Is there one this year? hope so

No, we're not doing a festival this year.

Sorry to hear there ain't gonna be a festival this year, we're just gonna have to come up there one wet and windy summers day and get lashed instead!!!!

Bu**er,put this in the wrong link earlier.


Maybe there could be some sort of unofficial "People who would go to the Festival and have fun and play sexy acoustic sets in the open air while non-musicians sat outside in a group and listened whilst getting very,very drunk reunion type thing".

And maybe Gina,Chris Helme,4Dh or Bryan Josh etc would turn up with their acoustics,just on the off chance that there "may" be people camping at Blakey who would go to the Festival and have fun,and put cash in buckets...Like really serious big style busking!!

No organising required by Paul we could just "Happen" to book into the campsite on the same (Sunny) day and said musicians (or even comedians(funny ones mind you)) could turn up "by chance" to entertain revellers in a laid back typically friendly Blakey atmosphere,without the place being trashed by Morons.

And I'd have something decent to book my holidays for.Also I haven't got drunk with Paul,Kev and my Blakey/Hartlepool friends for what seems an age.......not that I'm desperate or anything !!!

Sounds good, but could we have it in someone else's back garden this year...?

"It is innevitable" ( Mr Smith)

Paul you sound really fed up and jaded which is a shame. Your back garden is a public back garden afterall. It comes to us all if we've been doing the same thing year in year out.......I think you need a holiday well away from it all!!!!!

Paul, stop being so miserable, why don't you actually have it in your back garden at home! The weather is always better down there anyway.

Hey Brook, you'd never survive the queue for my toilet mate!

xx

sad to hear there,ll be no more, as all good things come to an end i,m just so glad i was there . For the last five years blakey has been on my calendar as a must,and the place and the pub we hold with fond memories. Cheers paul your the man.

I've not visited here for a while and feel gutted that there isn't going to be any more Blakey Music.

Last years was the first fest I'd been to, even though I've been visiting the Lion since about 1987, and although things didn't go to plan, the atmosphere inside the pub was superb (and the bench was OK too

Chin up Paul, even Glastonbury has years off!