Reg Meuross has been around for the last quarter of a century, at the very least and I think Mike Harding, despite his dumbed down persona, has probably been aware of his work for rather longer than the past few weeks. The Wednesday hour-long slot on R2 is, sadly and disgracefully, the one and only networked outlet for so-called "f*lk roots & acoustic" music and in order to hang on to his job with the outsourced production unit the BBC hires in to give a lazy nod to "minority interests", MH has to conform to the BBC edict of "follow-through" which means conning the listener into believing that the MOR trash played differs not a lot from the rest of the network's output. Which it very often does not, nor does the presentation style.

There are two regretfully large camps that piss me off about the "f*lk scene. One is wilfully ignorant dabblers who latch on to something and call it the new sliced bread (even though a post I noticed last night but now vanished pointed out rightly that Mr Meuross had been a Panic Brother a good 20 years ago). The other is the cabal of tie-dye wearers and tankard wavers who expect someone they saw when the revival was new to be doing exactly the same repertoire in the same way and walk out when they don't. Neither has a clue and the MH programme does nothing to alter such perceptions.