On the contrary Muppitz you were quite correct to raise the issue, violence should not be condoned or tolerated in any sphere of our society. That this occured at a folk festival which many of consider to be one of the last bastions of peaceful co-existence is unacceptable and the individual concerned should be brought to book. Had this occured in Baxtergate and brought to the attention of the Police he would have been arrested and charged and rightly so. I have read the thread you started and heard three separate eyewitness accounts of events, all of which tallied. Despite the "justification" put forward I am not convinced by the "apology" and wonder(the cynic that I am)if it is merely an attempt at damge limitation