My first-ever message but I just have to agree with Eliza.

I'm not going to Sidmouth this year because the festival I loved is not being staged there this year.

Sidmouth was special for so many of us over many years.

We all owe Steve Heap a huge debt of gratitude for risking his own money to keep it going for so long.

I'd rather remember all the good times than be sorely disappointed by attending a vastly scaled-down poor substitute of a festival in 2005.

None of the international / arena / late night events that I enjoyed appear to be happening this year so I'll take my tent and sleeping bag elsewhere to enjoy myself.

It's all very sad to see the biggest and best folk festival in Europe vanish from the scene.

Very sad indeed.