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.
MacColl, acheived much more than you ever will.
log jam in a stream,what a way to dismiss someone who has written sonme of our finest songs, who played amajor part in the production of the radio ballads,and who was an excellent performer,
put a sock in it[your gob] folknacious you are an insignificant speck of dust compared to MacColl .