Greetings from the land that gave the world Gracie Fields, George Formby and Britpop - f****** AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!! - although George was a hell of a Uke player...

...and, thanks muchly to the thread originator - lost in the mists of a long way back - who kicked this one off. Can't add to any of it 'cos it's all been said, but I've had, over the last half-hour, a bleedin' good laugh reading it all. You are all absolutely correct, there's tons (or tonnes if if you're from greater Europe) of excerable dross out there and the list is pretty well endless - and continues.

I'm just so glad that my band regularly plays such uplifting stuff as 'I've been lonely in the saddle since my Horse died' and 'Hold the mirror steady Mother while I shave the Chicken's lip'. It helps redress the balance away from all those awfull songs you've all wrote about - possibly. Yes, our UK and European media is a wonderful and mindless thing, so to avoid it try and catch us playing live at a meeting of T.R.I.T.E. (To Rebel Is To Exist) at a Town Hall near you - if it's o.k with the Authorities and if they've vetted the song list for it's purile content first of course.