Sidmouth Folk Week 2006

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: GUEST,Rumncoke
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 10:53 AM

If you don't want to pay the money then join the fringe.

I go to Sidmouth each year and don't spend much - I'm too busy singing and playing. I did buy a tee shirt, the Silver Jubilee year - I try to sing at the Anchor but it is usually too smoky - I go to the Pavillion cafe bar and Woodlands hotel.

I hope to be there all week next year, with my drum at Herbaceous Border and Motley Morris if it happens.

There is more to Sidmouth than the 'staged' events - and I am sure they can be very good and well organised but I am too busy to attend them. I'm just not an audience person.

Anne

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 07:06 AM

Sorry Stevie...you're off the hugs card once more! I'm SO not going down the negativite/positive war road again.

If you want to come to Sidmouth and have a brilliant time then do. If you don't...then don't. Nothing more to be said really.

I'll leave you to your games. There truly is no point in doing exactly what you did last year.


Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 07:02 AM

Well if you can't afford a season ticket, as my family has not been able to for years..it was bloody expensive under Steve Heap too....be a steward.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 04:03 AM

The price is high but the value is even higher.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Bonecruncher
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 12:25 AM

Typical, isn't it? As soon as the Sidmouth website is on-line the "knockers" come out!
If Guest Jeremy T. thinks that the prices are high then I suggest he looks again at the mathematics of his argument. £420 for a family of five with camping works out at £84 per person per week, or £12 per person per day if you want it really simple.
The last commercial camp site on which I stayed cost £12 per person per day WITHOUT ENTERTAINMENT! I cannot see any foreign trip costing this little.
Guest Jeremy seems to think that his total would be about £1000 with food and travel. Assuming a reasonable mileage with his family in a car his fuel cost would be probably less than £100. That leaves him with £480 for food/drink for his family for the week. As he is camping he would be self-catering, and his suggested £480 would most likely feed his family for a month at home, so where does he buy the champagne and caviar to have with his meals at Sidmouth?
Even a single adult season ticket with camping works out at just over £25 per day for camping and entertainment.
Where else would one get such good value?
Jeremy, please wake up and grow up!
You have obviously not read the newsletter to see what has to be paid for and lighting, publicity, sound, premises licences etc are only a small part of any festival costs. Strangely, the artistes have to be paid as well!
I hope you will look again at the finances an I look forward to seeing you at Sidmouth 2006
Colyn.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Steve in Sidmouth
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 07:27 PM

We were friends last time Lizzie, until you left me off your hug card.........

Seriously, the organisers continue to achieve the nearly impossible but will it be enough long term?

What is promised for 2006 is a lot less than Steve Heap offered and for about the same money. Evening Ham concerts are extra, and there is no International Arena to draw some of the high spending overseas visitors.

This is all taking place against the backdrop of the profits realised by Gordon Newton in 2005 - these are providing much of the 'up-front' funding for 2006. It's going to be a long road back to the splendour of 2004 - if ever.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: GUEST,JT
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 07:23 PM

Whaaatttt!

£300 for a family season ticket.

Plus another £120 for camping.

Those are seriously rip-off prices certain to deter many who supported Sidmouth 2005 - my own family included.

When you add in the costs of transport, food, drink etc. etc. we'd have little change from a thousand quid.

Cheaper to fly to Miami or spend a weekend in the south of France.

Sorry. We enjoyed 2005 but at these prices we can't afford 2006.

Jeremy T.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 04:58 PM

Thanks Stevie...hope we can be friends this time round eh? Very good of you to put that up...will tip-tap more tomorrow...

Merry Christmas!

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: breezy
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 04:56 PM

dont like the 12 string yamaha guitar, should have been a Brook Manson, Norman or Eccleshall

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Folkiedave
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 03:52 PM

But evening concerts at the Ham are not included!!

That is quite an extra.

Dave

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: treewind
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 11:46 AM

For the lazy of copy-and-paste: Sidmouth Folk Week

Anahata
(relieved to see we're listed under guests, we haven't actually heard from them yet)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Dave Earl
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 11:35 AM

Yep

Website for 2006 has link to booking form and says tix on sale from Jan 1.

http:www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk

See you there.

Oh and the Middle Bar Singers will be in the Anchor for there winter reunion for the weekend Feb 17 to 19.

Dave Earl

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Steve in Sidmouth
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 11:22 AM

I think that should have been "compared with the good old days" ; it was quantitative.

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Steve in Sidmouth
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 11:19 AM

Newsletter for 2006 now on the official website Lizzie - don't miss your chance to be first saying how wonderful it all looks. Actually, it does look promising, but maybe a little expensive compared to the good old days?

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 06 Nov 05 - 01:52 PM

Anahata! Hello there.....You're on my wonderful George Papavgeris CD 'Ordinary Heroes' Do you know...I think Cellos are beginning to take over my life...'tis most worrying....first there's your lovely music, then there's 'The Cello Man' whom we saw at Beautiful Days and then there's Miranda Sykes and her double bass too...and wasn't Miranda also on George's CD...yes she was. Can't wait for the next one to come out! Hurry up everyone!

Looking forward to seeing you next year too.

Lizzie :0)

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: treewind
Date: 06 Nov 05 - 01:01 PM

Mary and I will be there too, to the extent that anything is "official" yet.

Most mornings you'll find us helping out in Nick and Mary Barber's Big Band workshop, which they've been doing for many years including this year.

We hope to be doing some ceilidhs as English Rebellion and of course concert spots as ourselves too.

Anahata

Subject: RE: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 06 Nov 05 - 12:17 PM

Excuse the 'on on' bit...am typing with just one contact lens in! Not the best thing to do really......

Lizzie ;0)

Subject: Sidmouth Folk Week 2006
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 06 Nov 05 - 12:15 PM

This is the start of a new Sidmouth thread, WITHOUT the misleading title of the other thread that has appeared on on here recently.

Well, have just read 'from the horse's mouth' as they say, on the other thread, that Mudcat's own 'El Greko' (George Papavgeris to those not in 'the know') is going to be at Siddy 2006...

Yayyyyyyy!! ;0)

So...that's one gig definitely pencilled in for us next year then! Can't wait George...truly, just can't wait to see and hear you again.

Hopefully this thread will shortly have much more 'correct' information added to it now, as soon as it becomes available.

Lizzie :0)