There are bigger, showier festivals but Fierce understands it's not just the party that matters, but the traces it leaves"A poet's hope: to be like some valley cheese, local but prized elsewhere," wrote WH Auden. Harun Morrison, joint artistic director of Birmingham's Fierce festival, argues that you can say the same of festivals. But to continue the cheese theme, as Jonathan Holloway, late of the Norwich and Norfolk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AM on March 24, 2011