On another, now closed, thread, there were a number of posts that seemed to be suggesting that you really shouldn't be allowed to listen to, play or have an opinion about any aspect of folk music unless you could absolutely prove your working class credentials. Probably going back several generations. You know, what with folk music, rather than Dizzee Rascal, the Streets and 50 Cent, being the music of the people.

So my question is, does this mean as the manager of a community mental health team, I should make a big bonfire in my garden of all my folk CDs and faithfully promise never to besmirch its reputation again by attempting to do something as downright impudent as listening to it?

Because it seems that us middle class people (especially the Guardian reading, leftie, union member variety) are spoiling folk music for everyone else.

Can I be the first to say sorry?

Cheers,

Nigel.