'Paul, the cost is not the issue.' Sorry Tom, of course it is. For the reasons you just listed. I'm well aware of the 'old boys networking' and the role of 'pluggers' That's how acts are promoted, it's naive(?) to think that success in the media is achieved without these things. Promoting an act, project or a single artist is a matter of finance. That's a fact of media life and nothing to do with 'folk'.