"If they've had to bow and kowtow to you lot because it's the only way they'll be accepted, fair enough."

Yes...because before they ever "bowed and kowtowed" to me by e-mailing me to apologise for your behaviour, or by publicly begging you to stop embarrassing them, they were having such a lot of difficulty being accepted, weren't they? Your argument doesn't hold water, Lizzie. Show of Hands were doing absolutely fine for bookings and album sales for years - long before you ever discovered them, in fact. Surely even you would agree to that. You want to believe they denounced you for careerist reasons - in fact, they denounced you because you were a pain in the arse. Your obsessiveness and insistence on shoving their music down other people's throats was embarrassing. You put more people off than you ever turned on, through your argumentative and spiteful binge-posting.


"What you're doing is making them out to be utterly disloyal to their fans"

No, Lizzie. This isn't about anyone else. It's just about you, and your obsessive behaviour.

"A lot of the reason why They Who Must Not Be Mentioned came in for such stick is not because of what I used to say about them, because I only ever praised and supported them, but it was because of the way the Traddies wanted all talk of them stopped, period, removed, deleted....mainly because they loathed their music and the way in which they were opening up the folk world to the kind of people who the Traddies also loathed..."

No, Lizzie. this is not about Show of Hands, and never really was. It is about you, and your strident and confrontational behaviour. If people want to listen to Show of Hands, good for them. If they want to listen to Martin Carthy singing Famous Flower, good for them. If people want to listen to both, hurrah. Just don't tell me what *I* ought to listen to, because it's my choice. The only person consistently and insistently setting up these things in opposition to each other, and creating conflict where none previously existed, is you.

The reason I do not write acres of squeeing fangirl drivel about Show of Hands, or any other band, is because they neither want nor need it, from me or anyone else. As I said before, I do something that is probably rather more useful to them: I book them.