Erm...shouldn't your post be in the 'Do We Think We're Better than Them' thread? It's an absolute classic illustration..

..and just so's you know, I wasn't the one who brought They Who Must Not Be Mentioned into this thread, Richard did, so go smack his bottom.

You're doing them far more damage than I ever did, not that I ever did them damage, just got people talking about their music, buying their music...and it mattered not if people were arguing, because it was those very arguments that got people going off in search of their music.

What you're doing is making them out to be utterly disloyal to their fans, right pains in the arses and men who'll do anything to get themselves into the Traddie world.

Of course, I know they're not like that at all. However, you're continuing waspish whingeing is probably causing them far more embarrassment than I ever did.

And...it was because of that very reason, the one you quoted above about how artists find it hard to enter into arguments, that I chose to stand up for them in the first place, against...er...waspish whingeing posts against them, such as the ones you used to put on the BBC.

A lot of the reason why They Who Must Not Be Mentioned came in for such stick is not because of what I used to say about them, because I only ever praised and supported them, but it was because of the way the Traddies wanted all talk of them stopped, period, removed, deleted....mainly because they loathed their music and the way in which they were opening up the folk world to the kind of people who the Traddies also loathed....

So don't come your high fallutin' self-importance with me. Thank you.

If they've had to bow and kowtow to you lot because it's the only way they'll be accepted, fair enough. It's their music, they can take it wherever they choose to...but I find it strange Joan that the ONLY reasons you will mention about Show of Hands is to use them against me.

I'd have far more respect for you if you wrote about their music, or about how they did open up the world of English folk music. I look forward to thaat day coming, soon.


Hey, you can listen to 32 verses of any song you want. I've always said that everyone's different. Personally, I loathe that particular song I mentioned above, for the reasons I mentioned above. I did NOT say that you don't have to listen to them.

Please, leave your manic obsession with me behind..and don't dare to say that I was giving SoH crazed attentions, when I rarely saw them live in the first place, haven't even bought their latest CD, never oooh and ahhhhhh about them, just their music....and am one helluva lot less obsessed over them than YOU are over me.

And now, back to the Sweetness of The Traddies...


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