I suspect that this Celtic Connections person is simply indulging in an old Scots custom known as "winding up the Sassenachs". After all, Billy Brag and the Kathryn Tickell Band are both on the programme this year.

Let's take this comment in the spirit in which it was (probably) given - with a dram of Glenlivet. But if he persists in his folly, then the great Anglian host will process up Sauchiehall Street and jingle Morris bells at him until he begs for mercy.

That'll larn him!

Wassail!