Umm, I've read the book. I don't need Ian Anderson as a link to Colin Irwin - Colin is a friend of mine. We've talked a lot about music, and what we like, and what we don't. We don't always agree, but we often make each other laugh. Colin told part of the story in that particular chapter, but not all of it - he told the story from a particular perspective. I was working in venues at the time, I had (and have) a different perspective on why The Equation had difficulty getting bookings.

If you're trying to say that Cara Dillon suffers from her association with The Equation, you're inhabiting a different universe to the one I'm in. She gets headlining spots all the time - the first time I saw her live was at Cambridge. She's represented by one of the best agents in the folk business. She wasn't even IN the Equation till fairly late in their trajectory.

Kathryn Roberts seems to have chosen a much more low-key career path for herself, and in recent years has, in fact, rarely been gigging at all. Which is unfortunate, as I've been trying to book her for a few years now. I'm hoping I'll be successful this summer, as I spoke to her brother about it recently.

SO this idea that "they haven't been let back in" is, in fact, more hype and fantasy.