From: TheSnail - PM
Date: 16 May 08 - 05:24 PM

PoppaGator

I'm a little surprised and dismayed to learn that audience rudeness, and fellow-musician rudeness, seems to be such a common problem in the UK.

Is it? Bad behaviour tends to stand out in the mind but is it really that widespread? Remember that Alan was talking about folk clubs not sessions. At the folk clubs I go to, people are generally pretty well behaved.

I recently heard about a Sussex poet who had to be ejected for making stupid comments[while a performer was singing] about Scarborough Fair, I also remember having a set of mine disrupted by drunks[25 years ago] at a festival, the MC who was ineffectual[If my memory serves me right it was Robin Garside]did nothing.
Isolated incidents,but to those concerned pretty upsetting.Dick Miles.