Appreciated? Well, I might be if people didn't have to wade through mountains of off-topic, binge-posting to read what I have to say @ the beeb. FWIW, I've posted both there and here for far longer than Mr Fagpaper Hunt (who has inserted himself onto the Sidmouth '05 bill at a time when nothing else was supposed to happen till next year) and his inamorata, the supposed Sidmouth resident, though I generally look in here nowadays only when I'm told someone is talking about me. As far as Lizzie-of-the-multiple logins is concerned, I was convinced originally that she was an invention of the Smooth Operations production office but have concluded that even they wouldn't waste so much time on blanket bilge. My concerns about this person (apart from being a monumental pain in the arse) are threefold:

(1) dumbing down of a) a festival which I have known and loved since well before s/he - if s/he even exists - ever heard of it or came to live in its proximity, if s/he does, and b) the overall perception of traditional/roots music by waffling on about acts which are anything but (e.g. The Corrs, Simply Red . . . need I say more?)   Obviously, people are free to like whatever music they like. I, for example, like many different genres including pre-renaissance, baroque, former Portuguese African, Scandinavian fiddle (even some Springsteen and Petty who s/he professes to like) but refrain from talking about them where it's not appropriate.

(2) damage being done to the careers of a growing number of artists (who I do not necessarily endorse but feel sorry for them) because this "Lizzie Cornish" person rabbits on about them in such an embarrassing way that they cringe in corners just in case s/he ever turns up at their gigs).

(3) possibly most importantly, how s/he impinges upon the civil liberties of people who are personally known to me (though not him/her). Of most relevance here is the way in which the death of Fiona's father (and she specifically requested that this should not become a matter of forum discussion) has been splashed across the boards (as it were) by this Cornish person. This is appallingly insensitive behaviour.

To return to topic, I've no idea if I'll be @ Sidmouth '05. Various bands that I know will be (if it actually happens) zooming in and out. This to me is totally contradictory to the spirit of Sidmouth as it was when we stayed all week. Many made it their annual holiday.   This is what some of us criticise. We can do without unrelenting, uninformed earbashing from someone who knows fuck all about anything.