You may have noticed the phrase NOTAFLOL on the poster. It's not that well used locally and we’ve had a few conversations with people asking about it, so we thought we should explain what this means and why it's there. NOTAFLOF stands for No One Turned Away For Lack of Funds.

Looking back on some of our posters from 20 years ago it cost £3 for a solid line up of amazing bands, or £5 for a whole all dayer. Conversely have you bought a ticket for a semi-famous band recently. FFS. If you get played on 6Music then you get to add an extra tenner to the ticket price too.

We think music should be accessible for people and we should be trying to remove the barriers to participating. There are lots of barriers, many are deeply structural but we can all try and do things about them within our control.

Offering NOTAFLOF tickets at the all dayer is one of the ways that we’re trying to remove a financial barrier. If a standard ticket is too expensive for the circumstances that you're in - for whatever reason - then select one of the NOTAFLOF tickets. It’s entirely your decision about whether you qualify. No one is going to ask you for proof or give you a different colour wristband. We'd love to see you at the show and joining in.

Conversely, if your circumstances mean that you can afford a standard ticket then please select that option as it helps us put on an inclusive gig and we'll use it to make sure that all the people and musicians who are working the day get a contribution to their costs.

It’s a pay what you can philosophy, there might be better ways to do this and there are all sorts of barriers to participating - so as always we welcome thoughts on how we can make Falling and Laughing gigs more accessible.