Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005

Subject: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:57 PM

Who will not be going to Sidmouth next year and have changed there plans to go to another festival?.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:59 PM

Me

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,Sidmouth
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:01 PM

I wont be either.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Dead Horse
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:04 PM

I aint changed plans. I always go to Broadstairs. So there :-p

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:17 PM

The purpose of the question in this thread escapes me.
Are we going to plan a Mudcat non-gather?
Or just trying to rile some people?

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:27 PM

No it was a simple question to see if other people had choosen to go else where during Sidmouth week George.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:36 PM

I'm not going.
ps=wahts sidmouth, and who is Sid?

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:42 PM

I got put off going to Sidmouth programmed events in the 70s and 80s because you had to queue for ages beforehand to get in and then stand or sit on the floor in discomfort. I'm looking forward to a less crowded Sidmouth next year.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: steve_harris
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 06:01 PM

"because you had to queue for ages"

With negativity like that, what makes you think they'll let you even think of going in 2005? :-))

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,Tim & Anne Gigg
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 06:52 PM

We were going to Sidmouth but have been put off my the negativity on mudcat. We will now go elsewhere.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: MBSLynne
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 02:28 AM

This is a pointless thread in view of the comments that have already been posted on the other Sidmouth threads. Just another attempt to stir trouble and sabotage the efforts of everyone who is working for a good Sidmouth.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 03:09 AM

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 03:11 AM

No its not Lynne,it is a genuine question to see who is not going to Sidmouth.As your be going anyway this does not need to apply to you.
Yas

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: MBSLynne
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 05:23 AM

Why?

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,James H
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 05:27 AM

couldn't go next year anyway, so moot question for me. But I will be back the year after.

hey, Tim & Ann Giggs - that's a bit of a shame if you let a few vocal people on a message board influence you that much?! Surely you can see that all the people who make the effort to argue about such things online are a bit sad anyway (myself included!!!)?? The people who go along next year will be the people who 'make' the festival, not all the people who argue about it beforehand. And the vast bulk of those people won't be contributing to any discussions on mudcat.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 05:57 AM

Why what??

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Lizzie in SASSY SIDMOUTH!
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 06:04 AM

HEY! SCOOBY DOO! What a Great Idea!

Whooopppeee! ANOTHER SIDMOUTH THREAD! God! This Festival is just SO BRILLIANT! I reckon that by 'The First Week In August' Sidmouth Folk Week 2005 could have THE MOST THREADS on Mudcat!

What a DREAM!!!!

And ALL my favourite people are on here too! There's yourself, Mr. and Mrs. Gigg, bless them!, Guest James H, (got him a little exasperated the other day! ;-)..) and Guest from Sidmouth too! Oh I have to go and lie down for a while, this happiness is just all too much!..................Ah! that's better!.....Now, where was I?

Oh Yes! Sidmouth......"To Go Or Not To Go? That Is The Question!"

Well I'm NOT going because I LIVE HERE!!! I know, isn't that great!! I don't have to 'go' because I'm already here! NOTHING would get me to ANY other Festival or Folk Week come August, not even YOU Scooby! :-) Besides, all the other Festivals run the risk of having all the Sidmouth Moaners attending!!

Still glad to know that Mr. and Mrs. Gigg aren't coming! Whew! They had me a bit worried there for a short space of time! :-) :-)
Really hope that El Greko, Steve Harris, Lynne and Kitty ARE coming though! :-) :-)

Wow! It's just so GOOD to see the Moaning People and the Sidmouth Soul Soaring Supporting People in this thread together!

GREAT IDEA SCOOBY!! Loved your two films by the way! Thought you were quite adorable in them both! Didn't realise you could write as well though, what a clever dog you are! WOOF!! WOOF!!

Oh and before you come woofing up to tell me I shouldn't be on this thread, I think I should because your question was 'Who is NOT going to Sidmouth 2005?' and as stated above, I'm NOT 'going' because I'm already here!

Enjoy your other Festival though. :-) :-) (Make sure they allow dogs first, mind, otherwise you could have a long drive for nothing!)

Lots of Love

Lizzie

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 06:25 AM

Thanks for the laugh Lizzie. I needed it this morning.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: MBSLynne
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 07:06 AM

Why do you want to know who ISN't going to Sidmouth? And I think they've mostly said so on the other thread anyway.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,greg stephens
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 07:17 AM

Hmmmm thought this might be an interesting threads. But just the usual suspects. especially Mr and Mrs Giggs, so convincing. Quite why anybody should conceive a lifelong ambition to sabotage the attempts of people to enjoy themselves at a folk festival is beyond me. Mind you, I have never figured out what the Spanish Inquisition was for, either.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 08:57 AM

This is not true,i know a few catters who are not going due to the fact its a fringe/festival.So i thought there would be others who have not mentioned it before.If your unhappy with the thread then contact Joe i am sure he will take it offline or just wait until it gets to the bottom of the list.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 01:12 PM

My wife and i have thought long and hard over this problem and we have come to the conclusion we will miss Sidmouth as it was a good festival and go abroad on holiday for a change may be Brittany and enjoy a festival over there.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 02:50 PM

I want to go, just to upset all the Jonah's who are prophesying doom (gloom) and despondency!

epn

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 04:15 PM

Lorient in Brittany always coincides with Sidmouth for one of its weeks - not that I've ever been. (I think you gotta like bagpipes and bombardes tho')
If I don't get to Sidmouth in 2005 it won't be for any of the negative reasons put forward by the snide snipers: it will just be that I can't take any more time off after having a prolonged break in the Antipodes earlier in the year. I shall do my best to get there even if for only part of the time, and i applaud heartily the efforts of those working to ensure that there WILL be a festival.
TB

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 06:36 PM

well Ted your be going anyway so why bother with the thread

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 03:26 AM

Well by a matter of fact my wife sue likes the bombardes,so maybe thats the festival to aim for.Thank you for your help.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Lizzie in SASSY SIDMOUTH!
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 09:37 AM

Oh Bums! Just come to Sidmouth and enjoy yourselves!!! You know you REALLY REALLY want to!

I've booked El Punkoid Nouveau on to my Dance Card!! (He doesn't know yet so don't tell him!) :0)

I think Jon and his wife should go on holiday with Mr. and Mrs. Gigg, they're made for each other. They'll have a great time!!!

Oh and 'Dear Tattie Bogle' I do hope that the break in your Antipodes has healed by next year! Gee! What a BAD place to get a break! ;0)

I think I've finally lost it you know! In fact I think we've all finally lost it!!! :0) By The First Week in August, the whole Country will have come to a grinding standstill as people all over the Nation are abandoning their work to spend hours visiting bizarre Sidmouth Threads on Mudcat!

Great Fun though isn't it!! I'm just a little worried about my sanity
that's all!! :0) :0)

In fact I think at this rate the entire Country might just turn up next year!

Lizzie

PS DARE I ask what a 'bombarde' actually is?? :0)

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 02:31 PM

It's a hand grenade, Lizzie. You take the pin out then put your mouth where the pin was and blow.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Lizzie in SASSY SIDMOUTH!
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 04:59 PM

Ooh! El Greko! You mean MEANIE!!!!! :0)

You're just trying to stop me talking AGAIN aren't you? ;0) Hurruuumph! AND to think I had you on my Sidmouth 2005 Dance Card along with El Punkoid!!

Nope! I'm sorry! You just DON'T have a way with the Girlies! It's no good! I've crossed you off my list and I'm going off to cry REAL tears!! My heart is quite, quite broken!! AND I was just about to get an air ticket to follow you out to Australia and catch your 'tour'.....but NO! that's it, it's all off!

I'm dancing with Michaelangelo next year down on the Seafront and that's all there is to it! See if I care! I'll bet he won't mind me talking and going on and on and on and.............! He'll tell me all about your paintings AND what you got up to 400 years ago in Venice! Why! HE might even PAINT me!!

Besides, even 'seered' didn't try and blow me up!!! (Tried almost EVERYTHING else though!! :0)....)


Lizzie :0)

PS: Do you have any of your paintings left with your new El Greko signature on rather than your old El Greco one? I think they could be worth a fortune!! If you found it in your heart to send one my way, I just might be able to forgive you!!! :0);0)

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 07:10 PM

Sorry Lizzie, can't resist a cheap joke...Didn't really mean it.
Can we dance now?

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,Fritz The Cat
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 07:40 PM

Thank you El Greko for the explanation of a bombarde. Made me laugh anyway. Such a shame Lizzie hasn't understood what you were saying.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Lizzie in SASSY SIDMOUTH!
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 06:19 AM

Aah! El Greko, luckily I'm a very forgiving Girlie! Of course I'll dance with you! :0) Might EVEN end up being an El Greko Groupie, who knows!!

But, before we dance, could you just set Spot the Dog onto Fritz the Cat for me? He's a mean and rabid cat, follows me round and froths everywhere!

El Greko 4 EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lizzie :0) :0)

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 11:15 AM

Lizzie
Are you doing the MBS reunion in February????.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: John Routledge
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 11:20 AM

Oh to have the luxury of planning where not to go to next year :0)

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: steve_harris
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 03:55 PM

"I've booked El Punkoid Nouveau on to my Dance Card!! "

I think I may have room for you on my dance card if you're quick, Lizzie! :-)

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Lizzie in SASSY SIDMOUTH!
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 04:44 PM

I'm in Steve! Book me quick though! They're all out to get me!
I'm getting paranoid!! Quick LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!!!!! Aaaaarrrrrggh!!


Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 04:47 PM

I am behind you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,The Murtons (New Mudcatters)
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 08:37 PM

Add our family to the list of people not going to Sidmouth in 2005.

We've had a wonderful time there over the years and would prefer to remember Sidmouth at its best.

You only have to read the posts all over Mudcat to realise any event in 2005 will be a poor substitute for what has gone before.

All very sad.

The Murtons

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 08:54 PM

I'm torn between the idea that an all-fringe unofficial festival might be fun, and a belief that the only way to have a chance of getting Sidmouth back is going to be if the local economy takes a real hammering this year.

I'm inclined to think that boycotting the place is probably the choice I'll opt for.

Ideally I think I'd like a festival in the form of a picketline.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 11:38 PM

Might be the right time for The Flying Pickets to re-form?

I share the McGrath view that the Sidmouth traders and Council need to experience a year with NO festival if we are to have any chance of getting sufficient funding for a proper festival again in future years.

And before Lizzie and others accuse me of being negative, I'm not. I'm positive Sidmouth can rise from the ashes but, like Glastonbury a few years ago, a year with no festival may mean a much better festival in the longer term.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: steve_harris
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 10:31 AM

"I share the McGrath view that the Sidmouth traders and Council need to experience a year with NO festival if we are to have any chance of getting sufficient funding for a proper festival again in future years"

So, suppose you boycot 2005 and the council and traders still don't pay up? Will you boycott 2006 too? Maybe a tradition will grow up of a picket line on the main road, I can see it now:

Picket1: What do we want?????
Picket2: Your money!!!!
Folkie: Er, I paid for my ticket months ago!
Picket1: That's Ok comrade! Not you. We thought you were one of the running dogs of the imperialist paper tigers wot is a Sidmouth trader [spit]
Folkie: Oh I see, there's a Potbury's van behind!
Picket2: So there is - BLACKLEG!
Potbury's Driver: Oh Ar wots up?
Picket1: People like you are depriving us folkies of our god given right to a festival! Your firm makes thousands out of the festival and gives nothing back!
Potbury's Driver: Well, I've never had to deliver furniture to that there camp site not any of the B&Bs. We'z a bit posh see - we did sell a comode to the Victoria back in 1983.
Picket2: You're opressing us!!!!!
Potbury's Driver: Dunno about that me lover, but I'm holding up a queue of campervans, 2CVs and Range Rovers so I better move on!

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Lizzie in SASSY SIDMOUTH!
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 12:08 PM

Steve Harris......just book me TWO dances on that card of yours will you please? :0) :0)

Mr. and Mrs. Murton and family, ummmm.....do you have a dog called Scooby Doo Murton? If so, could you please take him away as he's following me around everywhere! I shall have to send for the Sidmouth Dog Warden soon......Oh No! He's been axed as well!!!!!

And Dear Mr. McGrath....I think that next year is just going to be SENSATIONAL FUN! We can all do what we want, it's just BUMS TO EVERYONE next year! Let your hair down and have a whale of a time! Watch the sun go down over Peak Hill and the Rock Islands turn from grey to vibrant red, whilst holding the Girl Of Your Dreams and munching on The Best Fish and Chips this side of The Tamar Bridge!
AND there's new Landlords in The Anchor, it's being all painted up!



Lizzie in the Independant State of Sidmouth! :0)

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 12:29 PM

Lizzie
This was a thread i started and i think you are following me around not the other way round,but i dont mind been taken the piddle over as i will mark every lamp post in Sidders with my mark.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 12:42 PM

Iam following you around Lizzie due to the fact your off your head and need some help ASAP.I am waiting for you to invade the thread for the mudcat gather at Sidders.I will see you around,it feels like i have known you for months.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,Mr Cartwright
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 02:07 PM

Hello,
I have never been to Sidmouth so i cant see what the fuss is about,its one festival that has died and another will raise through the phoenix.I am going to Broadstairs as usual with the wife and kids.
Joe.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 05 Dec 04 - 12:21 PM

You are absolutely right,it should be given a year off and then see what will happen.You are not the only one who is going to another festival next year Jon.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,Jon Cartwight
Date: 05 Dec 04 - 12:53 PM

You are absolutely right Scooby,this is why i am giving next year off,i normally camp by the third site at Malc's but even this is stopping me next year due to the influx of campers.
Yours Jon.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: *Laura*
Date: 05 Dec 04 - 01:32 PM

Agreed. It needs a year off for people to see how much they need it!
You're biased Lizzie - you come from Sidmouth. Do you own a shop there?

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST,Suspicious
Date: 05 Dec 04 - 10:32 PM

I'm beginning to think that 'True Blue' Lizzie from Sidmouth is linked to 'True Blue' Councillor Stuart Whatshisname and all the other 'True Blue' Sidmouth residents/councillors/traders who keep insisting on this Board that there will be a Festival in 2005.

Lizzie (or Stuart or Steve Harris) can post away but they won't fool any of us.

We can see they just want us to turn-up so they can get us to spend our hard-earned cash in Sidmouth again.

There will be NO Sidmouth Festival next year. There will be some singarounds, pub sessions and maybe even a dance or two in a church hall somewhere on the outskirts of town. But NO Ham Marquee. No Bowd Marquee. No international shows in the Arena. No well-organised campsite. No special bus service. No 'Shooting Roots' workshops. No Late Night Extra. None of the things that made the Sidmouth Festival so special.

So stop trying to con us Lizzie (Stuart, Steve Harris).

Admit you're more interested in making money for the Sidmouth traders - the same traders who gave so little money to support the Festival.

Subject: RE: Who is not going to Sidmouth 2005
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 12:16 PM

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