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Thread #118525 Message #2575794
Posted By: TheSnail
25-Feb-09 - 03:40 PM
Thread Name: should the BBC folk awards be scrapped
Subject: RE: should the BBC folk awards be scrapped
No Dave, I haven't disagreed with the judges about anything (apart from a slight puzzlement about the Best Original Song). That isn't the issue.
Just to make a couple of things clear -
Nobody has suggested that The Claque should have won the award.
Nobody has suggested that Lau should not have won the award.
That isn't the question. The question is, what did they win the award for? The title says "Best" which suggests that their performance, either on stage or recording, was better than anybody else's. Maybe it was, I don't know, I've never seen them. (I saw The Claque three times last year.) The guidance for voters says "most impact". With your concentration on gig lists and foreign tours, you seem to favour the latter. They aren't the same thing.
Faye's point (excuse me if I've got this wrong) is that "best" is meaningless if you aren't comparing like with like.