Warwick is a town festival, and the better for it. Like Chippenham it is part of the community. Plenty of pubs for ad hoc sessions. When festivals move further away the town, the town features less and you are left with grass and no roots!

I nearly always walk to the pubs but once at Warwick the bus was waiting and Steamchicken (plus plus) were well into their set all over the bus, so we had a very hot and sweaty and cramped musical ride that I wouldn't miss for the world.

And then they played for the ceilidh in the square.

All-in-all it works and you can't ask for much more. But we can thank the chief stewards - they are mostly on duty, rarely stopping. I get to see what it takes and I wouldn't do it. I do what they bid and that is enough for me.