Well, I wasn't "less" likely to go, I'd diarised it, so the "even" certainly doesn't fit the case. But not having a reasonably feasible idea of how to go about it - and they were still indicating more details would be forthcoming a couple of weeks back - killed it.
It's not as if it need be just a purely local festival catering only to the hardcore anything-goes folky who's going to stay all week, the captive holidaymaker who's not going to be too picky about how they're entertained, and locals. Broadstairs is in the London catchment area, and so could attract people from across the whole of London. So once again we come back to the same problem, poor marketing and poor communications. Why does everything have to be done by post through the Festival Office, for example? It tends to be a madhouse as a result, and the chaos works down the line, certainly in the workshops. Spend a bob or two on a decent event management package and let the punters do it themselves.
As a result, it doesn't promote the folk scene much either.