I found stevenage ready as any place i'd ever been to be honest. Can see why londoners would go there as its only down the road, but last week was ace. It's ok here, but town is quiet during the week so its hard work when things don't get filled that quickly. Needless to say WIYB has been taken away from spoons (to be replaced with a beat the banker), as has the 4 reeler in the scream pub (which people were leaving £150-£200 off....good idea). Feck knows where you found a campers/holy moley down the road from spoons, i've been in every pub round town for the last year since i moved back and never seen those anywhere!
You get a lot of travelling players here nowadays anyway.....MK, Ipswich, Norwich, London.....seen them all in recent weeks.