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Delighted to see so many as it is a local boost to the economy - though bizarrely, they had a last entrance policy of 2000 this year which went down like a lead balloon - but there were indeed probably just a handful that felt like a catch: Crowded House, Air, Korn, PJ Harvey, Biffy Clyro.

Didn't used to be the case. It seriously went off the charts ever since Futuresound - local promoters - lost the tender to Cuffe and Taylor, backed by Live Nation. You suddenly went from the mix of indie heroes like Father John Misty and local standouts like Embrace, with maybe five a year tops, to it becoming part of a massive summer circuit that includes other C&T venues, generally dominated by arena-apollo-style four-quadrant acts.

Knotfest just feels like a perpetual white whale of an event here.

Off to see Jim Jones All-Stars this week, I reckon, anybody caught 'em before?