Gobsmacking narrow profile of nominees. What a surprise there's none of the likes of Pete Coe, Vin Garbutt, Alistair Anderson, The Askew Sisters, Lucy Ward, Clive Gregson, Phil Hare. The list could be endless.

I can only say that over my fifty years of watching/listening to folk and seeing some pretty crabby, weak and poor performances there is only one that I've ever been at where I thought they should have been sued for misrepresenatation, Where the performance was so poor that they lost the audience who were left with nothing better to do than chat amongst themselves despite thair inbuilt reluctance to be so rude. The artist rsponsible is up there in these listings.