Well all I can say is Les, you've been very lucky. Mind you the evening is very tightly organised at Faldigworth,and evrybody knows you don't turn just turn up there on the off chance of getting a spot.

Some clubs do like to have an open door policy to floorsingers though, and this is when it can start getting abused. And this is where some strange people see a situation to be exploited - its very sad.

Sidney Carter, when he spoke and wrote about folk clubs, he saw the open door policy as a sort of extension of Christianity, a forum like a Quaker Meeting, where anyone could contribute. There was real idealism there.

I suppose it just means being taken for a holy fool - better than being on the other side, I guess.