Just out of interest, did Bellamy refer to his Kipling settings - or the non-trad bits of the Maritime England Suite, i.e. most of it - as 'folk'?

It seems to me that "Tommy" or "Follow me 'ome" or "Oak, ash and thorn" would be instantly welcomed in most English folk clubs - they'd be recognised straight away as The Kind Of Thing We Do; "folk club standards" as I've called them, or "folk" in Howard's terms (as distinct from "folk songs"). But did the guy who wrote them think, in doing it, that he was committing folk?