Bloody typical of that elitist rag fRoots, nominating albums by people who've made excellent music and, what's more, have been popular in concerts, CD sales and downloads.

And it's all foreign rubbish as well! Apart from Bellowhead, Fay Hield, Sam Lee, Lau, Jim Moray, Karine Polwart and Emily Portman, there's not a SINGLE BRITISH ACT IN THE TOP TEN!!!!

Where's all the nominations for really rubbish people who make a terrible amateurish out-of-tune din and I've never heard of because they've never made a CD or played a gig outside of their own back room?

It's all a terrible back-scratching conspiracy led by Ian A Anderson, the BBC Folk Awards, and Mike Harding - oh no, sorry, suddenly we all like Mike Harding don't we, I forgot.

(With acknowledgements to the Gemma Kidney blog and to every anti-fRoots post on Mudcat since about 1874)