Very much missed indeed. My partner Jean was at Edinburgh University in the early '70s doing a Post.Grad. and became friends with him there. Robin was doing a Ph.D. which was leisurely worked on - I don't think he ever completed it! Good company and hugely influential.

I recall the 'Boys' playing at Liverpool punk venue 'Erics' (it had eclectic scheduling) and having some pre-gig beers in The Grapes, Mathew Street with him a few years later. A warm, quietly humorous, erudite man with a vast knowledge of traditional music and song - he generously sent me a stock of gratis Temple CDs when I was presenting a Folk programme on local radio in the '90s which helped to swell the station's meagre library no end. Condolences to Alison and family.