I've got a lot of time for Steve Knightly and Phil Beer as individuals.

Phil is an extremely good musician who gives a huge amount of his time to helping other musicians and venues, particularly in the South West and who, with commendable modesty, doesn't make a song and dance about it.
Similarly, Steve is an excellent songwriter and a good performer.

It's just that, as Show of Hands, I find their material hackneyed (or, in the case of the covers, often dimply dull) and their production values both samey and OTT - does there have to be so much echo/sustain on everything Steve sings, for example?

What really gets my goat, however, are the audiences - comparing a SoH crowd to a Bellowhead crowd is like comparing a coach outing for Daily-Mail reading Saga louts with a real cross section of ages, colours, classes and creeds. I might be approaching my Saga years myself, but I know which crowd I'd rather be with...