I'm sorry...I've been trying not to feed the doom and gloom merchants by keeping their miserable threads at the top of the list but I can't help myself. I've been going to Sidmouth for 23 years...I love it and was shattered at the thought that it was going to stop. The Sidmouth I have been to in recent years is a very different one from the one I was going to 15 or 20 years ago. It has had to change to survive and while I haven't liked some of the changes, I have been very glad that the festival itself has continued. This is no different....the festival must change yet again to survive but the main thing that has always made Sidmouth special, will still be there....the lovely people who, over the years have become some of my dearest friends. As long as the people keep going there will still be a Sidmouth festival but as with anything to do with people, it has had to evolve. I will continue to go simply because I love the friends who will also continue to go and I love the music, song and dance which will also continue.

The misery mongers amongst you remind me of that joke.....How many fokies does it take to change a light bulb?
Twenty...one to change the light bulb and 19 to write songs about how good the old light bulb was.

Love Lynne