True Padge that there is goodwill and long may that continue and I will help anyone out when the cause is right e.g. a new festival, charity jobs etc, but for years there's been little or no thought to the skills that a good MC can bring to running a concert. The recognition of that skill is in receiving a good fee for a good job. At Shrewsbury the MC's team get a rate per concert mainly it's times two but it can be times one. The old addage of if you pay peanuts you get monkeys comes to mind