Don't really understand Fossils remark about Big Al's riposte to me?

I'm not suggesting Folk Music will ever die, the Festival Scene is alive and well. The question is whether the Folk Club can survive. The traditional venue for Folk Clubs have always been Pubs, but they are a shrinking facility, those that are left and are live music orientated tend to want Open Mic's, so I don't see how they survive in the formatt we all know. I don;'t like it but as Big Al says "sad, but there it is".