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    Re: Ealing friday

    Quote Originally Posted by Paul F
    Its strange that as I usually manage to get through plenty of ladies in 3/4 hours

    I didnt get a look in either Dee Next time Paul I shall put a sticker on you reserving the next dance.

    Hammersmith sat?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Missy D
    I didnt get a look in either Dee Next time Paul I shall put a sticker on you reserving the next dance.

    Hammersmith sat?
    'fraid not . Im down at the red+black ball in Bristol.
    Well, i think its Bristol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul F
    'fraid not . Im down at the red+black ball in Bristol.
    Well, i think its Bristol.
    Ashtons 16th?

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    Quote Originally Posted by fletch
    and stew stripping, that new figure has given you more confidence
    How has S38 stripping given me more confidence
    Contrary to popular belief I am in no way having a relationship with S38

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    Quote Originally Posted by Missy D
    I booked my ticket earlier this week!!

    Did I meet you fri?
    Quite possibly if not I will get Dwain to introduce us at greenwich and we will have a dance. Is your sister coming to?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazmanian Devil
    Quite possibly if not I will get Dwain to introduce us at greenwich and we will have a dance. Is your sister coming to?
    I now know who you are and will happily do some intro's

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    Quote Originally Posted by wittybird
    I now know who you are and will happily do some intro's
    Have we met? More importantly have we danced?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazmanian Devil
    Have we met? More importantly have we danced?
    Yes we have met... no we haven't danced from what I have seen you are a better lead than most men

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    Quote Originally Posted by wittybird
    Yes we have met... no we haven't danced from what I have seen you are a better lead than most men
    Dont know about that but thank you Please grab me for a dance on the 29th

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    Re: Ealing friday

    Quote Originally Posted by Tazmanian Devil
    Quite possibly if not I will get Dwain to introduce us at greenwich and we will have a dance. Is your sister coming to?

    I don't have a ticket for the 29th so i won't be going

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    Quote Originally Posted by spindr
    It's exactly the same in other circumstances -- do you blame the power-supply cord manufacturer when your X-box sets itself on fire -- or do you blame Microsoft for choosing them, and giving them the contract to supply?

    So, if an event has problems for whatever reason -- venue, staff, whatever -- then it's the organiser's fault for choosing them. If the fault isn't rectified in a timely manner then that is the organiser's fault for either not being on site, or not having sufficiently senior staff on site to solve the problem.

    It doesn't mean that I don't have sympathy that the problem occurs -- but I have a choice (and future choice) -- I generally choose to buy products which seem to have fewer problems.

    SpinDr
    Franco has been using Ealing Town Hall for at least 10 years now, and this sort of problem has never occurred before, I think you are being extremely unfair on him in this situation. Franco & Nigel spent alot of time down the police station doing all they could in an extremely difficult situation to get things back up and running, and knowing how beurocratic red tape can be, I think they did amazingly well to get things up and going. They could easily have done what the salsa group did and just cancelled the event, and left hundreds of people stranded for the night.

    I spoke to Franco & JB during the night, and they were still stressed over the whole thing at the end of the evening, but if anyone had turned up at 10 o'clock (alot of people do) they would never have guessed for one moment that anything had gone wrong! It was one of the best dance nights ever, the atmosphere was amazing, the music was superb, and I say its all credit to the Hipsters crew, and their detirmination, that we all had such a fab night!

    You had a choice when you arrived, stand in a cold windy foyer complaining, or make the best of a bad deal and, like so many of us did, go to the pub for a bit of light socialising until the situation was sorted out, and have a truly superb night!

    Thank you Hipsters crew for making it happen!

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    Re: Ealing friday

    Quote Originally Posted by wittybird
    How has S38 stripping given me more confidence
    Contrary to popular belief I am in no way having a relationship with S38
    Not you, S38, probably me making a hash of the post (again)

    You and Stew hey! I missed that one


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    Re: Ealing friday

    Quote Originally Posted by Tazmanian Devil
    Quite possibly if not I will get Dwain to introduce us at greenwich and we will have a dance. Is your sister coming to?
    Well i got to meet Dwain at Greenwich, had a fab dance with him. He obviously uses the same hairdresser as me too. But i didn't get to meet you Taz. Maybe next time.

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    Re: Ealing friday

    Quote Originally Posted by TiggsTours
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    Thank you Hipsters crew for making it happen!

    Just want to second that sentiment. As someone who has had a hand in setting up freestyle nights and the hours of pre and post event time that it takes I want to say thankyou to Franco, Nigel, Nina, JB and all the Hipsters lot for sorting it out.
    Its one thing exerting yourself to correct a problem of your own doing but when you have to correct the problem caused by someone else, as in this case, it is a truly remarkable effort.

    Thanks everyone.

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    Re: Ealing friday

    Quote Originally Posted by TiggsTours
    Franco has been using Ealing Town Hall for at least 10 years now, and this sort of problem has never occurred before, I think you are being extremely unfair on him in this situation. Franco & Nigel spent alot of time down the police station doing all they could in an extremely difficult situation to get things back up and running, and knowing how beurocratic red tape can be, I think they did amazingly well to get things up and going. They could easily have done what the salsa group did and just cancelled the event, and left hundreds of people stranded for the night.

    I spoke to Franco & JB during the night, and they were still stressed over the whole thing at the end of the evening, but if anyone had turned up at 10 o'clock (alot of people do) they would never have guessed for one moment that anything had gone wrong! It was one of the best dance nights ever, the atmosphere was amazing, the music was superb, and I say its all credit to the Hipsters crew, and their detirmination, that we all had such a fab night!

    You had a choice when you arrived, stand in a cold windy foyer complaining, or make the best of a bad deal and, like so many of us did, go to the pub for a bit of light socialising until the situation was sorted out, and have a truly superb night!

    Thank you Hipsters crew for making it happen!
    I think a e-mail would have been nice explaining the above and then we could all go

    some of us did have an added 60 miles to our journey

    It was a fab night

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    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38
    I think a e-mail would have been nice explaining the above and then we could all go

    some of us did have an added 60 miles to our journey

    It was a fab night
    I'm quite sure that if Franco had received enough notice, there would have been one, but seeing as they only found out after they'd arrived & started setting up, when an official turned up and locked the door, with their equipment still inside, it wasn't really possible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TiggsTours
    I'm quite sure that if Franco had received enough notice, there would have been one, but seeing as they only found out after they'd arrived & started setting up, when an official turned up and locked the door, with their equipment still inside, it wasn't really possible.
    I meant on sunday or monday explaining the above

    we were told at 8.30 its was cancelled , driving 30 miles back home we were then told it was on and drove all the way back

    Its no big deal now

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    Re: Ealing friday

    Quote Originally Posted by TiggsTours
    You had a choice when you arrived, stand in a cold windy foyer complaining, or make the best of a bad deal and, like so many of us did, go to the pub for a bit of light socialising until the situation was sorted out, and have a truly superb night!
    Decisions decisions... OK, I'll take the complaining option, then, definitely more my style

    Seriously, it sounds like just one of those things - blame the Government for all this licensing law hassle, if you want, or Ealing Council for incompetence, but not Franco.

    By all means, blame him for other things ( ), but in this case, it sounds like he did a fine job in difficult circumstances.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames
    Decisions decisions... OK, I'll take the complaining option, then, definitely more my style

    Seriously, it sounds like just one of those things - blame the Government for all this licensing law hassle, if you want, or Ealing Council for incompetence, but not Franco.

    By all means, blame him for other things ( ), but in this case, it sounds like he did a fine job in difficult circumstances.
    yes we all know it wasnt Franco fault (on the forum anyway) and we all love him

    Lifes to short but to be fair Ive written a 17page letter to Ealing Town Hall ?council for their view, hope to set up a web site soon on this matter

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    Re: Ealing friday

    Well all I can say is that (from a purely selfish point of view) this is one of the saddest threads I've ever read.

    After telling a few people at the Casbah that I was off to Ealing afterwards I assumed they were teasing when they told me it was closed. Particularly as they'd told me not to bother, however, I was determined and had a change of clothing and everything.

    I had to believe them when people arrived after they'd gone to Hipsters and found it cancelled. Text messages from friends who had gone home after finding Ealing closed meant that my dancing fix was cut short on Friday night.

    I was close to tears on Saturday morning when I found out that it went ahead after all and turned out to be a great night.

    Oh great sadness...

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