Might be a coincidence then, but he calls himself a folk singer, has done well in BBC Radio 2 folk awards and both Mark Radcliffe and Mike Harding have given him plenty of air time, on their folk programmes. Not bad for mediocre pop....

Your comment "in the idiom" is quite interesting Michael. I have mentioned folk singers adapting rock songs in this thread, and as the thread is about new songs being folk songs, it makes Noddy Holder and Bob Geldoff writers of folk songs, thanks to Martin Carthy and Dave Burland respectively. Both songs are of course folk because in years to come, old men with their Lycra space suits up to their tits will refer to them as reflecting events, lives and thoughts of the age.

Space Girl.. Is it a folk song because it is science fiction or because MacColl and Seeger wrote it?

Meanwhile back at the ranch.. I sang Elton John's Daniel last night. Gave an introduction about the song, the missing verse etc and assuming Jim has the appropriate triplicate forms available, I would like to try and register it as a folk song.

Perhaps Jim will explain his comments above that as he likes two of the acts I mentioned but not the third, that one (Sethman) isn't folk.

There you have it. Folk is whatever Jim likes. If he either doesn't like it or he hasn't heard it, it can't be folk.

Just so we know the ludicrous stance this thread is dealing with.

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