"Who the **** do you think you are to state that Iains should not have a say in the matter!!"
I didn't Iains
I said any comments by you are not welcome given your track record
"Folk clubs since their inception have always had a mixture of traditional and contemporary songs "
Which is wahat I have suggested throughout
What has changes is that the contemporary that bears no resemblance in any shap or form to traditional has ousted the real thing and taken over - I think it's called acculturation, but I prefer 'a hostile takeover'
"entertain and sing good songs"
Subjective enough to me meaningless
'Folk in Hull' specifies a type of music so how can you "ram" the type of music people have been drawn in to listen to down their throats, unless you consider their choice of music a bad one in the first place and the role of the club is to wean prospective punters off folk.
Jim Carroll