Grooving but not moving

At Port Fairy, forty-plus years of tradition is on display. Studying the program guide for the must-see bands at a music festival is a bit like reading the form guide for the Melbourne Cup. You can spend hours analysing a seemingly endless array of ponderous testimonials only to emerge with an extremely well-compiled list of losers. While it's true that the favourites sometimes get up, most of the time they don't. The smokies - the come-from-the-clouds winners you'd never heard of - are the ones you remember. Prince of Penzance at around a hundred to one comes to mind.