Jimmy! Come on mate put them straight I know that you are reading this thread and having a chuckle. It was you! You were the singer in question and it was you who told me about the thread two weeks ago down at the Abby Folk Night in Leeds was it not? Until then had no idea that I was the one playing Guitar in The Endeavour, or indeed that the session I was playing in was the one, which so offended Nick!

As far as I was concerned I was sitting down and managing to play along "with one of the finest Piano Accordionists in England" I Quote The Tanerhill Weavers and what they said about him back in 1982 in Italy a the Week before he toured Italy with Iona. I was also playing along with one of the best MC I have ever heard. The only reason that I have heard his work as an MC was that I was doing some research in the Radio Leeds Sound Archives, for Folk on the Night Network; I came across a real of Leeds Own Folk a program recorded around 1963 in the Grove Folk. The programme featured Lou Killen and the legendary MC was Jim Potter. Jim Potter is also a very fine performer and folk song collector in his own right.

Jimmy, and you can quote me Jimmy, has a wonderful voice and was one of my regular singers who I would always find a spot for when I had the honour of being the MC at the Grove Folk Club a few years. Jimmy earn as far as I was concerned the right to finishing one of the singers nights at the Grove and proving my judgement to be correct did a fine job. Jimmy, who still I believe sings down at the Grove in Leeds and at the Abbey in Newly Lane in Leeds on a Tuesday Night, has got better over the years. I say believe because for the last few years, although I am still for now based in Leeds, been a regular in the Endeavour in Whitby most weekends. The Endeavour has a Folk Night on a Saturday all through the year. I go to as often as possible! It has a tradition of every one joining in to support were necessary other singers and musicians over the Noise at the bar. It is a PUB people go in there to have a drink and a chat and a good time. It is defiantly not a sit down don't smoke don't speak or enjoy yourself Folk Club. Not that there is anything wrong with that but as an introduction to Folk it is not great. The FILO Folk night, once a month, or the Micklefield Folk Club and The Robin Hoods Bay Folk Club cater for those who like myself sometimes wish to sing in a nice quiet room on a Friday or Saturday night. The Endeavour Session, unlike a lot of purely Musicians Sessions, gives way to both songs and tunes whilst allowing others to join in and support or try to support others. Request from the Singers or Musician to perform a solo of course are respected. This was not the case with our Jimmy. But who really wants to sit there for two or three hours to sing or play one song? Whilst super stars flit from one singer around to another singing there Whitby song of the year. You must have heard the Melodeon session hoppers playing Follow The Plough! Hopping from pub to pub so that as one has left after his performance yet another arrives to play Follow The Plough with varying degrees of competency that could not be blamed on the 16 morons with there Boron's.

But if you like I'll apologise for four old friends getting together and spontaneously supporting each other and having a good time in Whitby Folk Week and upsetting the Folk Police. However you may have noticed Nick that I have omitted the name of the Piano Accordionist. The reason is that you know his name he has featured in at least one of your contributions to the Mudcat Forum before. I hope that your vilification of a Booked Guest at Whitby Folk Week has nothing to do with other matters. The reason that I will not be signing a record contract with anyone, including Mr Tubular Bells, Sir Richard Branson, or Dave Bulmer without letting my solicitor read it and approves it! Have nothing to do with the fact that Dave Bummer is great piano accordion player.

For those who remember Jim Potter I am pleased to say that I have been invited by Brian Senior to do a spot at The Holbeck Moor Mummers Christmas Bash down at the Grove in Leeds on the 22nd of December 2006 and Jim Potter will be there.