"Jim - I am certainly not 'ashamed of myself' and you are being impolite to suggest that everyone here should be!"
Anybody who takes the piss out of a long dead field singer (whether they like his singing or not) damn well should be ashamed - I've never encountered such behaviour in the fifty years I've been involved in folk song - are you serious
Anybody who sneers at old people's eating habits (imagined in this case) is guilty of ageism anyway
Sign of the times in today's ervival I assume

"Absolutely no one has the right to set the agenda, and compel conformity"Nobody is "compelling conformity Al - just asking that the clubs live up to what they all themselves - if it was anything other than folk song it would be covered by the trades description act - as it is, it has to rely on the honesty off the clubs - somewhat in short supply nowadays
You've never said how do you believed a yongster paying to listen to a night of their particular taste in pop would react if the venue decided to put on a night of big ballads
It really is disappointing the way you constantly distort my arguments - thought better of you

As I doubt if anybody is going to acknowledge their behavior to Walter and his generation - I' think I'll piss off - nothing to be had here
Jim