He was recently involved in the Cecil Sharp Project, gigs regularly in various combinations, and his most recent album 'In Modern History' was probably his best so far (and I say that admitting I wasn't struck by some of his occasionally confrontational attitude when he first came on the scene).

Fair play to JM and many more years of it say I.

My understanding of why threads sometimes reappear like this after years of dormancy is that
a) the thread gets spammed
b) the spam is deleted by a MudElf before the likes of you and me get to see it
c) the thread has seen action in the past 24 hours and so reappears on the front page.