I think Guest MtheGM should keep to the point and start another thread on this entirely unrelated subject.

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In just a few weeks before the launch, over 4,000 people publicly committed themselves to the ethos behind FAF. Obviously not all, myself included, were able to be in Sidmouth but we are doing stuff like picketting the BNP's vile "family picnic" this Saturday and preparing for the FAF week of events from St George's to May Day next year.

How dare John McKenzie dismiss this as a "silly group"? By doing so he is promoting the view from his fence of English music becoming as desecrated as German trad which dare not poke its nose out of university libraries because of lingering taints of 1930s nazism. Has he (or Listmeister Harris for that matter) tried to promote indigenous trad music in that country but been unsuccessful in getting them to perform anything much other than The Happy Wanderer (or Wild Rover)?

The announcement of a launch for FAF could scarcely be more self-explanatory, even for anyone who is not a Facebook user. To claim repeatedly not to know what it is about is tantamount to supporting the misuse of artists' recorded material for a purpose which they wholeheartedly do not endorse. Simples.