Sounds like you are only looking at festivals to provide a concentrated cluster of free sessions, in which case you are of no benefit to the health of the festival at all.

Living as you do in the North-East of England I can see no shortage of club nights and sessions in Northumbria or in the Scottish Borders very close to where you live.

West Woodburn (The Bay Horse)
Bellingham*
Newcastleton*
Kelso*
Bonchester Bridge
Denholm**
Selkirk*
Hawick
Melrose (Darnick)
Gordon Arms (Yarrow Valley)
Innerleithen*

Look hard enough and there is almost something happening every night of the week.


All Above marked * run festivals