Perhaps thats where the problem is Spiderpig - what the Event Office is providing is a 'music event' rather than a folk festival in the traditional sense.

Its being held on an out of town greenfield site. £30 camping charge if like me you have a camper van. No consessions for pensioners.

Its obviously based on the Glastonbury model. The big boys seem to be smelling profit and that's a sad day for folk music.

OK ... call me old fashioned but after more than 40 years of involvement in the folk scene I would be very sad to see commercialism kill off the tried and tested.