I don't think I was being patronising. I've just been to a lot of folk clubs and I can speak with a degree of authority on the subject.

And yes some people would like ones facility with remembering words and playing the guitar, which if you work at it seems effortless. Techniques which you will acquire if you work hard enough. That's what I bring to the party.

Recently (this month) I got the words of a song I had been looking for for twenty years from a singer whose accompaniments are always at such a volume that the words are largely inaccessible to the audience, and anyway they don't fit the tune.

Unless you're from a showbiz family (which I'm not) the business of entertaining isn't second nature. the desire to perform however is in most of us at some level.

That's all I'm saying. if you find that patronising - maybe you just haven't thought much about the subject. if you do it for a living, if providing the weeks groceries depends on it - you have to think about it and get it right.