How do you know if you've never been straight at a do? One of my ex-employees says he is the only geezer in his county to have a permanent speed prescrition.
As you say Kev unless it's a weekender it is almost impossible to break even on presenting a live act in this country and probably elsewhere. I think the NYC guys and probably our own Dave Box do it for the love of the music and are in reality philanthropists for some of their gigs. I was only able to present the Kent 25th bash a few years ago and Darrow Fletcher's gig due to Ace backing.
Keb was always a great dancer, never a soul fan like Guy, that's why he changes scenes every 5 years. On the Northern scene he switched from 70s to 60s newies overnight. He's got some good obvious points in there though too. Each recors should be judged for its music, not where it was played.
The obvious one would be the Torch but there were others around the north and Northants too. I loved Wigan, I was just saying it wasn't busy from the first night as that article stated.
Don't get excited folks I was in it and its "what was Wigan" lile all over again. There's a bit of a Jap angle but the questions were mundane and I couldn't inject anything very interesting.