Call me weird if you like but I find it important to ask before attaching clamps to a pub's furniture.

The buildings we call pubs are not the pubs of yesterday and to survive they have to ensure they cater for people who pay their wages. Folk club audiences certainly arent in that demographic. One in three is driving, one in two has a soft drink and I often see bottled water brought in by such people. The only time I ever see that is by folk audiences...

I'm grateful to those establishments that cater for such events but the days of pubs fighting over getting a folk club business and the hundreds of drinks per night have long gone. Most owners dont efen know what we are all missing.