My intelligent beautiful and musical daughter points out that in most other festivals there are many more craft and folk arts stalls - that even goes for full on rock festivals.

She also points out than many other street festivals have much more street music, and remarks on the excellence of buskers seen in the castle grounds.

And repeats that many folk music and dance festivals have folk music, not pub-rock.

As to the first two, the question is "Where?", bearing in mind the noise from the funfair rides in the castle grounds and indeed the banging of the Morris drums in the High Street.


One possible is, as I have previously said, the garden and tea room behind the Eagle.
But I wonder if the better answer is not to put stalls and street music in propinquity - either on the Esplanade grass, or in the castle and move the funfair to the Esplanade grass. Or even to put the funfair the other side of the ralway tracks. Moving the funfair would get many of the arseholes further out of town.

Or an "acoustic" tent with low powered PA in the Vines, and tut stalls there too?

Or another Pig's Ear stage, by negotiation with La Providence? Or by the War Memorial, leaving a bigger gap between the Morris sides just there?

Or more use of the Visitor Centre, depite the lack of beer on site??


Or another crack at pushing intelligence into the very decorative George Vaults, ideal place for a sing apart from the absence of beer and the presence of chavs.