Hi folks, hope everyone had a nice weekend.

There's been mention above about people commenting before they've read the biography. Personally, I haven't read it but, then, I was just pasing on a personal experience. Will I read it? Maybe, but I've a huge reading list and it's somewhere near the bottom. I wonder how many people read it simply to see if they're mentioned.

One aspect that has been mentioned that I do find really bizzarre is the Critic's Circle. Who were the critics and what were their credentials for being critics? Were they elected or self-appointed? Did they criticise personal style, content, or what? How does this fit in with the whole point of folk music; that any performance is relevant because it is the music of the people, not of some elitist group?

Perhaps it's the rather pompous and authoritarian name, but it immediately brought to mind 'Animal Farm' with the pigs sitting in judgement on the other animals. Were there slogans written on the wall, like '4/4 good; 2/4 bad'?