I am not over fond of the "and the rest section" for the obvious reasons mentioned above. I've said this to the editor, as Vic Smith has. Basically, there's only so much space in the mag, so why waste it on snide would be funny anonymous put downs of what is in the main sincerely made stuff. We can all sit around in the pub making sarcastic remarks about fellow musos, but that's where the banter should remain I reckon.
I appreciate that a lot of people love this section. There is always a market for bullying the weak, humiliating the pretentious etc etc. And I admit I often have a chuckle ast some of the reviews. But I don't like myself for doing so. Satire has a place when the weak are having a go at the stong. When it is the strong having a go at the weak, as here, I don't really warm to it.