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Thread #165971 Message #3987221
Posted By: GUEST,Kevin Boyd
13-Apr-19 - 05:43 PM
Thread Name: Martin Carthy's Internet presence
Subject: RE: Martin Carthy's Internet presence
Just to clarify a couple of things:
Come Sing It Plain... has been my personal Martin Carthy fansite for about the last 18 years. I’ve always been at pains to make it clear it’s an unofficial fansite but there are only so many times you can repeat the same mantra and eventually you have to choose to ignore the regular emails that invariably start with, “Hi Martin, I saw you at the Dog & Duck in 1972...”
The Martin Carthy Broadcast Archive is pretty much what you might expect from the name – an attempt to catalogue as many of Martin’s radio and TV performances as possible.
Both were/are entirely my own work and Martin has absolutely no involvement with either of them – I’m not entirely sure he knows they exist and would be astonished if he even cared!
I have Facebook and Twitter pages I use to publicise the sites and occasionally post related content. I recently posted on these my intention to discontinue both sites. This was a personal decision to scale back my general social media presence – something I’ve been thinking of doing for several months - and a reflection on the fact that I think the main site has perhaps run its course (or maybe, more to the point, that I’ve run out of interesting and innovative ways of engaging with it).
On reflection, and based on feedback I’ve received, perhaps this was an overreaction. I hadn’t realised how many people value the work I’ve put into the sites over the years and it’s been humbling to hear from some of those people over the last few days.
So, the plan now is to keep both sites available for at least the foreseeable future but there are likely to be fewer (if any) updates. I’ll decide whether to retain presences on Facebook and Twitter in due course.