A number of festival sites have similar counters of days to the next festival - very helpful. And while I can understand pattyClink's and Peter from Essex's points above, it would be really helpful just to have next year's planned dates up on the site soon after this year's festival has finished, just so's we know it's going to happen again next year!

I have a list of links to, amongst other things, forthcoming festival websites in Folkal Point. Up to now I've concentrated on mostly local (i.e. northwest England) festivals, plus some of the national ones. I'm currently expanding the list to (hopefully) include all the English festivals. I'm working on a timescale of twelve months in advance from now, whenever now happens to be. So once a festival has finished, I'd like to put a link to the website, as long as it includes at least the dates for the next fest. I'm finding it a major job trawling through the same websites time after time, most of which are still giving booking info for the one that's long gone. Most of the festival websites, I find (with a few notable exceptions) only make an effort to update the site in time for the April issue of fRoots magazine (which gives arguably the definitive festival listing for the year). Which is a shame, because a lot of people do like to make plans for the next festival as soon as the current one has finished.

I would echo Abuwood's plea to festival organisers - please, at least put next year's dates on the site.