This brings back memories. The Essex Skipper was the first folk club I ever went to in the sixties when I was still at school. it was run then by Jim Bassett,(among others) whom I think went down to the West Country. Good luck with the concert. We try to get to the Lion at Eastwick on a Tuesday but as we live south of the river find that Blackwall Tunnel is always closed South bound at weekends and quite often lately in the week as well.