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Thread #133817   Message #3041365
Posted By: GUEST, Tom Bliss
27-Nov-10 - 08:40 AM
Thread Name: UK Folk Club Survey
Subject: RE: UK Folk Club Survey
Simon Hall says this on the fRoots board:

"This is a good initiative, but it will depend on where it goes soliciting for answers. Attitudes of people who have been going to clubs for 40 years and don't like change will be different to those of people who've stumbled on them more recently. Also, how do you get the views of people who've tried them and not liked them to find out why this was? (no, I don't have the answer to that question either!). One possibly important question I noticed he didn't ask is the age of the respondents, to see if attitudes vary per age group.

One question I thought was loaded was the one about hotels for club guests. "Paid accomodation", to differentiate between even a simple B&B with a proper bed rather than the organiser's floor, might have been more subtle - "hotel" possibly implies large expense."

(with permission)