"Because you're an illiterate fool."

Well, at least I'm not a bigot like you.

OK, now that I have a couple of minutes to waste, let me spell it out for you. I don't need a dictionary to define "ageist"; for the last 10 years I've worked with various organisations to actively promote a positive image of older people and to end the negative stereotyping and hurtful, derisive comments that are so often applied to the older generations. So, perhaps you would explain to me how lumping an older age group alongside elephants and dinosaurs as being the ones who would enjoy "plodding" music is NOT derogatory. Would the same be true if, instead on an age group, you had cited an ethnic group, people with a disability or those of a particular sexual orientation?

To get back to the matter of Fairport and Liege and Lief, I was 20 when I first heard it and was excited by the innovation (and folk music played in RayBan Aviators…DUDES!). Since then, I've continued to enjoy it (and wear the RayBans) but I'm also loving watching the rise of new, young artists like Lucy Ward, Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts, Blair Dunlop, The Old Dance School, etc. In fact, whilst taking a look at my CD collection, in the Ms alone, next to Ralph McTell, Mr Fox, Dougie Maclean and Mike and the Mechanics (how did they get there?) there are Mawkin, Megson, Mumford and Sons, Ewan McLennan, Laura Marling, Jim Moray....the list goes on.

Oh, and as for illiterate, perhaps you should check your own posts - hardly models of correct grammar and punctuation. Hoist by your own petard there, I'm afraid.