I DON'T ignore the fact that the recent festival of music held in Corporation Park was an undoubted success and warmly received by the Blackburn public. But where were Tom Paulin?

For those in the dark, Tom Paulin are a band of Blackburn locals on the verge of great things.

Already regulars on prime time Radio One playlists, performing live on the John Peel Show and Top Tenners in the National Indie charts, it would be damning them with faint praise to simply refer to them as Blackburn's biggest act.

Despite the band's own indifference towards not being invited to perform, I feel they were badly let down by their home town.

The good people of Dartford and Cheltenham largely ignored the efforts of five young under-rated hopefuls soon to become known collectively as the Rolling Stones.

I speak on behalf of Blackburn's aesthetes when I wish Tom Paulin the same rate of failure.

ALAN TRUE (Mr), Whalley Old Road, Sunny Bower, Blackburn.