Oi, pfr, I can see the lower reaches of the Bristol Channel from my house (when I want to act posh, I tell people it's the broad Atlantic...) I don't want to see corpses floating by...

Just give us a listen, mods. We're a bunch of hairy-arsed Brit twats all right, but we're not brain-dead and we can see what's going on. And,though you can never, ever accept it, for reasons best known to yourselves, there is no cabal, no conspiracy, no usual suspects. I have this half-arsed theory that we don't have proper folkie forums here because "the English folk scene" (as opposed to the actual music...) tends to live up its own self-regarding bottom, and it's best viewed from a distance...There have been lively forums in Irish music, such as Jezza's TheSession and the moribund Irtrad, then there's that fish 'n' chipple of yours (yawn...)