Well there's the platitude of the week:

the clubs that will die are the ones that won't change.

The 'f*lk' club movement of the 1960s is well past its sell-by. Before that there were jazz and blues clubs in many of the same venues. They moved on and so has trad music, for reasons outlined in a number of posts above. At the risk of coining the cliché of the week, the world is different now. People have moved on to festivals, ceilidhs, sessions, singarounds and yes, the concert venue. The scene is vibrant but one thing that holds it back is the old-style f*lk club organiser who expects artists to turn up for 1960s fees. Haven't they looked at the price of fuel (and everything else)? These are the ones that need to get real pretty damn quick . . . or die.

And for god's sake drop that outdated term 'f*lkie'. It's just so embarrassing. You mean a punter who listens to trad music? Say so.