Hopefully not at all.  As I've been suggesting on social media, the Cropredy is a perfect candidate for community ownership, mainly because it has two communities that love it - the geographical one, and the musical FC-related one.  I'd willingly buy a share or two at £50-100 a pop and I bet many others in the community would too (and put in a lot more.  Raising a few hundred thousand and creating a viable Cropredy and FC-friendly business (that operates as it used to, not as an alternative festival) is surely possible?  I hope somebody local is able to run with an idea like this...

This will be the first time I won’t be having a pint or two in the Brasenose. I feel for the young workers who weren’t paid last year (and still waiting). Scott Doonican said he was only paid last year when he threatened MU action.

They never came close to bettering Sultans of Swing as far as I'm concerned.

Jules

Tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm : Scattering The Roots with Dan Ogus...two hours of the finest folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc...

I've been sifting through my cavernous vaults to bring you some excellent music both new and vintage every Wednesday evening from 9pm 'til 11pm.

The next show goes out tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm (after Express FM Country), featuring the following artists :

Boss Caine, Pat McGee, Erja Lyytinen, Jinder, Jenn Butterworth, Heather Maloney, Steve Tilston, Iain Matthews & The Salmon Smokers, Little Feat, Wood Wire & Words, Ed Dupas, Jacob Everett Wallace, Rupert Wates, Lily Lyons, Jaxon Holdane, Michael McGovern, Kathleen Edwards, Malford Milligan, Eric Bibb, Jackie Leven, Eclection, Buckingham Nicks, Pentangle...

Listen tonight 9pm 'til 11pm on Portsmouth's Express FM, on DAB and online here :

https://www.expressfm.com/programmes/scattering-the-roots/

I've heard a total of seven Dire Straits songs in my entire life    

Several other acts have withdrawn now, I wonder just how viable the Brasenose will be this summer?

Through the 80's & 90's etc I enjoyed many a lazy pint in the sun on the Brasenose lawn, happy days.  It seems that when they functioned as a normal pub coping with a busy festival once a year they could keep afloat, ditto the Red Lion.  When the Brasenose started the fringe more recently and the pub began to morph into a mini version of the O2 I did wonder if they had done their sums correctly.  They have clearly become over ambitious and in the process have alienated villagers, performers, and the chaps at the main festival.  Trying to organise another fringe when they owe money from last year is breathtakingly cynical.  

It's well worth a listen. Excellent album, I reckon.

I bet you've heard all the singles on it so you very nearly have...

I've never heard Brothers in Arms...