I'm a bit behind with my reading, but so far nobody seems to have referred to the two-page article in The Observer of 2 September, Young, gifted and ... out on their own about young British singer-songwriters, among them Kris Drever.

The week before, the writer Jonathan Coe referred to Scottish music in these terms: "I'm struck by a film called Seachd, which apparently is the first Scottish movie made in Gaelic. ... Call me old-fashioned, but I seem to have reached an age when I would rather be looking at majestic tracking shots of the Scottish islands, with luminously beautiful folk music on the soundtrack, than two guys on an east London council estate ...

Last week, in the wake of my enthusiasm for Seachd, I picked up a CD called Og-Mhadainn Shamhraidh by Kathleen MacInnes and there is a song on there - Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor - that has been lodged in my head ever since. Because I don't understand the words at all, it feels to me like a piece of instrumental music ..."

Not utterly positive, maybe, but it seems to be meant as a compliment ...