Thanks Jim.

I'll carry on getting my folk fix at folk clubs and folk venues. I appear to like folk music in all its wide interpretation of the genre. Including MacColl, including folk rock, including fusion, including, (and this is where it becomes the music of the people,) a podium for sharing your love of music with others without necessarily investing in pa gear and needing to get a gig. Music of the people indeed.

Just as most on here do, have done and hopefully always will do.

I am an observer of the subject title and see the singers club as part of a UK heritage. I think proscription to have been ultimately harmful and it's always saddened me to think how folk morphed into a clique in some clubs then withered. I can't help but think of the crusty idiots who sat there berating people for exhibiting what the buggers were ultimately advocating in the first place.

Proscription isn't entertainment. Folk certainly is.