Jim Carroll

Snail (hate these names - always seems offensive),

I quite like being TheSnail. If it makes you feel more comfortable, call me Bryan.

I have no problem whatever accepting your assessment of the club scene in your part of the world.

Nor do I have any problem accepting that there are other clubs, like Teesside, flourishing as well as those in Lewes.

But you DO have a problem accepting that there is anything going on that you would call folk music. You seem obsessed with the fact that a friend once told you that a folk club somewhere in the north of England once had an evening of Beatles songs. From that you seem to conclude that "real" folk music is extinct in the land.

Are you saying that the state you outlined is the case for the rest of the clubs

No, of course I'm not. I don't know what's happening elsewhere but, unlike you, I don't extrapolate from limited experience. I know what's happening in my neck of the woods and I know that it doesn't fit with your sweeping condemnation.

In the late 70s, early 80s the club scene began to decline.

Jim...that was thirty years ago. Things might have changed. If you get all your information at second hand, you'll never know.

From an earlier post -

Con 'Fada' O'Driscoll's 'The Spoons Murder' - streets ahead of anything I've come across being written in the UK nowadays.

"anything I've come across" - You are using your own ignorance as evidence.

The music you love is alive and well in south east England and, I suspect, in other areas as well. It just seems to suit your self-imposed martyrdom to believe it isn't.