Sean Cannon used to work unaccompanied for the main part. I was quite surprised when at an after gig party he picked up a guitar and sung Sweet Thames Flow Softly - beautifully, I might add.

I think when I begun doing pro gigs - the technical problems were so numerous and overwhelming and expensive to solve - along with the problem of knowing virtually no countrty music songs - that it all became sort of absorbing for me. And I did enjoy struggling with those p[roblems - and in it - learning about the bravery of a showbiz footsoldier - one who goes onstage with a not very good act, and is quite grateful for the indifference of a noisy audience - a quiet inner place, where you can work out technical stuff. I sort of feel sorry for folkies who never experienced that. Never learned to take a noisy room by the scruff of the throat. I feel its a vital skill, and one can't really aspire to 'folk' music without it. Or perhaps I should say, I can't aspire - because I know some of you feel differently, and it wiouldn't do for us all to be the same.