Not the best way to get publicity!

I ran a folk club in a village near Peterborough in the late 80's and the landlord suggested we ran a festival using the field behind his pub.
Everything went well on the organisation side - committee was set up, a ceilidh band was hired, a village procession was organised...then I fell off a ladder at work and broke my back six weeks before the event! The accident was mentioned in the local paper and it got out that I was organising the festival - I had photographers, reporters, radio interviewers round the bedside wanting to know all about it - especially when someone said that it might be possible to attend the festival lying on a trolley but doctors had said no - totally impractical of course. Got plenty of publicity though and we made more than a few bob for Leukemia research. Thankfully I recovered and we ran another festival the year after but no-one wanted to break anything for the cause!

Get well soon Ali - we'll miss you!

Cheers
Mark