Great idea John, ask the people that respect and support the fringe, I for one still think the Peoples Voice Festival was one of the best. Unfortunately I cannot get to Beverley this weekend and have to give this years festival a miss anyway now due to family commitments.

The idea of a separate fringe weekend appeals, if the locals can be persuaded to accept two weekends of disruption to their 'normal' way of life, (Please don't take this as a derogetory remark), but the local people do have a lot of disruption when the festival is on due to the increased traffic, parking problems and sheer numbers of visitors.

I think it is now too late to be thinking of how it should be run this year as the "Festival" has highjacked the weekend to the exclusion of the fringe faithful, but lets hope there is better to come in 2006 onwards.