I always enjoyed the liveliness and humour that performers like Alex and Danny Kyle, Hamish Imlach and Nigle Denver brought to folkclubs and I suppose it's my age group who are classed as the 'older'audience. I found the pedantic attitued to ballads with 99 verses a bit off putting although I was entertained to a lesser degree. Maybe it's the absence(?) of performers similar to the above that is turning away the young, I don't know, but what I meant by 'folk revival' was the digging out and singing of those 'lost to the general public' songs and melodies. Alex was great fun but I don't think he added much to the knowledge of folk song, except maybe as a crowd puller who benefited from the knowledge of more trad musicians. I'm not putting Alex down as he was a great friend of mine but I thought a little perspective was neccessary (in my opinion).