I think pulling in around 30 week after week is pretty good, particularly in what we laughingly call summer (and on the back of absolutely no advertising). It's coming up to six years old now, & it's pretty well established as a local institution - and a stop on the Manchester 'acoustic' circuit.

Where the club has perhaps fallen down is in building an *audience* - there are only about a dozen regular non-playing punters, and most of them have been with us from the start. But arguably that's a feature, not a bug - it works pretty well as a club that's mainly for performers. Apart from anything else, if we were getting 100 every week we'd need a bigger room. (We had that many for our first Dylan night. Brilliant atmosphere, you just couldn't breathe.)