Blimey.. I'm away for a few hours for the best and longest kip I've had all week,
and now come back to find this thread banging on again about folk clubs..

Almost word for word repetition of countless previous days postings on the same done to death subject...

Crikey.. Have I woke up on Groundhog Day...!!!!!?????

Oh well.. here we go again...

"" and any restrictive orthodoxies clung onto by the acoustic 'folk establishment',"
A profound statement from someone who has
"nothing to do with the 'formal' folk scene""

Thank you.. though "profound" may be over stating my very reasonable and objective observation..
Arrived at after approx 15 years mudcat membership,
reading the same negative strictures, and snobby anti pop culture hostility,
from the loudest and most belligerently opinionated mudcatters...
year in and year out...

By now, 2019, I've read far too much "Thou shalt, and shalt nots.." at mudcat when it comes to performing folk music...

So much so, I might tend to gain the wrong impression about this place...???

I could almost feel like a heretic, fearful of folk puritans out searching the west country for me.
No wonder I stay at home hiding in my computer den...!!!

Fortunately I've also come to know there are very positive open minded mudcatters,
who do redress the balance somewhat...