Jim Carroll

read SO'P's list; it's a fair assortment of what now passes for 'folk' at (I think many) clubs (though Bryan Creer would have it otherwise).

Not stalking me again are you Jim?

Earlier you said -
I don't believe the clubs are in terminal decline, otherwise I wouldn't waste time discussing them

But now you are saying -
If they asked me where tthey could stll hear it live, what should I say; "Don't go to a folk club; they don't do folk any more"?

You have said of S O'P -
"What utter crap; you really do go from idiocy to idiocy SO'P."
"so far you have given nothing but bullshit and doublespeak verbiage"
"All you've shown over and over again is your ignorance and indifference."
"You are a pratt - and a supercilious one - old man."

and yet you use his version of what goes on at Fleetwood Folk Club as the key piece of evidence for your repeated attacks on UK folk clubs. You completely ignore Sailor Ron's response. Despite conceding that the Lewes Saturday Folk Club might have its merits, you brush aside anything I have to say as worthless.
A couple of days ago, Brian Peters said -
I see a lot of folk venues - clubs, festivals etc. - on my travels, and, although I can remember some gruesome examples of that stereotype, it's not very common. I gravitated towards the folk scene because (at its best) it was the opposite of MOR.

I think Brian knows a great deal more about what is going on in UK folk clubs than you, me or S O'P but it doesn't fit your ideas so you ignore him.

There are a lot of us working hard to try and promote precisely the sort of music you want. How about giving us some support?