I'd recommend that, rather than try for a generic thread about festivals in general, we put up individual threads for each one - less likely to get lost in the crowd.

Maybe with a common heading - "Mudcat England - who's for Sidmouth?" etc (I think the UK as such is too spread out. I imagine if you were living in Antrim you'd be more interested in what was happening in Donegal than in Essex.)

And if we have a generic one, maybe have this in addition to individual festival threads, and we could stick in a link to them when we start one.