"Tell you what - you show me yours and I'll show you mine"

This from someone who doesn't go in for Pissing Contests!

While I was booking people for the Ballads & Blues Club I wasn't competing with anyone. I was booking singers and musicians that our members enjoyed seeing. I guess that Ewan and Peggy did the same thing for their members.

Apart from the club the Ballads and Blues Association promoted concerts by such people such as Pete Seeger at St Pancras Town Hall which was just after he was able to travel, The Weavers and Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor at The Royal Festival Hall, Jack Elliot and Derroll Adams with Jessie Fuller at Islington Town Hall and Josh White at the Royal Albert Hall. I guess this is what is referred to by Mr Carroll as being commercial. I will admit before being accused that there was not much British content there but that isn't what we were about.

Jack, sorry about adding to the thread drift but it was obvious when seeing the original post that Jim Carroll would take the bait and things would develop the way they have and always do.