Meanwhile back at the ranch. Millions of people are getting confused because they heard the exciting sounds The Imagined Village produced and thought, "Mm this folk music is good."

They saw a sign saying "Folk music here tonight" and got all excited.

They sat incredulously whilst an old bloke with his trousers up to his tits stuck his finger in his ear and warbled some unintelligible words.

Perhaps they misjudged. They didn't like The Imagined Village or folk after all.

They asked Musket about it. Musket said he tolerated all sorts that couldn't be described as entertainment to many, but we all suffer for our art..... (There are very few singers that cause Musket to nip for a piss, but you can only hear The Foggy Dew so many times.) Arthur C Clarke was asked by Stanley Kubrick how he could read some of the pulp science fiction? He gave the same answer as I give about a lot of music I may not personally like as entertaining music, but enjoy using it as a base to inform new songs and arrangements.

Folk music? It evolves, so evolve it... The traditional genre has given us some wonderful raw material. No point in leaving it raw and uneaten.