Have any of you performers out there found it difficult to get a reply from festival organisers?

The band I play with has send out dozens of CDs and letters and emails, and made endless phonecalls.

I CAN accept rejection for whatever reason - i.e. too late, wrong sort of music, face doesn't fit, too expensive, too cheap(!), but I find it hard to understand when organisers cannot be bothered to reply.

And before you tell me how many requests they are innundated with, it takes only a few seconds to send an email, and frankly if a festival can organise a website, surely it can elect a preson to deal with enquiries in a professional manner.

RANT OVER!!

Anybody else had similar experiences!!

Barry