From: "Phil Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > But if you want to have a bash at Tony Blair, the Church of England or > the Performing Rights Society please feel free. I may or may not take > issue with you. Either way it won't ruffle my patriotic feathers.
You have "patriotic feathers"! That's more than I have. I think the closest I get is that I do support my county of birth (England) in sport. It would also be fair to say that I would never want to bring our country down (although there are issues that I would argue quite strongly against) but I think that is a little different to feeling patriotic. I think some of it with me is that I lived most of my life in Wales and have never felt I belonged to any one country of the UK. This is compunded by a sort of arrogance that in many people seem to think England = UK... To get more on to music, sometimes I have problems, particularly on the BBC board. It can be arugued (or more accurately this is my interpretation) that as one is English, one should be supporting English music but on a session/playing level, my choice tends to be Irish and I don't feel any obligation towards English music. That of course is not to argue there is not great music from England, that Irish music is superior, or that any musical heritage is not important. It's just the way my own tastes with playing in sessions has taken me. Jon To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
