"Hmmm, well you were self-promoting."

Nonsense, lady. I was reacting to an inferred critical judgment based on nothing but an apparent all-consuming bigotry and, by offering to provide you with the means, hoping to turn that baseless criticism into something quantifiable and justifiable. Why don't you understand that?

"And I was just telling you how it is. I'd listen to you . . . eventually."

I've already said, three times, that's what I expect. I accepted what you'd said - three times I stated it. I've had reviews before, I'm aware that there's a process and it takes time - I said I understood, three times. Why don't you understand that?


"I know you won't be better than Nic Jones at performing Annachie Gordon.
But you'd surely be better than Mary Black. Aren't you?"

I've re-read my posts very carefully, and I can't find anwhere where I've compared the quality of my performance of Annachie against Nic's. In fact I said I've never heard it - which is the truth. I never compare my own performances against those of others (except in the privacy of my own mind when trying to assess how to 'do' a song, or whether it's ready to play out), and you won't provoke me to. Nic and Mary are very talented and successful artists, I stake no claim to be their equal. Nic is Nic, Mary's Mary, I'm John. Three people - three singers of the same song. The link ends there. Why don't you understand that?

"Well, I'll see if it turns up . . . "

It will, if you want it to. So far you've only told me to send it 'if you want to', and that you're so busy you probably won't have time to listen to it. I told you earlier that I can't please everyone, and that I won't turn myself inside out trying. Whatever you say about it (and I suspect that that would be subject to a pretty profound degree of bigotry if the stuff you've posted on here is anything to go by), it won't have any effect on me, because you're just one small voice amongst many. Your views may or may not have validity, but no more so than anyone else's. Why don't you understand that?

Time to do something useful.
'Bye