aw shucks.....

People think I'm being grumpy on my own account. But the reason i can say the things that I do is that I'm not well enough to do real gigs any more. So I've nothing to fear or expect from anyone

It grieves me though to see younger people than I am going through the same nonsense that i did. I think the folkscene missed a trick when it decided that what i did and several others of my generation wasn't folkmusic, and therefore had no place inside the folkscene - no claim to the folk radio programmes and magazins, no place on the festival stages...

I think the movement would have been stronger with us inside than outside. i was lucky, I got to make records and play other venues, but a lot of people didn't - they just gave up. Ithink its worth (even if its only on mudcat) raising a voice in protest.