Very sorry to hear about Frank. My condolences to all.
On another note, anybody go to the Urban Folk(New Islington) Festival in Ancoats on Saturday? I have ben working on the "Seven Tunes called Manchester Hornpipe" project with the rap collective Rhyhm'n'Grime for a while now, and we did some acoustic numbers in a very short spot on Saturday afternoon(blink and you missed it). Many folkies find rap scary, noisy and intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. Have a listen to the two tracks labelled "rap" here at
Boat Band Myspace.
I hope you might find them interesting, even endearing. We are also making the full on drum and bassy stuff, but I wont scare you all with that yet!