And as for The Rock winning Best Folk Club, isn't this odd? This venue doesn't describe itself as such. It's a roots and acoustic venue, and a very good one too. It has a wide, cross-genre programme presented as concerts. Nothing at all wrong with this but as it isn't a 'folk club' why give it a prize for being one?

Surely it's the category that's wrong. Folk clubs in the 1960s revival sense are an outmoded backwater people by cliques whose last intention is to share our traditional heritage and make it relevant to life today. The Rock does this but it's still not a 'folk club'.