"the club he now favoured presented a little bit of folk, a little bit of country, a little bit of contemporary etc in fact all sorts of music."
"we don't have an accepted label for those clubs which have a broad music policy"
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I remember Peter Bellamy saying, at a Norwich Festival workshop at which Alex Atterson was speaking up in favour of such clubs, "That's not a folk club, that's an anything club"; which seems to me as good a name as any for such resolutely undiscriminating organisations.

"and like it or not labels are convenient"

Amen. Something else Pete would often quote in such colloquies was something I wrote once in Folk Review, after Karl Dallas had denounced the folk scene's love for categories: "Hurrah for categories. If every article of household furniture was called a chair, we shouldn't know where to park our arses".

~M~