I've just been watching some bits of film about the Watersons on YouTube with clips from the great Sunday evenings upstairs at the Old Blue Bell in Hull which I used to go to when I was 16 or 17. It just strikes me how wonderfully simple, exciting, friendly and uncommercial it all seemed back then when it was just a matter of getting up and singing what you liked and no-one (well, no-one I knew) discussed what was folk and what wasn't and there were no awards and it was bloody amazing if you got to make a record. As Mike Waterson said: 'We're just playing at it' but they certainly enjoyed the game - as did I.