"Not just a Folk Club - more a way of life !" as the Herga advert used to read when I was editor of Folk London.

I'll have to try and get to "The royal Oak" for that evening. Is it possible to book two tickets over the web, El Greko?, Kitty?

I think John Heydon (to me Hey-hey-Heydon - sing us a song John - not very long) was still running the club the last time I was there.

I can also remember an evening when Johnny Collins and Jim Magean recorded (or tried to) one of their albums there and everything went wrong. "Robot Nimb" did a wonderful pastiche of the event a week or so later.

Do Herga still run their wonderful "Cream Tea Workshops" at Sidmouth ? - I can remember that they had ones for Beginners, Intemediate, and Advanced.