Appealing as the idea of bombarding Celtic Music (not Records) with letters may sound, I'm afraid that it's almost certainly futile.

Celtic Music still claim to have 'lots' of vinyl copies of the albums which they need to sell first. This isn't true, I've tried really hard to get hold of the vinyl and can't. (There was a big discussion of this in Folk Roots letter page a while back)

For whatever reason, the head of Celtic Music (forget his name off hand - but will look it up if anyone wants to know) just seems to be a incredibly mean and miserable sod.

I had a chat with my nearest 'folk specialist' record shop (Decoy, Manchester) about this.

From what I was told, Mr Celtic Music is probably less likely to consider releasing the records if lots of people pester him to do so. He's apparenty fairly rich anyway and won't 'be told what to do'

The guy in the record shop pointed out that this was probably because he's from Yorkshire - I had to point out that Kate Rusby and Eliza Carthy are too...

Yes, it's totally unfair and unjust - but unless anyone with a huge amount of money offers to buy the catalogue, I guess we're stuck with it

Clare

Unless we did bootlegs and sent the profits to Mollie Music...