This really is the funniest thread I've read on Mudcat since the Re-Imagined Village. I just wonder what anyone new to the folk (for want of a better word) scene would make of it.

"its generally agreed by everyone who knows anything that we know nowt - sod 'em. Just enjoy what you can, you're a folk - if your music doesn't qualify for the little lion on the eggshell - so bloody what."

Ah, some sense at last. I think Big Al should be made President of the EFDSS - or at least its Public Relations Officer.