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a week on Monday [the 30th of November] I shall be cycling on the Ernest Lumley [ my pet name for my bicycle] north to Burnley and beyond, armed with just 17 songs and my harmonica. Optimism is in the air at Heaton Acres, however, and the new band have swallowed the new songs whole and spat them out as country nuggets. Obviously in these current climes of X Factor domination and Jordan and Andre getting back together for a Christmas single [don't bet against it], we have to be patient. These indeed are low times for a high brow singer and it would be tragic for us to lose home grown artists such as Hawley, Cocker and Heaton, to the passing storm of The Cowell Dollar and the plastic breast. We must cling to the rocks together, safe in the knowledge that this storm, like all those before it, will pass or burn itself out, battering the very rocks we cling to. Then slowly we shall rise- Tilbrook, Costello, Morrissey, Difford, Heaton, Hawley, Cocker, Weller, Bragg and many more, til next year will finally herald the return of something we thought we'd lost, the sweet call of the English Songbird!
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