I am a local kent promoter and have been contacted by red list about what I do. I have been assured that the men responsible for the zoo festival are not involved in anyway. Now from what I gather, there is a whole team of people working down there who have done other festivals in the UK that have been a success so I can only see this as being a positive thing.
I think we as a town and as a county should support this and every event that happens in Kent. We really missout on a lot of amazing music, comedy and other entertainment and although those idiots that did that event in 2008 that is no way that we should give up on supporting anyone else that wants to provide events down here.
On another note, I guarantee you that before any event like this goes ahead, red list have to get a license. can you see shepway council giving that to the zoo8 boys. i strongly doubt it.
steve
This is my site The Folkestone Gerald that I built in a frenzy of excitement when I first moved here sometime in '04. I'd been a regular visitor for a while before that but I am technically one of those Down From Londons you get now. This site was a lot more dynamic with a calendar of events and voting for favourite venues and things, and I hear it was a handy reference for those who were moving to the area. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though just to Hythe) it doesn't get as much love as it used to. Ironic really as Folkestone itself is becoming the exciting place we always thought it was about to become. My name is not Gerald by the way, this comes from the name of a pretend paper in an episode of The Day Today or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, and how there is a local paper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are GRATE aren't they? Do contact me if you have anything to offer, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on Twitter.