George, you old Teddy Bear, don't get your knickers in a twist, we're both on the same side on this. Like you I think the Plough to many people IS Whitby Folk Festival and Gil & Denise need whatever support we can give them, even if that means this year drinking somewhere else. As Ray and others have said hit the brewery where it hurts in the bank balance, sadly though that too will affect Gil & Denise and all the other licensees who let us use their premises, so a concerted approach directly to Humphrey Smith may be the order of the day and perhaps a similar concerted approach to his fellow directors may be considered, they are the people who can put DIRECT pressure upon him to reconsider this matter, and in the final analysis are the one's who could vote him off the board for, what some would consider, wilful mismanagement