It's a funny business this music business,you gotta play it cagey..let me share this story with you when iam here...just before the new year got an e mail from a record company in England(i'm based in Scotland)...Mr Moore,would you be interested in joining us,we are one of the UK's biggest "download" agents,we have access to all the major download sites worldwide,if you could provide the "artwork" we would be delighted to add some of your songs to our portfolio for downloads,in fact we will pay you an advance,we are so confident that in 6 mnths we will re-coup it...big Jim would say "i smell a rat"...gotta say so did i..hmmn,sounds too good to be true,wrote back,and said thanks,but no thanks,sounds too good to be true,whats the catch?...guy wrote back ...no catch..sign up with us,we will give you an advance..nah!..these things don't happen,anyway i sell and offer direct downloads from my own site..but thanks anyway...a couple of days later the guy writes back..Mr Moore,we are actually an agency as well, who trace uncollected royalties worldwide,you have a substantial amount of uncollected royalties from your songs...oh! ..i wrote back ..which songs? he hit me with 5 or 6 titles,so i thought, he must be "kosha"...ah! so that is why you can give me an advance..yes he replied...anyway the story will come to a conclusion in the next week or two,they are paying me these uncollected royalties in April(minus 20%)..but hey it's cash i didn't know i had...i will let you know when the cheque is paid in...then i may do business with this guy..so far so good,he seems straight up....Cheers Terry..