Jim Carroll

Thamks Jim. That's much more what I wanted to hear. I'll just say that Ultimately, the decision to sing or not to sing always lay with the singers we met would have been better if it hadn't been followed by , but.
I wonder what you would have done in our situation! I'd have passed the information on to Walter and respected his decision. What else would I have had the right to do?

We were present one night at a London club, when an Irish flute player who had been recorded by the BBC, but was by then past his best, was totally humiliated by the residents
In 40 years, I have never been to a club where anything like that would be imaginable. Maybe we're just a bit more laid back here on the sunny Sussex coast. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the Joe Heaney incident or, to be honest, his performances but it sounds like bad programming. A bad move to put something subtle in front of a concert audience expecting rip-roaring whack-fol-di-riddle-o.

Bryan (The Snail)