apologies to alanabit - will get to you soon as I can!

I suppose you could argue that really professional writers analyse the market - write what is necessary to make money, and the rest of us who write what god sends us are mere bumbling amateurs. And in the sense of strictly dollars and cents - maybe this true.

My wife always asks why don't you just write ordinary songs like you hear on the radio. Its a fair point - if no one gets to hear your songs apart from a few old beatniks in folk clubs - what the hell am I doing it for.

I think maybe its because I'm too old and stupid to do anything different. My hero has always been Tony Hancock in The Rebel - a boho activist in suburbia. I think I get off on that slight whiff of bohemian atmosphere that surrounds the great folk club players.

on second thoughts disregard all I've said - I'm the last one to be handing out careers advice.