After all the bitching last year about fringe events perhaps you could set a trend by organising fringe spaces that people have to pay to use.
I recall a well respected bunch of East Anglian musicians taking over the bar of a pub in Whitby being asked to leave by the landlady as none of them was actually spending any money in the place.
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