Settle Festival

[mark dale]

Ok, so is this how rumours start..?

nothing is certain until we acheive the Licence of course ..but ..er ..... i have had conversations with regards to ...

NMA

NYAAA

Joolz Denby

Otway

Atilla

Bluetones

3 Daft Monkeys

Kozmic Ken

Terrorvision

The Men They Couldn't Hang

Swill

and many more - of course a quick look at our myspace top friends may give a few hints !!

of course this is all rumours ....

mark " shhhh" dale

[mark dale]

I was well up for this last year, and was gutted when the licence didn't come through. Oh well, I'll just have to make sure I'm there this year

What genres of music you will be focusing on?

Edit: email of support has been sent

[Macaque]

Hi Mark,

How soon do you think it will be before you hear about the licence decision?

Fingers crossed

[mark dale]

Hi Mark,

How soon do you think it will be before you hear about the licence decision?

Fingers crossed

[Paul ™]

Good luck mate, keep us posted

[mark dale]

Hearing date is set for 7th February

ho hum

mark " sitting at his PC, watching Glasto movie, and planning a Festival " Dale - now thats what i call work !!

[Paul ™]

Good luck again... as always keep us updated mate

[naarjtie]

Good luck again... as always keep us updated mate

[mark dale]

Yes, I think public can attend.

mark " out to convince" dale

[Px.]

Good luck today, think this looks a very interesting festival.

[MikeyB37]

Good Luck for today Mark

[Paul ™]

Yeah good luck mate.. hope it goes well

[llcoolphil]

Good luck fella my lad

[mark dale]

PHEW!!! - back from the hearing - it's a game of 2 halves - 2nd round next week - wednesday 13th !! lots of questions asked, lots of questions answered.

mark " under fire" dale

[Paul ™]

Eek!

Well good luck for next week again.... how do you think it went so far?

[mark dale]

well, so far, all i've done is answer questions about the objections ... had an answer for each one.....

We haven't presented our case yet .. that comes on Wednesday

it's a game of 2 halves..

mark " hoping to get busy organising "Glastondale" real soon" dale

[Macaque]

Hey Mark,

No doubt you'll be busy with the hearing right now but I was just wanting a steer on when you'll get the decision. Will it be today? I wanna spread the word asap

[mark dale]

Ok here's the news report on us - almost all correct as well !!

Settle Festival - Craven Herald report

mark " waiting" dale

[Magic42]

Ok here's the news report on us - almost all correct as well !!

Settle Festival - Craven Herald report

mark " waiting" dale

[naarjtie]

Oh dear god.

I've just read that news article.

Does anyone in Settle council have a clue?! Most of the questions they asked would be written into the Management plan that went along with the licence application, it sounds like they havn't even bothered reading it.

Gill Coventry, of Lower Wham, Giggleswick, said torture from noise and sleep deprivation during the festival affected her human rights.

I really wish I could have made it to the hearing - to hear some of these objections would have been better than a night at the Comedy Store! But saying that, knowing I live in the same country as her brings tears to my eyes. Not even worth a reply, but three words: independant sound monitoring. That's what every major festival does and would shut her up straight away.

I hope things have gone well today Mark.

(edit - re: filling out the form wrong, we were in the same situation - we spoke to our licencing officer this year as we wanted to change things like the date, capacity etc and he recommended that rather than apply for a new licence we can simply ask to ammend our old one. Much easier for us - I'd already started rewriting the application! But one thing I've noticed is that every authority is different..)

Edited February 15, 2008 by naarjtie

[Paul ™]

Hope it all goes well

[eFestivals]

Jesus christ .... have these people been living in a hole in the ground for the last five years????

While the concerns about noise of those living close to the site are within what's reasonable (even if wide of the mark in reality), the stuff about criminals attracted at 3% (the crime figures for even the worse festival don't get anywhere close to that) and worries about people falling in the river is nuts - they sound more hostile than some of the worst around Pilton, trying to use anything as a reason to stop it.

Fingers crossed for you Mark.

[mark dale]

thanks guys .. yes, no matter what measures we put in place (as we are) they won't suffice - as they just want to stop it, and are using the licencing mechanism to do so .... hopefully the Committee have seen this, and can see that this is a real community event, set to deliver something big into the region ..... they had a site visit today, so hopefully they'll see that the 57 objectors live further away than the 2000 + who are ok with it ......

looks like we'll find out on wednesday ...

here's hoping

mark " it's been a long time coming ........." dale

[mark dale]

The local newspaper is running a poll as to whether their website readers support our festival .......

go on give us a YES click - here ------ http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/

middle column, 1/2 way down - just under the cartoons bit !!

thank-you,

mark

[llcoolphil]

Cleverly they only let you vote once!