'Hiring low quality talent is not the way to do that!'

Says everything about the pompous arrogance of the middle class folkies and nothing bout the facts of the matter.


No bother at all Dave. Tony and Una jealously guard their reputation which has been painstakingly put together without any help from the many people who were paid from the public purse to help with the development of folk talent. Arts council Commissions, tours of village halls, the paid gigs at folk fetivals, radio plays by Harding, support from their local BBC station - Tony and Una saw none of it. Money from the public purse.

When Tony did your show he played low quality talent such as myself, Jack Hudson and No Fixed abode and some other people - I think Christy moore - but I couldn't swear. tony will have a list of what he did.

But if your listeners didn't know that Jack, myself, and NFA have been staunch supporters of folk clubs for years - and have been there on the scene. Doesn't this say something about folk radio. You really have got into state where half the folkscene is being ignored totally - and has frankly buggered off to leave you stewing in your own esoteric juice.

Incidentally Commode Man, Tony and Una DO get bookings. This is their most busy and commercially successful month they have ever enjoyed. they just get no recognition for being one of the hardest working folk duos in the country - no major reviews, no plays on the publicly funded radio.

No recognition for having (from necessity and a deep committment to folk music)developed a craft whereby they can take folkmusic into places that none of the current folk festival headliners could follow.