Leadfingers wrote :-
Ian ran a Blues club in Bristol and a mixed Folk Club in Weston Super Mare
Then when he lived in the Guildford area, he ran an excellent folk club there - and who remembers the wonderful Farnham Folk Days that he organised? What about all the years he and Maggie ran an agency, efficiently arranging bookings for many of the top names on the folk club scene? What about all the fine albums of British folk acts on the various labels that he has run over the years starting off all those years ago with "Village Thing"? Who produced the best recorded album that The Copper Family ever made? His drive and enthusiasm have been second to none and he seems to get nothing like the credit he deserves for this.

However, he broadened his horizons to find that there are fascinating traditional musics beyond the British Isles and the USA and reflected this in the magazine that he edits. Result? He regularly gets slagged off on Mudcat and elsewhere in the British folk scene. Is this fair?