"your utter contempt for all the in the folk music organisers"
No it damn well is not.
My objection is the fact that what goes on today has nothing to do with folk music - beyond that, I have neither the interest nor the knowledge of the alternative product to be contemptible of it - all I know is that it is not folk music.
The contempt is entirely the other way in the open declarations of contempt for the singers who gave us our songs.
I have insulted nobody as a performer on this forum
One of the problems of the folk scene today is that they have wrapped themselves in a cocoon to avoid criticism of what they do - criticism is not contempt and every other creative art for is subject to having their work held up to public scrutiny.
Not the folk song revival, it woould appear
I can't hear the words of Bounty's two songs - no matter how long he has being performing them - that is what I said and that is what I meant.
The "noise" I referred to is a fact - no publican we ever ra a club in would have tolerate loud amplified music in his upstairs room - we have noigh of the problem from the opposite direction when pubs began installing loud juke-boxes.
That was not a critical statement - it was an established fact.
My point here right along is that many folk clubs have abandoned folk music - nothing more.
"insulted myself and other members of this forum, you will be very very sorry."
And now we have threats of violence - thanks for the illustration of the level to which this discussion has sunk to.
THIS FORM OF THUGGERY HAS NO PLACE ON AN OPEN DISCUSSION FORUM - NEVER REPEAT SUCH A THREAT TO ME AGAIN
Jim Carroll