We've had our fun with arranging guest nights. We have two sessions every Friday evening. That is basically 104 sessions a year. We would have guest nights only 4 times per year which only affected the earlier session anyway. People still got a chance for a spot prior to the guest and the later session in the pub was always on anyway which many of the guest would also come along too. There was a minority core though who really objected to the guest evenings. They objected to the cost even though they tended not to go to the pub session where the money is collected for bringing guests; they objected to losing part of their evening even though it was only 4 times per year; they objected to the quality even though they didn't go along anyway and the quality has been consistently good. ie for instance Wizz Jones, Allan Taylor, Steve Tilston, Sarah MacQuaid, Ivan Drever etc etc. It got so that last year we suspended having guests for a year. Luckily this year we have reasserted some kind of common sense and we now have a budget again (and funding was never an issue as we have plenty of funds) for 4 perhaps 5 per year. I just don't understand why supposed musicians wouldn't want to go and see good performers really close up and intimate! I mean we're talking about audiences of a couple of dozen at most. We're a small town where the alternative is to travel distances to see anyone of note bar Ally and Phil's regular jaunt here to play in the big hall. No cost to club members for our guest nights!!! Wizz Jones even agreed to do a guitar workshop the following day as did Sarah with a dadgad workshop. Why would you rather hear the same old same old playing the same old same old week in week out?