Firkinly, with a few being on orange juice and gin and both, the beer ran out at the end - actually, it was so hot everyone drank lager... unfortunately, somebody got wise to the fact that we had a collecting tin out for drinks for the performers, and blagged drinks off the pub staff, running up such a big bar tab, which wasn't endorsed much less known about, that the Landlord knocked it off the gerneous amount he was planning to give us as a gesture of thanks for making £3,000 profit for him... which means he very generously gave us nothing with which to buy extra drinks for performers.   I personally ended up paying out GBP120 in phonecalls alone to organise the festival , which meant I paid for who ever the bastard was's drinks.

HI Leadfingers, this is in Worthing Sussex, Uk and ! don't quite get the reference to not knocking people? The little bastard I mentioned and go into nauseating and tedious detail about on the other thread is undermining and sabotaging other people's efforts, pissing off the press and stopping other people getting editorial in about genuine events, is excluding everybody from the democratic process and appearing to be declaring themselves in charge of all the voluntary groups in the town; is fudging the lines between his "voluntary" activities and his money-making enterprise, in order I believe, to cream off funding for community events by his money-making enterprise. Which wouldn't be so bad (like well done, you ruthless entrepeneur for cleaning up where voluntary groups fear to tread, if he was being democratic instead of despotic, Machiavellian, untruthful, misleading, down right lying ,, to the detriment of the entire community.