Tom Bliss: You were viewing it with informed eyes and ears from a very specialised and educated viewpoint. A vast majority of the audience were not.

I'm not coming at it from an especially educated or specialised viewpoint. I've only re-ignited an interest in folk music in the last year or so, after spending many years listening almost exclusively to rock and indie stuff, and I'm not in any way "factionalised" or party to the squabbles of the cogniscenti.

I'm certainly not tribal or precious about it, and have admitted on here before to enjoying some of Laura Marling's stuff and even the odd Mumford & Sons song!

And my young friend who'd never heard of Ralph McTell but who was bored by this would be far closer to the "wider target audience" you talk about than most people on here. She voted with her remote very quickly, though she's quite broad-minded about music.