Davie - as you seem to realise in your 2nd ref back to me above, I made clear I am in no position to name names, which was not at all the purpose of my anecdote; which was to demonstrate that, as some have unjustifiably denounced Lizzie & Dick for saying, the Folk Scene does so have its own PeckingOrder.

Borchester: No, I thought I had made it clear we were chilling out not talking technicalities - between·times smalltalk. One might have thought civility, a sense of social obligation, would have prompted one or other to turn to my friend as i, who was among them as part of the 'luminary' circuit, had intro'd him into the circle and ask him a bit about himself & his music, & what he did when he wasn't playing it, as he wasn't clearly a professional folkie - he was in fact an adult student at what is now AngliaRuskinUniv tho had another name then; & a gifted amateur actor, another connexion thru which i knew him [have i told you I once won BestActor cup in a DramaFestival?]; & not just left his 'entertainment', if that's the right word, entirely to me; but none of them did - he wasn't OneOfUs, U-C, & so they just weren't interested - didn't, as i said, mean to be rude; but the PeckingOrder Rules OK, in Folk as everywhere else, and there are levels, charmed·circles, at which lower forms·of·life just aren't welcome...