What fRoots does is 'promote local musics from out there, from at home and around the world', What it doesn't do is give space to music that has no sense of roots, place or community. Go figure.

WLD clearly hasn't been reading the mag (or what we talk about in the forum where many complain, possibly with some justification, that the approach is proportionately too anglophile).

To take just the past few months (or else we'll be here all day), fR printed mag has featured a 4-page Britfolk spread, a cover feature on 'the new folk uprising' (including The Gloworms, Lou Rhodes, The 18th Day Of May and Seth Lakeman (NB 2 months ahead of Songlines) and another cover feature on 'the rise and rise of the younger tradition' with The Devil's Interval.

Of course, WLD might be regretting the lack of pieces on blokes in the corner (complete with beard, pewter mug and tie-tied frock who have failed for many a year even to get the tune right and learn all the words of the same 'party piece' at their local folk club. I don't. I say hurrah. The outside world can do without the propagation of this image.