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Thread #141147 Message #3250676
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
05-Nov-11 - 06:15 AM
Thread Name: 'Occupy English Folk Music!'
Subject: RE: 'Occupy English Folk Music!'
So blinkered were the powers that be that the local folk radio used to say Sutton wasn't a proper folk club and wouldn't have a mention of it on folk diary.
And there we have the crux of the issue. Because of the actions of a handful of idiots the whole trad folk genre is tainted. Whoever ran that radio show needs to be sacked - if they have not been already. But why say that Genevieve Tudor or Radio Shropshire or Phil Brown on Radio Lancashire are the same? They just aren't!
If I was to say that all Pakistanis were thieves or con-men beacuse the man in the corner shop tried to give me change for a ten when I gave him twenty I would, quite rightly, be shot down in flames. But because a few people have had a bad experience at the hands of a traditional idiot (I like that phrase :-) ) then why tar everyone who likes traditional music with the same brush?
DtG