You tell me, Tom. What I was trying to say is that, although some people may shy away from putting themselves in the middle of a heated debate, they appreciate someone saying what they themselves were thinking.

"Issues not personalities" is fine - and if Lizzie had not proudly proclaimed that she'd gone to the Oysterband to tell on the "cool as folk brigade", I would have continued to ignore her(as I have been doing for weeks, though I knew she was here - live and let live and all that).

Going to the Oysterband was completely out of order. She was not even there, how the hell does she know what really happened? And yes, these lads are friends of mine, I got them the Big Session gig, FFS.

So I snapped.