Will, thanks for your reply. You may be interested to know if you don't already that someone is working on a documentary film on Davy Graham. Just a few weeks back they were in Paris visiting the locations where he used to busk back in the early sixties.
I remember Malcolm Price telling me about those times and about three guys that used to share a pad there during their busking days. Bidets were pretty well unknown to Brits at the time and Malcolm told me how one guy used the bidet to piss in, one to puke in and the other to wash is hair.
Sorry about the thread creep and getting off subject.

Dick, as has been pointed out above you have gone off at a tangent re fingerpicking / busking / electrification / performance.
I rarely visit folk clubs but have seen some very good younger guys fingerpicking. I normally attend sessions where fingerpicking is not really practical in a group of six or more which includes banjos. However I do know six players at least four of whom are very capable at fingerpicking given the right circumstances.