There's always a first time Steve Harris. As so many people tragically discovered just a few weeks ago, you never can tell what the weather might bring.

And for Dave 'Breton Cap' it happened in the mid-90s when the Heineken 'Big Top' used to be sited at Falmer (O.K., not a seafront site like we used to have at Castle Field, Portsmouth but it's the fact that the entire thing blew down and we lost a whole day's show that matters).

I don't want to join in all the slagging-off of Sidmouth 2005, honest I don't, there's plenty of other people doing that it seems, all I want to do is warn of the problems that can occur with large tented structures when the wind gets up.

As for tickets which this thread was originally about, how refreshing to see Andy 'Fiddler' admit the whole thing is "a bit of a botch-up" this year.