I bet there are pubs in Whitby that have rock bands during folk week, but there are more pubs in Whitby!

If there are, they must be somewhere I didn't think of going. I never had the experience at Whitby of going to a pub expecting a session or singaround and getting a booked band instead.

think the only other festival I've been to that was comparably pub-band-free was Kirriemuir, but that's tiny in comparison.