FloraG, Thanks for the encouragement, but my nerves are usually bad enough without adding to them even further :-).

I saw Swarb twice last year, once with Martin Carthy at the Half Moon in Putney and then solo, 10 minutes walk from where I live, at The Beacon in Tunbridge Wells. The Beacon show was brilliant (Half Moon was great too, but the Beacon *shone*!)

Hope you still have the fiddle you bought from him!