Art: It's interesting what you say about the plastic tables.

My problem was the other way round. Being able to carry a song but not having a distinctive voice, or anything else unique to bring, performing my own material was, I thought, the only way I was prepared do it. As I didn't seem then, to be able to write anything else, but things that sounded to me pretty much like your 'plastic tables', I didn't really want to perform at all.

When I discovered that maybe I had got something to offer in the way of writing original material, I desperately wanted to perform that, but nobody elses (including good old Anon). I suppose my thinking was, why should I perform their songs when they don't perform mine? Or if I don't perform my songs then nobody will hear them, and I'll never know if they are any good. So don't waste time doing someone elses songs when I could be doing my own.

Now that I (we) have been performing my and other original material (plus a few good non original ones that the other band members wanted to play) for some time now, I have changed my views.

There are so many GREAT songs out there, that say things better than I could myself, I can't seem to find enough room to fit them all in.

But it seems that I had to go through that process before I could see it.