My 5p's worth: I like him, as I've said before many times in the "White Hare controversy" threads.

He puts on a good stage show (helped by his excellent band) and provides good entertainment. He's a talented lad and deserves the success he's got by working very hard. If some of the whingers who begrudge him his success worked half as hard as he does, they might get somewhere themselves. He hasn't been handed success on a plate like a lot of these crap pop stars, he's had to work to get where he is.

I may not like all his songs, but on the whole I think he does more good than harm - he brings the young people in, and helps them discover there's more to music than the crap they hear on Radio 1 or in the nightclubs.

(If anyone thinks I'm a hyprocrite - having written that song about that song - I reiterate that I have nothing against Seth or his song, just the fact that the Folk Awards organisers picked it as a traditional song when it plainly isn't.)