WMD
"We have lost people! - the entire population of england has pissed off whilst these clever sods dig up some rubbish from the library at Cecil Sharp house, run it up the flagpole and expect salutes all round."
No - they/we (I was one of those soldiers) pissed off when we were offered a diet of badly performed material at 'folk clubs' which could range from The Beatles to Borodin - not because of the imposition of standards.
"the whole bloody point of folkmusic though, is that its made by people who couldn't stick to four beats in a bar if their life depended on it."
Must tell that to Tommy Peoples the next time he turns up at our local session.
Thanks for that; it sums up perfectly all I was trying to say about the contempt folk music is held in (even by some of its so-called advocates)
Jim Carroll