"And Jim Moray (who very recently spoke out bravely about how deeply he'd been affected by cruel, dismissive comments about Sweet England and aspects of his stage presentation half a decade ago) is doubtless puzzling over the use of "hybrid", however much the jigging person claims it wasn't meant to hurt. The admission that the CD hadn't even merited a play was an especially low blow (pun intended).

These artists put their all into their productions. They are not, of course, silly or vain enough to expect everyone to hail everything they do as the very finest from the instore bakery and sliced too, but they do have a right not to be bombarded with brickbats telling them to call it "something else". "


Yup, I'm sure SoH and Seth felt equally upset when you slammed into them Diane, so many, many times.

As I recall, it was good ol' Jim Moray who was the first person to step forward to congratulate Seth Lakeman on his nomination for the Mercury Award, and er...you...who completely chose to ignore that, commiserating with every single other artist who wasn't nominated, instead. Then, began the campaign to have Seth disqualified from the Mercuries, which, again, as I recall, was driven entirely by you and Ian Anderson.

This of course, was *after* the campaign where you inferred that Show of Hands fans had cheated to get them voted in as Best Live Act.

Yes, you're perfectly correct, people shouldn't make low comments about artists, ANY artists.

And also, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Let he who is without sin......and all that.....