Jim wrote:-
'We had a long and somewhat sad conversation with him during the break where he expressed his alarm at not getting enough bookings.
The reasons he gave were, "My right-wing views and my Larry the Lamb impressions."

If Peter perceived you as a leftie (and who know? in conversation you may possibly have come across as such!) that is exactly the sort of awkward cuss comment that I would have expected from him. He has been described above as oppositional (V. Smith) and a contrarian (B. Peters). I'm sure that Brian will have had that I don't get all the bookings I deserve conversation with Peter as regularly as I did. It was fairly useless to tell him that in spite of his huge talent, his strange manner in font of an audience and because of the qualities that that have been ascribed to him earlier in this paragraph, he wasn't the easiest person to present at your club or have staying in your home. It was only because he was such a fascinating and unique performer that we continued to book him.

Brian wrote:-
"....loved arguing for the sake of it. "What's this second-rate music you're playing me? was typical - and you were expected to justify your choice."
Spot on, Mr. Peters! In my case, he would pick up copies of fRoots, ED&S etc. lying around the house and search for articles or reviews by me and then berate my opinions, particularly my enthusiasms, the style of my writing, my choice of words, sentence construction and anything else that came into his mind. The only way to remain on an even keel was to change the conversation to every awful action that I felt he had displayed - and there were many of them going back to the days before YT when I had met him for the first time in Norwich when I was still at school.

Now mention of Brian Peters beings us to the case currently before the courts of:-
THE CROWN v. BRIAN PETERS on a charge of BEING A GRASPING SKINFLINT.
We have already heard the defendant admit "Ooh dear, bang to rights there!" and I would to present to the court this photograph taken of a merchandising desk at Lewes Folk Festival 2013. The court will call this Exhibit A.