Oddly enough when Equation signed their major recording deal some years ago and recived massive media coverage one of the comments (attributed I believe to Mrs Lakeman) that most of the newspapers picked up on was that the group wanted to get away from the folk image of Aran sweaters and real ale,doubtless sandals and fingers in ears were mentioned too, yet here we are all these years later discussing Seth's success and these trite old stereotypes are still trotted out. As regards Seth Lakeman I saw him just under two years ago playing at Off The Tracks festival in Castle Donnington, which actually doubles as a Real Ale Festival, where he played two open air sets in the most atrocious weather conditions, performing almost to an empty courtyard as the audience had to huddle round the periphery to keep out of the storm, yet never once did his performance dip below total professionalism as he gave it his all. That won my admiration and I am pleased for his success.
Not wishing to be pedantic Geordie but you'd have been better off watching Dylan at Newcastle Odeon that night; the City Hall was in 1965 - I was at both.