good to hear some positive indications of plans for 2005 but unfortunate to hear that one or two people have already decided to go elsewhere.It would help restore confidence enormously if a respected organisation such as folk south west or efdss would take on some sort of 'overseeing' role , perhaps by becoming, with the agreement of all concerned, the sole purveyors of festival information, having of course first checked it's authenticity.They could also possibly be prevailed upon to operate some sort of official 2005 website.

This is not to suggest that either of these organisations take on an 'organisational' role. The present hotchpotch of information, counter information and indeed misinformation can only be overcome by such organisations adding public 'respectability' to the various rumoured 2005 plans