Wow!

What a lot of not-very-well-informed mouthfoaming is mixed in this thread alongside the well-informed stuff! I thought I was having a flashback to 2003-2005 and uk.music.folk, where all this stuff about PRS was put to bed for everyone who didn't read the daily mail (and i've recently found all the information I posted for their benefit!).

As a small-time songwriter, through singing my own songs in small pubs and folk clubs and folk festivals I've made some people poorer by the price of admission but richer in other respects, and (thanks to PRS) I've made a few better-known songwriters/folksingers a bit better-off (Richard Thompson, Steve Knightley, Nic Jones, Roger Wilson spring to mind) - and in addition the royalties the PRS has collected on my behalf have supplemented what is a very meagre income from a very worthwhile creative career (anybody on this thread work in banking/advertising/defence/corporate law etc., etc.?)

So I say thankyou for the music, the song I'm singing
Thanks for all the....(I'll get my coat)

Dan Plews