get in the guys, and gal

So since you clearly acknowledge (as indeed they do) they are a trio, have you made your views known to the BBC known objecting to SoH being nominated as a duo in this year's Folk Awards?

And I don't want to preach to the Traddies, but...er...don't you feel that sniggering because the presenters got the names of the instruments is just a tad snooty?

Nope, I expect people paid as much as that with a number of researchers to get the names right!

Put the music back in the hands of the people.... who has it currently then? I have been to lots of local traditional carol events, ones that clearly date back over a couple of hundred years over the past five weeks. (And another four or five to do).

Those there have ranged from young people to very old people, a judge, builders, steelworkers, redundant steel workers, university lecturers, OAP's, a retired highway superintendent, insurance broker, farmworkers etc etc.....

This Folk Intelligensia, particularly the one that tends to surround Bellowhead

Tell me, how did you identify this Intelligentsia? Most of the Bellowhead concerts I have been to have been full of young people who loved the music. There were some older people there, but they were clearly there for Bellowhead's fresh look at English traditional music. So, I am genuinely interested in this intelligentsia and why they surround Bellowhead in particular.

And that is exactly what Show of Hands were doing, until they...er....got a bit side-tracked wanting to get the adoration of the Traddies (imo).

I never noticed that! When did they start doing that? And how is it going? Have the traddies taken any notice?

And now, back to those who love to look down their high fallutin' noses which are probably bigger than any instrument Bellowhead could ever play, at us dimwitted peasants...

Well if you wish to identify yourself as dim-witted who are we to disagree with you?