Ewan, Bert and others were concerned with the way the scene was beginning to dissipate so they called a meeting in Central London to see if anything could be done - Bert introduced it, MacColl was in the chair, and they along with Bob Davenport and Alex Campbell gave short summing ups of what they thought was happening and where things should go, then it was thrown open to everybody; it ended up in a shouting match, basically because of the behaviour of one person.

An observation - I couldn't care less about hearing the tape, why should I, or anybody else? Instead ask yourselves, "Who, apart from themselves, appointed MacColl (Or Miller, whatever you want to call him); Armstrong; Davenport and Campbell to decide what should be done about an art form that none of them actually owned or had any proprietary claim to? Looks like total unbounded arrogance.

My opinion of MacColl is no secret, everything about the man was fake.

Ewan set up The Critics Group to examine the techniques and relevance of folk song - Aye in his own image with everything coloured by his own politics.