I don't pay my EFDSS subscription for what I can get out of it - other than quite a good magazine - but because I think it deserves supporting. As well as housing the library, which makes sense being in the capital, it seems to be doing very much better as a PR for our music on a national level than in the past. I see the EFDSS as a central lighthouse, catalyst and hub, I don't expect it to send up offshoots everywhere. It has a building, it gets used - what's wrong with that?

Would I go to the AGM if it had some nice music attached? Almost certainly not. Would I want to sit in an audience or dance in a ceilidh full of the sort of people who go to AGMs? Definitely not!