It still leaves the question of under-rated against what measure, Acorn. Pete Morton, for instance, is very highly rated in certain areas - He had his own Radio 2 show for a while - About festivals if I remember rightly. I can't honestly say I have heard the others so I wouldn't know if they are under-rated or not. The suspision is that because not everyone has heard of them, you would consider them to be under-rated. Yes? In which case I could quote you a few artists who you are not likely to have heard and say that they are under-rated as well. The thing is all we are doing by quoting these under-rated artists is telling each other who our favourite regional or obscure acts are. Nothing wrong with that but don't expect anyone in the national media to take you up on it. Out of the hundreds of under-rated acts we will only ever get a small handfull who make it big. And then become the subjects of the over-rated acts thread...:-(

Cheers

Dave