(Oops - pressed the wrong button there - so continuing from previous post...)

...and I still encounter a lot of that today actually. It's like the sexism of the church getting hung up on women priests - you get these self-styled Traddy Purists who really know SFA, and yet still carp on about The Tradition as if it was written in stone. Guardians? I think not somehow. The best of it was always just the music without the cause really, political or otherwise. Seeing Peter Bellamy was like being in the presence of an angel, but hearing my favourite ballad singer Ewan McColl singing his self-penned tripe about South Africa and the Miner's Strike was just depressing, all the more so for the intimacy really. Well, you couldn't very well walk out, could you?