> If I couldn't survive on the English Folk Scene, ladies and gentlemen, I would be the first to acknowledge it.

First you have to acknowledge what the "English folk scene" IS - and I don't believe you really know either. All your blithe dismissals seem merely to underline this. This scene you're so sure you could make a living in reads like some alternative reality to the one you - by your own admission - have no actual experience of. Or is this all a wind-up?

> You create your own good luck

OK, fine. But you DON'T necessarily create your own bad luck. If bad luck doesn't happen to you, hooray. But PLEASE stop being so I'm-all-right-Jack complacent.