I only really came across Alex glasgow as a member of a radio program on the Third program called The Northern drift. I was an exiled 17 year old Northerner at the time living in a Devon village with my parents.

Alex sang a song called 'My daddy is a Left wing Intellectual'. It was so urbane. So totally urban as well. really heady - working class people who weren't victims, they were like the wonderful characters that David Mercer and Dennis Potter were writing about on the TV - intelligent and substantial in their intellect.

Down at the local folk club. It was all shite - really. All these middle class lecturers from Exeter University were singing songs like they were merry ploughboys - or some such.

All these traddy gits still give me a load of shit and pain on mudcat. I owe it to people like Alex that I know better. You don't have to abandon your intelligence and sophistication when you become a folksinger.