"Banjiman - what better way of promoting and expanding folk than to list SIngers Clubs that are free to go to, particularly if you're a singer?

Do you really want everyone entering the folk world to pay an entry fee and see a guest when they just want a cheap night sharing folk songs? The pure economics alone will be be a barrier for many - quite apart from the guest club not providing the sort of thing they actually want!"

Ian,

If you re-read my posts you'll see that I attend and support a weekly singaround (Burneston Folk Club) as well as run a Guest Club. I enjoy both and see brilliant performers at both. You do see the not so good at singers nights as well...... which is a rarity at a guest club with no floor singers (I've had negatiove comments about one of the fifty or so semi-pro or pro guests I've booked over the last 18 months).

Though there is a fair degree of overlap between the 2 attendances we do get "audience" at KFFC who would never attend a singaround. There are also those who won't pay to come to KFFC and only attend when they are a booked support (the cads!). So both approaches promote the folk scene..... so please stop knocking pay clubs, if you don't like 'em, just leave them alone. I'm certainly not knocking what you do..... and I don't see anyone else knocking it either.

Paul