"It's music Jim"
Fine - if you aren't going to give us the right to choose what we listen to when we turn up a folk club, call it a music club.
look, its really fecking clear when you turn up at a folk club what kind of folk music you are going to get you look at the guest list. for singers night do a bit of researach on the club organiser and the club residents.
my advice is to avoid singaround clubs the standard in the uk might well be lower,with a few exceptions than guest booking clubs.
singers clubs in ireland its pretty obvious look at the guest list and the residents, 99 per cent of them will be unaccompanied that tells you a lot.
if none of this works just go when it is a guest booked, before you go check on the guest. in my experience, with a few exceptions the standard is much higher on guest nights, booked guests do not read from crib sheets and are generally professional, that is what they are paid for.