Jim Carroll

Then why did you tell me you couldn't give me what I'm looking for?

I didn't.

And I have said many times that accepting no standards other than "wanting to" can and has led to unacceptably poor performances

Maybe it can; maybe it has, but that doesn't mean it always will. It hasn't at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club. Your analysis may be a little simplistic. There may be other factors to consider.

Despite our differences I include your name among the noted few Bryan and have done since I first communicaed with you.

Thank you, Jim, for your support over the last couple of years but I'd rather not be counted amongst the noted few if you don't mind. That would involve accepting your damning assessment of all the other excellent clubs in the country.

My statement was addressed directly to Don (Wyziwyg)T (read it) whose bullying and haranguing has done little to back up his own arguments, let alone dissuade me of mine.

You would leave your work on the shelf just because one person has annoyed you? Actually your statement ends "apart from the notable few; no sign of anybody here." so I think you may have had rather more people than Don in mind.

I get no feedback whatever from our English material (a kind offer from an old friend on Mudcat but no idea if there is a call for what we have).

You seem to have completely forgotten the ballads thread on which you said "The number of hits on this thread should lay the ghost that nobody sings ballads anymore - thanks for that CS."

A correspondant on another thread has just lumped me under the collective description of "collectors and other thieves" - all very inspiring.

Yes, one of the "I haven't been to a folk club for thirty years because I know how crap they are" brigade. Please do not hold anybody else responsible for anything Glueman says.

And the disinterest and antipathy I have encountered on Mudcat towards the music I have been listening to for the last half century and the suggestion that it takes no effort on the part of the performers before it is placed before the public, and the equating of it with pop-pap....... etc. saddens me.

That's because you blank out of your mind anything that doesn't fit your built in prejudices.