The Mudcat Miserable Buggers are really the worst thing about this site.

This sort of remark is always trotted out if a large number of posters on a thread are critical of such a show. It's not a case of being a miserable bugger or not - it's just a set of people with differing opinions using their critical faculties.

I notice that, when criticism is overwhelmingly positive, you don't read something like "The Mudcat Happy Clappies are really the best thing about this site". Do you? Well, I mentioned the St.Luke's programmes in an earlier post. So let me reaffirm that I thought June Tabor singing Richard Thompson's "Strange Affair", to the accompaniment of Martin Simpson, was stunning; that the Springsteen Seeger Sessions Band (16 musicians) concert was utterly outstanding - not being a follower of Springsteen, I was hugely impressed by his power and commitment; Randy Newman was enthralling in his concert.

So - lots of positive happy ticks - and just the same set of critical faculties that I applied to the Christmas Session show, which only got a few ticks from me.