Hello Buck!

I'm starting to get banned from more boards than I've had hot dinners! ;0).....And all because I won't stop talking about music!!

I am as you may have noticed..."subject to shame, abuse and ridicule on all boards regardless of your topic?"....although I'd remove the word ALL from there and put in Radio 2 Folk & Acoustic board. The artists I've always spoken about have been from the F&A world but some of them are on the Black List of The Folk Police....as indeed am I. ;0)

My grouch is that I was literally stopped from talking about the music that I love, on a board where it specifically says that you can er...'talk about the music that you love'..and where no genre at all is specified. So....I did...and now...the threads of three of those artists have been closed down with no explanation, my posts have been removed, even though I was pre-modded, and they were often the first posts I put on about the artists, so HOW could they be deemed spam???.....and I've now been banned for daring to repeatedly ask WHY...on the BBC messageboard...which I had to do over and over as NO-ONE answered me!! I'd written to the official complaints section THREE times, and was writing to the Mods on practically a daily basis, but had heard nothing, other than being told by the 'official' people to er..write to the Mods!!!

"Hello, your call is important to us, please hold the line".....well I did.....for AGES...and no-one came...so I erupted!! Aaaarrrgggghhh!

Now then, about John Prine. I have a confession!

A long while back, someone started a thread on the F&A board about him. Someone came on and said he was 'Country' and the track I heard sounded very 'Country' so I er...gosh...cripes!.....I agreed with the poster above me, politely suggesting that perhaps the BBC Country Board would be more appreciative and put a link in to that board for him...but...I was *very* polite! Someone pointed out that it was all really just music and I realised they were absoluely right....and so I humbly apologised to said poster and found this for him as a token of apology:

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3677

Hope you enjoy it too.....

And now..I shall sit back and watch the Moaning Minnies have a field day with that story. But...at least I'm honest! ;0)

AND..I'd also like to point out that John Prine should be able to be spoken about on the Music Club board as well, and I'm sure he would be permitted....but just not if he were playing with Seth Lakeman, Show of Hands or The Oysterband it would seem!

"Your BBC" HAH!

Oh and someone sent me this yesterday, from the BBC board.

"The real test of any organisation is how it deals with complaints from the public." - Michael Grade BBC Chairman


DOUBLE/TRIPLE/QUADRUPLE HAH!! Well, I'll tell you how the BBC deals with complaints from its public!! They throw you into Room 101 for daring to ask why, then chuck the key away, whilst letting ignorant twits roam their boards, deeply insulting and verbally abusing people left, right and centre!

"YOUR BBC" Oh Really????????


Lizzie :0)