There's not one thing even the most outraged among you can do . . .

There are many things such as:

* lobbying for increased and better distributed national and regional arts funding
* pressure on organisers/promoters for more professional standards at venues
* campaigning for higher standards of music tuition through the education system,

a combination of which will lead to vastly increased public awareness and national pride in the tradarts which an entire generation has been taught to despise and ignore. This can and must be reversed.

'Good enough for f*lk' was a catchphrase of the late Alex Campbell (a one-time excellent Scottish musician who was frequently - like Uncle Fred - completely pissed onstage). I always assumed he meant the words ironically but he was all too often too far out of it to distinguish the difference. Jolly funny chap though he could be, such highly unprofessional behaviour is not the way to go. And perpetual wannabes should stay in their bedrooms, or at least venture no further than Nigel's sitting room.