I know quite a few folk festival goers who never got a ticket and limited their activities to the pubs and fringe events. the policy of limiting camping to season ticket holders and stewards without the second campsite which was open to all at a reasonable cost has I feel had an impact on numbers attending over the last few years, not to mention the loss of the plough as the hub of the fringe. those pubs which always had music are much the same as before but I managed to walk round the town on Saturday without seeing too many festival goers and in years gone by that was pretty much impossible to do