topic 56, they were notts alliance, not knotts alliance.
Subject: RE: Review: New book Singing from the floor
From: GUEST,Gavin Atkin - PM
Date: 18 Feb 14 - 08:53 AM

There were both pretty sad looking clubs and great clubs around in the 80s and 90s, just as there are now, and I remember there were both kinds in the 70s also.

However, the number of clubs around now seems much reduced - at one time there was usually one for every town, even for every small town, but there seem to be many fewer now.
absolutely spot on post Gvin, i can rember at least two towns having two clubs, i can remember getting booked every six months at clubs in the 70s, now its every 2 or 3 years with some,because they book fewer guests.
I bet one thing thats not mentioned in the book is the emergence of singers[in the 21st century] hiding behind piles of paper and music stands, who ocassionaly peer furtively at the audience, like frightened rabbits peering out of their burrows.

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