Believe it or not,I do not have an axe to grind with Folk Roots,the last time they reviewd an album of mine it was a favourable review,however I take strong exception,to Ian Anderson suggesting I am on drugs.
Colin Irwin was talking at the AFO conference about the way he feels the folk movement developed a bunker mentality in the 80s and 90s (I wasn't there having been one of those who moved away for various reasons), with different groups going to ground, taking their values and philosophies with them. I believe that much of the conflict we see here and elsewhere is down to the way these separated groups found themselves meeting up again in the naughties through the internet and blossoming festival scene, and finding they now had very different and conflicting values[qoute from Tom Bliss]
well I was doing a lot of gigs in the eighties and nineties,and I dont know what the hell he is talking about,but then I dont take seriously any folk journalists,if he means bunk up mentality,then there was a bit of that alright [but not enough].
Bunker mentality: what does this mean,were we all supposed to be dressing up like Hitler,and taking cyanide tablets?