And IF a Landlord decides to book a Rock Band to try to attract drinkers to his pub , thats not the Festivals fault either ! [...] DONT just slag a Festival off if the local pubs dont want the 'Hairy Arsed Folkie Crowd' cluttering up their space !!

It may not be the festival's fault, but if they can't do something about it I'm not going. I've got better things to do with my time than alternate between listening to concerts and hanging around pubs that have deservedly unknown local covers bands making both music and speech impossible. And there are enough people who think the same way as I do that a festival that ignores the problem is set for terminal decline.

Whitby gets this right. Woodbridge got it about as wrong as it is possible to be. Auchtermuchty got it wrong once and dealt with the problem.