Yes, George. The number attending is a strange one... I honestly don't believe there is a formula, answer or whatever.

As I mentioned before, the Railway Folk Club has regular attendances in excess of forty, often double. Yet 'Songs in the Snug' in the same building, but on a different night, rarely attracts more than a dozen - one of whom is none other than Ted Edwards, writer of such songs as 'Coal Hole Cavalry', 'The Coal and Albert Berry' and many others).

RFC charges on the door - a pound on a Singers Night, and varying amounts on Guest Nights. There is no door charge (or need for one) for SitS.

It's very odd.

Memberships schemes are not as prevalent as they used to be. Neither the Railway nor the Open Door use one, but Northwich and Westhoughton both do. There was a thread about just this a month or so ago... the original post on this thread was from a club organiser with a membership scheme that seems, with respect, to be working against him.

Completely off thread, but somehow related...

When people find that I work with computers as part of my job, they seem to think I should fix their computer for free when I'm a visitor in their house.

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