Subject: RE: folk club decline uk
From: David el Gnomo - PM
Date: 04 May 10 - 11:07 AM

<" Can you imagine the upset it would cause if someone who believed they should get an extended spot didn't? ">

Hi DNG

As I said earlier we ran guest nights at least 3 weeks in every four.
In those days floor singers knew which guests pulled in the biggest crowds and they all came for those nights.

So we/I had to allocate spots almost every time. Most times we had to disappoint somebody. It was difficult to be completely fair to everyone but we must have been reasonably good at it because we didn't have any real problems.

The worst problem was that some of our regular singers were not as good as the ones who came for the best guest nights. But I always tried to encourage the regulars. In some cases I gave them my spots.

Interesting to see that now-a-days the problem appears to be the other way round.

Cheers

MikeL2