The 1980's, not only barren, but uninteresting now......

It also coincides with the period when the Melody Maker's folkchickens came to roost. All those acts warmly recommended who could empty a room 'faster than a trapeze artist with diarrhoea' as Derek Brimstone delicately put it.

People in America read the rave reviews in Melody maker and got folk artists to tour whom the American audiences had zilch possibility of relating to.

Result

premature death of the folk revival