Why anyone wants to be 'opposed' to an event, is what I don't understand - unless it's being held in your neighbour's garden, perhaps.

You might say, you don't fancy the line-up, you might say, you aren't going to it, you might say -it's too far or you aren't going because you can't get a free or subsidised ticket by doing some stewarding - or any other number of reasons - but why anyone wants to oppose it is beyond me and why this level of nastiness / vitriol / snidey sarcasm has been generated by people trying to organise a folk festival in a town which has hosted a festival organised by several different bodies over the years, is beyond me.

Would it be the same if someboy else took over organising one of the many, many other festivals? What is it about Sidmouth that has generated such negative spleen?