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The Imagined Village, Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow,

So much that’s positive has been said and written about The Imagined Village – and indeed so much could reasonably be expected given some of the personnel involved – that it’s difficult to reconcile the disparity between the prospect and the reality.

Here, after all, is a band that, in Chris Wood and Martin Carthy, has singer-musicians who can hold an audience spellbound alone, but neither managed to impose himself for long over the collective drone of his colleagues.