Oh fuck me here we go with another what the fuck is fucking folk music and why the fuck does it matter and is a fucking folk label fucking necessary. For fuck sake will someone tell me why it fucking matters...?? Music is fucking music...Traditional or not...surely that is the starting point....does that matter,,,,I think not.....derivative or not......no probs allowing for accreditation or historical or source references...good or bad ......sometimes down to taste or appreciation of style...........blah fucking blah fucking blah........Apologies to American cousins but the Brit folk scene seems to be extraordinarily anally retentive and intent on demeaning itself on an international message board............however as an Irish man can only offer an 'uncomfortably close to shore' opinion. Just to clarify the situation over here we have a great number of old and new bands some of them are greater than others. Some old bands who think that they deserve accolades because they sing 'trad' quite frankly are shite !! (Some however are excellent !!) Some new bands are shite.....doesn't matter if they pretend to tradition or nu folk. But there are a lot of exciting new bands around who can/will only benefit from a more liberal view of music............Why cant we all just enjoy a well written song, well played and well performed and not criticise based on compartmentalisation?......

Little Boxes Little Boxes and they're al;l made out of .........

Frank