Re what Smedley said above, about ignoring MLC for a day :

All in favour ?

Her conduct is a bit like that of my youngest grandson, aged 7 - can't abear to be ignored.

My own thoughts, when she posts : here's twenty pence, Lizzie - go and phone someone who COULD give a fuck.

After the condemnation by SoH you'd think she'd find a dark corner to curl up in.

Many years ago, Jack and Lyn Taylor published a "folk magazine", and I seem to remember a condemnation of those of us who preferred traditional music to the introspective, navel-gazing compositions of the three chord wonders

in denim caps, written on a piece of shit-paper in the interval : we were labelled "minuscule minded traditionalists". It was a 'label' I wore with pride.

It was the likes of the classic "traddies" - Martin Carthy ; the Watersons ; Alex Campbell ; the Ian Campbell FG (when Swarb was still with it); Dave and Toni Arthur, and their ilk, that put the likes of me back into confidence of the

enduring qualities of traditional music and (with notable exceptions which might prove the rule ) the ephemeral transience of other materials "performed" in folk clubs (see my earlier comments).