Whether you consider and judge this busking in the town, at this festival to be good or bad, just trying to police it, by making these narrow distinctions, will a nightmare, counter-productive and quite out of keeping with a festival atmosphere.

You may well be right and this might be a fine idea from the view of a festival supporter. But even if so, the problem remains of enforcing such a monopoly, without causing bad feelings.

The other way of looking at it is from the view of a regular Sidmouth busker, who would find that they would only be permitted to use their local pitch, if all their week's proceeds went to the Festival. With some justification, they may feel that the festival was taking money away from them.....