Au contraire, I'm a traddy to the quick, at least when I'm listening to traditional music BTNG. What consenting adults get up to in the privacy of a pub back room is entirely up to them, my point is, and always has been, that the revival form they practice is a genre. Folk music died, or as near as dammit expired, with the coming of the music hall and that after a long series of attacks from other forms. What we call traditional was gathered from too few living sources to tell us anything useful about it, except it had become as exotic and rare as a burbot egg.

What people get grumpy about is the fading spirit of 1968, not 1768, the time when they were young and anything was possible. Folk music is not under attack and when people get that into their heads, the vituperative intolerance might fade with it.