There's nothing wrong with birthday threads of folk musicians. I like to read them (mostly). But I'd wish Shambles would (1) add the date of birth to the thread title (2) add the BS tag to birthdays of non-folk musician people (3) add some information (or a link) who the person is in the opening post
This way I feel these threads would be more user friendly.
I still fail to see why Shambles does not follow these simple recommendations for following them only could make his birthday threads more usefulr than they already are.