I started as a teenager in the folk clubs of North Midlands and South Yorkshire. I have fond nostalgic memories of them. Worksop, Kiveton, Barnsley, numerous Sheffield, Doncaster and Rotherham clubs, Mansfield, Chesterfield...   You could go every night to a good lively thriving club if time allowed without traveling too far.

Most tended to be stage or area at one end and you got up to perform. I liked that and these days, the singarounds that have replaced that format aren't the same for me.

On the very rare occasion I find a club on my travels that still use the stage format, I can leave thinking "I really enjoyed that folk club because.."