I said I'd gone, but I have to tell Jack Campin that he cannot be fucking serious. You know damn well that's nothing like what I want a venue to be be like and that I never go within a million miles of THAT sort of set-up (I'll refrain from naming any of them). It's exactly what I deplore. But if anyone wants to go to them, just go right ahead and be assured you won't find me there.

The OP is talking about old-style, 'traditional' (in the sense of what developed in the 1960s) CLUBS with a set format, and he was perfectly clear about that. Anybody with half a brain is aware that the session scene is very far fom collapsing and is thus not under consideration in this thread. Sessions did not undergo a revival, they've always been there, according to my grandfather who first took me to one in about 1958 which he's been attending since before WWI. And as any fule kno, the standard today is way, way above how it was when I first started. Frighteningly so.