Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: Adrianl
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 04:50 PM

Well Spot,rover, tiger whoever you are I do buy a season ticket just as those who are putting a lot of effort into organising a 2005 event do. If you don't want to go don't but don't whinge about those who will. Its a nice place I'll take the tent have a few beers meet some friends go to the Middle Bar, have a dance if any is going sit on the seafront and enjoy myself.

Adrian

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: GUEST,rover the tiger
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 04:04 PM

Well said SPOT AND Fritz let them carry on with the Carribean Night and let the folkies who dont buy season tickets carry on with there little dream of a fantastic fringe festival 2005.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: GUEST,Fritz The Cat
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 12:31 PM

Well said Spot. A nearly festival is worse than no festival at all. Leave Mr. Hughes to run his Caribbean Night and leave those of us who love traditional folk music to go elsewhere.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: GUEST,Spot the Dog
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 12:14 PM

There is an awful chance that by running a nearly festival you will shut Sidmouth down with a whimper rather than letting it go after it's 50th with a bang.

Spot

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: GUEST,Lizzie in Sidmouth
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 06:55 AM

For Joe Richards, above..........

Sidmouth 2005 is going towards helping Sidmouth 2006 and I certainly want to see Sidmouth 2006 so that's why I'll be supporting Sidmouth 2005! (Gosh, that sounds a bit confusing, but I hope you understand it!)

Support the musicians and the dancers first and foremost and the atmosphere which makes Sidmouth so special!

Good to have this separate thread though for everyone's differing opinions!

Lizzie

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: steve_harris
Date: 07 Nov 04 - 10:32 PM

"Then the town would realise what it was missing and would probably offer some finance for '06?"

I am quite sure that nearly all the businesses in the town have a clear and accurate view of the affect of the festival on their profits. They know a lot better than you, I or Steve Heap what the arithmetic is for their business.

Boycott 05 and none of them will have any finamcial surpises.

Anyway, the best future for the festival is to make 05 as big and good as possible. Because people who take 05 off - or hear it wasn't very good, may never come back.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: GUEST,Joe Richards from London
Date: 07 Nov 04 - 03:57 PM

I write in support of Laura (above). At last someone is speaking sense. A boycott of Sidmouth in 2005 is probably the only way of forcing the town to see sense and offer some finance for a fully revived festival in 2006. While I believe GUEST Lizzie and GUEST Steve and others are well-intentioned in trying to keep the festival afloat in 2005 they are probably doing more harm than good so far as the long-term future of the festival is concerned.

As for the increasingly silly postings from someone calling themselves Tony Day or Clouseau can we please start a new thread for people who cannot speak proper English or French.

Let's keep this thread for serious postings on Sidmouth's future then maybe more new people will think it worth expressing their views.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: GUEST,Lizzie in Sidmouth!
Date: 07 Nov 04 - 08:18 AM

How's about coming to Sidmouth, having THE MOST FANTASTIC TIME and doing your shopping in Lyme Regis!!! :-) :-)

Don't let all the Dancers and Folk Singers down! I just get SO angry when I hear all this stunning talent in the Folk World, who are all treated like second class citizens, never seen on our TV's or heard on our Radios. We, the public, are the only ones who can change this crazy state of affairs!

So support the people who REALLY matter, the musicians and the dancers! Think of all the young people out there who might just 'fall into the Folk world' as my kids have done, through coming to Sidmouth!
Pass the music and the dancing on, it's all beginning to take off big time. Help to plant more seeds, don't dig them up!

Let the Miseries be Miserable and the Oldies be Old!

And I'm going to wrap the entire EDDC building in Soundproof Bubble Wrap so they can only look out of their windows and watch us all, won't be able to hear a THING!! It's only fair penance for pulling out the money! :-) :-)

Let's just all put our hands above our heads and whirl around to the music and to hell with all the complainers.

And what about 2006 and the money 2005 will raise towards it? This Breathtaking Festival has to continue for years and years and it needs all the help it can get!

It needs YOU! So please don't let all the performers down! They have a hard enough struggle as it is!!

Come to Sidmouth and spend your money at The Festival!

Enjoy....Don't Destroy!

Lizzie :-)



PS I'm a Sidmouth resident and I just can't WAIT till you all get here!

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: fiddler
Date: 07 Nov 04 - 07:14 AM

Bored as I am getting of all this Sidmouth wrangling I sadly must agree with John and Laura!

Both are 100% right!

Tahts all I can say!

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: John Golightly
Date: 07 Nov 04 - 06:58 AM

Good point - and you're not the first to have said this, by any means.

I think the feeling generally is that

1) It would be impossible to persuade everyone to unite in such a view
2) An active boycott of Sidmouth would be seen by many as a destructive/retaliatory act & so not good for PR
3) Given that people will turn up anyway - it's much better to do our best to put some structure into the event. If we don't we risk driving a deeper wedge between Town & Festival

Just my view...

John

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: *Laura*
Date: 06 Nov 04 - 01:47 PM

Wouldn't it make more sense to not go next year? Then the town would realise what it was missing and would probably offer some finance for '06?
Much as I love Sidmouth and don't want it to finish - I can see the sense in this.

xLx

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: Tony Day
Date: 06 Nov 04 - 09:32 AM

Zis messaage is for Greg Stephens on zee other thread, from Clouseau of zee yard (zee Anchor back yard).

Zees tribes of pseudonymous and anonymous "families", clog dancers, etc who say they eez not coming next year are nothing to worry about - zey ees all the same homme peculiare, who 'as is own reasons for wanting 2005 to fail. It is 'im who will fail!!

Clouseau, he know who zis man is - and you can work it out too.

Clouseau.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: The Barden of England
Date: 06 Nov 04 - 08:05 AM

Hi GUEST,not THAT Steve of Sidmouth..

I won't miss Sidmouth next year. It may not be the same, but as ever it will still be Sidmouth. What more could any of us want?

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: GUEST,not THAT Steve of Sidmouth
Date: 05 Nov 04 - 09:07 AM

As one of the "2 dozen" I sometimes wonder if people want this event or not. Stop having a go at Stuart Hughes, he's not trying to take over, merely organising something in the arena when no one else would put their head above the parapet & offering to put any profit into Sidmouth 2006.

The rest of us are just trying to get SOMETHING happening. It WILL be different from what you've seen before (at the meeting someone likened it to Edinburgh Fringe where each venue & event is separate under an overall umbrella).

We WONT GET IT RIGHT FIRST TIME!!

But for goodness sake give us some credit for trying. We are not doing it for our own egos or pockets, but for YOU to come & enjoy & hopefully keep the thread going for the future.

To the other Steve of Sidmouth thank you for no longer taking my name in vain.

NOW LET'S JUST GET ON WITH IT!!

Subject: RE: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: John Golightly
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 06:27 AM

... and here's the clickthingy for the other thread

Sidmouth 2005+ - news, info & support

Subject: Sidmouth 2005+ - opinions
From: John Golightly
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 06:15 AM

This thread is for those who wish to express opinions, positive or negative, about Sidmouth 2005 and beyond.

If you have a problem with the way things are going, or which individuals is/are involved in helping them go that way, or if you want to discuss past history or high-level strategic issues, or ask rhetorical questions, then this is the place.

It is one of 2 threads which are together a continuation of
51st Sidmouth festival
- so that's where to look for earlier postings.

As for the other continuation thread - if you have news, straight questions, suggestions, or something positive/constructive/forward-looking to say, then please go instead to "Sidmouth 2005+ - news, info & support"



John Golightly