Yep, as told by Ginger at the Custard Factory gig four days later:
Ginger had indeed just recovered from a badly set broken finger and had had to more or less learn how to play guitar again with it (It's got a funny twist in it if you look at it now) - he also said he couldn't really feel it due to the cold.
Carling (Insert a.n.other awful corporate brewery if it wasn't) were supposed to do it, but apparently they turned up at the gate the day before, couldn't get their truck through (slightly spurious that, it's a big old gate), took one look at the site and said: 'fuck this for a game of soldiers, we're offski!'. The tent that blew off the cliff was, I believe, a second beer tent which is why there was such a problem - props to the local company who stepped in at the last minute though, else there might have been no beer at all!!
I think that there was one too many bands on the main stage to allow for a proper extended soundcheck.
Had it been properly run, oh, and staged sometime between May and August when the sun's out, it probably would have been a resounding success, alas due to the negative publicity caused by the promoters, it's unlikely ever to happen again.
) in the wildies coming on about 30 mins late and had to cut down their set which was unfair being the headliners an all.
