The real point, Scooby, is that it's got to be good if there's going to be another, so we'll do whatever it takes to make it so.

None of us are daft enough to think it will be like any Sidmouth festival in the last ten years, but we're damn sure it will be happening in the spirit of the early Sidmouth festivals, which is exactly what is needed to rebuild it to its more recent glory.

I have nothing but admiration for those who are working their butts off toward a successful conclusion, and, while I don't agree with telling doubters to go elsewhere, I can appreciate that people who are passionate about anything can sometimes overreact to negative comment. We don't all have the patience of Job.

I too saw the McBrides as disappointed folkies, not trolls, and felt that some encouragement might have changed their minds.

I do have a serious problem, tho', with the let's show them mean shopkeepers brigade. The perfect way to finish Sidmouth permanently is to antagonise the local residents. Given the certainty that the majority of residents are NOT folkies, they ARE doing us a favour by putting up with the parking difficulties, queues in shops, and other irritations that thousands of festival goers inevitably cause, and we should not allow ourselves to forget that fact.


This will be a GREAT festival once the music starts. Believe it!
Don T.