I've just heard from Angie Bladen who runs the Broken Token folk club at the Eagle and Child that the council have stopped us having the Pom's at the pub because there are three of them and are thus falling foul of the good old 2-in-a-bar rule. I gather that this follows complaints that the council received over the noise the rock group at the local beer festival earlier in the year made (nothing to do with the folk club although some of us did provide some music on the Sunday afternoon) and the fact that Angie put the Poms in the local paper to drum up support has come to the attention of the PEL police at the council. No wonder folk music's an underground operation!
On Wednesday night, therefore, you will be able to see myself and Angie do rather more songs than we were expecting to do. We'd still like to see people there of course but be prepared to join the club as members and be signed in etc, etc.

Does anybody know the "rules" of being a member of a club? The council are saying that you need 48 hours notice before you can actually attend as a member but I've heard you can turn up and join straight away without notice. I'd be grateful for any advice on this to pass on to Angie and Ken.

Cheers

Mark