A Little Note for the Occasion.

Another Hallowe’en. Another marker of another year. A time to invite the memories, the little people, the neighbourhood ghosts, and one’s favourite people in for a drink around midnight. I expect only the memories will turn up; I expect the rest will be busy carousing elsewhere.

I wanted a video to post in honour of the occasion, and got a short list of three:

First there was Bryan Ferry singing Slave to Love, not because it has anything to do with Hallowe’en, but because it’s a big player in the memories box.

Second there was Christy Moore singing Reel in the Flickering Light, which also has nothing specifically to do with Hallowe’en, but does have an appropriate ambience and represents a rare aspiration of mine.

I decided to go with this one because it evokes a simpler, pre-gory, pre-commercialised version of Hallowe’en, and because it’s cute. Happy November.