"and if I am deprived of the right to choose what I want to listen to at clubs, I stop going, which is more or less what happened in the 1980s when we lost thousands of our clubs, specialist record labels, magazines, radio programmes, audiences...... and eventually our identity, and ended up with what we have now in Britain, a largely directionless mess."
quote from Jim Carroll on purists thread.
I do not see the British Folk scene as Directionless, I see it as place where singers can learn the art of performing unaccompanied and accompanied folk and roots songs of British and other nationalities in a listening environment, where music is not treated as wallpaper, hence the importance of seperate club rooms for folk clubs.