I think Will Fly has summed things up well, the presentation and the performance were less than perfect.

Perhaps we have become conditioned to expect perfection when watching our television.

Perhaps we expected more from performers such as these, who are after all, held up as the current 'big names' in the folk world.

We have already heard earlier in this thread from one of the performers involved, who was obviously not happy with his solo performance and states clearly at the end of his post, that if it was to happen again they would do things differently, which would suggest a collective dissatisfaction from the performers. It would be interesting to hear the thoughts of the other performers.

Just to repeat my thoughts from my earlier post, perhaps they saw it as a bit of a christmas jolly, and were a bit under rehearsed?

John