Oh, here we go again! 'Ooh! Something is actually popular and working in Driffield!

Can't be having that!' I refer to your report in the Post last week about people complaining about the noise from the recent and successful Tribfest at Kelleythorpe Showfield. It's one weekend of high quality entertainment for the young people of the town and surrounding area, and I would suspect from further afield.

There are several elements that bother me.

There is goodness knows, precious little for the younger end of our community to participate in. And please don't harp on about when you were a child. 'Think that! These organisations have the best commercial psychologists money can buy. All our kids, have it seems to me, an increasingly hostile society viewing them more and more as some kind of alien canker that must be purged.

Anything to do with their culture must be bad.

Tribfest is an event that they can share and see and listen to the music they like. And it's live entertainment it gets them outdoors. A modern shared experience where they can experience their contemporary culture. Albeit in a tribute band, second hand in a sort of way.

However therein lies the problem. I would suspect that there is an inverted snobbery at work here. Would there be so many complaints if it had been a classical music event? Would the NIMBYs be complaining then? A concert orchestra playing classical music would make just as much noise believe me. The answer I would suggest would be a resounding NO.

I think there would be alot of narrow minded hypocrites sat out on their patios. Camped out amongst grotesque gnomes and concrete representations of doe eyed rabbits with their glasses of Blue Nun saying, 'Isn't this lovely? Yes, there will always be the anti-social element.

The troublemakers. The drunks kicking in shop windows and damaging cars. But, is it wrong to condemn a whole group by the actions of a few idiots.

Again, in their defence, look at the binge drinking culture being promoted by the drinks companies. How many complainers drink too much anyway? When I was a teenager there were the meat heads. I recently had a very interesting interlude reading on the internet some reports from the Driffield Times, from the mid to late 19th century. And there he was - it's usually a 'he'; the drunken trouble maker who had little respect for the six coppers trying to restrain him.

Another angle to the event is the question of feeding and watering such a large crowd of people. Do you think they all brought picnic hampers with them? Neat wicker baskets full of potted meat sandwiches and tea in tartan thermos-flasks tied to the back of the Nova? No, don't be daft! I'm sure many of the revellers consumed wholesome burgers and copious amounts of healthy foaming fortified pop.

All provided by local businesses! Finally, I don't want to state the obvious but the Kelleythorpe Showfield is well known showfield; a place where events are held! You know...people gather to experience a common spectacle, AKA - Driffield Show, Truck Fest, Traction Engine Rally, Brass Band Concert (noisy, evening...no complaints) Caravan Club rallies, Antiques Fairs, Tribfest. In other words..why did you move next to a showfield in the first place!

Ooh I know, why don't we place a massive vacuum bell jar over the whole site? Stop any sound escaping at all.

Then these people can enjoy their rural utopian bliss and just listen to the roar of the traffic on the by-pass instead.

Give the kids a break!
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