Countess Richard - you write like a stuck-up Tory Tart - especially with your preoccupation with his pay cheque amd image making of Folk.
I've been enjoying going to Folk clubs for over 35 years , heard some great stuff and heard loads of shite.
That's it in a nut shell, that's how it was, is, and will be. Enjoyment/humour/ a good sing-song is all part of it - but not always possible , but when Mike and Bob and numerous others sought and seek to entertain in the Folk medium, R-soles like you go wamping on about pure Tradition .
Zealots like you emptied the Folk clubs - not so the previous guys I've mentioned - you do them a great disservice Madame.