The Froots CDs are compiled by FR editor Ian Anderson entirely from personal choice. We receive over 200-300 CDs some months, which means that many go out to reviewers without the editor having had the chance to hear them. If he's not heard it, there's no chance of it being considered at all. We are more likely to get it right if it is concise and easy to read. You'd be surprised how many don't.
Many people send in news long after the issue covering the relevant period has gone to press.
For example, the issue covering March is published on the penultimate Thursday in February, but the final copy date is January 20th. Because we get such an enormous volume of news, the policy is to only carry news of an event in the issue bearing the cover date of the month it takes place. In other words, a March festival or tour gets listed in the March issue, published in February, and not before. In exceptional circumstances, news of an event that takes place in the last ten days of a month can go in the following issue, e.g. if you missed the March issue with news of your event happening on March 27th, it may be able to go into the April issue published on the penultimate Thursday in March if we have space. Society has not yet worked out a sufficiently nasty punishment for people who abuse the e-waves in this manner.