It seems to me that Mr Davies has done a lot of interesting research, although the criticism of his failure to distinguish the Roma and traveller traditions is justified in substance, although harshly put.

It also seems to me that there were a number of sycophantic posts about performance standards, which could only have set Mr Davies up for a fall of greater magnitude.

Poxicat's criticism of performance standards may start harshly (albeit in two words only - "epic fail" - which are commonly used without an implication of disastrous incompetence but rather in a joking sense, at least in the UK) but go on to show that each performance has been viewed and considered. Each criticism there is factually put and constructive advice is offered. Is that not exactly what Mr Davies wanted and needed?

For what it is worth I would have thought that a performer seeking gigs should make very sure that recorded performances used for demonstration purposes were of the highest quality rather than home recording standard or "warts and all" bootleg quality.