BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: GUEST,c.sparra
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 02:33 PM

Afrocelts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A breath of fresh air at last. More power to you. Now if you don't start behaving nicely to each other, it's the silken whip for the lot of you!

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: Chris Amos
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 02:26 AM

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 12:23 PM

Promises, promises...;-)

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 05:00 PM

True enough, the Beatles haven't been doing too much as a group during the last 30 years.

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: GUEST,Santa
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 12:06 PM

Some way back, there was a complaint that songs about the working man were only being sung by the middle classes.

Perhaps this is because there is a noticeable shortage of miners, sailors, ship-builders, fishermen, etc left to sing?

Or possibly because class definitions have a habit of squirming away when closely studied? Is Jez Lowe middle or working class? Johnny Handle was a miner. Ron Baxter was a sailor (though please don't let him sing...!) Tom Lewis and Cyril Tawney were in the Navy.

Perhaps we should complain because those who sing the Border Ballads don't go a-reiving any more? No-one should be allowed to sing songs from the Civil War or Napoleonic times or the Clearances? Only Scots can sing Burns songs.

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: fat B****rd
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 04:30 PM

Hello, Santa. You're referring to my post, I believe.I must concede the point made in your fourth paragraph. When I screech my version of Charley Patton's "Oh, Death" I can't pretend to have come hotfoot from Dockery's Plantation.
Your observation about class definitions in your third paragraph is also (IN MY OPINION) on the ball.
All the best from the non-malicious fB.

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 04:35 PM

Does anything of the above discussion matter the slightest jot?

Will it improve a life, or make someone happier?

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: fat B****rd
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 04:39 PM

Hello,Guest Ed. Is that you that used to be just Ed ?

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 04:42 PM

Possibly. Your point?

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: fat B****rd
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 04:44 PM

Does there have to be one ?

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 04:50 PM

Maybe you should read Albert Camus, or maybe I should shut up. I'll leave it up to you to decide which fits best.

Subject: RE: BS: BBC Radio 2 Folk and acoustic Message bo
From: fat B****rd
Date: 22 Jan 04 - 04:56 PM

I read "The Plague" years ago and no you shoudn't shut up. Goodnight and good luck.