GeorgeH - Many thanks for the background information concerning discussions in uk.music.folk on this subject. Not having been resident in the UK for many years, I haven't been following the debate in this newsgroup.

Maybe it's futile to lobby Celtic Music en mass, but believing in the direct approach to things I still feel inclined personally to write to them on the subject as a simple member of Joe Public and as one whose copy of Penguin Eggs has long since perished and whose copies of other Nic Jones vinyls are showing signs of soon giving up the ghost. I will post a thread here on any response I get (if indeed I get one!).

All the best,

mcmoo