rendall at 10:41 AM
1 Comments:
The party may be over but the beat goes on!
What a fab night! We all recognised each other - amazing! The only real difference between the reunion and our original party nights is that the drinks order consisted of more cups of tea than pints of lager! Roll on next year's!
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