Still the school teacher, eh Bridge? 'Userp' was a response to an earlier misspelling. Besides, I didn't think you still marked spelling and grammer as having any bearing in your profession? The whiff of the staff room pervades your posts Herr Bridge. Is that camphor or embalming fluid I smell?

"we're not the folk, and any new music we make is never going to be folk music".
You're wrong there Pip and as a quick shufty at any record store rack will confirm. As well as grossly outnumbered.

"Dontcha just love the logic?"
Ah, undone by a tense. I should have said I don't visit the places anymore, 1973 being the last time I ventured into one. Have they changed much? My issue with them - as I'm sure you're dying to know - is that any traditional that needs a club to keep it going is no sort of common man tradition at all and anyway they'd already been taken over by Ralph McTell and John Lennon clones. Festivals are more rewarding, you can chose who to listen to and when to go to the bar. In a club I'd be sat near a Santa lookalike with a tankard and halitosis droning on about some agrarian job he'd never had.