Mr Snail,

If you read his post, Nigel says he has been to folk clubs and found them unsatisfactory. I fear that any mention of this topic is going to get your knee jerking because you perceive it to be an attack on the unequalled Lewes Arms. I'm asking Nigel not to give up stating what he believes, however much it might grate with your Panglossian naivete.
I'm not going to name names for two reasons. One, because I don't trouble to learn the names of dreadful singers and musicians I've endured as a paying punter in clubs over the years, and two, because Joe Offer has specifically asked us not to make personal attacks, and that is it how it would be perceived.
This debate would be far more constructive if people were not to bridle at imagined slights and be so stubbornly determined to take comments personally. For the umpteenth time, no-one is having a pop at the utterly wonderful and incomparable Lewes Arms, or any of its equally outstanding organisers, fragrant floorsingers, gorgeous guests and beautiful bottle-washers, or its thousands of talented young musicians from a vibrant tradition where everyone is above average.
It's just that some of us here have a lot of experience of the club circuit and have found it rather lacking.
From what I've read over the past few days and several hundred posts, Paul seems to be addressing that issue with the KFFC, and good for him - he sounds like the sort of person the trad music world desperately needs.
If you find the subject painful, might I suggest you sit down with a cup of tea, re-read some of the posts and try to imagine what it would be like for a newcomer to traditional music to stumble across a club which did not reach the peak of perfection shown by the Lewes Arms.

And don't take things so personally; it's not good for your blood pressure.