TheSnail -- you said "All your suggestions seem a little vague. Holding up WOMAD, which is once a year on a massive scale, is not much use as an example for a club that meets once a week in a room with maximum capacity 50; Cara Dillon and Show of Hands don't play that sort of venue these days. You say "don't choose a hall or back room of a pub". Where then?"


I'm sorry you do not seem to be getting my point covered in my previous posts so there is not much point in me continuing further with this -- it seems unlikely that more words from me will help much so this will be my last post except to note -- you also said

"Actually the asnwer to "where have the audiences gone" is "They've all grown old and don't get out much anymore".

This is just untrue -- there are plenty of all ages who travel a long way at great expense to go to festivals big and small with acts known and unknown -- maybe you should ask why they will do that but you can not get them to attend local events?