Well some of us are trying to talk about what happens in folk clubs. I thought this kind of stuff was only supposed to happen in religion and Labour Party threads. I feel safer below the line.

When you get into the "what is folk", "what should a folk club allow", etc. territory, it's probably not to dissimilar to politics and religion here.

The funny thing to me is that while I can get involved in these threads, Mudcat bears little resemblance to the small part of the folk world I know.

Sure, I can agree with a number of observations over the years,lets say from a bad bodhran in a session to politics within an organised folk club. But how many are doing the sort of things that occupy much of this thread when they are out and about? Most I know spend most of that time "just doing" and my own conversations when out at a session rarely have anything to do with folk at all.