I went to the Shrewsbury Festival, never been to the Bridgnorth one so I can't compare. Most of the problems that I experienced could be put down to teething troubles and perhaps over-stretching themselves a bit (lack of space for latecomers on campsite, non-funcioning showers at County Ground, unable to get into ANY of the main marquees when it was raining). I'm sure all of these could be easily resolved next year. My main complaint was that there were no 'feedback' forms for anyone to make comments like this, I enquired at the stewards' office and was told that they'd only give me forms if I was going to say nice things. which kind of suggests that the organisers aren't interested in the paying customer or in improving things for next year. Shame that, because it could become a really great festival.

Highlight for me was Louden - never seen him live before but he held the audience for nearly two hours, just one man and an acoustic guitar, awesome! The sessions and morris dancing at the Boathouse pub (over the wobbly footbridge from the main site) were well worth checking out too...