The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

any day is a good day to listen to Tom Paxton, but...

This issue is exposition, mostly.

Morris dancing is a mostly English tradition of highly stylized folk dance. It is definitely old -- Shakespeare's Dauphin mockingly c...

Tolkien didn't like pantomimes. He thought that A.A Milne had completely missed the point of Wind in the Willows; he thought that Macb...

1: Some of my socialist friends have a bad habit of confusing "is" with "ought". Because the Church of England oug...

In case anyone is still awake, this is a playlist of some of the songs I mentioned in my folk diary. And this is a video of a man singin...

  You've been a Batman fan since you were a little kid; and a jobbing comic-book hack since you left college; and it has finally happe...

A few more highlights....

A short walk along the promenade  esplanade.

Lindisfarne *  Ralph McTell * Kitty Macfarlane * Jeff Warner * Ragged Trousers * Alice Jones * Mary Humphreys & Anahata * Annie Winter ...

It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet said never before -- and he had been coming to Sidmouth for goodness knows how long... two y...

Lady spent entire concert writing postcards and letters. Full on address book, envelopes, stamps on her knee. I found this both distracting ...

Nine days is quite a long time to spend listening to folk music, sleeping in a tent, and living on coffee and beer. Seasoned festival goers ...

Some people are organised. Even in a tent. They bought their eco friendly reusable cup on the first day, and have carried it with them for t...