Going back to the original froots thread, one of the young people even looks like a folkie (albeit he needs to develop his beer gut a bit).

What I'm trying to work out is why anyone feels the need to bitch about this, or indeed to present a catch-22 of "Don't make them feel left out, they'll leave" but simultaneously "Don't welcome them, they'll think you want them to join the old folks' home".

Or why anyone feels impelled to denigrate Lewes as being "in the sticks" while asserting that "f*lk" is not truly a folk art since it is no longer done in the playgrounds of her youth.

Or indeed how such a person might denigrate the rest of us as out of touch while forgetting that staying at a place of music until 11 and then going out to dine is not only grossly discourteous to a babysitter but also hardly conducive to a good following morning when the babies are awake at 5 am and rousting the hangover.

There just ain't no pleasing some people.