The Victory Club in Cheltenham was the first folk club I ever went to. I had come to folk music because I'd heard that some upstart called Bob Dylan had pinched House Of The Rising Sun from The Animals and then I heard covers of Dylan songs by Pete Seeger and Joan Baez whose wider repertoire opened up the doors of traditional music.

But nothing had prepared me for The Songwainers singing Spencer The Rover on my first visit - it was a life-changing experience.