I always find these articles faintly depressing, as they all have one story. It goes"there was this boring thing, and along came young ------------ and made it exciting/relevant /annoyed the purists".
I have a very diferent world-view, this story has no interest to me, and bears no relevance to my own feeling about music. I used to love the Watersona in the 60's. They were young(a lot younger than Bellowhead now, at a gues). But I have ne memory of thinking "My, how young and relevant and anti-beardy they are". I used to go and seek out olde performers in pubs as they seemed to be remembering stuiff that was worth hearing.They were great too.I used to buy 1920's records of blues singers and the Louis Armstrong Hot Five(very young and trendy when they recorded).I also listened to lots of young noisy drug-crazed long-haired electric guitarists.They were great.
    Bellowhead are musicians. I listen to them as that, and judge them as that. Not whether they are young, relevant, push boundaries, shock people with Arran sweaters and beards, etc etc.