Christmas lights

http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/75185/-christmas-lights-switch-on

Who is this un-celebrated personage who will be paid Quote: "thousands of pounds for ten minutes on stage" ? And why?

There have been a few over the past few years, for example: http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/49646/council-celebrity-culture-lives-on-despite-cuts

cyfrifia wrote:Who is this un-celebrated personage who will be paid Quote: "thousands of pounds for ten minutes on stage" ? And why?

I think you've read it wrong, it says;

instead of paying a Z-lister thousands of pounds for ten minutes on stage, children from the borough will perform the Christmas lights-switch on Saturday 17 November,

Thanks Charly, I must have read it wrong, looks like a good result then.

As long as they don't ask any of the "Smiths" That Morrissey is a bugger to work with....

Hinch wrote:Couldn't they book Martha Reeves?

After all, according to TCM re the Feelgood Festival, it would have local retailers making money hand over fist and increase footfall massively plus put Rochdale on the map.

Rochdale is well and truly already on the map for all the wrong reasons ?

We are on the map for the wrong reasons no doubt about it.

Just got back froim watching (and photographing) the lights switch on.

I'd say it was better than the previous occasions (with Z list stars).

Saw a couple of freelance photographers who usually work for the MEN out, but no-one else.

Hope the media, who have made (justifiable) capital out of the fame game in previous years give a decent and fair report. i suspect however that the circus has moved on.