Good grief, five years on from the hoo-hah stirred up by the wilfully ignorant over the release of Jim Moray's first CD and the knives wielded by invisible hands are out again. These are shadowy types who have never bothered to see or listen to Jim Moray (except once, maybe, by accident) yet resent his streams of new ideas about how to present trad music, his musicality and his success.

Their "argument" (such as it is) is that musical training, expertise and knowledge have no place in what they call "their f*lk scene". These people were not, btw, being "told" to attend a particular concert, merely asked if they were going. Since they are not (having, doubtless, a prior appointment at some dire singaround) perhaps they could just get on with it quietly and not bore everyone else with fatuous and spiteful reasons why they won't be attending this concert. It's not compulsory.

Way back then, they labelled Jim Moray "the new face of f*lk", which I think was a weak attempt to be insulting. Jeez, I know who needs the new face, not to mention something resembling a brain. Whatever happened to being supportive of someone actually working hard to raise the level and public profile of English trad music?