Well, I don't follow you around Mudcat picking arguments. I don't follow anyone. If you write something I want to agree with, I may or may not write and say so. If you write something - which let's face it was pretty vehement - "weird shit" was your expression - if I disagree with it I may or may not say so on the same basis.

I am quite happy to engage with the argument that Bill Caddick should be at the top of the bill and on the front page with top billing.

I get the impression that Bill Caddick is not particularly bothered about being top of the bill. How do I get that impression? Well for starters his gig list on his own website does not seem to have been up-dated since 2006.
http://www.billcaddick.co.uk/gigs.html

Not a definitive answer I know - but it does look as if not many people are booking him these days. He is booked at a few festivals (Chester 2007, Lincoln 2008) but I have not seen him much at a festivals as as a solo artist, more as member of All Blacked Up.

I don't see how you can assume that because of where they put him there on the bill they are Johnny Come Lately's, which is what you wrote.

Are you saying that all those festival organisers who haven't even booked him - which as far as I can see is many of the rest of the festival organisers in the UK - are Johnny Come Lately's too?

I just don't think people should make allegations - however expressed - that don't seem to have much basis in fact. If the people you met at the folk clubs said something you disagreed with I doubt if you would have posted it on here.

And Bill Caddick is a great singer and has written some of the best songs I have ever heard.