Ironic at my expense I might add...

Personally I feel such a condescending, superior attitude is implicit in the whole sorry business of folk revivalism. It's the patronising imperial paternalistic core of the thing that Kipling evokes so perfectly in his poem The Land.

Mostly, and happily, and vibrantly, working-class cultural & musical experience thrives without such patronage as it has done for 50,000 years; it is a popular feral reality that continues to astonish, though precious little of it, as I keep saying, would be of any interest to Folk Enthusiasts for whom Folk is Heritage music.

Sorry, I must go and throw up.