I am glad to see that Tootler in Middlesbrough is experiencing just as vibrant a folkscene as I am down here in Sussex.

According to weelittledrummer -

The trouble is, I think that the folk clubs most under the cosh are ones that have bought the traddy gospel.

Whereas Jim Carroll says -

Apart from the confusion which appears to reign on the British club scene, many of the problems are obviously down to the fact that many of the clubs have fallen into the hands of people who neither like nor understand folk song.

What these two have in common, of course, is that they rarely, if ever, go to folk clubs.