"Simple....cheap eats and drinks then maximum audience. What can't you see as truth in that."

I know it's been said by others in various formats, but I just find that comment so mind bogglingly back to front. When I choose to go to events it's because the music attracts me ... food and booze usually have nothing whatsoever to do with it. And I'm pretty damned sure that I'm not alone in that. The catering facilities are usually something I put up with, no matter what their quality. There's one venue locally that usually has no food available after 5pm, and a limited bar service (which I don't usually use) ... but the concerts feature first class musicians. The lack of catering facilities doesn't put me off.

"I just wish you could sit down with the rustics who preserved the music several hundred years ago. You would probably have to leave immediately."

And they would probably have been singing during their work (no food or drink involved), at home, or indeed in the pub. But I don't think that they would have been so centred on the necessity of food and drink to make it an enjoyable experience.

Can we get back to discussing music?