The thing with Richard is that there's taste and ideas behind the picking, not just ability. He seems to be able to play in just about ANY style too.

I'll never forget about 35 years ago (oh God) when I watched him do a couple of hornpipes, presumably picked up from Billy Pigg, the wonderful Northumbrian piper. Richard did perform these as "The Neasden Hornpipe" and "The Avebury Particle Accelerator", also another tune called "The Flowing Tide" on John Peel's radio show but I can't remember if they surfaced on record.

And he writes too, the little tinker!