count yourself very lucky. all we have in this country is talented musicians wasting their time on songs and tunes that for the most part would have been better off dying out.

any songwriting is immediately castigated as navel gazing rubbish. usually by people who think they can empathise with the chaps in nelson's navy or mine and factory workers who lived lives of utter degradation. whilst at the same time they can't empathise with anybody whose clothes don't have the same expensive labels as their own.

No one has been appointed, but plenty are doing the determining of what is and isn't folk on a freelance basis.