ok,here are some facts,and corrections
Pete and chris coe Coe started in 1971, Jez lowe, Richard Grainger started performing in the eighties, however all the people I mentioned,
Martin Carthy,John Kirkpatrick, Dave Burland, Bob Davenport, Tom Paley,Bonnie Shaljean, Peggy Seeger, Dick Gaughan,Roy Bailey, Leon Rosselson, June Tabor, Louis Killen, Pete Coe,Chris Coe, Roy Harris, and Peter Bellamy, WERE MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS to the uk folk scene in the 1980s., MY POINT IS THEY WERE MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE 1980S'
I was not unknown in the 1980s,neither am I unknown now, Martin Carthy recorded guitar on one of my lps,... 1985, JEZ lOWE, played guitar on an lp in 1981
In 1985, I recorded an lp with The New Mexborough English concertina Quartet, plus   I recorded several times for Folk on 2, and was playing at Folk festivals and clubs all over the UK.
In the late eighties, I recorded and toured with Teesside songwriter Richard Grainger, these are all facts.
I have played the following festivals, Warwick,Redcar, Saltburn, Loughborough,Sidmouth Chippenham, Kendall, Lancaster, Tenterden,Towersey,Chester,Norwich, Ely, Scarborough, Whitby,and many others, which is remarkable for an unknown.
I apologise, but i feel it is necessary to correct nasty misinformation, now to get back to the subject of Nic jones, this is wonderful news, he was/is a talented performer