"Thanks for the heartfelt apology Jim and the grovelling admission that you were completely wrong about your assumption of what happens at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club"
Is it the bracing sea air that makes you behave as you do?
You really are the nsty piece of work I have been warned against, aren't you
I had no assumptions of what ahhens oat your club and have vnever commented on such matters
I have never been and, if your behaviour is reciprocated in others, nor would I want to.
I do listen to what people say and respond to it which is more than you or others do
"neither was the club that MacColl started."
Who said it was Al?
Don't you start
I said that the early crowd who started the scene were "traddies" who used traditional song as a basis for what they did - they were not the interlopers who you suggested"grabbed the folk clubs in 1970's and 1980's"
The revival
The revival started dedicated to traditional song - it was your crowd who were the invaders
"Barrie Roberts started his folk and skiffle club in walsall in early 1958."
Which would be around the time of the Stratford concerts
I know there is a great deal of dispute as to who opened the first folk club, The Topc Folk Club in Bradford seems to be the front runner in 1956, but the traditional ground had been laid before that with Ewan and Bert's ballad set for Folkways, and the WMA and H.M.V were releasing traditional stuff even earlier.
Your lot were late runners.
"The ONLY person here who has that policy Jim is yourself. "
Will you please stop this Raggy
I don't "call it" anything - folk song is far too well documented to need anybody to identify it as an individual and has been since at least the beginning of the twentieth century
Please stop making things up - it only weakens your case
Y choose not to recognise that is your particular choice
Jim Carroll