I once visited a folk club not too distant from my present abode, to see Les Barker perform. I took with me a group of friends who are also fans. The rest of the audience were not quite so "appreciative" or familiar with his works as we were. We weren't being any more rowdy than usual, but it did rather look like that, what with the rest of the audience being stony silent and looking like they'd been to the local taxidermist.

During the break, there was obviously a lot of discussion with the regular members and the MC, because when the second half started, the MC entreated us to 'keep it down a bit and not to make so much noise'. At this, Les was introduced again, he took one look at the stony faced MC and said 'Do you want one you can join in with?'

Needless to say, it went down hill from there!

LTS