I am campaigning for parity in arts funding - Give everyone the same as Folk clubs get. Somewhere in between F-all and not a lot. Lets see if they all stand on their own two feet as well as we do:-)

Perhaps your concept of 'far to many which are definitely not' says much more about your high standards than it does about the folk clubs? Maybe my expectations, and those of the thousands of people who attend folk clubs every week, are not as high as yours? I just don't know you well enough to comment. What I do know however is that by saying the 'average filthy back room' and classing those that attend as ' a crowd of care in the community cases' you are allienating a huge section of the folk community and unfairly branding folk clubs in general as something bad.

As I said, stick to your type of venue and I will stick to mine. As long as you continue to throw out casual insults to the many well run, clean and popular clubs however you must expect some contrary responses.

Cheers

DtG