People justiying singing contemporary songs in folk clubs tend to justify it all by some wonderful thing that will happen to the songs when they are "accepted by the people" and "absorbed into the tradition" or however the concept is expressed. Judging by pub sing songs all over the country, songs you get requested everywhere etc etc, i think this wonderful thinghas only happened once in england since the folk revival started (not a great success rate considering how the singer songwriters have been churning it out for 50 years). And it happened with the Dubliners record of "Dirty old town". fair play to the lads.