You gotta admit though Richard, we're not getting a lot of working class input into the folkscene these days. I sometimes wonder where its all going. You sit there in the folk club and its full of daft old gits like oneself. And theres something missing.


Writers like Ian Campbell and Bert Jansch. We don't seem to attracting young people of that quality, these days - writing about their lives, like we did at the start of the game. Perhaps the whole movement is running out of steam.

I know we do our best. But the songs you write aged fifty and sixty aren't the ones you write when you're young. I didn't even find a voice til my mid 20's, by which time lyric poets like Keats had snuffed it or done his best stuff. Probably Bert Jansch and the Beatles too.

Poor sods like Carthy and Lakeman (2nd generation rum tum tiddlers) aren't going to come up with the answers for us. Perhaps if we can just locate those young people with a bit of fire in their belly........England will break free the icy hand of The Fisher King and all will be well in the Garden of Albion.