"Villa never stopped being great, anyway."

Amen to that - and good times will come again if we can hang on to O'Neill . . .

As an expat Brummie living just south of Manchester there seem to be heaps of folkies in the area, and with the city's thriving Irish scene this spills over into the surrounding area giving a very healthy provincial session scene.

Mike McGoldrick, John Joe Kelly, Desi Donnelly, Tony 'Sully' Sullivan, Emma Sweeney plus a whole host of others who contribute to a very lively folk community indeed.