"And I'm suspicious of those who know all the words and sing along with steve at concerts. theres a lot of antebellum nostalgia going on there.

And there's a sort of inherent rejection about the way our country is in the lyrics."

Yes, it really is very suspicious when people know the words of songs and sing along with them at concerts. And there's an awful lot of that goes in in the folk world.

And all this antebellum nostalgia. Like Billy Bragg with "Between the Wars". Or those songs about the Great War.

And you get these people who keep on saying that there are things about the way the country is that they don't like.

Of course you could say that it rather makes a difference what those things they don't like actually are. I mean there's a marginal difference between wishing there weren't any black people here and wishing the BNP and maybe a few other parties would vanish off the face of the earth.