I saw the Pickets perform many years ago at Buxton Opera House. We had taken the kids for a short break in Buxton and just happened to notice the poster in a shop window. A great two hour set of music and poetry with plenty of left wing politics thrown in - an invaluable part of the kid's education!

Incidentally we went to watch the olympic torch traverse Knaresborough high street on Tuesday and I noticed that all of the many police vehicles carried a "metropolitan police" logo. I commented to my neighbour that probably the last that they were this far north (or had as much overtime) was during the miner's strike.

R