Christmas Club Crawl

Subject: Christmas Club Crawl
From: Sooz
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 10:46 AM

Mike and Sue's Christmas Club Crawl


Back to work tomorrow, time now to reflect on our Christmas break. With no need to worry about getting up in the mornings, we decided to visit some of our favourite clubs and also a couple we had not been to before.
December 20th Lincoln Folk Club. A warm and friendly welcome but not a great turn out. This is not unusual and is always surprising in a city the size of Lincoln which has had a Folk Festival running for 30 years.
December 21st Louth Folk Club Christmas Party. Everything for Christmas including a pantomime complete with a memorable horse! A smashing evening as we would have expected from the Louth Folk Club crowd.
December 23rd Booit Straps, Chapeltown. A really warm and friendly welcome with a high standard of craic! Always a pleasure to visit the Commercial, especially as it means driving past the packed Meadowhall car parks.
December 27th Gainsborough Folk Club. Back on home ground for a really pleasant evening. It never ceases to amaze us how far people are prepared to travel to help us to imbibe the excellent real ale at the Eight Jolly Brewers.
December 31st Kiveton Park Folk Club. Rapidly absorbed into the New Year celebrations with old friends and new, a lovely way to see in 2003.
January 5th Folk Down the Dale, Doncaster. Yet another warm, friendly welcome – aren't folk clubs great places? The only club on our tour with a guest night and the first time we had seen Slide. What an excellent band and a brilliant evening to round off our Christmas break, although we are still considering a trip to Grimsby tonight……………….

Subject: RE: Christmas Club Crawl
From: GUEST,Johnny The Bee
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 09:04 AM

I can echo Sooz's sentiments about all of these clubs. Particularly enjoyed Folk Down The Dale in Doncaster on Saturday 4/1/03 - great room, nice crowd (and a lot of them!), good guests and fine floor spots. A young lady (Michelle?) making her singing debut too - great voice and lots of promise. See you again soon, Donny.

I'm a bit biased about Gainsborough FC - must be the superb selection of REAL Real Ale, as well as the friendly atmosphere. Lots of visitors from out of town.

Ref. Lincoln FC - I feel for the guys who work like hell to keep it going. Them there Lincolnians should be ashamed of themselves - a wonderful, beautiful, historical city filled with apathy. How come they'll flock to pay seven or eight quid to see an 'A' list performer at a concert venue in the town, but won't pay a couple of quid to attend the folk club and encourage home-grown talent? Snobbery? I drive 20 miles to their club, why can't they make it in their own town? And don't forget that the 'A' list guys all started out in the clubs.

End of sermon!
JB