As somone who put quite a lot of time into trying to set up a couple of different events at different locations in pretty much the style of Conrad's philosophy (not paying musos, low cost food, using existing minimal toilet, accommodation facilities, etc, etc), I just gave up on them all.

As a pensioner, I don't really want to make a huge profit - if I do I will lose my pension, at least for the amount that it is 'deemed' that I got, even if I did make a loss, cause most of the 'expenses' will be ignored anyway - after all it is my gross income, not any real 'profit' that I 'get'. OK I can get around most of that nonsense by setting up a real company - oh wait that costs quite a lot of money to do it properly. And then there is the insurance, and the performing rights Jobsworths ...

Apart from a distinct lack of sponsors, just getting the bastards who are going to make money out of it without putting almost anything in it themselves (financially) to even ring me back!!!! just burnt me out...