"And I happen to think that Billy Bragg is truly a folk performer in the best sense of the term. He sings great songs about CONTEMPORARY issues that affect real people. If there had ever been a golden age that's what folk singers would have been doing."

Says who?

Oh how I hate the idea that music has to be 'relevant'! The idea that Folk Music has to be 'relevant' is a politically correct, Twentieth Century fabrication. It's a load of sanctimonius twaddle! The only things that Folk Music is, or has to be, relevant to is the human heart and imagination. Let's have less f*cking 'relevance' and more skill and passion. Over to you, Eliza ...

I stand by everything I said!