Sorry, PFR, but I am only responding to some very serious allegations here. Al said that east Europeans were criminals, increased crime in the areas in which they settled and then denied having said it. I didn't imagine it. I didn't make it up. I was very sensitive to it at the time as I had just lost my (Polish) Father and was rather taken aback to find that some believed him to come from criminal stock, even though he was the most honest person I have ever known.

I know one truth. Al, apparently, knows another one. Luckily for him the thread in question was deleted. Luckily for me it doesn't matter who believes who as my work means that I do not have to win friends and influence people. Unluckily for Al, his occupation means just that and if I were a music promoter reading this I would have serious doubts about booking someone who may not be entirely honest.

Even after all that I am happy to let it lie. But, as you can see, Al wants to resurrect it at every opportunity regardless of what damage it is doing to both Mudcat and himself. Takes all sorts to make a world...