I'm in my mid-forties, which makes me practically a foetus at most folk clubs, but I do enjoy folk clubs and festivals when they work. One reason that I don't go as often as I could to my local folk club - which shall be nameless - is having to sit through the same darned residents, doing the same darned songs, practically every darned time. I'm prepared to humour them once in a while if there is a guest who is a "must see", but for those who are only "might sees", the pain of the resident endurance test is just too much to bear and I usually choose to do something else. I know that the residents are nice people, and they're playing for nothing, but a bit of common sense would indicate that there should be a change of routine every now and again. Even if they were individually wonderful performers (some are far from that) they surely still wouldn't be to everyone's taste. As it is, most of them have occupied their slots for donkeys' years and seem to have a perennial right to be listened to respectfully and uncritically. Well, sorry, I'd rather bale out.... I know I'm a nasty, nasty, person (but I'm also a paying customer choosing to go elsewhere).