On Sunday, September 02, 2007 4:35 PM [GMT+1=CET], Bru Peckett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> All it needs is to put out a few hints to the boaters & >> campers and it will happen. > > Yeah right. > > Sometimes it will, sometimes it won't. It's never going to be > reliable. And if it's advertised in advance as the entertainment (ie; > Ents program sez "Main bar: Folk music") and the organisers start > relying people taking part I won't fire up on principal 'cos it's > trying to get ents on the cheap. As I recall, it never was advertised, and part of the fun was guessing which evening it might happen. I'm a great believer in letting thngs happen rather then over-organising them. >> And as for Bruce's comment, there was never any >> question of the >> sound filling the tent - it only had to carry to a couple >> of circles of >> chairs round the performers. > > And loads of people complained that they couldn't hear it As an inevitable late-comer (because of the job I do at Nationals), and somebody with cloth ears (I should have a hearing aid soon), I don't recall ever having a problem finding a seat where I could hear. > *and* the > performers were straining their voices trying to be heard over the > general noise. Savage amusement. Won't play that game these days > either! You know some of the performers better than I do, so I have to bow to your view on this. Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk No man is an island. So is Man.
