'. . . They didn't like support acts. . . "

Welcome back, Capting, and I hope you are feeling better, and your relarive as well and hapy as may be.

Capting - I supported Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger on several occasions, both as 'support' and as MC.

Where, please, is your evidence for the above statement, that they didn't like support acts ?

I have commented here (I think) and in other threads as to their courtesy, and encouragement of talent great and small. Perhaps I am biased, as I was complimented on my singing of a version of Child #1 by Peggy, called 'The Devil's Nine Questions'.

What I abominate is the slagging-off by those who never met Ewan McColl and/or Peggy Seeger - of, for that matter, Jim Carroll or me.

It isn't a case of 'McColl right or wrong' with me - I have said earlier that there was, and is, a fair bit in their music that I do not care for. As people, though, and speaking from my own acquaintance - they do not deserve, and have never deserved, the shite thrown at them.

I will finish on a repetition - How can a second, third, fourth or fifth hand opinion be 'valid' ? Hearsay is not evidence, regardless of how much the utterer would like it to be.

I, too, do not care for festivals. I far prefer the intimacy of a folk club.