Okay I'll risk an answer. We are self important, because we its us that invest our lives in the folk club movement. We give it importance, by our commitment.

They've only just got round to giving out MBE's for folk singers - it will be a while before society as a whole gets round to giving out MBE's for folk club organisers.

But to us in the folk club movement, they are important and people doing something worthwhile.