The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #70734 Message #1242700
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
08-Aug-04 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: 51st Sidmouth festival
Subject: RE: 51st Sidmouth festival
The current staff at the Volunteer hate folk music
God, it must have been hell for them last week... Though the bar takings would have gone a long way to reconcile the landlard to the suffering involved.
I don't think the term "fringe" is really the right term for the unticketed events. "Core" might be closer to the truth of it, especially when the unticketed dancing events are included.
"...the more who turn up the more the council will use it as political mileage. I take it that means that if a lot of people turn up to an Interrgregum Festival next year this would reduce the pressures on the council (East Devon Council that would be? Or Sidmouth Town Council?) - to pull out the stops the following year for a full-scale relaunch? With the implication being that going along next year would be sort of black-legging?
I'd like to see that notion discussed a bit, but I'd need some convincing, because I think it'd be more likely to work the other way round.
But if it better to stay away, maybe the way to go would be to try to organise a "Boycott Sidmouth till the Festival is back" campaign, perhaps with folk pickets throughout the season... And a Sidmouth in Exile somewhere else for Festival Week...