Jeez, what a dreary thread this has become. Isn't it about time to give it a bone?

Some of you like the Winterset's music. Some of you don't. Ok. And?

Some of you applaud their 'success' (and by 'eck, they're bigger than the Beatles, the little upstarts!). Some of you begrudge it (and what the hell's all that about? Folkies sell more than 500 records? Scandalous! Send the precocious little buggers to the Tower...).

Some of you have a problem with their frocks - and of course, folk fans would NEVER sink to the level of OK magazine...

Is it not a good thing when musicians and singers primarily doing traditional music get half a sniff at the mainstream - and without resorting to crap tactics like dueting with Cliff Richard or Geri Halliwell to gain acceptance? Are we really such a begrudging bunch of sadsacks, elitists and curmudgeons? For god's sake, enjoy the fact that they're getting played beyond the folk ghetto and the fact that some non-folkies actually like them and fer god's sake stop getting yer greasy old Y-fronts is such a twist!

In short, like them or don't like them, but give up all the bitter and twisted bullshit that's pervaded this thread like a bad smell.

Folk? I like it 'cos no-one else does!

Gimme a break...

With all due respect,

Nigel

Ducks, flinching, and waits for the fallout...