Suibhne - ah. I'd missed that earlier comment of RA's. Perhaps I was a bit too charitable.

On the other hand, does anyone like your music and Jim Causley's? Would you want to be championed with "almost as good as Mawkin:Causley", or "if you liked Mawkin:Causley then check out Sedayne!"

I think one reason I was fairly relaxed about the original line is that I don't think "self-regarding bollocks" is that bad, as it goes. I work on the basis that all singers are basically self-indulgent egotists (I include myself, of course) - we're all saying "hey, look at me! me, look at me!", and there's something fundamentally ridiculous about that. All singers are clowns, especially the ones who take themselves most seriously. (This is a modified form of my original theory that all performers are self-indulgent egotists; I ran that one past my wife, who said "Are you calling Michael Gambon a wanker?" There's no answer to that.)