Thank you for the "talented" comment. But I would like to point out that the Ship Band is I'm sure just as talented as other bands on the scene. too. In fact I know they are. They just seem to have sadly fallen into some rather murky marketing waters. Because I am damn sure they are not a Stoke-on-Trent ceilidh band, whatever it says on the internet! Enjoy these sites, by the way, folks. I'll bet they are taken down, or radically modified, very very soon indeed.
I organise barn dances in Stoke-on-Trent, by the way. If that group with long beards who play the Rochdale Coconut Dance care to contact me, I'm sure we can put you on.