The festival itself was great. We didn't have the problem of lack of season tickets, because, as stewards, we had what almost amounted to one anyway. While it was only actually finalised a couple of weeks before the festival, stewards were very adequately compensated with free entry into almost everything, including camping and bus passes. One of the big problems was that, probably due to the late sorting out of steward's perks, we were woefully short of people. Could do with lots more next year...any offers??

I did miss the arena showground a bit, but then, we had "Not the Arena Concert" on Tuesday afternoon, (Including performances by Christie Less, Toffee Thomas and White Umfolosi) which was great fun and will probably become an annual fringe event unless the arena comes back into use.

The Ashby de la Zouch folk club, which was a programmed event for the first time, was packed, and much harder work to run than usual. The high point of that for me was Houston Diamond and Clive getting together to perform "No Woman No Cry". Absolutely brilliant.