Quote from Romany Man:
Oh Kev , you are wasting your time and effort on this thread as are most of those who agree with you, myself included, sadly so many of those who started to see the light wont put their thoughts into words, and why should they, the its a great festival everything is all right, nothing happened on campsites, nothing was damaged, nothing was vandalised, security was great, we know better than you, and if you dare say anything about our beloved broadstairs we will gang up , berate you, ignore your input, ban or exclude people, bands and singers, as well as any members of the folk fraternity who dont agree with us.

Oh very dear....I'd like to point out I never said nothing happened, but perhaps that they weren't the defining moments of the festival in my opinion, and also in my opinion (which is also valid dare I even think it) that some other great things happened to make up for those things that weren't brilliant.
All this about ganging up is a bit odd?? The only kind of ganging up I'd ever do is in a pub, with beer and some good songs, round a ncie warm fire :0)
I never said you couldn't have your opinions, but was informed I am mislead and only see the positives in things (heaven forbid!) and that this was a bad thing. I didn't ever say that nothing bad had happened chaps. In fact - in one of my first posts reply I wrote about the measures being taken /that had been taken to address it.


This same theory can be applied to the music...some of it is not to my taste and some of the acts lined up this year I won't be rushing to see. That said, I am really excited about wholehearted, (traditional voices that make your spine tingle), spiers and boden, glorystrokes (folk with a twist), Faustus, and lovely local lot the Dealers etc etc...

I agree, that some acts are not to be termed 'folk' but can see that in order to make it a viable festival and one which a few landlords in the town will want to support the acts have to be more varied than the folk artists we would all LOVE. If i had my way I would have pure folky things from dawn til dusk (including that little bit inbetween when we're supposed to sleep). But the festival as it is in a town and not a more contained event like Towersey for example, has to cater to a wider audience, but I'd say given the line up that the vast majority is folk.

Just wanted to say that really. I get your point about some of it not being entirely folk, but alas, thats change for you. I think if you look at other festival line ups you've championed on here, there are definite nods to 'alternative' music :0) And while I don't like it, it doesn't mean to say others wont love it!

Charlotte xx