I had a very enjoyable evening at my The Royal Oak Folk Club last night. One chap did a song from The Band and I think there may have been a couple of music hall songs. Apart from that, I heard a great deal of traditional music and song, mostly English and a little Irish and one or two written-in-the tradition songs. Not a Beatles song to be heard.

This evening I'm going an informal singaround which, judging from the people I anticipate seeing there will be largely Scottish and English traditional.

Tomorrow night, it's the Lewes Arms Folk Club where we have guests Mick West and Frank McLaughlin. More Scottish traditional. I expect the floor spots will be mainly English traditional.

Perhaps Lewes is a foreign country; we do things differently here.