Interesting point John. I remember going to a Folk Club at the Millstone in Manchester sometime around 1970 or could have been 1974 and enjoying a not dissimilar experience. I wonder if any of Wednesday night's people went to the Millstone?

I first experience of a Folk Club was the Jug of Punch, the Princes Hotel, Ellesmere Port around '64, but my first experience of a Singer's Club was in a now demolished pub near the Tunnel Entrance in Liverpool, run by Tony Wilson around '66. The other was Jones's Ale in Chester from around '67 until I'm not sure.

I suppose the singarounds all go beack to "The Singers Club"?