Just to use a boaty thread for something else: I have just been drafted in to help organise some apsects of the Stoke-on-Trent Canals Festival, which is currently scheduled for May 28/29..at the Etruria canal museum at the junction of the Trent and Mersey and the Caldon. It will be very music-friendly(though not primarily a music fest). More details later, but put it in the diary if interested.