The Singers Club was NEVER at the Princess Louise. The BALLADS & BLUES" club was at the Princess Louise on Saturday nights from about 1957/8. Ewan and Peggy were residents. The man that organised the club was Malcolm Nixon assisted by Pete Turner. Other regular singers at the time were Isla Cameron, Dean Gitter from the USA, Winston and Mary Jane Young from Canada, Rory & Alex McEwen, Dominic Behan, Stan Kelly, Sandy & Caroline Paton, Guy Carawan etc etc etc too numerous to list. I can't remember the exact dates but about 1961 Ewan & Peggy had their own ideas about the direction in which the club should go and went off to form The Singers Club. Before this happened the venue had shifted from The Princess Louise to various venues: The King & Queen at Paddington Green (where Alex Campbell first showed up and upset Ewan by reciting a Glasgow kids rhyme about farting, the ACCT Union building in Soho Square was another, The Coram Hotel around Tavistock Square area, The Three Horseshoes in Tottenham Court Road (where Maccoll and Dominic Behan came to blows over the subject of Alan Lomax's collecting activities in Irelad) and maybe one or two more. I was a regular at all these venues. In September 1961 The Ballads & Blues club continued at The Seven Down number 7 Carlisle Street a coffee bar which was previously The Partisan. After that at The Black Horse in Rathbone Place where Gill Cook later started a Monday night traditional British club. The Porcupine in Charing Cross Road and finally in 1965 The King of Corsica in Berwick Street.

As far as I can remember The Singers Club went first to the Merlin's Cave, they were also at The Union Tavern Lloyd Baker Street and later underneath a block of coucil flats in St John Street near The Angel.

I hope that this fills in a few details.

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