Matt Milton – you praise fRoots for its "zippy and often waspish thumbnail reviews" adding by way of explanation that "I think music criticism of folks and roots music across the globe is much much much too patronisingly cosy and nicey and toothless and all-friends-together …"

I couldn't disagree more. One of the things which cheesed me off about fRoots was the smug and self-congratulatory tone of its "zippy" reviews – and many of its articles.   Furthermore, one of the main things which originally attracted me to the folk scene (and still keeps me attached to it) is precisely the "all-friends-together" ethos which you seem to despise.

So long as fRoots continues to provide enough paying punters with what they want, it will continue to prosper – and good luck to it. But over the years I have found it steadily less interesting and more irritating, so instead, I buy Living Tradition. It may be less edgy, and less cool, than its bigger and glossier rival but to my ears it talks more sense.

Wassail!