The whole Fishermens Rowing Club story is bizarre. The fire happened on the Thursday a whole week before the festival started, but the festival was only notified the following Thursday, one day before the festival started. The next day when the festival had hastily re-arranged all the FRC events, the FRC was seen to be open for business as usual.

I heard it's under new management, but I can't understand why they have acted in a way that suggests they don't want the festival there - surely it would bring more bar custom than excluding the festival events.