Why folk music is beginning to lose its relevance.

As a member of a duo who were banned from the sun inn folk open mic for having views which superceded the value of a 15th cnetury cornish fishin' village, I would like to state my opinion of today's folk music and singers.

Is not folk in the end about the people (i.e folk) and should not be classed as a certain musical spieces such as Bodrum, guitar and wailing out of tune voices, but the basic principal of the song. Punk in its finest non-school kid whining aspect is just a contempary version of what people were trying to say 200years ago.

People who refuse to seee this, mostly the middle classes who sing about the struggle of the people but would shit themselves if an ethnic minority moved next door are destroying whats left of this fine heritage. For homework listen to Jello Biafras working of Phil Oak's "Love me I'm a Liberal" for meaning.

Until the wax jacket cretins realise that Folk can be fun and not 100 verses of Dilly Dally my dear Sally and can include3 topics from the last 20years then the music will become irrelevant. If somehow this trend can change we can all get back to what it really means. A voice for the people through music.

MY TWO PENNIES!