Folkiedave wrote: "The slogan "Folk Against Fascism Launch" did not explain what the event was about?"

Not on its own, no it doesn't. It doesn't explain why folk should against fascism - or rather (since that's obvious) what is happening now to cause this movement to be launched? If you've been following this on Mudcat, or Facebook or elsewhere, you may know the background. If you don't, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to expect it to be explained at the event. If no one gets around to doing that until at least a third of the way through, is it surprising that some people will lose interest beforehand?

"A long line of famous folk performers giving their services for an hour for a cause is not enough to grab people's attention - at a folk festival?"

It clearly grabbed Steve's attention enough to get him to go along, what it failed to do was to keep it once he got there.

Look, this isn't an attack on FaF (which I support) or the launch event. It's feedback that the event did not succeed in getting its message across quite as well as it might have done. Rather than attacking Steve, you might like to think about how the next event can be made even better and more effective.

No doubt Radio 4 were given a comprehensive media release to help them understand why the launch was taking place.