They may well be keeping the whole thing going ! Good records tend to be timeless but then again many people on here are more than content to live totally in the past...How many young people are at the venues that are going, whats the average age ???
The demographic trends speak for themselves...Who will buy rare records ? Who might actually want them outside of a few hundred people worldwide..And they will be worthless when the nursing home beckons !
Mark Ronson with his faux 60's sound helped the northern scene along more than any bickering about the odd re-edit/mash up...
I laugh at the term modern soul ..most of its over 30 years old !