Alexis Petridis
Friday June 27, 2008
The Guardian
Buy Poor Man's Heaven now
Has there ever been a musical genre as prickly and suspicious of mainstream success as English folk? Battered by decades of public mockery, folkies understandably pulled up the drawbridge and developed a fiercely protective siege mentality long ago. The merest hint of wider interest in one of their artists and they're filling their pewter tankards with bile and singing sell-out in harmony. Their attitude to major labels makes Ian McKaye of DIY diehards Fugazi look like Simon Cowell.
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