Jimmy Crowley: always good entertainment and thoroughly likeable guy: have had him at our local folk club a good few years ago, and since seen him at Whitby on a couple of more recent occasions. On one occasion he was booked to play at our club, but the club then had a crisis of suddenly and unexpectedly having no venue. Jimmy, kind soul, suggested that he would play in our local pub which was a pretty small space, if we would "pass the hat round": he was going to be over here anyway to do other gigs, and his generous spirit allowed us to have a really good night, and hopefully there was plenty in the hat for him. Maybe different circumstances from what happened in Aberdeen, but I don't think anyone felt insulted, and, as I said, it was his suggestion and choice, rather than cancel the whole thing.