Cropredy 2026

[Adam]

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.

[davidmjs]

Several other acts have withdrawn now, I wonder just how viable the Brasenose will be this summer?

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...

[Adam]

Great idea, David!

[PaulT]

Several other acts have withdrawn now, I wonder just how viable the Brasenose will be this summer?

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...

I'd be up for that!