Others in this thread have mentioned 18-hour days while on the road. This is work, every minute of it. It also equates with a wage of under £100 a day at minimum wage rates. This is far worse than unimpressive. It is slave labour.

To count the two hours spent on stage as the only work done in the day is stunningly idiotic. John Kirkpatrick was trying to be ironic. I must try and remember to tell him how completely his song passes by those 'real' men who believe 'work' only occurs in factories and, presumably, on nightshift. What do THEY do in the daytime, I wonder?

Your middle one-liner paragraph is utter crap, incomprehensible in its sheer obtuseness:

What is 'the folk community'?
What 'way of life'?
Who 'enjoys' it?
In what way is anyone, least of all me, 'insulting' anyone (apart from those who persist in insulting musicians by not seeing the need to pay them properly, obviously?)