Lets face it folk clubs run by old people are boring for young people.

That is not a given - just the perception of a lot of young people. And there is enough evidence to make them think it is universal. But then when we were young there was this arguement about upstarts like Bob Dylan et al and didn't Peter Kennedy have an argee bargee with the establishment about the use of the word ceilidh instead of barn dance &/or folk dance?

Plus ca change.