I have over the last few years found Gaughan quite the censor when it comes to his bucket. While he will play warlike songs of solidarity of one side he dismisses the songs of those he opposes as "confrontational" Thus Dick's bucket strains out the orange,unionist, and loyalist and returns them to the stream without giving them new life. To take a bucket out of the tradition and define its contents saving some and casting away others is as absurd as defining tradition because what one has done in the censorial process is infact to have defined and categorized. When mr Gaughan can drink from the bucket of the whole then he will have overcome definition, and categorization to recognize all song as treasure and all verse as achievement which can be used by all equally.

Conrad