Interestingly enough ITV4 have bottled out of showing Green Street tonight - the film Derek Brimstone's lad made about football hooliganism.

Brimstone should have been THE major talent that England produced from the folk revival. If you've spent forty years snuffling about the folkscene pretending that its all got to do with the woes and waverings of the long dead I suppose the london riots will be off your radar. An alien form - not worth understanding.

Somehow I feel sure Derek would have had a joke and a song (probably a traditional one) humanising and explaining what we were seeing. A true folksinger.