Fancy anyone going up against their holinesses Lord Aly of Bain & Lord Philip of Cunningham!! No chance for the opposition there! No-one plays it the way those boys do.
June Tabor couldn't be heard because he song was pitched even below her register so she couldn't get any power in her voice. Katherine Tickell's pipes are, amazingly, very quiet, - a friend plays the same type at a local session - and the sound man obviously saw 'pipes'and set his level for Scots pipes.
For the rest, God bless Tom, Paxton, but he really couldn't do 'Last thing' justice any more. He should have left it to Ralph McTell, who could also have taken us on a tour of the streets of some capital city.
And why no mention of Eddy Reader? A great performer and, for my part, the best music of the evening.
Oh, and up he came again, Mr Carthy. OK, he's a legend. But if he goes any slower he'll stop, and his song was a bit boring. Here endeth..