"What Jim likes is shite if you happen to wear a Slipknot tour T shirt"
And as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be......!!!
Al down to winning a place in the sun for the music some of us believe important
Irish musicians have told us of the time, not so long ago, when to carry a fiddle into a pub would guarantee your being instructed "don't open that feckin'; box or your out" - nw publicans a clamouring for musicians to run sessions in their bars - w have seven weekly sessions going over five nights over the winter in this one-street town - that'll increase over the next few months.
One of the finest fiddle players in Ireland told of how, when going to music lessons directly after school, he had to hide his fiddle for fear of ridicule or even physical attacks by his schoolmates - all gone now.
Thousands of youngsters are going to the veterans for lessons and takig up the music with believable enthusiasm and skill - instrumental traditional music has been guaranteed a future for at least another two generations.
All down to crashing through the barrier of (quite often self-interest generated) antagonism and antipathy on the part of the media controllers and their financiers.
I really don't care what the tee-shirters like or dislike - none of my business or interest.
I do care that attitudes not a million miles from yours, patronising at best, have allowed a predatory music industry to control what we can freely listen to over the licence-financed airwaves and tell us what we should like and dislike.
I have as little time for their music as they have for mine, but I wouldn't attempt to stop them from listening to it - I would just want the same rights to liste to it to be extended to me and those who share my tastes and interests.
Jim Carroll