I'm not sure Ced and his bands have been overly huge everywhere. His thrash band Mortyr has a number of mentions of web pages and the album gets decent reviews but it's not easy to find songs off it.
No idea but I can listen to just about anything. I started listening to Machinae Supremacy a few years ago without caring they use Commodore 64 to make 'chiptunes', purely because they covered the song for the Great Giana Sisters which I played a lot back in my Commodore 64 days.