If I'm in country and western land I'm out there with Waylon and Willie and Kris and a bit of Johnny Cash and Glen Cambell and Emmy Lou maybe and not forgetting the great George Jones. But many others as well and more the song and performance than the singer at times, but I'll tell you this, Garth Brooks is one fine singer. even if the only song I like is the one mentioned above and only cover versions seem to be out there on youtube and often not very good ones. The fans though like the other songs and those fans, four hundred thousand of them have been treated very badly in the last few days. Whatever the rights and wrongs of it, it is not the fault of those who have purchased the tickets or planned their visit to Ireland around the event and preventing the concerts from going ahead in the light of this and the revenue it would have generated is madness. The simple solution would have been to allow the concerts and sort the differences out afterwards. But I suppose we don't do simple solutions and it reminds me of one of those Carry On films from the sixties where the shop steward would drop something on his big toe and bring everyone out on strike. It's a debacle in a long list of ones that would give it a run for its money, the medical cards, the driving licence, the water meters, the household tax, the health service and my head won't work anymore. I'm off to drag up an episode of "Yes Minister", the one with Toby and the regulation of the sausage. But maybe the mind's playing tricks! Would somebody just make a few phone calls and the concerts will go ahead. And no I don't have a ticket and wasn't going anyway but people would have got great enjoyment out of it and to spoil that... what can you say?
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