"The greater truth is a handful of embittered performers who're outside the tent pissing in, when they'd sooner be inside the tent, are stirring up as much trouble as they can to try and discredit the awards."

You people just don't get it, do you? You don't believe that people might take a stance on principle, as opposed to embitterment or self-interest. You can't understand that musicians might be passionate about the music they play, and object to what should be a showcase for it - a really good performance and/or arrangement of a traditional song - allocated instead to a modern composition.

I only mentioned the musicians who have contributed to the thread because Troll the Twangler was trying to dismiss opinions contrary to his own as the work of "middle income middle englanders" and "lawyers". As Ruth Archer pointed out, many of the contributors here are not musicians, just music-lovers.

Twim, I'm still trying to make sense of your latest messages, but the final sentence of your 11.23 post is clear enough, and I hope it's a promise you'll keep.