As the book is adverised the contents are from the people interviewed over a number of years and there over 140 of these. You can only take at face value what you are told, but the people interviewed have a lot of credability. The story of only unaccompanied singers being allowed and being "interviewed" outside of the clubroom of the Nottingham Traditional Music Club was told to me in the seventies by Roy Harris himself. a few years ago I was talking to the surviving members of Knotts Alliance and asked about whay Roy had told me. They said it was not strictly correct but there was a havy influence of traditional unaccompanied singers. They also told me it could be an ordeal if it was the first time you were singing there as a floor singer. One story was that a singer had to sing with his back to the audience and when the song was finished and turned round there was nobody in the room, this apparently was considered a practical joke. I have only got part way into the book so far but from the things said by the people interviewed of their experiences it should be a very interesting read. There are some very interesting very old photographs of some of todays lumeneries there. Give the book a chance there has been nothing like it before and for that alone deserves to do well.