No you were just asking where the audience pissed off to, and I was suggesting a possible solution.

I think traditional music is a lot more complicated than most people allow. To be a John Kirkpatrick, Martin Carthy, Brian Peters or John Kelly takes hours of obsessive practice. Then it becomes worth watching.

The chances of being a sonwriter with something to say are slightly higher. You know what they say - everybody has got a book inside them. Maybe everybody has got a song.

But the sort of application it takes to become someone who can make people devour the detail - its something a bit different to strumming along to a jig or reel, or limping through a basic melody.

If I've got a chip on my shoulder - its being asked to find something interessting that really isn't all that spellbinding. In fact its being told that finding crap music unlistenable is some sort of lapse of taste on my part.