Well that ought to disqualify them, if they keep bloody closing. Christmas ...fair enough, but the best ones keep chugging away the rest of the year, through hell and high water.

I tend to think a town is suffering from acute moral failure if there isn't some sort of folk club. Even if its not the sort that plays my sort of music - there should be some citizens with enough red corpuscles to get something going.

Stratford always amazes me. You'd think an arty place like that would be snooing with folk clubs, but alas! Nary a sausage....