Ok Walkabout but the point Im making or at least trying to ask is why you think a promoter should take a chance on you (and in a sense thats a general issue as much as it is personal), most promoters/clubs etc on the folk scene are small scale and those doing the promoting do it in their own free time and often at their own expense, so to ask the question again why should/would they take a chance on a paid booking that simply wouldn't pay, i.e they would lose money on?