Ok you guys, my experience of one of these fast tracked young "stars" was his reply to an honest comment, I suggested that he was not enjoying his first set, this was answered by a tirade of abuse and shouting and being called a nobody, " I have a degree in folk music, who do you think you are talking too!, you're a nobody, you know nothing". Well he may have an opinion, but I had paid to get in and I was being short changed, indeed I nearly left at the interval. What forty years going around the clubs has given me are a lot of friends and an appreciation of everyone's endeavour. I think Newcastle should teach it's students a little humility. I overheard Alan Ayckbourn once say that he would rather employ someone who had done a season in Pitlochry than someone straight out of RADA, I feel that doing the "porridge" is necessary if only to make the graduates less unpleasant.