As it goes, Anonymous Guest, I do know these people, having stumbled across them elsewhere in Real Life. That is not the point as it is the personalised, hostile, defensive attitude of many organisers that epitomises the anachronism of the past-sell-by f*lk clubs.

The point of this thread is to analyse why it is that the circuit is dead on its feet. The longer it continues the more they will whinge about how Fings Wot Ain't Wot They Used To Be, instead of throwing themselves into the growing ethos of tradarts as an integral and viable part of community activity where artists are respected and properly remunerated.