Pip, please go abck and read my post of 29 Mar 09 - 04:34 PM. You are attacking me for things I haven't said.

What I meant you couldn't do anything about was the fact that the club you describe calls itself a folk club. The 1954 definition isn't binding in law.

FCs where anything goes are a lousy gateway drug - they don't do nearly enough to get people on to the hard stuff.

Why should they? You said that it was "pitched towards singer-songwriters right from the off". Why should they be obliged to promote traditional music any more than we at the LSFC are obliged to promote singer-songwriters?