>>> A lot of people I know go for 'unique' music, with your Slipknot etc, but now that horrible stuff is becoming more and more mainstream, they'll need somewhere else to turn. Maybe they could grow to love folk music, because I think once you're into it, it is more than a passing phase...<<<

If I'm not at a folk festival or at a session in a pub, I do listen to Rock Music, I am a Rocker and proud of it. I listen to Slipknot and Cradle Of Filth and appreciate that music as much as I appreaciate John Brindley or Kate Rusby, I like both styles of music because in both they make the most out of the instruments they use.

For example in Folk music, you have fast jigs/reels, played at 100mph with motors in each finger, and you have the soft sweet melodic harmonies of many instruments played together, this is much the same in Rock music with Riffs and Licks played at 100mph and soft interludes and diferents played together complimenting eachother.

Many of you may disagree with me on this one, but it's just a thought.