"As long as people do not attack me personally I am very happy to let them get on with it."

The whole point is that you're not. All you want to do is whinge.

This thread was started as a bit of fun, but you and Betsy decided to hijack it to continue your vitriolic and totally unreasonable attack on Pickering that you have conducted since the festival was first announced. Now you whine when people defend the festival and its organisation. You really are pathetic.

If you can't stand the robust debate don't start it in the first place. Who the hell do you think you are? Certainly not representative of the Northern folk scene as I know it, and have known it, for over 40 years.

Just get off your high horse and let people enjoy the folk scene in their own ways.