walk away I should run away from this bloody site!

'Indeed they did. Unfunny 'comedians' and wifty-wafty pseudo-celtic new-age shit all but destroyed it, had it not been for English dance musicians through the 1980s up to the early 90s when things began to look up again. In the intervening years, the very last place to seek out trad was a 'f*lk' club.'

brilliant exposition of where you stand on the folk revival - its just the common tide of humanity who screwed up the folk revival - with their insatiable desire for songs about their own lives rather than their grandads, if possible delivered with degree of humour.

No I can see you're not intersted in where I (or indeed anybody else) might have gained access to different ideas.

Ask Jim what you like I wasn't disputing your right to do that.