There's a lot of it about on Pyewackett's albums: dance caller and scholar Mike Barraclough introduced the band to the 1651 edition of the English Dancing Master and the tunes worked their way into the group mind. Despite the reputation for complexity that some of these dances have, Mike managed on one occasion to field an entire evening's worth of Playford numbers at a London hospital - Bart's, I believe - which showed daring, patience and advanced cat-herding skills.

Some of the tunes, however, are dead simple 8 bar affairs and become the kind of trancy thing you can happily play for a quarter of an hour. So we did. Saves trying to remember what's next in a tune set.

Pyewackett's third LP 7 to Midnight is a set of dance-length tracks, mostly from the Playford collections, prefaced by Ten Cents a Dance from the 1930s.