re my non-return to Bob Davenport's considered criticism of a very boring singer, called Smyth my memory tells me?- have been busy playing the music after my own fashion, folk, pop or whatever. When people have paid £5plus or more like 2 shillings in those days! a little background is fine, but not a whole pre-summary of what was already a long song is not what is required- and it still happens- a joke is one thing but not what this man did. I have admired Bob ever since and I am appalled that anyone who pronounces about 'folk music' and admits to never having heard of him is very sad. I wouldn't have the nerve or the honesty to react as Bob did that night.