well Jim, would it were four.

one decent gentle guy, earlier in the year asked me how to deal with an avalanche of nasty abuse you had heaped on him because you felt you had superior knowledge about some topic.

i explained that you were greatly respected on the English scene. but things hadn't really worked out for your faction of the folkscene. MacColl had expected to be the big cheese, but had been cruelly supplanted by younger fresher talents. and the bitterness and vitriolic anger that spewed out from you was in some way forgiveable because of the feeling of rejection that you laboured under. so we all cut you an awful lot of slack, and just walked away when the nastiness got too intense.

you have a real talent for abuse. a real deafness and blind eye for any opinion that doesn't chime in with you. characters like musket and myself have developed hides like rhinos - after a lifetime in northern clubs, and amongst the mining villages of notts, derby and yorkshire. but others find your abuse very very hurtful.

stop using folk music as an excuse to be nasty to people.