It all depends where you're starting from.

If you want to have a good night out listening to (and singing) a wide variety of songs sung by amateurs - some of them familiar, some less so, some brilliant, some mediocre - then a 'folk club' of the kind Musket has been going to all these years will be right up your street. And fair enough - it's a free country.

If, on the other hand, you want to listen to (and sing) traditional songs and new songs in traditional forms, you're going to have to be very selective indeed in your choice of club.

To me this whole argument hinges on whether you think that's a bad thing - which in turn hinges on how much you care about traditional songs surviving in performance.

Having said that, I make no apology for saying without qualification that it is a damn shame that folk clubs have drifted so far from their roots in traditional song. I know it's one opinion among many, but it's my opinion, and as such I believe it to be correct.