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Thread #123446   Message #2720395
Posted By: Folkiedave
10-Sep-09 - 03:34 AM
Thread Name: The Ol Boys Folk Club & Festival Network
Subject: RE: The Ol Boys Folk Club & Festival Network
What makes you think that I'm talking about SOH, Dave? There are many same old, same olds...

Well Lizzie, just so you can understand the argument - since you have clearly forgotten what you have written in the past couple of days.

You say there is a "controlling" group of festival organisers who refuse to let people into the folk world as headliners, despite the fact they are putting their money into it.

And the thing that distinguishes them is that they keep booking the same headliners all the time. You include Show of Hands in this despite the fact that you have consistently argued what a great band and a superb attraction they were, until recently when you wiped them off your Myspace.

You made an exception for Steve Fairholme at Otley Festival whom you described as a "poppet". He booked SOH this year. Therefore is he still a "poppet"?

I note you say you are no longer married to your husband the former Director of Sidmouth Festival. Are you sure he was at meeetings when he told you he was?

Mike what you described was a clique and from what you tell me they seemed a trifle rude to your friend. My experience of those in that group that I have met is just the opposite.

But that is not what Lizzie is arguing. She says this clique "Folk Network" Old Boy's Network or whatever she wants to call it are controllers.

Since you seem well-versed in this, though in fact just about anyone knows more about it than Lizzie, would you be prepared to produce evidence of this controlling clique who keep booking the same headliners regardless of talent, and keeping those that Lizzie likes (at the moment for as we have seen her tastes change) down below the main stage?

Name a few folk headliners that have "sold out" as she suggests.