Phil I respect you for what you did. You made sure everything was in order, everything was a good as it could be, the set up was first class. But your negativity isn't doing you any favours, you seem to criticise everything and have nothing good to say about anyones choice of music or opinions.
You seem to forget that we don't all share the same taste and want different things from a very diverse scene. I agree with you I wish some more promoters and Dj's would pack it in and let those with the records do the business, the scene is in a mess with more politics than there has ever been....but I can't see anything changing in the near future as new venues are springing up every week.
As for cheapies, many of them will be tomorrows biggie as DJ's etc look elsewhere as most of the big tunes are now well known and in many cases flogged to death.