I note Gareth spells it Sommerset throughout - is that a accepted variant, or a personal idiosyncrasy? I hope the former - it looks better, to my mind.

Ain't it marvellous though - for years people bang their heads against the wall and get nowhere trying to get some attention paid to it, and then a politician makes a joke that could be taken as insulting somebody, and suddenly the focus is on it for a day or so.

Except of course they completely miss the point, which is that the sort of music being played makes no difference. However Kim Howell's crack did get through the wall of indifference, and we should be thankful to him for it. (And after all people say much worse things about the Welsh all the time and get away with it.)