Well it seems to me that there are "Concert" folk clubs, Singarounds and places that are perhaps a fusion of the two ideas.

I think that if everyone just remembered that certain behavior is impolite to say the least fewer of us would be upset.

Someone said "Manners maketh man" and my (Edwardian) grandfather was very strict to his children on such matters and in turn to his grandchildren,

That's as far as I wish to go with this except to say that The Lewes Arms is my club (like The Snail and some other Mudcat people) and what we get up to there on a Saturday night invariably results in a successful evening for everybody attending.

Dave