Compliments and Suggestions

Dear Austin,
    Thank you once again for a fantastic week of events during SXSW. I am one of a group of 20 from Nottingham, UK, that have been coming for the last few years and thoroughly enjoy every moment spent in the city.
    SXSW is a unique event, and I'm sure that Austin is probably the only city in the world that has the right degree of tolerance and management to enable it to happen. The unofficial daytime events make the whole experience worthwhile, and we will be returning in the future.
    Just a few points of concern though:
    1) The commerciality of the event has become overpowering to the extent that we were unable to book city-center hotel rooms 10 months in advance, as SXSW had block-booked the whole lot, and we were forced to buy a badge in order to get a room – not acceptable!
    2) I have read the recent comments in The Austin Chronicle concerning the parties that got interrupted – where does SXSW perceive they have the right to advise authorities about events outside their control?
    3) I watch live music around the world, and there is a serious problem in the USA. Please, please, please, out of respect for the artists and your fellow attendees, would the audience kindly be quiet during performance? There is absolutely no need to have shouted conversations during a set – if you don't wish to hear the music, then go to a bar, please.
    Sorry about the gripe at the end – it should not detract from this amazing event. Please keep on just being Austin!