The folk club had three and a half homes. I think "the grotty pub near the market place" was no.2, the Woolpack, we turned up one evening and it was inexplicably closed so we went wandering and ended up in the Castle and Falcon, via a trendy bar down Millgate for one week, where they had to play outside because it was so noisy. C & F was OK, lovely big room across the car park, but in the end there were so few people going we wondered why we were struggling on and gave up. People had late work commitments, went away to college, didn't really like folk music and only came along to keep husband company, couldn't get a babysitter every week etc etc. Also being tucked away in a separate room there was no chance for the curious bystander to drift in. There was a suspicion that we had committed a folk-pas by not supporting neighbouring clubs, but the same individual problems that dogged us making it into the town once a week(plus one member not having a car) made that even more difficult.
So there it is. I'd be game to have another go but wouldn't be much good at organising it, I'd never been to anything like that before.
Jennifer