I have only been returned to the scene since earlier this year, only to certain local soul nights,when it suddenly dawned on me that no one was clapping at certain moments of the records,so I had myself a little dance,and did some hand claps at the relevant parts of the record but nobody else did,nor is there any applause at the end of records anymore, I mean is this because sounds are so freely available cd downloads etc, must say I'm a little dissapointed as it added to the atmosphere of the evening everyone doing it in unison (apologies if this topic has been discussed before)