"I said your description made it sound like a bundle of laughs. "
Surprising enough, I found myself sorry for both her and the audience, her because she obviously not the full shilling and the audience because of their having their evening fucked up - but there again, I'm not a professional folk singer and don't understand the subtleties of entertaining an audience!
The Singers Club was either the first or the second established folk clubs (depending o whether you count the sessions run with Alan Lomax at The Theatre Royal, Stratford - mid-to-late 1950s) and unwavering dedicated itself to traditional music throughout its existence (fact)
Throughout that time, it pushed the boundaries out to exploring every aspect of the music without having to resort to the pop music industry because the audience numbers were falling.
Jim Carroll