"firmly grounded in the folk club scene"
REALLY ?
Coulda fooled me, unless you are talking about what the present scene has become, which has littlee to do with the previous one, which in its turn was taking inspiration from source singers
"nothing like those MacColl produced."
I have never compared anybody's songs to MacColl's - he was one of many songwriters composing in folk forms - don't see much of that among this lot
I had only heard Lankum so I searched the rest out - hence my comments
A Capella refers to unacompanied music which is only a part of traditional singing, not a definition of it
Want to call your clubs a cappela clubs - fine by me, but you'll have to lose the yeboards and drums and double bases......
Jim Carroll