JK's song title is also the title of his songbook containing that very song... I have a copy!

Let's now be realistic. The 'Folk Industry' doesn't pay very well for most people, like it or lump it. The few fortunate ones who manage to make a living at it do other things to supplement their income. Fact.

Many folk performers have 'day jobs'...

Typical example - Bernard Wrigley. He has an Equity card, and has appeared on 'Coronation Street' in numerous guises, and as the 'rocket scientist' on 'Emmerdale', amongst other things. Gary Aspey (of Gary and Very) has also appeared in 'Heartbeat' and other programmes.

I haven't 'gone pro', Stanley Accrington has a 'day job' once more... trying to tell folk clubs to make more money to pay the guests is fatuous. Sad, but true.

Ask Harvey Andrews - he often tells of the 60s and 70s when you could do two folk clubs in one evening if you wished, but festivals are dragging the rug from under the clubs.

Sme clubs do quite well - and I'm pleased to say I'm part of one such. But it's a very fine line - some clubs aren't so fortunate, and there seems to be no particular 'formula' to make a club work.

It's more down to good luck than good management, and screaming self-righteous crap won't make any difference!

Fact,,, the Railway is quite off the beaten track - no public transport. It does very well - even on a Singers Night we have more than fifty in the room. The Open Door (another club I help run) is on major bus and train routes, and struggles. On a good night we may even have twenty in the room - including the guest.

Our average door charge at the Railway is six quid. We daren't charge more than four quid at the Open Door.

Another club I'm involved with is 'Songs in the Snug'. We don't book guests, and we don't charge. We have between eight and fifteen people attending fortnightly... venue? The Railway...!

Nowt so queer as folk...