I saw that tour in the Lyceum in London...I think "Police Car" was Larry Wallis not Nick Lowe ...or Larry Wallis and the Whole Wide World...

For "Quirky" "Punky" and "Folky" you can't do much better than Attila the Stockbroker ... and some of the stuff Jah Wobble is currently doing... is very folk orientated

I also think Robb Johnson ( www.robbjohnson.co.uk )is a musician (playing in lots of folk clubs) who has a significant amount of punk sensibilities about his stuff - and he does a cracking acoustic version of London's Burning