"Spot on. You have no interest yet you are happy to say 'it hardly survived a decade'."
No I don't Dave - others do - I jusy pass on the information
The fact that I have no interest in it doesn't miss I am unaware of it - how could you miss something as loud as that
It's not possible to to keep up with a genre that comes with a built-in shelf life unless you are prepared to scrabble around the dustbins
No-one lives in a bubble any more - they only have to log in to find what's happening - and god knows, there are enough people o this forum to put yuo straight
I put up the Spotify list - nothing younger than twenty years
Steeley Span - Fairport - Albion - Oyster - come-on - they've had more revivals than Frank Sinatra
Jethro Tull - inspires a picture of stages needing wheelchair ramps

"but at times I do like to get out and do something else :-)"
Why - can't you do both ?
I stop swimming when I need a piss - that's the only reason I have to "get out" of a music that still fills my life

Jim