"Oh by the by, it isn't for me LOL :-) "

Are you sure Les?

Our experience of hiring fairs (though we haven't played them all, obviously) is that they are a bit of a waste of time. I can think of some (not at major festivals) that are really billed as hiring fairs just to get fairly decent acts to play for nothing..... I can think of 2 in particular where the only club organiser (or other booker) present was me!

Which is great except that I wasn't booking but trying to get booked!

I would check out in detail who is going to be present before playing this kind of event.

This isn't just sour grapes, we do get plenty of bookings by other routes.

Paul