the problem is not wit the maeketing opportunities or festival organisation.

on the contrary the middle class gang at bbc4,etc has given the folk world repeated creative opportunities ordinary musicians can only dream about.

the problem is the music. you have laboured mightily to create a style of music that alienates the general listener. you have suceded beyond your wildest dreams - now even great songs from the folk world are not making it to a wider market in the way that Ralph Mctell and the dubs did with in our generation.

all this stuff about the ist world war - where are Eric Bogle's - not in the charts. its old news to us, but might it not stir hearts that missed out June Tabor nearly forty years back. perhaps in a more accessible style.