It's only an hour on the bloody train! I wish I lived close to such an appealing variety of festivals (I suppose Venn fest is pretty nice). The arts council of Scotland seem very generous towards experimental music what with Le Weekend, Kill Your Timid Notion, Install etc. Not sure how many of those get funding but I'm pretty sure some do don't they? And I think there's another Scottish fest I can't recall right now. Arts Counil of England fund some stuff (No-Fi) but Arts Council of Wales are a bunch of shitbags that pump all their money into the Welsh National Opera (seriously, about 70% of all their money goes straight to the WNO).
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