"Perhaps if fusion tumor music shared the stage and venues a bit more equitably with older genres there would not be the sense of malignancy.
In the coverage of Cambridge Festival only a tiny bit was old folk."

Ah, but then that's a different issue. There's plenty of folk music and folk music with tumour at the festivals, but I suppose the Radio made a commercial decision to go with the tumour.

I am partial to a bit of nose-flute-mammoth-kill music myself, but I also like it with a side of electric guitar.