We, and almost everyone else we saw or spoke to, really enjoyed themselves, and by all accounts the conference worked really well. Thursday was brilliant, although it probably didn’t happen in the way it was intended, we enjoyed seeing bands that we wouldn’t normally have bothered with, we stopped out late three nights in a row. We really hope there’s a Gigbeth 2008, and humbly offer some constructive criticism in order to make that an even better experience – this from the experience of normal paying punters… Some of the venues are just too far apart, the Sunflower Lounge, and the Nightingale being a case in point. We made an effort to go to the Sunflower first on Friday, but I doubt many people went the other way at any point. Some of the events (Heducation, Project X, Capsule even!) seemed just tacked on to make the festival larger and more ‘diverse’. They aren’t there for the festival crowd, worked separately and had totally different atmospheres. One event didn’t promote the others – when the last acts at the Sanctuary finished absurdly early why was there no announcement about what other bands you could just walk a few hundred...
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