These days there are so many different arrangements and organisations claiming to be folk clubs, therefore any number of reasons.

My regular folk club tends to be busy according to whichever guest happens to be booked although there can be occasional abberations.

Last night, there was a very good guest but one who doesn't usually attract a large local audience which is a bit of a shame. Sadly, in Edinburgh, the punters tend either to support the "tried and tested" perennials or whoever happens to "flavour of the month" at the time.

Anyway, I was pleased to see that the audience was fairly healthy for a change but realised that it had been swelled by several members of another folk club who had just come along to support some of their own members who were doing the "floor spot". That's fair enough I suppose and I'll make no comment on the standard of the support although the main act was streets ahead. However, it would also be nice if the "visitors" might choose to make a return visit to the club or even just make a point of going to see the main act again somewhere. However, "I hae ma doobts" as the might say in Midlothian.