I have to plead guilty of leading people on into thinking that leaflets are more important than they actually are. I will always glance at leaflets left lying round at festivals and might take one even if there is only the vaguest chance of my following it up. I almost always take one if they are handed directly to me at a session. I put them into the zip pocket of whatever instrument case I have at the time and then promptly forget them. A year or so later, when I am searching through some music or lyric sheets, I find a collection out of date leaflets that finally make it to the recycling box.

I used to accept leaflets handed out in the street, whatever the subject, and then bin them after a quick glance once I was politely out of sight of the distributor. I now decline them but sometimes wonder what offers I have missed, even though I know that I would have been unlikely to take them up.

DC