Not that she needs anyone to box for her corner, but I don't see why Diane has to know personally and intimately the organiser of a club to be able to comment on it. I've dropped in on clubs where I haven't known a soul, and that - to me - is the best barometer. And sometimes I've sat there nursing a slow half while the regulars gurn their way through something execrable with nary a word of welcome or warning.
To return to the topic, I also agree with her that the folk club that we knew through the sixties and seventies is going the way of the dodo - despite the protestations of posters here concening a handful of apparently thriving venues. The fact remains that I would be too embarrassed to bring many of my friends into contact with the average folk club unless they regularly worked with the differently-abled and the downright odd.