I don't know how it is in the UK, but whenever I visit record shops these days, here in The Netherlands, the absolute bulk on offer is vinyl. But I got rid of all my vinyl in, ooo, 1997 or so, and am definitely not returning to it however hip vinyl may be(come). I have zero understanding of how on earth vinyl became big again. CD to me wins in every aspect except in size as far as I am concerned. And I am kind of past the age where I care about size, haha.
I find CD an ideal medium (whilst retaining the art of the album format which you can't do streaming).

I did get questions about releasing these albums on vinyl. I looked into it. Very costy and you can only put so much on an LP (my releases would at a minimum have been double LP's). And since I have zero affinity with the medium anyway, I didn't venture into that. I partly did this CD label for fun, after all. Am still proud of the fact that they are out there.

yes its all or nothing. No music only tickets. It sold out in a couple of days anyway. We're looking at it as more than just a festival.

I had to look this up as it's only just down the road from Chester and hadn't heard of it before.  It's just for people who pay for the accommodation in the castle - is that right?

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 :

Sheryl Crow, Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa, Amba Tremain, Frank Turner, Robert Vincent, Julian Dawson (feat. Gene Parsons), Carrie Tree, Peter Mulvey, Laura Veirs, Katie Spencer, Jack & Daisy, Cara Dillon, Dick Gaughan, Sean Taylor, Chris While & Julie Matthews, Joni Mitchell, Civil Wars, Jeff Buckley, Parthenon Huxley, Hollie Rogers, The Holmes Brothers, John Hiatt...

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

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

This is, I believe, a myth put out by the vinyl industry to make us buy their overpriced, badly produced product.  CDs are (and have been in every year bar one since the 90s) the biggest selling physical music format in the UK.

Sorry to hear this, Koen.

We\ve been in touch about that (an a while ago I have chatted to Peggy on the phone about the gorgeous Vlissingen NL 1998 recording, but it remains to be seen how viable it is for TE to tackle this stuff … sure he's got a bigger chance than me (locked away in The Netherlands) but still we're talking niche stuff in a world where most seem to prefer the easy option of streaming.

We are between camper vans at the moment so sadly cant commit £500 to Cropredy until we are sure , although we want to go this time. We've got plenty booked up for the next few months.

Clive Gregsons New Band The Guilty Men
Lindisfarne
Albert Lee
Blockheads
Fairport
Madula
Bodelwyddan Festival

And looking to book for Love and Jason Isbell.

Understood. I know you had some contact with Talking Elephant Records as UK distributors.  Would they be interested in doing something like that?  Again just a thought, and maybe you've been too badly burned to even want to think about that.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion but I'll leave that stuff up to others. To sort out that hassle takes energy en determination - and my record mogul (ha!) aspirations have just totally deflated into oblivion. And my knowledge and especially interest into streaming is basically zero. If anyone would like to do stuff like this (legally) ... yes, I do sit on a few recordings. But me, I tried, and merely sit back and hope to maybe recoop some of the loss of releasing (beautiful!!) albums.

Sorry to hear that Koen.  That is sad.  And many of those other projcts you mention sound so interesting too.  I have enjoyed the 3 first Greetings from Grolloo albums which I jumped right on (I too am one of the few who still buy CDs).

Is there any mileage in putting out some of the other recordings via a platform like Bandcamp, as downloads only to save on manufacturing costs, but still making them available to those like me who'd like to hear them?  Just a thought.