It is of course good to take the opportunity to big up "Looking For A New England"

Yes, I'd have thought that was exactly what some people would have equated with a "new folk revival of folk music in england" as per the thread title and said "mutterings in the media", rather than a couple of indie band with banjos. Except that I'm also rather in agreement with what Ms Borchester wrote somewhere up above about it being a continuing process rather than a staged, stop-start one with number signs. I never liked the term "revival" anyway as it implied that the old tradition was a stiff, clearly patent nonsense. I always thought the term "revival was a bit of self-aggrandisement by MacColl and co, to make themselves seem more important in the schemes and tides of history. Looking back now, they seem more like a log jam in the stream.