The Guest posting above looks to me like it is NOT a report of the AFO conference, but of an informal gathering of some attendees, who have already made the same points here. And how many are "many delegates"? 250? 80? 12?

It would be interesting to know if:

1. Sidmouth '05 and/or '06 was officially discussed by Conference at all
   
2. Any resolution was passed that in any way resembles "The general conclusion was that it was best to concentrate efforts on reinstating a proper Sidmouth Festival in 2006 and forget about organising a poor substitute in 2005".
   
3. Any press release to that effect has been issued
   
   
   
   Or was it just Guest and a few of his mates having a little grumble in the bar and deciding to try to make it sound like AFO speaking ex cathedra?