Pip asked: 'Should marathon ballad singers change their ways?'
to which I reply: possibly not, if they can manage to engage their audience in what should be a gripping and often gory tale. However, there are few performers who can achieve this. Most long ballad singers lose their audiene by the fifth verse, and carry on unaware...
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