Well I just managed to see a video of the 2005 BBC folk awards. I am soooo pleased that soooo many "stars", "movers & shakers" and big important people, are "Folk fans", and have been since........well for ever? (or at least since they were asked to say a fiew sincere words on the show). So we have had our heads patted and we can all feel asured that there is not too much wrong with liking folk music after all, go back into our wooly jumpers and waistcoats and Laura Ashley circa.1976 skirts and head scarves and shut up, our ONE folk television show of the year has been and gone. This show was NO advertisement for Folk music, badly cobbled together and generaly as rough as the proverbial badgers bottom. The sound was worse that bad, close to unbroadcastable. Unfortunatly some of the performances were far from acceptable either. Can someone tell me ....How tall is Mike Harding? The Oyster Band, why? What is the hand thing that Big Edna keeps doing? Why did nobody say "Maddy, no". Best of the night was Steeleye Span, Kathryn Tickell and Noddy Holder.