Well. thank you very much if you made it to a 20th anniversary ‘Best Of’ show, which became my final tour. It was ironic but kind of inevitable that the short final run over the past few weeks was my most fun UK solo tour for years – and you were just bloody amazing.

If you’re at The Great Escape this weekend and you dig your folk music but you haven’t got time to dig through yet (or tell the thousand acoustic artists apart), here are 14 Midnight Campfire tips for folk/roots artists performing across the festival. Yup, listed in chronological order…