In case this is of interest to Mudcatters, can I mention that I have just completed a seven-part series on the music of North-eastern England at my little website Salut! Live?

In such knowledgeable company, I won't pretend to have had much new to say.

But I have injected my own thoughts and experiences and dug out some great clips of the High Level Ranters, Unthanks, Bob Fox, Kathryn Tickell, Johnny Handle, Lindisfarne, Alan Price, Vin Garbutt, the Mighty Doonans, the Teesside Fettlers, Ed Pickford, Marie Little and more.

The final instalment today deals with the life, times and selected songs of the Pitman('s) Poet Tommy Armstrong, familiar of course to many here. And if you believe the Sunlit Uplands are about to come into view, pardon my occasional anti-Brexit tantrums.