Michael Morris: my phrasing was ambiguous. I meant people keep singing hunting songs in Cumbrian pubs, but the singers are clearly not hunters, as hunting has been made illegal.(There is, I have to say, a little irony in my remark.)

Re Graham Bradshaw's remark "The question is, will any current commercial success generate a renewed interest in the folk club format? Probably not, unless they are being run by the same age group who started them up way back then, ie the teens and 20s."
I have just played as guest at the Kit and Cutter folk club in Deptford, the second night of its existence. The place was packed, ram jam solid, and the organisers are both(I think) in their early twenties.Whether this is a sign of things to come, who can say?