A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN NOTTINGHAM.....*
*Not in the square though! In the course of my nearly 40 years as a music fan i've given most genres a listen, and i often consider myself to have fairly eclectic tastes. I've never dismissed a style of music outright, not without giving it a go, however brief! But a few have never really grabbed me: i'm still struggling with Jazz, Prog Rock baffles me, and Folk has just, well, bored me. I have to confess that i have often fallen prey to the notion that Folk music was the preserve of boring bearded men and warbling women in sensible jumpers and dresses, singing "fiddle-de-dee" with a finger in one ear. Some of the music i've been into has had folk or traditional music influences: XTC certainly had a few elements of traditional english music in their sound at one point, The Futureheads delved into it for their inspired Acapella album RANT!; and The Pogues bought their punked-up version of Celtic Folk to the masses. But the appeal of the source material has el