Show of Hands weren't mentioned in connection with Bellowhead, by me....I merely said that it was a shame that they mentioned Bellowhead had been voted Best Live Act on a few occasions, yet no-one thought to actually get in the guys, and gal, who are so good that the Folk Awards Folk had to change the public voting system, after Show of Hands were voted Best Live Act in the first public vote ever...'cos..."they'd just keep winning it".....

....and a band that can do that should ALSO be on Breakfast TV, in their prime time slot!

And I don't want to preach to the Traddies, but...er...don't you feel that sniggering because the presenters got the names of the instruments is just a tad snooty?

Folk music is the music of the people, born out of the peasants who wouldn't have known a melodeon from an accordion, but who simply loved the sound of the music the instrument made.

This Folk Intelligensia, particularly the one that tends to surround Bellowhead, is one of the reasons, in my 'umble peasant opinion, as to why English Folk Music struggles to get 'out there' in the first place, because Les Intellektchewals have taken it over...

Put the music back in the hands of the people....

And that is exactly what Show of Hands were doing, until they...er....got a bit side-tracked wanting to get the adoration of the Traddies (imo)...

But, hopefully, we all live and learn...


And now, back to those who love to look down their high fallutin' noses which are probably bigger than any instrument Bellowhead could ever play, at us dimwitted peasants...