I don't know about anybody else, but I feel very uncomfortable with this hostility between people who obviously haven't met each other.

Diane ( I think it was you) you should say sorry for calling GS a pervert a few weeks ago. he's not. He's a decent chap and seriously does his best to be an okay guy.

You are entitled not to like Kate Rusby (and god knows who else), and like Eliza Carthy (and god knows who else) - by accepting or rejecting what they do - it helps you define yourself as a singer. Something which is importatnt to you - and no one knows how important that is to an artist, if they ain't in there doing themselves. the vehemence with which you reject is understandable to me (I've done it myself so I understand). To people who don't wake up in the morning and reach for the guitar or fiddle - it just comes over as a vicious temperament.   I'm sure that's not the case.

Both Kate and Eliza are entitled to call themselves folksingers. They both hang around with folk musicicians in folk clubs. they both make a sincere creative effort.

Now try and be nice.