the venues are changing in the UK. Folk Clubs vary in their ability to continue as ever, landlords of the pubs change overnight and new "boutique" managers have no concept of steady, trouble free business or real ale for that matter (don't even get me started on cider).

And concert venues have got steadily louder (don't get me started on festivals). I remember seeing Show of Hands in the Countess of Huntingdon Hall in Worcester. An oratry designed for singing and for one hellfire and damnation preacher instilling the fear of erternal retribution in the rapt congregation. So how come a very quiet and attentive audience hearing sensitive music with meaningful lyrics need it so LOUD? It doesn't, it is a want of those that make the decisions. Needs and wants are not the same.

I don't want so don't go. Now what ever happened to Folk music?