Surely the best solution would be not to have two festivals avoiding a clash with each other, but to have one festival, pure and simple. As SoldierBoy put it in his opening post: "so why don't organisers of this and last years festival just bury the hatchett and come together and work together."

So, the first item in the agenda of any meeting between the two should be "can we have a single festival?" and not "we want to run ours on May Holiday weekend - when do you want to run yours?"