At no time did I see our residents adopt the attitude I've seen many guests a clubs do - sit in the bar until they were called to do their spot.
As someone who did the door regularly, it really used to get up my nose when some visiting floor singer would ask for a spot, ask to be called "when it's my turn", then come down immediately, hand you his/her card and piss off into the night with no idea of what the club was about (occasionally complaining that they "only got one song".
Now that's what I call "isolation"."
    I totally agree,
however on further reflection I realise that my memory is partly playing tricks, when they came to Bury St Edmunds folk club they did do the night along with the residents, but when they did concerts[ in art centres etc] they definitely had a different policy, one where they preferred not to have other performers., and one where they often made it clear to the organiser they did not want other performers, this partly explains their ignorance of other performers on the uk folk scene
on all occasions, that i saw them, they gave excellent perfomances































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