All through my folk-following "career" I have heard people on stage or
performing from the floor saying things I didn't agree with, and asking
(or even expecting) the audience (including me) to agree with them. My
politics may have changed in that time, however subtely, but that's not
the point. If I like the music I listen to it - if I don't I "switch
off".

If I took the views of everyone whose music I like too seriously, my
music collection would be a lot smaller and I'd have had a lot less fun.

I used to be a big MS fan, and I have lapsed more through laziness
than aversion. I have seen her live on at least two occasions, and
still wish I had had the presence of mind to see her at a small, free,
gig in Reading UK soon after I first heard of her.

Simon