What most of these old gits who snidely disparage 'punk' fail to understand,
is just how similar it was to their prescription for Trad British Folk...

F'rinstance.. circa 1975-76 many of us smartarse Brit teenagers were sick
of all the trite conventions of prevailing rock & pop orthodoxies...
Singing in an affected American or 'transatlantic' accent was a particular irritant and call to arms...

We made a point of proudly singing punk rock in our own British accents...

I still enjoy 1950s and 60s British rock n rollers who avoided putting on a yank accent...
[it might have been shite rock n roll compared to the real USA deal,
but it has a charm all of it's own..]

We were teens who were at comfort being British,
without the nationalism and xenophobia still to be found amongst too many Britsh Trad Folk chauvanists...

I like a lot of music - some of it is British trad folk,
and some of that trad folk is barely listenable by most popular standards...
I also have a soft spot for outsider music..
Different music pleasures as the mood takes me...

there.. I suppose that's the closest I get to a mission statement...!!!

Right now I'm listening to mid 60s Brit band The Action..
1/2 an hour ago I played The Southlanders "I am a Mole" about 5 times in a row... I'm still smiling...

I'm off down to the kitchen now to listen to some Louis Jordan...