RE: WHERE WAS THE CATFORD ~FOLK CLUB HELD? A CATFORD FOLK CLUB WAS STARTED BY A GROUP OF US IN THE ( I THINK) MID-60S) DAVE AND TONI ARTHUR, MARTIN HAZEL, THE COVEN BAND, EDDIE DUNMORE, AND DAVE??? (WHOSE SURNAME ESCAPES ME AT THIS MOMENT), IT WAS CALLED SOMETHING LIKE PHOENIX AWAKES ( I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE CALLED IT), AND IT WAS HELD AT THE RISING SUN PUBLIC HOUSE IN THE HIGH STREET, AT CATFORD. EDDIE DUNMORE, WHO WENT ON TO EDIT THE MORRIS RING MAGAZINE, WAS A PRINTER, AND PRODUCED GREAT A5 FLYERS, AND PRINTED BROADSIDES OF POPULAR CHORUS SONGS SUNG AT THE CLUB. EVENTUALLY TONI AND HAD TO PULL OUT OF THE CLUB DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF GIGS WE WERE THEN DOING AROUND THE COUNTRY, BUT THE CLUB WENT ON FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH FOR SEVERAL YEARS. There was another Catford folk club run by Tony Dean Slim Grey etc..but I think that was a bit later, although it was so long ago I could be mistaken.
DAVE ARTHUR website: davearthur.net